Yarr, ye scurvy dogs sailin’ on the Flying Dutchman thread — it’s the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, On Stranger Tides.

Hang on there, though : On Stranger Tides is a fantastic novel by Tim Powers, my favoritest pirate/zombie story of all time. What abominations will Disney be performing to warp a mad, wild standalone novel that doesn’t have any of the characters of the franchise into a continuation? Powers approves, at least, although that may mean he’s just overjoyed to be about to be rolling in money.

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You’re all writing, writing, writing in the very long thread… but can you rap while you write?

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I told you people I’m eyeballs-deep in work, and what do you do? You go ahead and fill up the chore that never ends. Just for that, I’m going to reply by giving you the bird.

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The Harry Potter series came to an end, but it looks like our own serial thread never will.

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Oh, no. It’s December. We’re having another snowstorm. The thread of a thousand mysteries has filled up again. And people are singing Christmas carols.

I’m not a fan of most of them, but this one at least is crude and funny. Don’t listen at work. Warning, too: it’s mostly an exercise in throwing out phrases for sexual intercourse. Don’t let the children listen, unless you want them to ask you lots of questions.

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But, as we all know, complexity and the lack of intelligent design is no barrier to the evolution of the manifold thread.

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The hot topic on the chiding thread is a regular commenter who is planning to do something very, very stupid. I have to chime in: don’t. Always drink in moderation, if at all.

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It’s Thanksgiving. Only two weeks left in the semester here. And I feel Nicholas Cage’s pain. Go ahead and chatter away, all you participants in the chattery thread, but I have to howl at the moon and pound at a keyboard for the next four days.

(Video not safe for work. May upset Grandma, too. If you have an appreciation for the craft of acting, it may make you weep, as well. Also, blame Drunken Science for exposing this.)

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