Mourning Dove. Wouldn't have figured that. Miss C. would have me for lunch. . .

The Red Shirts will also have to wait till they're up there.

The similar species descriptions are very helpful too.

Great article - as were the embedded links.

Someone needs to alert Gwyneth Paltrow, there's a tie-in here somewhere.

Pardon me, would you happen to have any Sweet Fromage?

I'm in.

Took me a while to digest all of this. Appreciate the effort and like WTM's previous work on Thriller, this one will get bookmarked for future reference. I can also say that my Conan comic collection is pretty extensive and continues to grow. If it wasn't for Marvel, De Camp, and Roy Thomas, I might never have heard of Howard. Red Nails has been adapted quite a few times in the comic world. I will now have to fine the time to read the original and then compare. Thanks.

There's not a lot of publicity around the Quadrantid meteor shower because it's peak is very narrow: 2-6am, Saturday, January 4th, and the best views are in the Northern Hemisphere. But the 4th is a moonless night and the Quadrantids peak at 50-100 an hour. And timing is always a bit iffy. Could be later, could be earlier. If one happens to be out, maybe in a hot tub, around midnight, look to the Northeast just below the Big Dipper.

Just to be clear - with two mediums, I don't have to worry about pineapples polluting the pizza and yes - I get all the anchovies to myself.

A good complete list.

Quite obviously, Christmas ornaments need warning labels.

Where's Carlin when you need him?

Are we doing codpieces again? No, we're not.

Wait. I'm confused. What do you mean by "what if?" Unreasonable? Not. Anyone who's close to the man knows he has access to a quantum singularity - a black hole if you will. Beyond that, if you want to know how it works - go ask the elves.