You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.

River ,'Objects In Space'


Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.


Fern Armstrong - Oct 07, 2009 10:26:29 pm PDT #844 of 3094
TV news psychic

Coffee & toast.

Forgot the personal stuff. I'm a native San Franciscan & moved to the East Bay six years ago, now live in El Cerrito. I love my adoptive home town, which has art galleries, music stores, musical instrument stores, a sex shop, a gun store, and "Playland Not At The Beach," a museum for an amusement park I went to as a kid. I used to work for a messenger company as an order-taker, and have been looking for work for over a year. I turned 50 last month, and am single. No children, parents both gone, and I have a brother. Politically, very far to the Left.

Favorate movies include Miller's Crossing, Casablanca (because I am the World's Biggest Sap), Maltese Falcon, Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and Local Hero.

Music: Love John Cale, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Johnny Cash, '70s punk, Velvet Underground, etc.

Favorite novel is "The Name of the Rose." Non-fiction would be the Communist Manifesto or anything by James Connolly.

(I'm nothing if not complex.) (edited for wishfull thinking)


Fern Armstrong - Oct 07, 2009 10:37:06 pm PDT #845 of 3094
TV news psychic

More Breakfast

Thanks for the welcome, Omnis.


aurelia - Oct 07, 2009 10:46:03 pm PDT #846 of 3094
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Hello, Fern! Welcome.


omnis_audis - Oct 07, 2009 10:46:47 pm PDT #847 of 3094
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Look at that. You go from lurker to cereal poster! That's awesome!


Fay - Oct 07, 2009 11:07:35 pm PDT #848 of 3094
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Hi there, Fern! I'm sure I've seen your pixels around here before!


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 08, 2009 12:02:25 am PDT #849 of 3094
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

Hi Fern!

Yay, lurkers posting!


Calli - Oct 08, 2009 1:45:09 am PDT #850 of 3094
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Hi Fern!I haven't seen Local Hero, but I like all the other movies you listed a lot, so I'll have to check it out.


Shir - Oct 08, 2009 2:02:57 am PDT #851 of 3094
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".

Hi, Fern!


Shambles - Oct 08, 2009 2:11:55 am PDT #852 of 3094
At last to guess, instead of always knowing.

Hello, fellow-lurker Fern! The Name of the Rose was one of the twenty books I carried around the world with me, and Nick Cave is probably my favourite artist. Mostly I read science fiction though, and in my case Nick Cave is surrounded by, like, Depeche Mode and Blondie and The Smiths (shut up, I will be sixteen forever), but nice intersection anyway!

Thank you for the warm welcomes way back when, everyone. In particular: thanks Ouise, and you should totally let me know when you're next in Montréal; I'll definitely try to muster up the courage for a coffee or glass of wine. And sooper seekrit message for megan walker: Montréal would be a great city for an F2F. Maybe by the next time it rolls around to the East Coast I'll be properly decloaked and can pimp it for real.

  • patiently waiting for new delurkers to declare their love for, say, The Sisters of Mercy and Gene Wolfe, so I can pipe up again*


Zenkitty - Oct 08, 2009 4:25:17 am PDT #853 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Welcome, Fern! You remind me, I have Casablanca and Maltese Falcon patiently waiting on the shelf for me to watch them again.

Shambles, I like Sisters of Mercy... (note gratuitous use of ellipsis)