Bwahahahahaha!
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
flea - Sep 11, 2005 2:25:56 pm PDT #9054 of 10002
information libertarian
Consuela - Sep 11, 2005 3:28:26 pm PDT #9055 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, it's a Vimes novel! Yay!
P.M. Marc - Sep 11, 2005 3:45:31 pm PDT #9056 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Whee!
Damn it.
I know what I'm spending my yard sale earnings on now.
Emily - Sep 11, 2005 5:18:19 pm PDT #9057 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I must wait and not buy it until my next flight, as Pratchett makes excellent airplane reading.
Mind you, that's only a week away. Still hard, dammit.
DavidS - Sep 11, 2005 5:18:48 pm PDT #9058 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Where are you flying to next week?
Emily - Sep 11, 2005 5:21:00 pm PDT #9059 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Meeeechigan.
Volans - Sep 11, 2005 9:58:47 pm PDT #9060 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I just started The Geographer's Library >[link] and I think I like it a lot. It reminds me some of Dictionary of the Khazaars and some of Jorge Luis Borges.
Atropa - Sep 12, 2005 12:15:16 am PDT #9061 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It is called Thud! Who would have Thunk it?
Thud is the name of the Discworld version of chess.
Mr. Pratchett is going to be doing a reading in Seattle on the last Tuesday of this month, and you better believe I'm attending.
Sheryl - Sep 12, 2005 3:28:28 am PDT #9062 of 10002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Pterry is doing a reading in the DC area on Tuesday, which I can't attend because of dance practice. Ah, well, at least I got to hear him read from Thud! at Interaction in Glasgow...
Connie Neil - Sep 12, 2005 7:10:56 am PDT #9063 of 10002
brillig
As much as the Vimes-Vetinari show gives me great joy and satisfaction, isn't it about time for another Death or Granny Weatherwax story?