Tade Thompson

Her (Black): Do you tell your boys you love them?
Me: Yes.
Her: Good. Not enough Black men do that.
Me: Not true.
Her: Did your dad tell you he loved you.
Me: Well...no..it was implied.
Her: *stares*
Me: Did your dad?
Her: *shakes head*
Me: That's just two.
Her: *starts calling people we know*

a man in a black suit and sunglasses is standing in front of a bunch of bullets . Alt: a man in a black suit and sunglasses is standing in front of a bunch of bullets .

Typical day at work.

Twenty-four hours after entering the town of Twin Peaks and I still can't get over the smell of pine.

"Gregor Samsa woke up with the building in ruins around him, the sun shining in his eyes, his tail halfway down fifth avenue..."

Wolverine weird hair, claws out of hands, beckoning

Gonna wind down with a classic tonight.

Honestly, a doodle meeting sounds tremendous.

I totally would.

Did AI write this nonsensical analogy for Paliwal?

Man walking stick, horse

Meeting doodle...

(I'm one of a handful of people from my debut year who are still, more or less, publishing. Most of them disappeared without tea e after their debuts, because publishing loves debuts. Career-building, not so much.)

The problem with the whole 'post a woman author you've read 5 books by' is how many women don't get a second book, let alone five.

Anyway, carry on.

No, I cut AI out of all my searches.

Lighting, hatched darkness.

Meeting doodle.

Several glass bowls

Uranium-tinted 19th century glass bowl under UV light.

The untinted ones don't glow.

Storm
Cyclops
Wolverine
Jubilee

I once jokingly said I'd give my son up for adoption and someone became enraged at me because they were trying to adopt a child.

Sometimes people are searching for things to be angry about, or for an object of displaced rage.

I have no comments to offer on Jimmy Olsen.😁

I don't know about the rat, but the furniture thing sounds like a poltergeist.

Old Boy 2003 / Rashomon 1950

Not just the north. The Soviet Union made significant inroads to Black Africa in the 1980s and 90s with university student exchanges, scholarships, etc. The advantages of this seemed to be harvested by Russia.

And that's not even counting the intelligence/Cold War shenanigans.

It's a great stopping kick defensively (or Cut Kick, as my Taekwondo colleagues would say), and at close and mid range, to the midsection, it's devastating.

It could easily take someone's jaw apart if aimed at the head.

My experience, with my short legs, is it's great to the midsection.

Diary of a Middle Aged Karateka:

"Side kicks don't work" is something you hear a lot.

It is not correct. Don 'The Dragon' Wilson made a whole career out of a devastating lead leg side kick, and he is not an exception.

"Side kicks don't work" = "I don't want to put in the work to hone them."

'Virginia Woolf has been called "England's leading novelist." The precise hierarchy is unimportant-literature not being a contest-but hers is indisputably among the most sensitive of the minds and imaginations now felicitously experimenting with the English novel.'

Borges (1936)

I just love books.

I could only get The Total Library non-fiction Penguin paperback.

That George Bush snr was at Dealey Plaza the day JFK was killed.

Two Borges books

These

Yes, I got the new deckled edge fictions and book of imaginary beings. By 'new' I mean like 15 years ago.

I've read at least one copy of The Aleph ragged.

Short story collections I've gone back to more than twice:

-Lorrie Moore: the collected stories
-The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
-Tenth of December / George Saunders
-Stories of Your Life and Other Stories / Ted Chiang

There are others, but these come to mind more readily.

Oh, I know not to trust the media on anything.

They get things wrong routinely across many fields.

Google telling me that research I reviewed in 2019 came out in 2018.

It's wrong.

But what if I didn't know that? What if my question was in an area in which I had no expertise?

Search engines are broken.