I should preface this by saying I fed the robot my Jeeves and Wooster pastiche. So according to a cold, unfeeling assembly of concordance-crunching cogs, I hit the mark. Go me!


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I know it's corny, but the throwback "spy-swap" got me thinking about the romance of espionage ( Read more... )

Sounding the depths of the knowledge pool here, guys ( Read more... )

I remember when the Veil & Chastity Day Festival used to be about the veils and chastity. Now... I don't know, manOn the one hand, what the heck, Iran? Islamic haircuts? Is that even a thing? Have you seen your President and his leisure suit combover? You can't criminalize free speech and homosexuality and then expect to find decent stylists. That' ( Read more... )

Seems I haven't written anything here in several weeks. Which is ironic, because I'm on vacation to write.

Briefly put: I'm at writing camp a residence in Vermont, am enjoying it on its own terms, and I will write a giant synoptic summary when I get home. All is quite well with me ( Read more... )

"Don't get mad at me, because I'm telling you what's real. One plus one is two, all day long, and it's never gonna change. And that's factorial ( Read more... )

I haven't done a meme in ages. I asked shashalnikya for five questions, which I answered below.

Ask me for five questions (in comments) and I shall supply them.

1. If you could travel anywhere at all right this instant, where would you go? Why?Memphis, I suppose. There are a lot of Memphians (and Southerners who are fond of the city) up here at my residency ( Read more... )

I'm probably going to hell for this, but when I read that they're going to send another aid floatilla, this time with a military escort, I thought, "Oh, Mecha-Floatilla."

And then I imagined a little tugboat following the floatilla. That would be Floatzookie.

Like I said, straight to hell.

When new-wave "conservatives" start criticizing double-standards, you know the lulz are a-coming, since their entire platform is a love-letter to double-standards: in principle (antifederalism), in practice (Objectivism), and in extremis ("Let's repeal the 14th amendment ( Read more... )

Why do cashiers always look at me sideways when I request "no bag, please" for a multipack of toilet paper? The woman at Target today asked me twice to confirm, and it's not the first time this has happened ( Read more... )