See, if we're going by the book we're currently reading, mine is a history of the crash of 1929. The job is Wall Street financier, and I'd be much better off possessed by a snarky ancient demon

I got it, thanks!

If you haven't heard George Michael's voice, it doesn't count

My husband and I just did our annual rewatch this evening! The line that always makes me say "God bless Michael Caine" is the one where Scrooge earnestly acknowledges that his first job was at Fozziwig and Mom's rubber chicken factory

I would have to say I also liked the first one best. I tend to prefer the author's science fiction.

Ah, the Paw of Nope. Classic maneuver

I once told a couple of Mormons I was happy in the faith I had, and when they asked what it was, I went ahead and told them I was Wiccan. So then they wanted to know what Wiccans believe, and we had a lovely interfaith conversation

Saw somebody on this app the other day wondering if the real danger of genAI is not that people will believe fake things are real, but that they will start to believe real things are fake, and I was like son, we're there

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore, by Evan Friss.

I know, right? It's got to be an exhausting way to live

My History of the English Language professor would go on regular rants about the blue-haired grammarians who did things like insert a silent b into the perfectly cromulent French loanword "dette" so the refined and educated could demonstrate its Latin derivation

Not me, no.

and what is remembered, lives

Congratulations! I bought a copy for my husband, so we did our bit to keep it there a little longer

I'm sorry, human, this meeting is for supervisors only