Photo of the copyright page of the 2022 UK edition of “Roadmarks” by Roger Zelazny with the line “An Hachette UK Company” underlined in red.

This goes a bit too far, I think. Would you agree, @bcdreyer.social ?

Conservative is to whatever this government is as a headache is to a brain tumor.

On the subject of apostrophes, as mentioned in your Substack post, the desired ’, as opposed to ‘ (thought the typeface used by Bluesky fails to differentiate) can be typed on a Mac quite easily by holding down the “Shift” and “Option” keys and typing “]”. It is somewhat more cumbersome in Windows.

It’s way more than just damp up my way...

The couch-molester’s clumsy attempt to make a point is just performative conflation.

@bcdreyer.social Rather a book-nerdy question, but when the copyright page of a book states “THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF” and further states that Alfred A. Knopf is a division of Random House, Inc. – what do I put in the “Publisher” column of my inventory spreadsheet?

And this maybe a spoiler, but a hardwood spear thrown hard enough to knock a full-grown man off his feet and fling him three feet backwards would, given the fact that they are shown protruding two feet out the poor bastard’s back, have instead just gone right through him.

Monsoons don’t just happen in India! Luckily for SoCal the remnants of the tropical storms/hurricanes that beat up Baja California periodically show up there as slightly muggy weather and/or late-summer rain.

That bell tower, among other things…

For a moment there I thought that someone had applied a “Jar-Jar Binks” filter to the text.

While starting to catalog my book collection recently I discovered that two historical non-fiction books on the same subject by the same author, which I had thought were *different* books because of the different titles, were indeed the same book (US & UK editions) with different titles.

Oh FFS, Sally…

I'm surprised that the wheezy little two-cylinder engine in that thing will even move those tires.