Shambleau.
Utterly creepy, man.
That's not what making out sounds like -- unless I'm doing it wrong?
Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
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.
Steph L. - Jan 16, 2008 1:13:52 pm PST #3749 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Burrell - Jan 16, 2008 1:16:11 pm PST #3750 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I love "The Dead" by Joyce. I'm so predictable.
amych - Jan 16, 2008 1:18:07 pm PST #3751 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm so predictable.
But it's so, so good.
(Yes, folks, that's many years of expensive training in criticism you see up there.)
Also, this whole discussion is reminding me of how much I love the short story, and yet I so seldom read them any more. Hmm.
Atropa - Jan 16, 2008 1:20:07 pm PST #3752 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Also, this whole discussion is reminding me of how much I love the short story, and yet I so seldom read them any more. Hmm.
Oh, short story collections are my favorite way to find new authors.
Burrell - Jan 16, 2008 1:20:08 pm PST #3753 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Also, this whole discussion is reminding me of how much I love the short story, and yet I so seldom read them any more. Hmm.
I was thinking the same thing. Also I'm annoyed at myself because I have read plenty of recent short stories and yet none are coming to mind right now.
juliana - Jan 16, 2008 1:21:54 pm PST #3754 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I'm annoyed at myself because I have read plenty of recent short stories and yet none are coming to mind right now.
This is me. I need to be in front of my books to give good rec.
Kathy A - Jan 16, 2008 1:24:31 pm PST #3755 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Utterly creepy, man.
Isn't it?!? What blew my mind when I read it for my feminist lit class (all SF/Fantasy stuff written by women--introduced me to Tiptree, too), and still does today, is that it was written in the 1930s and yet reads like it came out a generation later.
Gadget_Girl - Jan 16, 2008 1:50:03 pm PST #3756 of 10001
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
So many wonderful short stories have already been mentioned! So many of these are wonderful favorites.
Might I add:
A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin
Hop Frog by Poe (actually any Edgar Alan Poe makes my list)
The Veldt by Bradbury (any Bradbury makes my list, too!)
The Bet by Chekhov
Leiningen versus the Ants by Carl Stephenson
Why I Live At the PO by Eudora Welty
Kathy A - Jan 16, 2008 1:51:40 pm PST #3757 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
In political news, Al Franken has his first two TV ads up. I like that his tagline is "I'm Al Franken, and I'm serious...about [whatever the ads' topic is]."
sarameg - Jan 16, 2008 1:51:47 pm PST #3758 of 10001
Skipping to the end: this week can fuck off and die already.
Some numbskull plowed through our t-whatever down in southern Md and we lost internet starting at noon. Not that I noticed because I discovered a really weird anomaly in the database and went madly chasing my tail after that and I still have no clue.
Got my car back, $900. HOWEVER, it is making a peculiar whine (they noticed it) that sounds like a little motor, tied to rpm. That had to have started recently, because it is noticeable. So I need to take it back so they can pinpoint it and do whatever billiondollar work that will involve, but tomorrow's weather is scheduled to suck and I just didn't want to deal with it tonight. So I'll probably take it back tomorrow or Friday or fuck, I don't know.
Just fuck it.
And of course, the holiday cc bill came in. I LOVE WRITING BIG CHECKS.