Huh. No one called me and Kristen to do commentary on Safety Canary. How odd.
It must have been an oversight.
I'm eleven hundred and twenty years old! Just gimme a friggin' beer!
Anya ,'Storyteller'
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.
libkitty - Jun 21, 2004 2:31:50 pm PDT #655 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 21, 2004 3:03:13 pm PDT #656 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
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!
DCJensen - Jun 21, 2004 4:28:57 pm PDT #657 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
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.
Gris - Jun 21, 2004 4:31:21 pm PDT #658 of 10001
Hey. New board.
The statisticians support me in lurking.
Ooh! Can we use a T-test!? Can we? Can we? Can we?
victor infante - Jun 21, 2004 7:39:23 pm PDT #659 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
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.
Beverly - Jun 21, 2004 9:07:02 pm PDT #660 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2004 9:48:59 pm PDT #661 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
PenDuffy - Jun 22, 2004 4:39:45 am PDT #662 of 10001
I need a new tagline.. submissions are accepted.
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.
arby - Jun 22, 2004 8:28:59 am PDT #663 of 10001
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
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.
Typo Boy - Jun 22, 2004 11:55:32 am PDT #664 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I always thought Stranger was overrated - good in parts, but he did not really know what to do with it. Moon is my favorite of all his works. Personal opinion of course - plenty who loved Stranger. But I pretty much hated all of his later work - including Fear No Evil, Job, Time Enough For Love, Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Number of the Beast.