The first entry is indeed awesome, but the whole thing is hilarious.
It's a rarity that I read an entire article like that. Loved every word!
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Buffista Movies 7: Brides for 7 Samurai
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beekaytee - Oct 29, 2009 11:13:32 am PDT #4730 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
Polter-Cow - Oct 29, 2009 12:08:23 pm PDT #4731 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It was really entertaining. Now I am interested in his book!
DavidS - Oct 29, 2009 12:23:11 pm PDT #4732 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
this book basically created the concept of cyberpunk, and opened the doors for all sorts of badass, gritty, futuristic crap ranging from Angelina Jolie’s hair in Hackers to a bunch of totally weirdo anime stuff like Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
Heh. Now we know about Angelina's hair in Hackers.
His timeline is off, though, as Princess of Mars was originally published serially around 1912.
I want to see his historical badasses.
Who's your favorite historical badass?
I'm partial to Tomoe Gozen, Anne Bonney and Audie Murphy. There was also a San Francisco cop during the Barbary Coast years that was jumped by gang members. He came back to the police station with three of their heads.
javachik - Oct 29, 2009 12:26:07 pm PDT #4733 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Who's your favorite historical badass?
Cabeza de Vaca and Ernest Shackleton
DavidS - Oct 29, 2009 12:40:25 pm PDT #4734 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ooh, I forgot I love Julie d'Aubigny, aka, La Maupin. Total badass, plus cross dresser and opera singer.
amych - Oct 29, 2009 12:41:36 pm PDT #4735 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Cabeza de Vaca totally wins, even if he hadn't done anything beyond beying named that.
Laga - Oct 29, 2009 1:09:17 pm PDT #4736 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
It's a good thing he was born in a spanish-speaking country because Cow Head just doesn't have the same ring to it.
JZ - Oct 29, 2009 1:26:02 pm PDT #4737 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My favorite historical badasses are the pair of unnamed 12-year-old girls mentioned in Herbert Asbury's Barbary Coast, who rented a whore's cubicle in the upstairs area of a "Mexican fandango dive." One would lure a particularly skeevy and vile customer upstairs with the promise of severely underage sex, then, as he leaned in to grab her, the other would pop up from behind the door and knock him out with a slingshot. Then they'd rifle his pockets and roll him out the window; most of the men were never missed or never mourned, and the girls made a decent living and managed never to be molested. They're quite possibly the baddest-ass pair of 12-year-old girls in human history.
Steph L. - Oct 29, 2009 2:52:37 pm PDT #4738 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Who's your favorite historical badass?
Ada Lovelace.
She was, too.
Laga - Oct 29, 2009 3:18:19 pm PDT #4739 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I was going to say Tiddy Rosenfelt but Teppy's answer is soo much better.