Paul Roberts

Ask him to find them on a map

The whole book is a banger! Just read it like everything serious is a joke and every joke is serious.

MOBY DICK is a satire of America and the West and the Bible

Lots and lots of things are wrong today, but right now my youngest kid is downstairs pan-searing ribeye for the two of us

In retrospect, I've always wanted this to be a callback to THE FLYING GUILLOTINE

A someone who completed almost half a dissertation on the period, I'd love to play this with five other ABDs who get the world at that time. That would be almost three dissertations!

Still, there's no 13.7b in the current rulebook. (Is dat da joke?)

i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere

I’d go all-in with mass vs count nouns

(Kind of an inadequate emoji, but there you go)

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Nonsense. This is clearly a physical manifestation in four dimensions of the Time Cube

Michael Stipe would like a word

geo-rigged'a

The story is important but OMG I hate that he has made the Oval Office decor so utterly tacky

Congrats! What you have is you. That's precious

And it is easily intensified by “all y’all”

I have a CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CTHULHU bumper sticker from the late 80s

And Barlowe's straight-up aliens as well!

Southern raised, now in Philadelphia, but I miss Ann Arbor!

It's not paleo, but I'm a big fan of Conrad Gessner's whales.

If you don't know them, do an image search for "Gessner whales". They're creepily delightful

IIRC, it's in good condition too!

I'm a librarian at a Natural History research institution. We have a copy of this one

Ain't no such thing

I feel like Stephen King has probably frittered away his wealth on fresh lobster and plaid shirts.

Meanwhile, on the good timeline, the scandal is that President Harris's appearance on Pod Save America seemed forced and unfunny

A photo of the gallery of major Nazi defendants in the 1945 Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War 2, with sentences (e.g. "15 years," "Life", "To Hang") superimposed over each individual

(I spent close to a decade explaining to 9th and 10th graders the meaning of "mien.")

I think many of us learned the word from Austen's P&P: "Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report, [...], of his having ten thousand a year."

But of course that text doesn't give a clue to pronunciation.

Anchor baby

And, like so many Soviet WW2 heroes, actually a Ukrainian

When I was a kid my imagination melded Mike Mulligan’s Mary Ann with the steam shovel that helped the baby bird in ARE YOU MY MOTHER? It was all one universe