In the UK, for a pack-a-day smoker, that's more like $140 a week.

I remember in the GM series, she always ended the books on a cliffhanger, which may have been a brilliant marketing ploy but was simultaneously terrifying.

The Saga of Pliocene Exile / Galactic Milieu series by Julian May. The best sci-fi books I've ever read for world-building and plot. Written in the '90s, hardly anyone remembers them, despite their success at the time.

Good god! How many potatoes can one person eat?

Annoyingly, my laptop seems to be working perfectly.

I've always wished for Scarlett Johanssen, naked, to appear at the front door. It's yet to happen.

That's a funny definition of 'accident'.