You all need to read Clifford Simak's City, because you need to read City, but also so you'll know about cobblies.
The preface begins, "These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north."
We're taking a moment ... and we're done.
Oz ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[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.
Ginger - Jan 19, 2015 4:43:31 pm PST #15975 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Trudy Booth - Jan 19, 2015 4:43:47 pm PST #15976 of 30002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Aw Laura... so much is helpless and unknown here.
But there are a couple of things you DO know, right? He is big and strong and smart and young. He is unlikely to come to serious harm no matter what a little fool he is being. He also has a kind heart and was raised with love, so he's unlikely to commit serious harm either even if he's being a jerk.
He'll come though this.
beekaytee - Jan 19, 2015 4:52:01 pm PST #15977 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant
Andi, I can now report that I have put my hand on all the walls and there is no heat. I also have three smoke detectors for my one bedroom apartment.
Cobblies? ::shudder::
Vortex - Jan 19, 2015 4:55:24 pm PST #15978 of 30002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Mine is APP-lic-able or a-PLIC-able?
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2015 4:56:05 pm PST #15979 of 30002
brillig
The preface begins, "These are the stories that the Dogs tell when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north."
Simak rocks. Have you read I Goblin Reservation?
askye - Jan 19, 2015 4:57:53 pm PST #15980 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
I don't know what got into Penny a few weeks ago, but she was in her favorite spot (under the bathroom sink) and she started growling and hissing. I ran in the hall and startled her out but her tail was puffed up probably 3 times the size.
The bathroom sink/cabinet has a small squre hole cut in it for the pipe to run down and she's always sticking her nose trying climb into the hole. There's nothing under there, but it was like she saw something.
Will thinks that maybe a cat got under the mobile home but I don't see how. Or that the heater scared her but she's never reacted like that.
Freaked me out and she's never acted like that again.
Ginger - Jan 19, 2015 4:58:16 pm PST #15981 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There's nothing inherently scary about cobblies. They're from other dimensions and only the dogs can sense them.
Ginger - Jan 19, 2015 5:03:17 pm PST #15982 of 30002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I have read every word Simak wrote multiple times. I probably love Waystation the most, but it's like picking a favorite child. As far as I'm concerned, he's sf's most under-rated author, and, at his best, he's as lyrical as Bradbury.
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2015 5:12:12 pm PST #15983 of 30002
brillig
I interviewed him 30 years ago, and he rode in my car as part of transport for a convention he attended at Brigham Young University.
Yes, you may touch my awesomeness!
He was very nice.
WindSparrow - Jan 19, 2015 5:15:58 pm PST #15984 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Thank you for putting my mind at ease, bonny.