'Tis the season

Ask A Manager has posted a new roundup of terrible office party and gifting stories. Like for instance the one that ends like this:

Eventually someone got him to stop by tackling him to the ground with his pants around his ankles and his belt still in his hand, waving it around like a lasso.

Read if you dare.

Weekly columns

• SMOF News volume 1, issue 17 is all Worldcon all the time.
• 12/23 anime column, in which I am the only one who thinks that the vampire cosmonaut show stayed cynical about politics right to the end.