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Since some people have asked, here's the unbelievably long but true story of ( Why I want to get a B.S. in Biology )

It's worth breaking LJ silence to say,

RIP Octavia Butler.There's nothing I can say that others haven't already said better. I didn't know her very well. I remember a gentle genius, and a graceful teller of solid truths ( Read more... )

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Thank God. Thank heavenly God.

ms_anthropy, I just know you've got something to do with this.

There's an interesting discussion going on over at chez the_monkey_king about the best way to critique writers with relatively low skill levels.

( Writing pedagogy-- not for the faint of heart or the easily bored )

(Ganked from webcowgirl)

This just about made me choke from laughing so hard.

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Damn you, fundies. Those are my goddamn dinosaursOf course, I remember little cafe attached to the Cabazon dinosaur park having a "laser art" clock with the face of Elvis ghosting protectively through the sky above a shiny black semi truck, so maybe this isn't as much of a travesty as it might, at first blush, seem to be ( Read more... )