I was 9 and had grown breasts, and they were just fascinating because they were new. My brother’s friend caught me absentmindedly bouncing one in my hand.

That’s a Florida Man style story.

John Darnielle’s Devil House is a GREAT novel. All of his books are but it’s particularly great

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley.

Letterkenny! The humour takes a few episodes for you to understand, but it’s absurd sort of in the Seinfeld way but way more subtle.

What We Do In The Shadows is HILARIOUS.

Pour Some Sugar On Me. It’s so terrible.

Droppies! They’re an acquired taste. I worked with a lot of Dutch people at one point and they were always bringing them in. There was one kind I swear that had a powdered coating it was dipped in which only could have been weed killer.

I haven’t actually tried this but my friend did.

Shoresy is wonderful! That and Letterkenny made me like hockey more.

Hair metal from the 80s. I am a middle aged woman who does listen to plenty of modern music and tries new artists, but I realized those are my happiest musical days and I still like it better than anything else. Motley Crue did awful things and sometimes made awful music, and Vince Neil really isn’t a good singer anymore, but by God when they made a good song they really nailed it.

Being married to a covert narcissist.

I always use names based on the titles of books by the writer Jonathan Carroll. They’re fascinating books and great titles. Sometimes I use the names of one of his characters instead. Really an author people should read more of. Bones of the Moon is one of his first few novels and part of a trilogy.

I still have Facebook because of real life friends but otherwise I am on the fediverse and Bluesky only. I even use Maven. I have never gotten into Snapchat or Tiktok at all, and I dumped Instagram and Twitter a while back.

I would love to not be on Facebook but sometimes if someone commits a really trashy crime in the news and I look them up and their page is full of crazy it’s pretty delicious. Like a Southern Gothic novel.

I don’t know the answer, but I support people as however they identify, I don’t care and love them all, but I sort of would feel silly saying I was she/her. Like it’s like I’m participating in something that I’m not really a part of.

My 87 year old aunt volunteers for a local theater, which obviously has a lot of queer folks involved, and at one point the coordinator said when the volunteers introduced themselves at a meeting that they should announce their preferred pronouns. I get that the coordinator meant well, but my aunt said it’s nobody’s business what her pronouns are unless RuPaul is asking. LOL.

In its Facebook and onward phase, yes I agree. Prior to that we had this wonderful site called Livejournal where you could privately blog to a select group of friends, and it was the absolute best way to brain dump, have people give you real advice, and make the best online friends. Yes it had much controversy when it was bought by a Russian company, I can point you to a podcast if you want more detail on that, and certainly there was drama sometimes, but I would give a lot to just talk to my friends as a group that way again and really know each other deeply that way again, and other than the odd very ignorable ad, you weren’t forced to be part of an algorithm or AI horseshit or fake news or verified accounts or any of that garbage. You could buy a permanent account for 100 dollars for the added features, but that was basically started to keep the site running after it took off. It really was beautiful and helpful and loving and felt organic and true for that time.

Have you ever noticed how hard it is for novels or TV or any other fictional platform to include anything about smartphones or using social media? When it is mentioned it feels very awkward and forced into the narrative.

The best eggs are eggs from a farm that are unwashed and you keep on the counter. They taste a zillion times better and last for a long time. I get 3 dozen for 15 dollars at the local farm. It’s honestly better than the store.

If you should keep one thing in life it’s books.

It’s hilarious.

Merge Dragons.

Neko Case, who is also a member of the New Pornographers. I have seen both her solo act and TNP probably about 10-15 times.

I don’t play a dedicated video game setup, but I do play a merge game on my phone that’s endless that I can whip out and do anywhere.