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Meme, snagged from tahmthelame
Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in 15 minutes. Copy the instructions into your own note.1. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman ( Read more... ) -
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Just got home from work; it was slow tonight, too quiet for Saturday in summer. Everybody who came in seemed...on edge, I guess, like they were waiting for something. You know, like when there's a big storm coming in from the east and everybody's battening down the hatches ( Read more... ) -
Errrgh
My alarm hit me this morning just as I was about to be eaten by zombies, having defended myself with only an Xacto-knife and a sharp-edged spatula.
I'm not sure if this is the worst possible way to wake up, or the best ever. -
On A Modern Morality
Prediction: I am not a political creature, by nature; I have very little patience for the round-and-round which is the nature of the beast. I will predict, however, that the fight against the institution of same-sex marriage and everything that goes with it will, eventually and inevitably, be lost. On a nation-wide basis ( Read more... ) -
Going Native
Conversations tend to escalate. People get uptight from time to time and wonder why immigrants can't, to quote Avenue Q, "learn to speak goddamn English". Certain other people, from time to time, reply with a certain smug, self-satisfied air that the English-speakers weren't the first one here, and if we're going to be like that, why don't we ( Read more... ) -
"For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ..."
...but I am hella ashamed of these people.
Seriously. I have no words adequate for this. I cannot believe these people are real; it's like a roomful of Stephen King's classic-Jesus-cult people have all gotten together to perform a musical number -- only King is limited to the realm of believability, because he's a fiction writer.
This is not -
I Ate Poetry
To love something is ( Read more... ) -
Post-Apocalypso
There are few things more utterly unsettling than a dead public place.
This is true of any post-apocalyptic work -- you see it in The Stand a bit, and in King's The Gunslinger and following books quite poignantly sometimes. But I don't think I've ever seen it done quite so effectively in film as in the first few minutes of 28 Days Later. ( Read more... )
