Shelf Care | Prose and Cons
Welcome to Shelf Care, where I review three books related by a theme. These aren’t necessarily the latest releases, but are hopefully books you can’t believe you [...]
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Sweatpants & Humor | Groan Up Comedy
My hand has started shaking as I take the microphone. I give up on keeping it steady and move on to trying to speak clearly. I’d ask myself “How did I end up here?” but [...]
Sweatpants & Pop Culture | George R. R. Martin’s 69th Name Day
Today, we are celebrating the birth of author, screenwriter, producer, and emotional sadist, George R. R. Martin. Source Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, on September 20, 1948, [...]
Sweatpants & Culture | Celebrating the Life of Octavia Butler on Her Seventieth Birthday
Octavia Butler opened up the science fiction genre to a more diverse readership. Today would have been her 70th birthday. [...]
Sweatpants & Geekery | Happy Towel Day, You Hoopy Froods!
“A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical [...]
