Unfortunately, that purpose seemed to be to drive me into a nigh-homicidal rage.
Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!
Wash ,'Serenity'
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 08, 2004 12:28:25 pm PDT #446 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Trudy Booth - Jun 08, 2004 12:49:51 pm PDT #447 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I would have enjoyed that. Dawn brought out my inner bully...
It's inner ?
Jon B. - Jun 08, 2004 1:25:42 pm PDT #448 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Cordelia matured into St. Cordelia
If that's maturity, I'll be in the corner playing with my legos.
Allyson - Jun 08, 2004 5:04:38 pm PDT #449 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
will you be modernizing the story from the book?
Not Tim, nor do I play him on teevee, but I would guess that Tim wouldn't give us silly fucktoy Wyoh. I think that the Loonies as a poor prison mining colony wouldn't so much have much more than the luxuries found in a poor Appalacian farm community.
Jon B. - Jun 08, 2004 5:19:45 pm PDT #450 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
the lack of certain technological innovations (like cell phones, which are now so ubiquitous) hard to get past.
Kids today.... In my day we had two tin cans and a string. And we liked it!
Rick - Jun 08, 2004 5:40:37 pm PDT #451 of 10001
Out of Minearverse solidarity, I have been listening to Moon is a Harsh Mistress on tape over the last couple of weeks. The basic framework, moon colony develops its own culture and wants to break away, certainly offers plenty to work with, but let's hope that Tim doesn't borrow any character development or dialog from the book, because it is terrible. These people are neither believable nor interesting.
I'm almost done with the book now, and I'm convinced that the big surprise at the end is going to be that it is 'science fiction,' written about human beings by an alien species that has had only brief encounters with humans, so they had to make a bunch of stuff up that doesn't seem much like humans at all. Either that, or the book was written by an adolescent male who was surreptitiously reading Tom Swift novels during his Western Civ class and got the two topics confused.
Nutty - Jun 08, 2004 6:47:13 pm PDT #452 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Ha! Rick wins the prize for expressing his disdain so eloquently. I am told Allyson similarly hated MIAHM, and I'm only sorry I missed examples of her fulminating rage. I, I was the reader with a fatal case of political ennui. Oh please, Bobby, not the joys of market capitalism again! You know how that always messes up the topcoat on my nail polish.
I would have been able to laugh off the political crap if the novel itself had had any redeeming narrative features. But it didn't.
One sort of wants to lock Heinlein and Ayn Rand into a squash court, armed with nothing but silly string and matches, and see who kills whom.
[edited to prove I can spell]
Tamara - Jun 08, 2004 7:05:32 pm PDT #453 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
I'm with Rick and Nutty. Sorry, Tim.
The Partyman - Jun 08, 2004 7:44:18 pm PDT #454 of 10001
[insert something funny here]
One sort of wants to lock Heinlein and Ayn Rand into a squash court, armed with nothing but silly string and matches, and see who kills whom.
I like this idea. Though had never really thought of silly string in terms of its usefullness as a deadly weapon. Kinda cool.
libkitty - Jun 09, 2004 11:36:40 am PDT #455 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
let's hope that Tim doesn't borrow any character development or dialog from the book, because it is terrible. These people are neither believable nor interesting.
This is what I was trying to get across, only not as well as Rick, nor as creatively as Nutty with the silly string. Thanks!