Judge Zedd

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Sharties

"Bill, we need to talk to you about Wednesday's throughput. Why does every submission start with, and I quote, 'Send me, totally not cat but hooman Bill, moar chimkin?'"

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Where in the world

Greg T I think. Drew people from pretty far afield

I'm pretty sure the 40k tournament was back this year. That said, run what you have the spoons for!

Kim Stanley Robinson? Scalzi, I dare say you just might have made it in this writing gig if you're sharing a stage with Robinson!

God damn if I don't miss the random jank like this that would be in the toy aisle of our local "5 and 10" shop

I was always amused by how many little details the X-Files episode set in Buffalo got right. But then the main plot point involved Buffalo's non-existent Chinatown.

It's exhausting that we live in a world where we can no longer instantly tell if it's an Onion article, or reality

While I agree with the half or no doors, I prefer them to the extra clingy, nasty, hotel shower curtains that simultaneously try to envelope you, while failing to keep the water in the shower.

Your positivity and joy for life is one of the highlights in my feed. Your Tinglers may not be my particular trot, but thanks for the daily reminders to see the good in the world and accept others for who they are!

It is sold in pints near me, which is the problem. I wouldn't risk it with a whole quart or half gallon on the line!

Put a little colonial era Quaker hat on, a la Quaker Oats dude, and we'll talk

But John, some of us have a particular combination of stubborn and dumb. As in, I don't like egg nog. But every year, I see it in the store and buy a bottle, thinking this will be the year.
I even like the first couple of sips.

You're their literary egg nog, and they want to like you!

Do not underestimate the mental health boost that can sometimes come from getting shit like that done.

And when, in the middle of the night, it slithers into your house, up your nose, devours your brain, and begins Night of the Creeps II, you will also be a good zombie!

Between this and the next Dungeon Crawler Carl book, September is going to be a good reading month!

Ambling pebbles

Jealous. The Pacific Northwest is quite possibly my favorite place on Earth. Say hi to the mountain for me

Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

My vocabulary is what it is due to the esoteric verbiage replete in RPG books of the 1980s.

Fie on this rapscallion

I'm not proud that a side effect of all of my precocious reading as a kid in the 80s was that I was essentially my rural school's pre-Internet era, walking Urban Dictionary.

Okay. I'm a little fucking proud.

I very much enjoyed Deep Regrets. Delightfully macabre art!

Family took a tour of Washington national parks a few years back. The stark difference in terrain on either side of the Cascades was incredible. One of my favorite trips.

This post made me want Wells to write a short story where SecUnit goes to a Sanctuary Moon fan expo so hard.

Same. It's why I snagged it. Hate succumbing to Facebook ads but I was intrigued. And free is free.

(I too bought dice. It is a disease)

I too went to Casual Dragon for free RPG day - you have good taste! I picked up the same module. Dragonbane is good times! My haul...

It smacks of a lazier version of the Irish Traveller hustle of, "we just finished a job in the neighborhood and have leftover sealer/paint/materials etc. and can offer you a steeply discounted rate so it doesn't go to waste."