That’s a great point. I do all that I can, but it’s not 100% possible, you just do what you can. I’ve had three over the years put me in the ER. So big the pain is insane. That one center bottom had me on Dilaudid. I love that i09 finds this fascinating. Love the people on this site. Curious minds.

FTW. Now that had me laugh out loud.

Thanks. Condolences to your husband.

For me it’s the pain from kidney through the ureter that’s surreal. The bladder, past the prostate, is painful but nothing like that first journey. Like a knife in the back then then winds its way down.

Yeah, I call it “Kidney Stone Yoga” cause you end up in weird contortions to try and ease the pain. I’ve literally had one leg up, bent sideways, head up, and arm to the side because that provided some relief. Yup WATER WATER WATER WATER>

Dr. Pepper is the only pop I like, but I’ve heard that Dr. Pepper in particular can cry havoc on the adrenals and entire endocrine system.

Intersting... for me the signals: legs muscles cramped and painful (when blood work is done in ER, they always force a potassium horse pill down my throat because my potassium has cratered), nausea, and feeling “flu like” to where I’ll take my temperature. The worst ones, it’s then like a knife in the back and scale…

Well, the first one I had I was 19 yo, apparently my body doesn’t produce a chemical that pulls calcium out of my body, but that being said, it’s all about water. I’m truly an absent minded professor and will forget to drink water like I should. That and sodium. You drink water, limit sodium, don’t drink Dr. Pepper,…

Funny timing. Just passed a stone tonight (these are baby stones btw) that this is true... Insanely painful. The one on the right, most recent, I’m calling the Golden Snitch, it has wings.

The problem with King to Screen is that everything is played literal, technicolor, 3 dimensional, when in the books everything is slightly, just slightly, askew. That’s what makes his work so good and scary to read.

I think Fox Mulder needs to join The Fall and figure out if Stella Gibson is an alien, sister, clone or something else of Dana Scully, as they solve the execution of a British PM who was on a secret visit to Belfast.

It’s an interesting distinction between the best hero (Jesus) the best warrior (Achilles) and the best captain (Picard) in fiction. A captain is a hero and a warrior, but is also responsible for a more limited/specific responsibility of managing a crew/ship in the context of a larger struggle/system.

Awesome question... Parker Posey!

First thing I read of his back in 81’ — He cowrote with Lisa Tuttle, but I liked it back then, wonder if it has held up.

My eighth grade sex ed teacher said, “Never get naked unless the other person is getting naked too!” Prescient advice.

Charlotte Rampling in the Swimming Pool. Technically a “working” vacation, but I think it counts.

In my lifetime, I pray to the Old Gods and New, please bring something of Iain M. (the M stands for motherfucking) Banks to life via television or movies. Please, please, please.

I held a “dystopia club” for years, kinda like a book club but we gamed out various dystopic themes and possible responses. Almost always the best solution is to hunker down while the initial storm passes (be it invasion, bombs, disease, etc.) because if you flee you’ll get caught in a traffic jam/mob (I loved the…

Great second episode. I think it has promise and agree about Tobias. Best person in the show.

I really like this question because I had to think about what “fun” meant to me in terms of Sci-Fi. Spy novels? Easy, Bourne was fun. Horror? American Psycho. But harder with Sci-Fi...but I’m going with Thrawn Trilogy. I hadn’t ventured into the extended universe till early 2000’s and started there and wasn’t…