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Do either of you eat Twix so that it breaks off just where the little holes are? The ones in the cookie part, I mean. (If you do this, you'll know what I mean -- if you don't, then I seem very insane right now.)
Twix are a whole process. First the bit of chocolate around the edge, then the caramel/chocolate top down to the cookie part, then the cookie part with the chocolate bottom.
Having not read any SF or horror lately, I can't contribute to the current conversation, except to say that I used to have a book of horror stories that had excellent Joyce Carol Oates and Bierce stories along with one by someone I can't remember about Jack the Ripper that I loved.
So, is this the final Wonderfalls show order?
00. Unaired Pilot (Wax Lion, but different)
01. Wax Lion
02. Karma Chameleon
03. Wound-Up Penguin
04. Pink Flamingos
05. Crime Dog
06. Barrel Bear
07. Muffin Buffalo
08. Lovesick Ass
09. Safety Canary
10. Lying Pig
11. Cocktail Bunny
12. Totem Mole
13. Caged Bird
Unaired pilot listed for completeness. I assume numerals above zero are what will be on the DVDs.
Twix are a whole process. First the bit of chocolate around the edge, then the caramel/chocolate top down to the cookie part, then the cookie part with the chocolate bottom.
Before the big D hit, I was enjoying the new KitKat Big Kat in a similar manner.
I would eat the chocolate off the ends, then the sides, then rip off the top and eat that, leaving the bottom layer to consume with what was left of the cookie.
Can't blame the sugar intake for Diabetes, tho. Dammit.
Barrel Bear doesn't fit late in the season, though -- it makes no sense stuck in the middle of an arc it has nothing to do with. It was written as episode five (the previouslies for Muffin Buffalo show a bit of it), and FOX moved it because they thought it was weak. Bryan says in retrospect he thinks it fits best as episode seven, after Muffin Buffalo but before Lovesick Ass. Apparently they haven't decided exactly where to put it on the DVDs yet.
Yeah, they should give it its own disc.
OR they could have everyone do commentary on it, including Rue. And they should be all soused or snarked up or ... something. It's a definite hiccough.
He's generally a good gruesome twisty conspiracy-theory-ridden nutbag of a storyteller, and a big guilty pleasure, but there are whole chapters in each of his novels that I have to read with one eye closed or my brain turned off. When he decides to write like a real Writer and Ahh-tist, he's absolutely unbearable.
He also once spent the better part of a book signing hiding in the back room and having books ferried in to him to be signed.
I kid you not.
Wow, that can't be a fun way to have to live. At all.
I ran across CJ Cherryh's blog today. Not a fascinating read, really, but what day-journal blog is? It struck me -- from between the lines -- that the person writing those entries is not wealthy, is a person just barely over the line into middle-money.
Does that seem right to you?
t /Jubal Early
OK. Crichton is starting to piss me off, again.
