1+ week, 5+ day ago   (404+ words) In the late summer of 2006, Apple and Facebook ran a Back to School promotion through a Facebook group called "Apple Students." Each week for about ten weeks (July 25 through September 30, 2006), members could request a redemption code by Facebook message and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (150+ words) So of course one can squabble over the Paste list, but as at by intelligently pointed out, there were in fact more than 100 good songs released in the eighties.Given this, here is my ask: how about a couple of…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (91+ words) An acquaintance is in the running for a debut novel prize. From what I understand, they have previously self-published novels online of a more commercial nature, and this prize is more literary, and they use a different name for both....

2+ week, 22+ hour ago   (238+ words) I wonder if I found the meaning of the adage Better to have love and lost than never to have loved at all. Does it, in fact, better a person to have been madly in love and still feel so…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (151+ words) Inspired by this recent post on the blue, I'm interested to find more movies that have a vibe, visual or otherwise, of the work of Edward Gorey, for myself and my teenage son to enjoy.Animated OK. He (16yr) looooooves horror,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (116+ words) I am looking for not-so-obvious books that are like Katherine Addison's "The Goblin Emperor".What I liked about that was the court and politics intrigue. Suggestions don't need to be fantasy - they could be historical fiction, or even proper history....

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (167+ words) What's your favorite bike/divvy ride that gives you some lake, some parks and some neighborhood streets and corner bars? Will be staying in the loop but plan on getting a day pass and making myself way up north to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (73+ words) My friend's birthday party is in exactly two weeks. He's the kind of guy who views eating a ghost pepper as a reasonable daily activity. I would love to give him some fancy spicy vegan foods from a nice online…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (278+ words) A lot of my favorite songs are in the category I call "pretty." The other people in my family tell me that the quality I think of as "prettiness" is not as obvious to them as it is to me....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (86+ words) I was at a bar with live music and the fiddler played a great tune with the guitarist, technically a waltz but quite fast, that I later asked about. The title, which I promptly forgot, was French and one word:…...