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I have Xi'an style lamb stew, and it is tasty. (If you get it delivered you don't have to tear the bread up yourself like in the restaurant.)

I need every one of these shirts. Like now.

Joss Whedon producing a musical with Nathan Filion AND Neil Patrick Harris in it? Can you hear the little fangirl shrieks of glee from wherever you are? Also, there is the possibility of Captain Tightpants IN tights. Bweeeeee.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden articulates what about Arthur C. Clarke I strive for in my own spiritual experiences:

the numinous explosion of mystical awe that’s carefully built up to, step by rational step. So much of Clarke’s best work is about that moment when the universe reveals its true vastness to human observers. And unlike many other writers who’ve wrestled with that wrenching frame shift, for Clarke it was rarely terrifying, rarely an engine of alienation and despair. He was all about the transformational reframe, the cosmic perspective, that step off into the great shining dark. He believed it would improve us. He rejoiced to live in a gigantic universe of unencompassable scale, and he thought the rest of us should rejoice, too.