Although, like I said, being mixed did kind of fuck my grandfather up so I guess it could happen.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Aug 23, 2015 5:16:16 pm PDT #23500 of 28326
Always Anti-fascist!
DavidS - Aug 23, 2015 7:15:30 pm PDT #23501 of 28326
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I just read the Wired article about the Hugos: [link], and it sounds like it turned out as well as it could have.
Would have been better if the writer had any sense of Science Fiction history. Like how they scrambled back to add in Octavia Butler and Connie Willis and Ursula K. LeGuin. No mention of Chip Delaney or James Tiptree, or Joanna Russ or....etc. You'd think that science fiction had gone directly from the Campbell 50s to this year as an undifferentiated slab of Square Jawed White Guy Engineer Stories, without any knowledge of the New World/Dangerous Visions era, or Cyberpunk (with Alec Effinger, Pat Cadigan...).
WindSparrow - Aug 23, 2015 7:51:00 pm PDT #23502 of 28326
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Not related to the puppy probem, erika, I'm 1/16th Creek, too. But no Trail of Tears for my branch of the family - my ancestors stayed in Florida, hiding out, blending in, or purposefully forgotten.
Gris - Aug 24, 2015 3:20:19 am PDT #23503 of 28326
Hey. New board.
I think I know this guy. [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 24, 2015 6:47:42 am PDT #23504 of 28326
"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 feel like the Wired writer needs to be given the A Clockwork Orange treatment with that scene in The Jane Austen Book Club where Hugh Dancy is informing Maria Bello about all the great SF writers who were women.
smonster - Aug 24, 2015 8:46:26 am PDT #23505 of 28326
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
My mother's book club decided they needed a name; since they don't tend to like depressing tales, they very nearly chose "The Happy Endings Book Club."
Fortunately their newest member (not my mother, she was clueless) was able to educate them on why that was a poor choice.
-t - Aug 24, 2015 8:57:28 am PDT #23506 of 28326
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
OTOH, mash them up with that book club that invited the football player to join them and you have a hilarious sitcom waiting to happen.
Polter-Cow - Aug 24, 2015 9:59:47 am PDT #23507 of 28326
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think I know this guy. [link])
Man that guy sounds pretty cool.
Toddson - Aug 24, 2015 12:51:35 pm PDT #23508 of 28326
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I think I come out as 1/8 Cherokee (one great-grandmother was from the reservation in North Carolina). Since I'm culturally about as white as you can get, I've never done anything about it. Genetically ... I seem to be missing most immunities to European diseases.
erikaj - Aug 24, 2015 1:35:29 pm PDT #23509 of 28326
Always Anti-fascist!
Actually, dycalculia is not my friend...my brother and I are an eighth.