I mean . . . it’s okay. I guess.

Nah, some website said I don’t need to buy a new TV.

Nah, some website said I don’t need to buy a new TV.

Hmm, makes sense. Does she also have magic, given that she is a girl and is self-identified as black?

Again my standard Black Widow question: Does she have any superpowers other than ‘owns a handgun’?

Well but then part of Duncan Hunter’s indictment was on misuse of campaign funds, including for video game DLC as I understand it.

There was the soft-pedal goth-ness of Yulia Tymoskhenko of Ukraine.

I think I went to see the Crotch Toxins at an all-ages show in the basement of an abandoned bowling alley in 1995.

Nah: Moonwife down payment.

Not buying a new TV is 100% cheaper than a decent 65 inch 4K TV with all the bells and whistles.

‘Cept there’s that one exchange where Sisko is talking to a renegade Starfleet officer who joined the Maquis and he’s asking him “how could you betray your oath to the Federation?” and renegade officer talks about how he’s disillusioned with the Federation and then the topic turns to “ever since I started eating real…

Still think more female CEOs will fix the world? I mean the thing about a female CEO is: she is a CEO. She’s going to do CEO shit. No, her status as a Historically Marginalized Person absolutely will not change that. I’ve never had a female boss I found especially kind or understanding. They struck me as completely…

Fuck this is going to be a Gawker situation where Verge ends up being shut down because they shop around and find a court that decides the First Amendment is a quaint fiction isn’t it?

Star Wars isn’t very good.

True facts: I have had difficulty convincing the woman in my life to come upstairs and have actual human sex, so entranced was she by Terrace House.

if the core idea didn’t involve burning gobs of climate-baking fuel on a pointless joyride to nowhere in a tiny metal box

I mean, give the man credit: In age in which we have a lot of rich people and those rich people are boring as fuck, this guy at least thinks creatively of things to do with his money. A yacht? A sportscar? A mansion? Fuck that shit: MOON. GIRLFRIEND.

*sigh* And to think we might have had the chance to behead these people.

Deep Space Nine: Cooking Challenge

Maybe he never planned this but it’s fascinating how this links up with that little “Lyra’s Oxford” apocrypha book he publishe 15 years ago. I went back and re-read that and then also the *other* short story be put out--”Once Upon a Time in the North”--wondering if maybe that will also get incorporated at some point.

Just finished McSweeney’s Keep Scrolling ‘Til You Feel Something, covering 21 years of their stuff. It’s . . . sort of telling really. They start out funny. They end up being fairly not-funny. Which tallies with everything I’ve experienced using their site. Compare, say, the enduringly hilarious Bad Names for…