Lukes! This is where I bought my first comic book, ate my first beef patty, bought countless chocolate bars and Popeyes candy sticks. Some of my first short trips with my sister or by myself in the neighbourhood were to grab odds and ends for my parents from here.

80k makes much more sense. $75 million worth would probably be made from alpaca milk or something fancier than just cow cream.

The narrated version of this: www.instagram.com/p/C2IZjgOvcY...

I like listening to the Beach Boys "Add some music to your day" once in a while to remind myself of this.

You're missing an option between the two though.

I love the illustration too.

This is such a good choice for wheel of fortune.

I would want to build the Robarts library (brutalist peacock fortress of doom) with a cutaway that includes the interior of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book library, probably the most beautiful interior in Canada (as seen in Star Trek: Discovery)

Feels like there could be lessons learned from Betrayal at house on the hill style games for what you're talking about, where you're doing things that effect part two, but you can't know if it's helping or hurting you until the structure of phase 2 is revealed.

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We've only met in person a few times over the years, but I've never gotten "pompous" vibes from you.

I had a great time last year, but that's because I found the cat judging hall and stayed there all day.

Joe Hill is fun. I liked the Locke and Key comics a lot, and the book Horns. There's an air of magic + discovery to them - even though they're technically horror. To paraphrase Ian Malcolm, they've got some oohing and aahing amidst the running and screaming.

I was thinking given your body of work, that fantasy horror would maybe be a good gateway - Happy Hour in Hell by Tad Williams felt like reading horror at times. I saw that you'd read Dirty Streets of Heaven, but don't know if you ever read bk 2. I didn't get through bk 3 in the end.

I didn't know there was only six of these - I'd read up to human division when that one came out in pieces, haven't read end of all things. 6 books makes a re/read much more reasonable than I'd thought.

You don’t need to make an offline backup of Wikipedia because of the online safety act. You do need to make an offline backup of Wikipedia because it’s just a baller thing to have. Shove it on an e-reader and you have the purest example of an artefact Benedictine monks would switch to Satan for