Gushing. hmmmmmm
J/K, Allyson
Simon: You're out of your mind. Early: That's between me and my mind.
'Objects In Space'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Tamara - Dec 16, 2004 12:16:21 pm PST #3684 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Astarte - Dec 16, 2004 12:31:18 pm PST #3685 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Slick noir beauty in every nook. It's hardboiled bettie page in a corset on grainy film gumshoe in a fedora heartachingly beautiful.
'Scuse me, I need to change my drool pail.
Puts Tivo back on the Xmas list.
Allyson - Dec 16, 2004 12:32:08 pm PST #3686 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
And what's up with me and the cheesey metaphor? How did I get so melodramatic? You guys let me become this bad poet. I blame all of you for not stopping me. Jerks.
tommyrot - Dec 16, 2004 12:37:35 pm PST #3687 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You may be a bad poet, but you're a good woman.
joe boucher - Dec 16, 2004 12:42:32 pm PST #3688 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
I blame all of you for not stopping me. Jerks.
Friends don't let friends write noir.
DavidS - Dec 16, 2004 12:51:03 pm PST #3689 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Friends don't let friends write noir.
Where were you when I was writing my very pulpy Gun Club piece for the book?
joe boucher - Dec 16, 2004 12:56:49 pm PST #3690 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Where were you when I was writing my very pulpy Gun Club piece for the book?
Killing a guy for money and a woman. I didn't get the money, and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?
DavidS - Dec 16, 2004 1:00:03 pm PST #3691 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pretty, isn't it?
Pretty as a counterfeit twenty. And just as deep. t /hardboiled
joe boucher - Dec 16, 2004 1:21:40 pm PST #3692 of 10001
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Have you ever read Thomas Berger's Who Is Teddy Villanova?, David? Highly recommended. Really, really funny parody of detective fiction. The language (which is the point of the book, I think) is as stylized as Chandler, Hammett, Cain or Wilder and Diamond (the good folks who brought us Double Indemnity) but in a completely different way. Russell Wren, the narrator, is a wannabe writer working as a private detective. He's pretentious as all get out -- think Dick Cavett at his most over the top and w/o any sense of irony. He makes really arcane references but invariably gets either one-upped by someone he didn't think was very smart or pounded by someone who doesn't want to hear Wren's shtick. The plot is completely absurd, one goofy situation after another. (I'm especially fond of Boris the bus driver and the Francophone reform school girls. The Ganymede episode is a riot, too.) Anyway, if you like to see genre conventions tweaked -- not that Buffy fans would dig something like that -- you should check it out.
DavidS - Dec 16, 2004 2:09:15 pm PST #3693 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Have you ever read Thomas Berger's Who Is Teddy Villanova?
Nope, but you've totally sold me on it. I need to check this out. I bet Nutty would like it too.