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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.


Allyson - Mar 04, 2008 9:13:13 am PST #2867 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

I realize I am being all me me me.

How annoying.


Ginger - Mar 04, 2008 9:15:17 am PST #2868 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.


msbelle - Mar 04, 2008 9:15:22 am PST #2869 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

it probably did not hurt that your agent knew some of us, right?


§ ita § - Mar 04, 2008 9:16:07 am PST #2870 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I gave my editor your number, did he call?

Nope. I could be a figment.


Dana - Mar 04, 2008 9:17:37 am PST #2871 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.

You were a book editor, Ginger. In STALINIST RUSSIA. And you published this book that was supposed to be a memoir, but it turned out to be total fiction. And you are the Princess Anistasia.


Susan W. - Mar 04, 2008 9:22:17 am PST #2872 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.

Well, when the James Frey thing broke, I was all grumbly because as a writer of historical fiction, I can't really fake a memoir. I mean, even the most credulous idiot won't believe I was alive in 1811...unless I'm the reincarnation of a Peninsular War camp follower writing a past life memoir.

Except now I'm writing an alternate history, so, uh...I'm channeling my past life spirits from an alternate universe? Think anyone will buy that?


Allyson - Mar 04, 2008 9:22:21 am PST #2873 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

it probably did not hurt that your agent knew some of us, right?

I'm sure it made a big difference, yes.


Scrappy - Mar 04, 2008 9:24:10 am PST #2874 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I realize I am being all me me me.

No, you are being all "I am sharing my unique personal knowledge of this subject we are discussing." In other words, please don't stop.


hippocampus - Mar 04, 2008 9:27:04 am PST #2875 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

I'm just busy trying to construct a horrific past for myself so I can get published.

growth industry!! we could offer this as a service! We'll be rich!

eta: (um, if these guys can - [link] - offer SL office design services and podcast vocal coaching, we could certainly do 'life enhancement services')


erikaj - Mar 04, 2008 9:27:16 am PST #2876 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

My stepfather brought a gangbanger home from the crazy hospital to stay with us for...three months? But now I can't write about it because it sounds like: Yeah, right. But I swear it is completely true. Although not quite as dramatic as I just made it.