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If I had to choose one dish to eat for the rest of my life, it would be spaghetti carbonara. The real one, with nothing but eggs, bacon and cheese.

Have you seen anything recent by Steven Seagall? They try with the camera angles and stuntmen, but it's painfully obvious that he's not moving anything below his neck.

Here's a more detailed list on the BBC website: New Year Honours 2026: Idris Elba knighted as Sarina Wiegman and Lionesses recognised I'm a bit disappointed (not surprised, though) that only a few of the Red Roses were honoured for winning the Women's Rugby World Cup. When the men won in 2003...

I've seen it come up on some writers' forums: stories that are turned into audiobooks on YouTube, or just sold on Amazon under someone else's name.

The Rise of the Machines is so much subtler than The Terminator predicted. Phase 1 was printers that wouldn't connect. Phase 2 was WiFi that dropped out suddenly. Phase 3 is this.

See also Oppenheimer's "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."

I have that exact same dice tray.

You should have learned in the chapters on the Anduin river, because it's used several times there. (I recently listened to the audiobooks, and it took me a while to figure out what these "eights" in the river were.)

"Halfling" is used a lot in Pippin's chapters in Gondor, and it doesn't seem to carry any negative connotations whatsoever.

If I were doing a literary analysis of the scene, I'd say it's a fairly common death-and-rebirth thing. Plunging into darkness, clawing his way out and being delivered into the world naked and helpless. Gandalf doesn't lose his clothes so he can take up white garb, he takes up white garb to...

I'm waiting for an American to make the obligatory Canada joke: "Double-Eh Seven".

As long as you don't have to walk anywhere near trees.

Aha, ceci n'est pas un writing desk.

Last year, when I wanted to cancel my SPOT subscription because it had gone up by 50% within the space of a few years, I learned that they have a non-advertised option of paying a small flat rate per year, plus a monthly fee if and when you're actively using your device. It's saved me about 200...

Is it me, or does it look a bit Hobbit-sized?

"If you tangle up, just tango on." (Scent of a Woman)

Not a play, but Xenophon's account of the actual march of the Ten Thousand that he was on.

Have you ever read Lachamon's Brut? He goes on for 16,000 lines about "the Britons", and King Arthur, and in the very last line all of as sudden it's "And one day Arthur will return to save the English." Not the Britons - the Anglo-Saxons, the downtrodden after the Norman Conquest.

I was referring to the emergence of the trope in D&D. As in, it wasn't drawing on historical or literary sources, but on actual contemporary practices.

Isn't the whole idea much simpler? Bars and taverns have traditionally been places where people gather for food, drink and company. My experience with American bars is limited, but enough to know that there's a very low threshold for someone going up to a complete stranger and interacting with...