it’s beautiful to think One Battle inspired a whole new generation to read Thomas Pynchon’s wikipedia page

RFK Jr's Nutrition Chatbot Recommends Best Foods to Insert Into Your Rectum Realfood.gov will happily give you the worst possible advice.

and that's why Daffy Duck called them "the nasty & delicious yams."

and so, when it comes down to it, in the phrase "Where We Go One, We Go All," turns out the operative word is "All"

Narrator: "All the cards were from an incomplete Old Maid deck found in his basement."

ink floyd

by ironic chance, this morning I caught an old Adam-12 ep: Reed shoots a sniper & is later grilled by superiors in a scene designed to illustrate how cops are trained & when necessary retrained to deal with deadly force situations.

if Jack Webb got this right 50+ years ago, what's the issue now?

on Star Trek it always seemed unrealistic that a planet could be in danger of destruction because of a problem that a reasonable outside observer could solve in less than 45 minutes, but here we are

by contrast, I'm eagerly awaiting Rocky's singing voice in Project Hail Mary

just over here wondering how many AI tech bros are as proud of their Funko Pop collections as they were of their NFT collections

hm. who else got the email this afternoon that the next issue of Analog is stuck at the printer?

that tenth/final film should probably star Paul Dano at this point

distrustful of facts & figures, Admin-47 defunds/dismantles/fires data collectors, then turns around & pledges allegiance to AI, which in turn needs data to thrive...

damn, I'm lacking a punchline here

I'd ask a chatbot for help, but who wants to hear a joke that writes itself?

how many of these cats have hot dog fingers?

bought a bong in the shape of a parrot, got too stoned with one bird

Tom Stoppard, greeted at the gates by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

my postman only rings once nowadays

corollary: a tornado no longer exists the day after it levels your town

on the plus side, it's only 1:47

clearly you are unfamiliar with the b side: "rudolph the red-nosed reggae"

the real Gulf of America was the friends we lost along the way

corollary: every generation thinks it invented weird sex

(and yet, here we all are)

things sure aren't what they used to be...

(except the fact that every generation thinks it's the last generation that lived in a decent time, that's the same)

change one letter, ruin a candy

every bite you take from a Zeno bar must be smaller than the one before

movie quotes [amended for 2025]

"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become cringe."

the lifeblood of SFF is the printed word

Thank you! (And good on them!)

Has this situation improved? If there's been news, I've missed it. (As much as it pains me, I'm about to let my subscription lapse simply because I can't support a magazine that doesn't support writers.)

"Ick." - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I want for you what you want for everyone else" is a nice modern spin on the Golden Rule

now I know this and can't unknow it, dagnabbit