Willow ,'The Killer In Me'
[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.
I think a lot of the people who dislike him have spent a lot of time posting about not liking him. That is not the same as universally disliked.
I had posted nearly universally disliked. And afterward I allowed as how not all of his work was terrible. Just some of it. Still, I will grant that I may have been intemperate in my language. I will attempt to modify this in the future, but make no guarantees of success. (Really wanting to put a smiley here, even as an adult, but I forbear.)
Huh. No one called me and Kristen to do commentary on Safety Canary. How odd.
It must have been an oversight.
I'm still smarting from Mutant Enemy not asking me to provide commentary on "Provider" or "Tomorrow" for the 3rd season Angel DVDs. ;-)
Look Ma, they didn't need special effects to make that man's head explode!
I think a lot of the people who dislike him have spent a lot of time posting about not liking him. That is not the same as universally disliked.
I had posted nearly universally disliked.
I'm sorry, but the qualifier "nearly" does not alter my statement.
Whether it is true or not, I simply was trying to point out that loud protest does not constitute a universal (or nearly) constant.
The statisticians support me in lurking.
The statisticians support me in lurking.
Ooh! Can we use a T-test!? Can we? Can we? Can we?
Just saw "Crime Dog."
Once again, I have to sit there, scratch my head and wonder why the fuck they took this off television.
Also cancelled my cable today. When they asked why, I said it was because they cancelled all my shows.
They seemed to understand.
Once again, I have to sit there, scratch my head and wonder why the fuck they took this off television.
Also cancelled my cable today. When they asked why, I said it was because they cancelled all my shows.
They seemed to understand.
We need to figure out a way to run this as a headline on every newspaper tv listings page for the next--until tv-making policies change.
Ah, who'm I kidding? The first day people would scratch their heads and wonder mildly what it meant. And after that they just wouldn't see it any more, it would be like some logo or masthead they expect to be there but don't really look at any more.
Just saw "Crime Dog."
So funny. And I'm a sucker for non-linear narrative. I feel like there were so many more stories to be told in this world, with this wonderful family. Goddammit.
I feel like there were so many more stories to be told in this world, with this wonderful family.
Yes I think that may be what makes (or rather made) Wonderfalls so good. Its family. It was nothing like my family, then again it was everything like mine.
I like RAH. Yes, I did read him when I was young - starting with Podkayne of Mars (which I liked even more upon rereading the uncut version recently) - but I think he holds up pretty well as long as you remember to adjust your expectations for his bizarre worldview. I also like Stranger and the Lazarus Long books - Time Enough For Love, The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, and To Sail Beyond the Sunset. I just think LL is a really great character, funny, amoral and interesting, and I like spending "time" with him. For some reason Friday also sticks in my mind, even though I didn't even like it that much and was utterly appalled by its twisted sexual mores, but I might just be remembering it more for the porny cover than anything else. The Rolling Stones and Glory Road were both pretty boring for RAH. Have not read "The Green Hills of Earth" but now I want to. Did recently read Expanded Universe which is a collection of short stories and nonfiction from the 30's through the 70's with annotations from Heinlein. Some of them were relatively crappy but it was interesting to see the evolution of his thinking/writing over 40 years. Even when I disagree with him politically, I do think he was a pretty smart man, and I liked his apocalypse preparedness tips.
Here is a site listing all of his readily available published works.
ETA if you want to be able to discuss Heinlein in educated company, you should at least read Stranger. The others all have their devotees and critics but are not as universally known as Stranger and Moon.