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Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.

Mal ,'Safe'

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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."

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justkim - Feb 11, 2004 5:35:12 am PST #757 of 10002

Another social casualty...

Steph, I rememberd something being mentioned on Gaiman's blog awhile back, so I did a search. Turns out that all the links that mention the story are dead (this was from back in September 2002).

I did find this one tiny little blurb:

Crime Imitates Art

One of the most successful passages in Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel American Gods describes the MO of a conman who stages a fake payroll drop. According to Canada.com, a literate crook in Canada took note, cleaning out 48 businesses in a Winnipeg shopping center.

The link to Canada.com is dead.

Wolfram - Feb 11, 2004 5:56:26 am PST #758 of 10002

Visilurking

I remember thinking that was a really clever scam. But that's as far as it went. Honest.

Steph L. - Feb 11, 2004 8:26:12 am PST #759 of 10002

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Okay, not so much a brouhaha as a ha. At least I remembered correctly.

Micole - Feb 11, 2004 8:51:07 am PST #760 of 10002

I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

Thank you, David! It was a very pleasant birthday, involving lots of food and ending with obscene puppets.

Consuela - Feb 11, 2004 8:52:13 am PST #761 of 10002

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Micole, you are going to do a writeup about the puppets, right?

(One of the several reasons I have in mind for going to NYC for a weekend at some point this year is to see this play.)

(Yes, I'm shallow. Deal with it.)

Jesse - Feb 11, 2004 8:52:51 am PST #762 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Avenue Q is totally worth the trip. So. Fucking. Funny.

Micole - Feb 11, 2004 8:59:20 am PST #763 of 10002

I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.

I started the play writeup this morning, but had to leave for work. Tonight, maybe.

DavidS - Feb 11, 2004 9:04:08 am PST #764 of 10002

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Thank you, David! It was a very pleasant birthday, involving lots of food and ending with obscene puppets.

Excellent! I have a co-write on the song "Punk Rock Puppet" incidentally, which involves the lewd lyric (based on the old Pinnochio joke), "Sit on my face and I'll tell you lies."

Atropa - Feb 11, 2004 10:11:50 am PST #765 of 10002

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I'm currently about halfway through Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint, and I'm kind of "eh" about finishing it. I mean, I will finish reading it, but it just isn't holding my attention. I can't shake the feeling that he's telling the same story he's told before, but with a different selection of the Newford characters; it also feels like the entire book was "phoned in".

I'm starting to suspect I prefer his short fiction. The last novel of his I really really liked was Someplace to be Flying, and that's because I adore the Crow Girls.

Consuela - Feb 11, 2004 10:28:04 am PST #766 of 10002

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Wordy McWord, Jilli. That's pretty much how I've felt about all of his stuff since Flying, too. I've stopped reading his new stuff, although I enjoyed rereading Moonheart a few years back.

Was Trader after Flying? I liked that one pretty much.

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