*turns on tiny, old-fashioned pocket tape recorder* “Note to self: Use word ‘puckish’ more often.”

but no one wants to be the guy that talks about soccer all the time

Anyone read a book from about a dozen years ago called Lords of the Ring? It was about the rise and (very) (sudden) fall of college boxing. It all came to an end in the early 60's when 2 college fighters were killed in the ring in separate bouts. Almost overnight people turned against the idea of ‘nice college boys’…

[insert lazy Centralia/50-year mine fire joke here]

Lititz

Yes but 650 of those words are just ‘cankles’ repeated over and over and over again.

Three days before 2nd grade, my kiddo fell spang on his face on an asphalt sidewalk. Fat lip, ton of blood, no missing teeth thankfully. Mostly recovered by yesterday, 2nd-grade meet-the-teacher day.

Well, let’s not get too maudlin here. I did just visit my kids’ school for 2nd grade orientation yesterday. Particularly liked walking through the art classroom, with all the boxes and boxes of shiny new supplies in place. Also the school library, well-stocked as it was. I was the sort of kid who LOVED…

Yes, I’m alone because, um, I can’t find my friends. That’s my problem. Yep. Definitely the issue. Let’s go with that.

I prefer the original “Princess of Mars, Naked as a Jaybird Just as She is Described in the Books”

Ray Donovan of Mars

I get the sarcasm, although there IS one element of vampire films I really like vis-a-vis backstory: I love scenes where like an ancient vampire triggers a period flashback by saying, “Let me take you back 200 [or 500 or 1000] years...” Something about that trope really just appeals to me. They do it in Underworld,…

I really liked the Gary Oldman Dracula. Yes, even with Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker (hell, Keanu is perfect for the role of Harker as a kind of vanilla dolt who doesn’t really understand what’s going on. If Stoker had written Dracula in the 1990s, Harker would have said, “Whoa!” a lot).

“Needs more soft-pedal homages to Catholicism” says Stoker.

Rope in everything referenced by a John Green novel and/or Ready Player One and I’m totally on board.

I just swap in Fred Durst as the visual shorthand for all demons, everywhere. I think it’s the basketball shorts that do it.

Hell, they made a sequel to The Never-Ending Story, didn’t they?

Some of those murder-clowns are good people.

Sexual promiscuity is distasteful.

My people have an ancient saying: “Two things.”