Same here!! The two books led me to conclude that horror is not the genre for me.

That book scared the bejeezus out of me! Horror really isn't the genre for me.

I'll bring the coconut sticky rice!

Anduril??? Tell me Peter Thiel is a major backer in a company without telling me Peter Thiel is a major backer in a company. The LOTR fetish gives it away every time.

LOL. Considering the Chinese folks of my parents’ generation believe a $5 tip on an $80 dim sum tab to be more than generous, a $200 bribe tracks.

Doubt you'll get sick, especially if it's unopened. At worst, it might be stale. Can you return it to the store?

"Oh, great, MORE menstruation!" said no one ever.

I definitely didn’t feel it last night. To the people in NYC claiming they did: that was the 1 train rumbling beneath you.

I bought sugar plums at the farmers market that weren't very sweet. They're sitting in my icebox, and I hope someone comes along and eats them because I'm not saving them for breakfast.

My last re-reading of the trilogy was circa 2021. I feel like I need to pick up the books again because of...all this [waves arms around]. But I'll hold off and save it for my fall/winter comfort reading in my snug hobbit hole.

The kicker for me was when they claimed in a post that media outlets weren't covering protests that hadn't even happened yet—they were scheduled for the coming weekend. Of course that's straight out of the disinformation playbook: discredit news media so that people will believe only you.

Omg, yes. Among our mutuals, too. I got excoriated when I raised a question about one post. It's mind boggling how badly well-educated progressives wanna believe there's some sort of secret resistance the "establishment" Democrats/liberals don't know about.

Maybe Erebor will get burglarized by a hacker named Bilbo.