Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.

Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'


The Crying of Natter 49  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


aurelia - Jan 28, 2007 11:50:18 am PST #6430 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I'm Stanislav Lem. Now to find out what he's written.


DavidS - Jan 28, 2007 11:54:21 am PST #6431 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Since Zen asked, the fuh-reaky toy.

xpost from Bitches (Nobody needs to look at it twice)


Scrappy - Jan 28, 2007 11:55:48 am PST #6432 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

That is the freakiest toy EVER. Perfect for, say, John Waters, but not so much for Matilda.


Kathy A - Jan 28, 2007 11:56:19 am PST #6433 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Is it wrong that I haven't read anything by James Tiptree, Jr that I can recall?

She wrote mostly ultra-feminist SF (as in, manhating feminist tracts), but a few of her short stories are really beautifully written. There's a collection of her short stories that came out some 20 years ago that's a good look at her work. One of her stories (of course I can't remember the title offhand!) is a wonderfully romantic look at true love.

Her most famous short story was "Houston, We Have a Problem," in which a group of (male) NASA astronauts end up in a future Earth ruled by women, and these MCPs have issues dealing with the fact that they're no longer part of TPTB.


Jesse - Jan 28, 2007 12:02:06 pm PST #6434 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

WTF is that toy!?!??!

I'm scared.


brenda m - Jan 28, 2007 12:02:54 pm PST #6435 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

My eyes! My eyes!

Lord, that's worse than I could have imagined.


bon bon - Jan 28, 2007 12:04:40 pm PST #6436 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

It would have taken me a hundred years to imagine that.


aurelia - Jan 28, 2007 12:05:43 pm PST #6437 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Gah! That is a seriously creepy toy. It's a horror movie waiting to happen.


brenda m - Jan 28, 2007 12:05:57 pm PST #6438 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

It's gonna take me another hundred to get over it.

Seriously, you keep that thing in your house?


DavidS - Jan 28, 2007 12:06:50 pm PST #6439 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

You can see why JZ had to stifle her incredulous laughter when she saw it.