Well, howdy.

If you need this, you'll know: I’m a therapist. Here’s how I help patients traumatized by the election.

(I needed it.)

... that not enough people have experienced Patriotic Beefcake Calico.

Link here.  You'll thank me.

On this day I got up at 4:00, I think, left the house at 5:30, and made it to the airport just in time for our flight to be delayed due to some people being rerouted from other flights. How early did you have to have been traveling if your flight is just coming in at 7 am?

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Yesterday I was very happy because I was going to a concert that evening. I went, and had a fantastic time.

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Not that it matters, but I put my finger on what is angering about Amanda Palmer weighing in on the accusations against Woody Allen ( Read more... )

Overheard near the cash registers at B&N:  "All these blank books are blank in exactly the same way!  They're ... empty!"

I found out the large B&N on my way home that I'd been assuming for the last two years was shut, is in fact not shut.  This is nice to know.

Walked the aisles with the usual mixture of envy and pleasure.  Pleasure because ( Read more... )

The Rise and Fall of Charm in American Men

Aside from George Clooney, can you name a single genuinely charming contemporary American man?

A very thoughtful if somewhat old-fashioned essay.  It certainly got me thinking.

Who among modern actors and public figures (not necessarily American) has genuine charm?   

*hugs*

That is all.  

I've written (briefly) before in praise of Jonathan McCalmont's article Cowardice, Laziness, and Irony:  How Science Fiction Lost the Future.  But one passage has stuck in my mind:

The most common account of why science fiction no longer attempts to engage with the future is that the future is now deemed to be out of bounds. The world, we are told ( Read more... )

From Andrew O'Hehir, Hey, liberals: You haven't won the culture war:

An angry, declining minority that believes itself oppressed can be an unstable and dangerous phenomenon. The worst sin of the secular-multicultural-communitarian-internationalist-environmentalist faction (other than all that oaky California chardonnay) is its smugness and ( Read more... )