so sorry you are surrounded by big dumb people today, vw.
yay!!!!!!!JZ!!!!!!!!!!
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
beth b - Nov 16, 2007 3:47:36 pm PST #4444 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
brenda m - Nov 16, 2007 3:49:16 pm PST #4445 of 10002
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
Whoot! Way to wow them, JZ.
askye - Nov 16, 2007 3:52:18 pm PST #4446 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
JZ that's fantastic news!
I found out that one of my co workers (in another division) has a book out, he's a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer and his book is Brotherhood of the Fin is about his career and it includes his experiences in New Orleans. [link]
vw bug - Nov 16, 2007 3:55:07 pm PST #4447 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
Ok, woman. Brilliant, you are not.
Woman: "Well, we should be boarding in about 10 minutes."
Traveling Partner: "The plane isn't here yet."
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2007 3:58:37 pm PST #4448 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
INVISIBLE PLANE!
vw bug - Nov 16, 2007 4:00:46 pm PST #4449 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
That must be it!
vw bug - Nov 16, 2007 4:03:57 pm PST #4450 of 10002
Mostly lurking...
Damn! Maybe she is psychic. The plane just showed up.
DCJensen - Nov 16, 2007 4:10:34 pm PST #4451 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
Hopefully they take more than 10 minutes to clean it before the next flight...
ION, The big Mall of America Electronics recycling free-for-all has halted 19 hours in.
86 trucks were filled.
They barely got into the second day of the three day event when they ran out of room.
Susan W. - Nov 16, 2007 4:55:54 pm PST #4452 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
{{{Aimee}}}
Woohoo, JZ!
~ma to Kristin.
You know that writers' loop with the oh-so-superior Englishwoman from Wednesday? I successfully resisted the urge to reply that time, but I just succumbed to temptation on a new issue. Different person this time. Someone had brought up that thread in historical fiction where women disguise themselves as men to fight in the army or navy. A poster said that was overdone. I replied that overdone was in the eye of the beholder, because I adore that kind of story.
Her reply? Among other things, that "adore" seemed like a terribly gushy term, and that to her that type of story is generally annoying and at best silly.
Condescending bitch.
But I didn't say that. I said that as a writer I wasn't ashamed to adore stories, and that I hoped once I was published readers adored my books. I also said that there were publishing trends whose reader appeal left me baffled, including some I knew that were popular with many on the list, but that I didn't go around calling them annoying and silly because I didn't like to insult other people's tastes.
Sigh. I really had high hopes for this group as something that would offer support and feedback for the type of book I'm writing now. Now I'm thinking I should hit unsubscribe before I actually do call someone on the list a condescending bitch.
Fay - Nov 16, 2007 5:06:14 pm PST #4453 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
to her that type of story is generally annoying and at best silly.
While it's certainly far more prevalent as a literary trope than it has ever been as an actual phenomenon, the fact remains that throughout the ages this has happened. Not frequently, no, but it's not some cracktastic invention. There's plenty of documentation. We're not talking MPreg here.
Brava, though, with the courteous response. It has to be said that the list doesn't sound like the most positive of environments - what are the good points about it?