A screenshot from a Penny Arcade comic. Gabe is walking away from a staring Tycho, exclaiming "I'm going on the Internet, to find people who agree with me!"

A screenshot from a Penny Arcade comic. Tycho and Gabe are discussing the results of Gabe's quest over some Star Wars tabletop play. TYCHO: And? GABE: Everybody says I'm wrong. TYCHO: Did that cause you to look inward? GABE: It did not.

Dr. Kustov:

A Certain Smile A neglected classic about a young French woman in the 1950s risking romance, from the author of Bonjour Tristesse Françoise Sagan is best known for her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse, which caused a s...

I look through so many categories and silently beg my browser not to crash as I open more and more possibilities and the tabs grow narrower and narrower :)

Fave from last year ended up being this one: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
May need to give a re-read soon. . .

It took a great deal of time and effort for me to narrow the list down and only buy 3 this time around. So many fascinating options!

Well that's straight onto the TBR list

Absolutely. Came here to recommend it! Pigeon Tunnel on AppleTV

Balzac nails the ending. After a whole tale of his youth, finding a saintly woman to love, betraying her for the pleasures of the flesh, then fumbling both, we finally get the response from the woman to whom he wrote: "Holy shit, bro, you are MADE of baggage. We are not together anymore" #Booksky

I was so confused at first reading this as if you somehow hung *the entire UPS* from a clothesline. . .

There's not. Hope this helps!

Not having the sun lance at my computer monitor at 8am and DOUBLE the sunlight after 5? Yes, thank you.

If the question is "How would mah boy Hans Holbein the Younger make this woman look like the baddy she is?" that is clearly not the answer; he is way better than that. Don't disappoint my boy.

“We’re just like one big family again,” they say, crawling into the bed together to get a preventable disease “all at once so the whole family can get past it.”

The best one-sentence summary of AI bros I've read.

Don't forget being able to marry the raccoon family

Bold of them to release a first look that skips straight to the SNL parody Kratos

Trans flag with the words: First they came for the transgender community, And I spoke up immediately even though I’m straight and cis because I’ve read the rest of the fucking poem.

Nice work. These are among my favorite games yet I hadn't put together any of them with any speed.

a man is giving a speech in front of a sign that says rusted leadership for a stronger america Alt: Jeb Bush's 15 minutes of fame, pathetically begging the audience "Please Clap" back in his GOP Presidential candidacy campaign

Managed to limit myself to 3 books from the U Chicago Press sale

Just noticed the old guy who walks by with a walking stick has (today? regularly?) a pipe, too. Well played, old guy with walking stick.

I thought Sanders is still an Independent, not D?

Oh my god he looks about ONE "well actually" away from learning a very permanent lesson about her anger.

I remember seeing John Oliver and Stewart (I think) talking about this years and years ago, how Brits can love the monarch and never need to take a day away from yelling at their politicians. Not a day has gone by since where it hasn't seemed the superior idea.

When their immediate response to enormous art plagiarism was not to hire that person and pay them a signing bonus of a bajillion dollars I felt the nails already sinking into the coffin. I was a huge Destiny fan for years so I don't want to see them go down, but I feel the over/under is maybe 3 mos.

Witcher 3 is an incredible game and I’m loving every minute of my re-play of it. A small thing about it that strikes me almost each day I play? That you can pause just anywhere at any time. Yes, thank you.

And understanding what's come before is such a key factor in being able to appreciate works in their context and to see where they grow/evolve/innovate! Reading Countess after the original Count, Stars My Destination, Gankutsuou is a different and richer experience.

Absolute silliness.

Loved FJIZZIWIQ in Labyrinth but I thought you couldn't normally play names/proper nouns

Had a weird pang of nostalgia for Star Trek: the Next Generation where they just call it Computer and no one pretends it's a person.

"Really, today it would seem that the roles have reversed, and women must devote themselves to men. These gentlemen are worth less and think more of themselves."

--Honoré de Balzac, "La Duchesse de Langeais"

Those men throw those tiny women up to the same heights celebrities reached when they said they went to space. Terrifying discipline.

I gasped and sat up in my chair, reading this. While I don't hate their Olympics spectators nearly so much as their cycling commentators American announcers should, imho, always be optional.

Had to get the little gray cells working to get back to which was Lord Baelish. What a prophetic name.