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.

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.

Speaking of Number of the Beast... I can't believe all this evil was just sitting around. I had to pick it up before someone got hurt.

One should never talk of Number Of The Beast.

How did you Heinlen-likers get past the silly stoopid gurls?

One should never talk of Number Of The Beast.

Ah. Sorry. It was thing. (Honestly not familiar with the book at all.)

How did you Heinlen-likers get past the silly stoopid gurls?

My friend the major Heinlein fan simply acknowledges it as a flaw in RAH's writing and ignores it. (shrugs) As I said, I haven't read enough, and none in the last 5 years or so, to really make an opinion on the subject.