An actual recent conversation at our house, regarding some new food for our kitten, Oona, who continues to have mild gastrointestinal issues (i.e., soft poops):
Continue reading “Well You Did Ask”Month: October 2023
Aneurysms in the News
So I’ve posted a few times before about celebrity aneurysms, because when celebrities have them it makes the news and that’s a good way to raise awareness about things that may be lurking in peoples’ brains. Usually this has been in the context of those who’ve passed away from them, such as Tom Sizemore and Grant Imahara, but not long ago I saw several articles about Lauren Miller Rogen, the actor Seth Rogen’s wife, whose story went a little differently. Well okay a lot differently:
Continue reading “Aneurysms in the News”Not A Review Of “The Magicians”
So recently, having just finished the post-apocalyptic science fiction series Silo—which, believe it or not, my wife actually watched:
We found ourselves in need of another “heavy” show, “heavy” in this case referring kinda to subject matter, but also kinda to length. Since I’d had success with Silo, which was, of course, based on Wool, I thought, why not try another series based on a book I ‘ve read? Abracadabra! It’s The Magicians:
Incidentally, if you have neither read nor seen The Magicians, you are going to encounter some
if you keep reading. Granted these are not major spoilers as they appear in the first episode of the show and fairly early in the book as well. But still. Have all you spoiler-phobes averted your eyes yet? You have? Good, let’s continue.
Continue reading “Not A Review Of “The Magicians””Teaser Tuesday: “Storm Front”
So this week I was reading (or rather, as has been remarked, finally reading) Storm Front, the first book in the Dresden Files series, by Jim Butcher:
We Don’t Die We Wordiply
So lately I’ve been playing yet another word game, Wordiply, by The Guardian. The way this game works is that they give you a short series of letters (the instructional blurb below says it’s a “starter word” but it is most definitely not always an actual word) and then you have to come up with the longest five words you can think of that includes these letters. This is a more difficult task than you might expect.
Viscosity 