We’re still obsessed with feral hogs. DEAL WITH IT.
Today in The Straights Are Not Okay, Ask Polly advises a person whose mother-in-law appears to be actively trying to poison her? With mushrooms??
I literally held my breath as the mushrooms passed in front of me at the table that day. That was extremely dangerous for me. That food could kill me. What’s worse is my husband told me that mushrooms were not a common dish served by his parents before he started dating me.
To cleanse your palate from that homicidal heterosexual horror show, please enjoy a thread of historical and contemporary gay romance novels.
We don’t usually get grim here in the snack zone, but Austin friends: if you have dogs, keep them out of Lady Bird Lake! Traces of a neurotoxin in some strange algae has killed 3 dogs in the past week after swimming at Red Bud Isle.
On to some good news: Fantagraphics is FINALLY releasing the long-awaited, gorgeous-looking reprint of Moto Hagio’s The Poe Clan, and we are just itching to get our hands on it. Preorder now for a ship date of August 20!
We are VERY excited for Jupiter Ascending‘s ascent (heh) into Netflix’s rotation this month, despite our ongoing bitterness over the cancellation of Sense8. If you want to dive deeper into the glory of the Jupiter-Ascending-verse, don’t miss our own Jenny’s Jupiter Ascending fan novel series proposal, “The Lifespring Dodecagy.”
Here’s a really thought-provoking and inspiring read: an interview with the creative team behind the Eisner award-winning comic anthology, Puerto Rico Strong!
This weekend, a deadly crisis in Norway was averted by a septuagenarian hero, Muhammad Rafiq. We are, frankly, in awe.
You made it through this weekend and most of Monday. Have a cat on us.
