Episode 197: Way of the Brown Lego

TOPIC: Mail Bag.

This week, Dan & Merlin respond to listener email and toots. Specifically, dealing with passive-aggressive team members, bulbous "CC:" lines, and what constitutes "stability."

Links for this episode:

• Image Comics | Releases | Bitch Planet #1
  2014 Best Writer Eisner Award nominee KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) team up for the very third time to bring you the premiere issue of BITCH PLANET, their highly-anticipated womenin- prison sci-fi exploitation riff. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds.
• PREVIEWSworld - Kelly Sue DeConnick Cuts Loose On Bitch Planet
  You’ve hears the old expression “good things come to those who wait”? Well, sometimes the best things come out of those who wait for a really, really long time. Like years. Like what Kelly Sue DeConnick just did with launching Bitch Planet
• Turkey in a Can - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Bob is excited about a three-day brine recipe for the Thanksgiving turkey. The holiday is further complicated by Tina's insistence on sitting at the adults' table this year, to Bob and Linda's refusal, and Gayle and her cats staying with the Belchers for the holiday.
• zdarsky: 100% wholehearted agreement ... | kung fu grippe
  things like this book make me excited to jump online and scream as loudly as I can. you know that feeling when an author you really like just knocks one out of the park. this is what this book is.
• P8RIOT — AMAZING!!! Artwork of 12 different universes of...
  
• Here's The Thing: Ira Glass - WNYC
  Alec Baldwin sits down with Ira Glass to compare notes on interviewing, the afterlife, and how to find one’s voice – with a microphone or a camera lens.
• Amazon.com: Lords of Waterdeep: A Dungeons & Dragons Board Game: WIZARDS RPG TEAM: Toys & Games
  
• D&D Lords of Waterdeep on the App Store on iTunes
  
• 5by5 Showbot
  Listener-submitted titles for this episode.
• Gist: Fast Markdown Link in Textexpander
  `[![%filltext:name=field 1% img][]][%filltext:name=field 1% link]`
• Paging Tim and Eric. Unrelated: I can’t tell you... | kung fu grippe
  
• Micronauts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Death Cab For Cutie - Pictures In An Exhibition - YouTube
  
• GitHub · Build software better, together.
  

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