I didn't get it either, so I quite sincerely thank you for explaining the joke. It's one of those things that I can't believe I missed once someone explains.... <wry grin>

My void-cat is very sweet and very dumb; we had a plate of ribs and potato wedges sitting unattended for a moment and he leapt up and grabbed... a potato wedge. (I have to assume his nose told him that delicious delicious meat was there and his eyes failed him when he swooped in for the kill... )

I do trust that, in honor of this Woman of Mystery with the Wonderful Hat, that you yourself have now acquired an identical hat (purely by coincidence, no doubt) in commemmoration of this historic dressing-down. And that you wear it proudly at SF conventons, including Glasgow...

A friend I've known for 30 years told me she was a woman two years ago. She was living in a tightly shuttered closet for 60 years. She has BLOSSOMED; the joy and relief she feels once she knew her friends still loved her is palpable. And she is SO MUCH HAPPIER than she's ever been. Fuck the Muskrat.

Only follow you here; I'm not on any other social media platform. Not even Facebook.

Delighted to hear more about kan!

While I agree with the sentiment, in fairness, if the news dropped 4/20 then people would just assume it was a joke....

And then later that convention Kevin did the Reverend Mord voice for me....

It was at Windycon years ago when you were doing a reading for this "odd Paladin book" that was coming out soon. I was the mortified person with asthmatic bronchitis who earnestly assured everyone I wasn't contagious and then spent the whole time giggling and trying desperately to suppress coughs.

30 years ago we took a much worse road than the one pictured, in a Toyota Camry....