A Collection Of Things Beyond Your Ken (and Mine)

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Last night I was talking to my boyfriend, and I couldn’t think of the word ‘library’, so I said ‘book ranch’. He thought it was hilarious and started making up alternative names for ‘librarian’.

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

OK, but someone posted a pot of water on the stove, and captioned it something like "it's the last day of April".

watching fandom lore get built but you’re not really sure how it happened: