So hey there; is that an onion in your pants, or are you happy to see me?

No, The Good Place, but upvotes anyway in support of the sentiment.

That’s devastating. I’m devastated now.

Probably companies that supply live food for reptiles. Possibly bait shops.

There is. I can never remember what it is, and I keep hoping someone will comment with it.

I don’t think he’s talking about people who want better quality Marvel movies; I think he’s talking about people who think Marvel movies can’t be good by definition, by virtue of what they are. It’s totally fine to not like them, if that’s not your thing, but some people are just snobs who want to sneer at what they see as beneath them.

I could never watch the beautiful Sebastian Stan play that creature.

Scored with lame. My stroke was probably too flat, I think it came out better last time.

Probably doesn’t answer your question completely, but I’m a big fan of the phrase "my understanding is . . . " In other words, this is what I “know” as fact, but I’m aware that my knowledge could be wrong or insufficient and I’m willing to be corrected or updated. I use this phrase almost any time I’m asserting something as fact, as a kind of cya.

The sequel was published this year and it was . . . disappointing. You won’t be disappointed with Thursday Next.

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde. I loved his Thursday Next series, the Nursery Crimes books were good, and Shades of Grey was fantastic. I’m having trouble getting into this one, but it might be worth it if I can stick it out.

Idk why the following description is written in second person, when the book is in first person. If you’re a fan of Douglas Adams, I recommend Jasper Fforde.

Every Winter, the human population hibernates.

During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity.

Well, not quite.

Your name is Charlie Worthing and it’s your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses.

You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind.

When the dreams start to kill people, it’s unsettling.

When you get the dreams too, it’s weird.

When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity.

But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren’t eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk.

But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you’ll be fine.

Was at a church yard sale yesterday and they had the same setup. Pretty sure it was not a progressive church.

I don’t know if you can win Inktober, but if so, you win.

You did a great hand. I googled “trek” for inspiration, expecting to see a lot of star trek images, but all I got was bikes.

I will gladly go to hell for a continuous supply of pomegranates.

There’s also Silver for the elderly.

Hurricane in Florida. A work friend invited my mom and I to stay at her place if it got bad. I’d spent time with her and her husband before, and thought we would have a good time playing games and hanging out.

It started to get bad, so we headed over. She didn’t answer the door or phone. Finally she comes out, says we woke her up (it’s 3pm) and laughed at us getting “freaked out” by a little wind. Guess we were supposed to wait for the full hurricane force winds before driving across town. Spent the remainder of my birthday on the closet floor with mom and dog.

Exotic is relative, just like “foreign.” What’s foreign in one country is native in another. You made a great choice.

I assume it’s hiding the other one in profile.

The Steerswoman series by Rosemary Kirstein, though sadly she never finished it.