Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax  

[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.


libkitty - Oct 23, 2006 8:10:11 pm PDT #1577 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

It's probably too late, and my vague memory is that it might not be public transportation friendly, but there's always the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens. It's great. There are gorgeous gardens (yeah, the Mediterranean and English style gardens may be more appealing to an Alaskan than to someone for whom a primrose is not only a house plant). More importantly, it has a gorgeous library.

No, I'm not at all biased by the pretty books. And the fact that I'm at the Internet Librarian conference (with free wireless in my hotel - I could seriously get used to this) is just a coincidence. Really.


Jackal - Oct 23, 2006 10:27:35 pm PDT #1578 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.

The product of an hour's worth of nervous tension is now up.


Simon - Oct 24, 2006 1:25:59 am PDT #1579 of 10001

It's a great interview Jackal. One of the best pieces I've read in ages.


Topic!Cindy - Oct 24, 2006 1:27:56 am PDT #1580 of 10001
What is even happening?

That might be the best thing I've ever heard. Just because I imagine a conversation that goes, "How do you stay so fit?" "I chainsmoke! Next question?" And then Tim morphs into Hunter S. Thompson, which is disturbing on a number of levels. I think I need to sleep more.

If, after he morphed, he eats the head of the Health & Fitness reporter, then says, "And I eat right," I think you've got yourself a pilot, Strega.


Strega - Oct 24, 2006 5:28:35 am PDT #1581 of 10001

I'd say the worst experience: when I was threatened with castration at Worldcon by someone in a large audience during a Q&A -- he was angry because of the bad messages my work is sending to America.

Ha!

It's even funnier because I imagine it being Greenwalt, all, "Bad for me; bad for America!"


Allyson - Oct 24, 2006 9:30:09 am PDT #1582 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

That was a lovely interview.

So glad I wasnt at the castration threat event. I think I would have become violent.


Kevin - Oct 24, 2006 9:52:42 am PDT #1583 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Yeah... Drive encourages bad driving. Also, I've totally become a serial killer since I started watching Dexter.

Speaking of which, my girlfriend fancies Dexter. Should I be worried?


Kevin - Oct 25, 2006 1:23:30 pm PDT #1584 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Speaking of which, my girlfriend fancies Dexter. Should I be worried?

Should I be worried nobody answered?

Questions, questions.


libkitty - Oct 25, 2006 8:07:49 pm PDT #1585 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs

No. Yes. Maybe.

Answers, answers.


shrift - Oct 26, 2006 6:42:44 am PDT #1586 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Speaking of which, my girlfriend fancies Dexter. Should I be worried?

It depends. I fancy Dexter a bit, but part of that is Michael C. Hall looking very fit and pulling off a fantastically nuanced performance; it's not like I'm planning to write love letters to convicted serial killers or lurk around prisons. I don't find sociopathy a turn-on.