I wouldn't call him an old punk. He's more a gentle sort of young writer-type, but his quote on the subject was, "I loved the Ramones. . . . I was a very picked-on kid in high school, and then I went to see Rock ‘N’ Roll High School . . . and found the courage to be strange and objectionable."

It made me happy. Met his wife once or twice--back when I was the long-haired guy at the bookstore. Seemed nice enough, but I don't think we ever spoke.

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The latest in Brat Queen's "Epiphany" series. I think I want to have Brat Queen's babies.

I had a dream where John Crichton somehow managed to be on Picard's Enterprise. It was a really cool detailed dream, with plausible characterization and a way to fit the whole thing into canon. Apparently I dream of fandom, which might be slightly disturbing.

It was so cool I think I'll write it.

SA, that would be a very meta fic, especially since John's always making snarky Star Trek references. "I'm not Kirk, Spock, Buck, Flash, or Arthur Frelling Dent. I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas, and I just want to go home."

But I'd love to see it if you can make it work.

Heh. Okay then.

AU!

Or, Crichton waking up on a strange ship, realizing *what* strange ship, and realizing that his life can, in fact get weirder.

Wait, wait.

Crichton, writing as Crichton, told first person by Crichton, waking up on the starship Enterprise and writing about it?

I think my head just exploded. That's bloody wondrous.

It'd be so. Damn. Funny. I don't know a thing about Trek, or I'd write it myself.

I would dearly, dearly love to read this thing. I hope to hell it gets written.

Or, Crichton waking up on a strange ship, realizing *what* strange ship, and realizing that his life can, in fact get weirder.

No! Back, plot bunny, back!

Actually, I think it was more along the lines of John doing something with wormholes, and he takes a wrong turn, and he's in another part of the universe, another parallel thingy. I wasn't going to make it meta, but now it seems I have no choice. Le sigh.