In the UK, for a pack-a-day smoker, that's more like $140 a week.

We were lucky to visit this in 2022. Gorgeous country, Canada.

The wake will be held at the local Chinese restaurant. No police allowed.

I remember in the GM series, she always ended the books on a cliffhanger, which may have been a brilliant marketing ploy but was simultaneously terrifying.

The Saga of Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series by Julian May. The best sci-fi books I've ever read for world-building and plot. Written in the '90s, hardly anyone remembers them, despite their success at the time.

Good god! How many potatoes can one person eat?

Annoyingly, my laptop seems to be working perfectly.

I've always wished for Scarlett Johanssen, naked, to appear at the front door. It's yet to happen.

Making Movies by Dire Straits. Not a bad song on the entire album, and it also has IMO their best ever song, 'Tunnel of Love'.

That's a funny definition of 'accident'.