Richard La Rosa

I believe the phrase “language is a virus” is both poetic and diagnostically accurate.

WEATHER UPDATE:
Torrential confusion with a 70% chance of misplaced optimism. Sunscreen recommended, emotionally.

WANTED:
Time machine with working A/C. Must reach 1977. No questions asked. Bonus if it skips Mondays.

The snarky comment gets the most grease.

With regard to the Trump administration claiming that the Ukraine invaded Russia:

Remember alternative facts? These are the building blocks of the Trump regime—past, present, and future.

Some people are binge-watching TikTok the same way some consume entire seasons of shows on Netflix. A major difference is with TV shows, we can focus, analyze, and react to plot twists and emotional beats. Short-form videos are more like amuse-bouches, offering little to no intellectual nourishment.

I once brought a blind date to a silent auction.

You got slapped by a left-handed compliment. It is the sound of one hand slapping.

At first glance, I thought you were attempting to make an AI pastor, which made me wonder if ChatGPT will someday be capable of spiritual growth. Now, I’m afraid I’ll be up all night worrying about a holy war between artificial intelligences.

Three’s Company 2022

When Ciri and Yenneffer, two single magical maidens, need a surrogate father and sometimes-ally-with-benefits to share their apartment in Cintra, they decide to offer a room to a magically enhanced monster-hunter named Geralt. Hijinks ensue.

Classphemy

noun

The act of insulting or showing contempt for a particular social class or group, often by disparaging their status, lifestyle, or values.

Miranda, daughter of the magician, Prospero, with the old man’s spirit servant, Ariel, in a far flung future production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, performed on the planet Altair IV. Also: Anne Francis (as Altaira) & Robby the Robot in The Forbidden Planet (1956).

a group of people are laying on the ground and one of them is saying `` i 'm getting better! '' ALT: a group of people are laying on the ground and one of them is saying `` i 'm getting better! ''

I’m not dead yet

Good to see you here. Haven’t yet read the Worlds series but I bought and reread “The Forever War” a few months ago—an old favorite I hadn’t read since the eighties.

Doppelgöner

noun

A biologically unrelated double or look-alike of a living person that dies, leaving behind only one individual who looks the same.

If you wake up in the morning and announce that you “slept like a log last night,” you’ve greeted the day with a simile.