Contrary to popular misconception

This (my whole misunderdstanding of cyberpunk, not the above statement) is one of those examples where I start to think I'm smart and well-read and urbane, and then I wander amongst the Buffistae and realize that no, I'm really just a brain stem in a jar.

t edit Suddenly I can't even remember what "urbane" means! Maybe it wasn't the word I wanted to use after all!

[begin brain stem communication] blink...breathe...blink...breathe...blink...breathe....

I think "urbane" is right. I THINK.

I join you in brainstemness, Tep.

I join you in brainstemness, Tep.

blink blink

insect-eating SCA freaks

Gosh, thanks, I love being sneered at by people on a "my intelligentsia is hipper than yours" kick.

Any literary movement that requires a manifesto receives my foot in its ass.

I'm with Nutty.

What? No love for vituperation and poison pens? How oppressively moderate.

What? No love for vituperation and poison pens? How oppressively moderate.

I have some love, but I think that The Manifesto veered too far into "Goddamn, we are hipper and smarter than you, nyah-nyah nyah-nyah" posturing.

How oppressively moderate

How self-consciously avant garde.

How self-consciously avant garde.

t yet more connielove

How self-consciously avant garde.

That's redundant, I think. The avant garde is always going to posit itself against something else, which requires some self consciousness. You can't be the leading edge of something without knowing where the previous boundaries were and critique them.

I prefer civil discourse among friends, but I think that in the world of ideas it's better to make your claim boldly and make enemies. Incremental changes can be stultifying and frequently things need to be shaken up and challenged. Orthodoxies get set and moderation really does become oppressive.

Pedantic is also a good word.