Friday Open Thread (with BIRTHDAY)

Dear Friends, Last night, for the first time all week, I managed to get to bed by 10:45, intending

Dear Friends, Thanks to WandaVision Stu and I have settled into a weekly ritual that feels drawn from the Beforetimes:

Dear Friends, It’s been a bit of a strange week. Mercury’s in retrograde; miscommunications and crosstalk land with

Dear Friends, I purchased this book weeks ago, after being excited about it for further months, and was delighted to

Dear Friends, In some ways this week has been very difficult, and in others it has been very extraordinary, and