Vance Maverick
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Computer programmer and composer in San Francisco
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the Onion version of this stuck with me:
theonion.com/area-woman-t...
theonion.com/area-woman-t...
Area Woman Thinks She Could Live In City She's Visiting
SAN FRANCISCO—After a few close friends personally escorted her around San Francisco’s nicest parks, restaurants, and shopping centers, Virginia-native and first-time visitor Lori Timlin reported Sund...
theonion.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
the Onion version of this stuck with me:
theonion.com/area-woman-t...
theonion.com/area-woman-t...
He's being tediously hyperbolic, but it's compatible with what you're saying. "The family too must be considered in the light of all rights and ethics"
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
He's being tediously hyperbolic, but it's compatible with what you're saying. "The family too must be considered in the light of all rights and ethics"
Left hand / right hand issues within the party? It may just be less of a unit than we hope/suppose
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Left hand / right hand issues within the party? It may just be less of a unit than we hope/suppose
Not very good mimicry, with the slant
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Not very good mimicry, with the slant
Plus they’re connected under the surface of the soil in vaster webs than we can know
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Plus they’re connected under the surface of the soil in vaster webs than we can know
My first thought too, and yet one can’t really opt out of politics. They were at least half-assedly affirming the politics of their hosts
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
My first thought too, and yet one can’t really opt out of politics. They were at least half-assedly affirming the politics of their hosts
No Mars for you!
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
No Mars for you!
Do I remember right that this has a Chatterleyesque sex scene, especially implausible (though I had no idea when I read it) because heterosexual?
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Do I remember right that this has a Chatterleyesque sex scene, especially implausible (though I had no idea when I read it) because heterosexual?
Thanks! When I was finishing it up, I was embarrassed to realize that the opening piano motif cribs from the Severance theme. Now it doesn’t bother me at all.
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Thanks! When I was finishing it up, I was embarrassed to realize that the opening piano motif cribs from the Severance theme. Now it doesn’t bother me at all.
I have some thoughts about how this came out, but mainly I'm very pleased.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I have some thoughts about how this came out, but mainly I'm very pleased.
Hey, me too (at Rose Pistola)
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Hey, me too (at Rose Pistola)
Does R stand for Rich rather than Roof?
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Does R stand for Rich rather than Roof?
So Rome *did* fall? Let us know
November 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
So Rome *did* fall? Let us know
I suspect "actual" means current (aktuell), not e.g. "documented"
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I suspect "actual" means current (aktuell), not e.g. "documented"
Ha! I too started breakfast with the crumbs of the brownies I had just put in the freezer. Then I ate some virtuous breakfast-coded dessert, i.e. granola
November 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ha! I too started breakfast with the crumbs of the brownies I had just put in the freezer. Then I ate some virtuous breakfast-coded dessert, i.e. granola
And literally true in the case of the Royal Society
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
And literally true in the case of the Royal Society
In 2025?
Makes me want to watch the clip of Cynthia Ozick roasting Norman Mailer for this stuff 54 years ago
Makes me want to watch the clip of Cynthia Ozick roasting Norman Mailer for this stuff 54 years ago
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 AM
In 2025?
Makes me want to watch the clip of Cynthia Ozick roasting Norman Mailer for this stuff 54 years ago
Makes me want to watch the clip of Cynthia Ozick roasting Norman Mailer for this stuff 54 years ago
Or maybe you meant that they're all so great that you can only think of them in succession, not simultaneously.
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Or maybe you meant that they're all so great that you can only think of them in succession, not simultaneously.
Is she the malevolent foe with huge stakes?
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Is she the malevolent foe with huge stakes?
maybe LLO as in La Llorona
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
maybe LLO as in La Llorona