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I have that anthology from the library, got it the same times as the Lansdale collection I'm working through. The Lansdale is more a priority, because it's an interlibrary loan and won't autorenew. I often read planned trilogies and duologies straight through--it's actually my preference--but a...

I appreciate big anthologies of short fiction, and I also enjoy collections--especially ones like the one I'm working my way through as a side project, Joe Lansdale's Lovecraftian stories. Anthologies or collections of longer works, and omnibus collections of, say, novels, can run into the...

While I was being somewhat flippant, I was not snarking. It's a very effective bassline.

You can get a long way by slapping that open E-string.

I just came into a handful of Leiber's Lankhmar books, which I've not read heretofore I'll keep this in mind for the reading order. Thanks tons.

I have a copy of that anthology sitting in my Library Book TPR pile. It's a chonker, but short stories are easier for me to take as smaller pieces than novel chapters (or whatever internal structural parts) are. I'll probably read it as something aside from my "a novel every night I'm not...

Somewhere I have "Sticks" anthologized. Find that and read it. (I can poke around and find out where I have it, if you need.)

I'll stop using Alex in the format when someone else has hosted as many episodes of the show as he did. Or when I'm dead, which will probably happen first.

I know that A) our HOA's reach is constrained by county and state law (for instance, they had no power to prevent us from adding solar panels to our house, that's a state law here) and B) many of the things people around here (by which I mean the neighborhood I live in, not this website) might...

So, as counterpoint, the HOA where I live isn't so bad, though there are some holdovers in the bylaws from the 1960s that are definitely classist and probably racist. That's not an argument that you should have ditched your principle, I get the sense the HOA here is something like an outlier...

Heh. If I were pointing at stuff that blurs the car/truck line, I'd probably point at CUVs, myself. (Though those have a different raison d'etre than the El Camino did.)

Some people are lumpers, some people are splitters, some people see those approaches as both being useful and both being wrong. :LOL:

Most of those divides--and the earlier ones you were responding to--have a lot of middle ground, IME, that thinking of them as "divides" tends to exclude.

I think it's easy--especially if one doesn't watch much of it--to see it as just that. The jokes are (at least almost) always at the expense of the idiots, which does argue against it being a celebration of stupidity, but noticing that requires more attention than one might want to give.