Amiable Dorsai

Somewhere, Siannis and Royko are sharing a few beers, and Goodman is frantically revising lyrics while listening to their jokes.
Apologies to non-Chicagoans for references you may need to Google, but Mrs. Dorsai just told me that the impossible has happened. I'm croggled.

I suspect, if asked, they developed a sudden interest in baseball.  Of course, in canon, that is if you aren't thinking about Grace, but we could generalize it a bit.

If neither of them imagined that, it must have been a visualisation of what's in the readers' minds.

Mrs. Dorsai watched the Cubs, Our Cubs, the Chicago Cubs win the 5th game of the World (yeah, yeah, spare me) Series. Neither of us are sports fans. We both, somehow, care. The Cubs are in the Series. It feels like an alternate reality.

They always are. What you expect will change? That they will get into visible superposition?
Note: I suspect that shear determination CAN fuel magic. See here.

Oh lord, this happened to a friend whose lab had only one line back in 19(mumble).  Shortly thereafter, we had a salesguy in to demo a new, all-singing, all-dancing fax machine that had all kinds of interesting and useful-looking features. The one he was most proud of was the machine's ability to keep on trying until the fax went through or the Sun died. 
I insisted we turn that one off.

So who or what would you choose? This being EGS, and me having knowledge the interviewee almost certainly doesn't have, I think I'd choose to be an Immortal.

Yep. No pain, no gain. I don't have any real feel for how much of a risk taker Sirleck is, but the prize of a quasi-immortal body like Raven's has to be mighty tempting, especially if he thinks all he would have to face after possessing Raven is the Addled Immortals. If he knew someone like Pandora would be gunning for him, he'd probably run away screaming.

We were in Glasgow, Scotland one summer when the heat in Chicago was literally killing people (mostly elderly, infirm people with no access to air-conditioning), a Scotsman who was complaining about the 32 °C temperature asked me about how hot it was back home. When I said 40 °C  (104 °F), he exclaimed, "I finally understand why Americans always want ice in their drinks!"
 
 

Just getting back from a new (yet another new) sleep doc.  I actually have some hopes for this one-- he didn't suggest yet another sleep study to see if I have apnea (I do, the CPAP handles it, can we move on?), nor try to prescribe the latest, greatest, new sleeping pill.  Instead, he actually listened to what I had to say, described the course of therapy he recommends, and gave me some homework in the form of a sleep diary.
This might actually work.

Ashley's been in Moperville long enough to form a close friendship with Liz and to have gone to the movies with her the previous summer. She seems to have been so focused on impressing Elliot that the weather was, at best, a secondary concern. Which is an interesting aspect of her personality--she can get so focused on something (the date, a book) that everything else fades into the background. Just a quirk, or does Dan have plans?

As far as I'm concerned, "ain't" is perfectly fine, but it's also useful for conveying information about the speaker when writing dialogue.

And now for something completely different: a question about a word. What's wrong with "ain't?" Aside from the loss of status you get by using it, it seems to me a perfectly cromulent  contraction for "am not" that is much easier to pronounce than the more straightforward "amn't" would be.
Who axed "ain't and by what authority?

 
Absolutely nothing. Nobody can prove anything. And the DNA matches could easily have been pure coincidence.

Once again, Dan has shown us another side of what at first glance is a completely odious character. Pandora's tragic origin is, I think, the topper, but Susan, Diane, Mr. Raven, and others all were first introduced to us as unpleasant people, but they got more interesting and sympathetic as we came to learn more about them. Even Larry seems to be rethinking things.
Exceptions to this include Damien, Sirleck, and Rich. I don't hold out much hope for any of them.