She got a standing O from the class. It was...fucking awesome.

I wish I'd heard that.

sometimes you just need to shouting "Fucking FUCK!" at the top of your lungs.

I did that just this morning when I couldn't get Outlook to open so I could connect to a conf call with the president of my company on the line.

Luckily, I'm the only one in the office today.

I didn't realize that my coworker can hear me when I talk to myself until recently. Oops. Most recently, she asked what I was saying "fuck it!" about.

Although I DID have a female student who went on a 5 minutes, profanity-filled diatribe full of insightful character analysis about a character in "The Poisonwood Bible" which, curse words or no, was one of the most thoughtful pieces of student analysis I'd ever heard, and I said nary a word to her.

I really wish I had heard that too. Which character was she raging on?

The Winds of War chapter that GRRM read at Worldcon belongs to Arianne Martell.

Whoops, wrong thread! Sorry, moving to Bitches.

I get so tired of sitting someplace - often the bus or the subway - and someone's talking and the ONLY adverb or adjective they seem to know is the one Ms. Le Guin cited. sigh.

We were on the BART - and there was a young man on the phone and almost every other word out of his mouth was some version of the word fuck. At first he was annoying, but then it got really funny - because I realized he sounded like the obscene version of a smurf - it was really hard not to laugh out loud.

Smonster, so FUCKING HAPPY for you.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

OK, I skipped a TON, because I wanted to read the NPR list first, and then read over Buffista commentary slowly while not distracted. But then I skipped to the horror part, and then I just got all flappy-hands about everything.

I love books.

Whitley Streiber? (Did anybody read The Hunger? He also wrote The Howling, so he's got as much claim to being King of 70s Horror as anybody, unless you concede the whole decade to Anne Rice for Interview With a Vampire.)

So, I met him. At the 50th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash. He's apparently a Celebrity in UFO circles, since Communion was ostensibly non-fiction. Anyway, he'd made appearances and was signing copies and stuff all day, I guess, and I ended up sitting next to him at the VIP bash that evening. I introduced myself, he introduced himself, and I enthused, rather loudly, "Oh, I LOOOOVED Wolfen ! And The Hunger! "

He picked up his plate and moved away.

Rice krispies:

Though it really shouldn't be that obscure. Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance are grandmasters of the genre

Yeah, I mean, the whole magic system in D&D is based on Vance's magic system.