−∞,
(lengthy parenthetical asides),
alice's restaurant anti-massacre movement,
alison bechdel,
alt.polyamory,
always coming home,
answering rhetorical questions,
anthropocene,
being rained on,
bilingualism,
birding,
birds,
bisexuality,
cats,
cats laughing, cenozoic dinosaurs,
chocolate,
climate,
coelacanths,
cognitive dissonance,
cold girly steel,
complicated beauty,
conversation,
cosmology,
daniel pinkwater,
dark chocolate,
dim sum,
discordianism,
dorothy sayers,
earthsea,
elisem's jewelry,
elizabeth lynn,
ethics,
evolution of language,
fainting in coils,
fandom,
feathers, feeding clementines to cats,
feminism,
feminist science fiction,
finding things out,
flanders and swann,
fnord,
gardening,
gender-neutral language,
ghoti,
hapax legomena,
history of science, hobbit socialist party,
homo floresiensis,
hothead paisan,
hugs,
ice cream,
idiot's delight,
improvisational cooking,
inwood hill park, irregular classical noun plurals,
j. r. r. tolkien,
jo walton,
john m. ford,
jorge luis borges,
keeping cool,
ken macleod,
language change,
laura nyro,
le guin,
learning,
live theatre,
logic,
making connections,
mary gentle,
middle earth,
montreal,
monty python's flying circus,
moxy fruvous,
moxy früvous,
musicals,
natural history,
neologisms,
new foods,
new york city,
nitpicking,
octavia butler,
okapi,
orthography,
ozy and millie,
pablo neruda,
paleontology,
paper,
paris,
peace,
planetary astronomy,
platypodes,
plenty of books,
polyamory,
polysemy,
prose,
punctuation,
purple,
radical self-acceptance,
rassef,
rational exuberance,
rec.arts.sf.fandom,
reflexivity,
relationship geeking,
rereading,
research,
resisting memes,
satisficing,
science fiction,
scrabble,
seattle,
seeded rye bread,
self-reference,
sky colors,
socialism,
sondheim,
space child's mother goose,
stan rogers,
subverting gender roles,
subways,
superfluous technology,
sushi,
tattoos,
tea,
the moon,
the power of and,
the smallest uninteresting integer,
the weavers,
theatre,
they might be giants,
tigers,
tiptree award,
tom stoppard,
transmogrification,
travel,
united perverts,
ursula k. le guin,
ursula le guin,
use-mention distinctions,
vnv nation,
walking,
weightlifting,
wildflowers,
wiscon,
writing,
xenobiology,
zoos