Myth Happens - Just trying not to be washed overboard

Sovay
Date: 2012-07-24 04:13
Subject: Just trying not to be washed overboard
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Music:The Divine Comedy, "Charmed Life"
I'm still not entirely sure I'm over Readercon. My head has been full of fragments for days. I am not writing anything substantive; it makes me feel fidgety and pointless. I met rushthatspeaks this afternoon at the Diesel; they showed me the cheeriest and most cracktastic path through Hatoful Boyfriend, which if I tell you is a pigeon dating game will not really explain anything. It was amazing. I'm still not sleeping. I don't expect any longer to become so tired, I simply fall over into a restorative sleep for hours, but it would be nice.

1. Courtesy of derspatchel: Don't Walk on Fish. "Hey, scatterbrain, don't cripple your friends!" is an endlessly applicable suggestion.

2. The Library of America is reprinting nine classic science fiction novels of the 1950's. I grew up with seven of these in the house, I think—mostly in the original editions. One of them I didn't read and Rush informs me I really need to. There are some terrific essays in here. Will someone just dramatize Leiber's The Big Time (1957) already?

3. Tom Lehrer on The Frost Report (1966) explains the decimal system.

4. The Guardian profiles M. John Harrison. I haven't seen a copy of Empty Space (2012), but it should be on shelves by now. I still need to read Nova Swing (2006).

5. I will dig through the boxes of my books in the garage and re-read Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters (1986). I wish I had known Sally Ride had a partner of twenty-seven years before she was a widow.
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Lady Mondegreen
User: ladymondegreen
Date: 2012-07-24 16:24 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
I'm still not entirely sure I'm over Readercon. My head has been full of fragments for days. I am not writing anything substantive; it makes me feel fidgety and pointless.

*gives you a tiny zap gun for taking pot shots at TW who seems to be working overtime lately*
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Sovay: Morell: quizzical
User: sovay
Date: 2012-07-24 17:31 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
iconMorell: quizzical
*gives you a tiny zap gun for taking pot shots at TW who seems to be working overtime lately*

Dammit, I was hoping Tiny Richardson had him distracted!
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ashlyme
User: ashlyme
Date: 2012-07-24 18:06 (UTC)
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I vote that we get TW and TR into the Littlest Celebrity Deathmatch and sneak you away while they cancel each other out. Failing that, I got bullets enough for both the buggers. (Selkie, poison the salad as Plan C.)
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Selkie
User: strange_selkie
Date: 2012-07-24 18:38 (UTC)
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TW has a great weakness for the Fanny Craddock salad oeuvre. You can get a lot of strychnine into your average sliver of candied angelica.
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ashlyme
User: ashlyme
Date: 2012-07-24 19:27 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
I'm trying to find out Little Ligotti's diet, but he doesn't want to tell me.
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Selkie
User: strange_selkie
Date: 2012-07-24 20:15 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Tripes a la mode du Caen, very very fresh. And some nice rare beef heart.
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ashlyme
User: ashlyme
Date: 2012-07-24 21:09 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Heh. No chance of me eating that by mistake.

Where are you, Thomas?
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Selkie
User: strange_selkie
Date: 2012-07-25 11:48 (UTC)
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I hear a stuffed beef heart can be super nice, but it's one of the few things I've never had a try at cooking, and I don't really want to speculate intensely on what Ligotti would stuff it with.
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moon_custafer: pic#117812935
User: moon_custafer
Date: 2012-07-24 22:27 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
iconpic#117812935
Having watched that interview, my money's totally on TR. If being daft doesn't work, he can always run Tiny W over with his tiny motorcycle.
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ashlyme
User: ashlyme
Date: 2012-07-24 22:35 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
I've got to watch that!
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Sovay: Cho Hakkai: intelligence
User: sovay
Date: 2012-07-24 23:57 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
iconCho Hakkai: intelligence
If being daft doesn't work, he can always run Tiny W over with his tiny motorcycle.

WHY CAN NO ONE IN THIS CONVERSATION CARTOON?
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moon_custafer
User: moon_custafer
Date: 2012-07-25 00:55 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
I can, I'm just not good at portraits.
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Sovay: I Claudius
User: sovay
Date: 2012-07-25 01:07 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
iconI Claudius
I can, I'm just not good at portraits.

I'll accept captions!
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moon_custafer: sidelong
User: moon_custafer
Date: 2012-07-25 01:21 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
iconsidelong
CARTOON CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
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Sovay: Cho Hakkai: intelligence
User: sovay
Date: 2012-07-25 01:30 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
iconCho Hakkai: intelligence
CARTOON CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

THERE IS NOT ENOUGH CAPSLOCK IN THE WORLD.

YOU WIN IT ANYWAY.

I can't argue with that caption. My mother wanted to know why I just burst out laughing like a loon and it was difficult to know where to begin.
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selidor: explain a dragon
User: selidor
Date: 2012-07-25 01:59 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
iconexplain a dragon
The Internets, when won, traditionally come wrapped with a nice bow. I think this gets the tiny-zap-gun-motif wrapping paper as bonus.
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ap_aelfwine
User: ap_aelfwine
Date: 2012-07-27 17:42 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
CARTOON CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

Well done!
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