"You heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another I've been messing around? It's nice that you don't believe it, not for a minute, but why are you ruining our evening by bringing this up?"
Screenshot from the opening credits of The A-Team, featuring former Battlestar Galactica star Dirk Benedict watching a Cylon walk past him on the Universal Studios lot.
I always appreciated this gag from an early Universal Studios-shot episode of The A-Team, an in-joke so good they added it to the opening credits.
It's a treat on a big screen! Enjoy!
I got that too a few minutes ago.
A bag of very standard potato chips with salt with the label in Spanish, and a packet of hot sauce.
My sister impulse-purchased a bag of plain potato chips imported from Mexico, and inside the bag it included packets of hot sauce, which is strangely endearing. Like, who's gonna want to eat potato chips without hot sauce?
Everything is well, except for on the publishing side, in which case everything is a complete wreck, but there's a lot of that going around, so I can't take it too personally. Let me know if you want to grab drinks sometime so I can congratulate you on the Locus news!
Very good and relevant thread from the smart and wonderful @cheriepriest.com:
Yeah, apparently skin will grow tolerant to retinol with time, but outbreaks are very common with initial use. I first tried using retinol in my forties, and it gave me terrible acne, so I stopped. Thought I'd try again, and this time the result was even worse.
I was feeling grim about the ravaging effects of time, so I used a retinol cream, and it made my face erupt into puffy yellow blisters. My face is now back to the way it was, which is a relief, but I feel like there's an Important Life Lesson™ in this that I didn't actually want or need.
Ooo, perfect!
Going back over something I'd written yesterday, and I see I've typed "kindred soup" instead of "kindred soul," and now I'm obsessed with starting a cute little soup-only restaurant called Kindred Soup.
Period reminder: writers need to eat, pay rent & see the doctor like everyone else. If you appreciate a writer but don‘t have $15 or $30 to buy their/our book, a FREE way you can put money in our pockets is to just request that the libraries you use buy our books!
I don't envy kids preparing for college these days. I know it's an entirely different landscape from what we grew up with.
Like college: My sister was at Cornell; I went to USC for film school. It was paid for with a combination of *huge* federal grants, small student loans, and work-study jobs. From what I gather, these days it's big student loans or nothing for most students in financial hardship.
I really like @beijingpalmer.bsky.social's whole thread, which I've quote-tweeted above, because it dovetails with my experiences growing up in the 1980s. It was bleak, financially, but there were trade-offs that don't seem to be as available today.
In 1990, when I was applying to colleges, I could get application fees waved with proof of financial hardship, which required a note from my guidance counselor. He asked to see my parents' income tax forms. My parents, who both worked, had a combined income of $9K, which would be about $22K today.
YES. I have been singing the praises of Street Fighter since 1994. It's a big, joyous, genuinely hilarious, cocaine-fueled mess, and it never fails to raise my spirits.
Snippet from a job solicitation email that reads as follows: "Hi Morgan, Your background in writing and editing could be a strong match for this Literature Specialist role. Invisible Agency is seeking experts to help shape AI's understanding of literature. If you're interested in applying your skills in a new context, feel free to apply now or view the job description for more information."
"Seeking experts to help shape AI's understanding of literature." Cute. For SO MANY REASONS, I'm gonna pass on applying for this one, thanks. (Not my biggest issue, but the salary range is listed as, ahem, "$6-$65 an hour + tips." That's a hell of a range, and also: a tip-based writing/editing job?)
I don't know. I looked at that and thought, "North Dakota, I was unaware of your hotdog game." Sausage gravy + fries or tots is a phenomenal combination (especially with some pico de gallo on top for a bit of fat-cutting acid). The hotdog itself is wholly unnecessary in that scenario.
Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.
who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep
We all gotta have a world better than this
He has nukes.
He is a damaged fool.
Stop him.
Remove him.
Same. Big time.
Ooo, good choice!
Oh, that's a good one! I knew the song but never really paid attention to the lyrics, but that certainly qualifies.
Mushroom by Can
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR5g...
Ooo, good one. Germany came out with some of the very best songs about nuclear anxiety.
youtu.be/Yq7FKO5DlV0?...
Absolutely. This is a song I love, and it breaks my heart to listen to it now, so full of optimism, forty years later: "I won't be coming home tonight/My generation will put it right/We're not just making promises/We know we'll never keep."