By the time this reaches you, I pray that this is the first instance of you reading the phrases “spoopy” or “spooky season”. I hope that we have killed that part of our vocabulary. Twitter Kevin James Kevin James continues to repulse and delight. I’m surprised it took us two weeks to add boobs but this is a process of the collective conscious, not a sprint. It’s getting weirder and more off-putting so that points to a kind of staying power that I would not have said this meme has.

This meme has been making the rounds. I’ve seen it posted on Facebook a bunch lately. I’m sure it’s on Twitter and elsewhere. Comments that follow are usually some lamentation about the state of manliness. Women are unhappy with their men. Men want to be like these tough alpha males. They post about it on Facebook, which is about as alpha as you can get, tough guy. On the surface, the meme is basically saying that men in 1973 were super rugged and manly, whereas men in 2023 are all scooter-riding soy-boys who (gasp) wear helmets on their silly, girly little scooters.

Hello, my name is Conansson, you might know me from the Path Database, the Path Ratings or the unofficial Legends of Runeterra Rulebook. I’m going to walk you through this week’s Path adventure featuring Viktor, Caitlyn and Swain. Since last article, I noticed that the non - boss fights are randomized. That’s why we’ll be focusing on the Special Rules and the bosses. The first Special Rule is another Ethereal Remitter Power and quite an interesting one in that.

Some needs are physical: the need for sleep, or a sandwich. Some are metaphysical: the need for inner peace, or confidence, or to never be asked what the Vikings will do at quarterback again, ever. This article covers both the physical (or specific) needs and metaphysical needs of all 32 NFL teams. (BAA means Best Available Athlete. You would have guessed that quickly enough.) Metaphysical Need: Optimism. Specific Needs: Wide receiver, secondary.

Herb Sundays 66: Michael Chabon (Apple, Spotify, Tidal). Art by Cina.  “This playlist grows out of the music I’ve been listening to while working on my current project, a novel set in the American Southwest. I tend to listen almost exclusively to instrumental music while I’m writing, because sung lyrics interfere with my own flow of words. While working I’ll mostly just let entire albums unspool, but I do also craft “thematic” playlists for particular projects, and one for this latest book, which might be called Highways of Cimmeria, was overdue.