Guessing PhilCon in the late '80s. Seated is Gardner Dozois. With the pens in breast pocket is Darryl Schweitzer. Gordon Linzer farthest back. All Philly boys. I feel I should know the bald gent (Peter Straub?).
One of the responses this thread (on the Bad Place) got, a few times, ran roughly "if magic is common, magicians become engineers" or variations of that theme - the assumption that magic would be rapidly systematized by fictional pre-modern societies. And I don't think this is right. 1/
Ever have a question about the ACA and our healthcare system in general? This guy wonks:
🧵📣 THE DEAD POOL: Since JD Vance wants to Concentrate folks w/pre-existing conditions into separate Camps, let's talk about it. (Warning: Long & wonky but important thread) 1/ acasignups.net/24/10/04/dea...
I've spent the past couple of weeks up to my ears in 2025 annual healthcare policy rate filing analysis, so I haven't gotten around to addressing JD Vance's recent appearance on NBC in which he finall...
A version of The Smile where you see someone doing The Bill Maher Face, like the kind of Joe Camel/Oh Really face he makes in every photo, and then are tormented into madness as you see other people doing The Bill Maher Face. The final stage is you start calling bartenders "doll" or "babe."
We just need them to keep making increasingly serious movies until we finally understand the character of the Joker, a clown who is mean.
Just now, somebody: "This book is too literary. Something something Le Guin." Me: *runs to mash library request button* Negative reviews are also very informative _even when_ I would probably disagree with the author of the review!
Nathan Fielder would make a great Joker and so would a lot of other comedians. They should do a series with a new Joker every episode. Tim Robinson Joker. Tim Heidecker Joker. Tig Notaro Joker. Eric Andre Joker. Stav Joker
One recalls Stephen King's speech at the National Book Awards, the year he received a medal. The speech was all about how he and his friends should have gotten official National Book Awards too.
It'll be the Housing market again.
When the Inuits told British explorers that the Franklin Expedition has resorted to cannibalism, Charles Dickens wrote an op-ed claiming all Native Americans were liars and the Inuits probably ate the lost expedition members themselves
