the tree of pain has many thorns

[space_botz]

I just spent the last two hours searching the university database for critical reviews of Dan Simmons' Hyperion series... and came up with nilch. :( Instead I stumbled into a multitude of critical essays on Frank Herbert, Ursula K. le Guin, Robert Heinlein... even Iain M. Banks! The wealth of writing on Dune (in particular) is overwhelming. There

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[uberaxl]

you know how this works....
Now we play the casting game - a la Dune Community, worst casting call gets the Golden David Hasselhoff statue from me :)

So, without further ado I present our man about town, Keanu Reeves as the Shrike.

beat that!

[space_botz]

omg cass, that's like... the WORST thing you've ever said.
EVER.
you're so cut-off!
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though I bet I could beat it... ;P

Tommy Chong as the Consul?
or BRAD DOURIFF AS ALBEDO!!!

[uberaxl]

haha, Alan Alda as Kassad!
kd lang as Lamia!

that weaselly Frodo dude as the Keats persona.

[space_botz]

...too bad we can't cast
Chris Farley as Lourdesamy ;)
(unless of course, you're
kool with putting zombies
in the vatican?)

gosh cashew, feels like forever
since i've seen you...
hasn't actually been that long,
but i miss you!
when we gonna play again?

[realmsol]

You were listening to Juno Reactor...
Sweetness!

Are you also into Fluke?

Have you heard of Dj Tiesto?
He's my favorite trance artist.

[space_botz]

i've heard of fluke,
but never actually
heard any of their stuff...

juno reactor YES! :)
it's been awhile since
i've done the juno thing,
but was thinking about
garden de cecile yesterday,
and pulled them of the shelf
to give 'em a listen.
(had to blow off a bit of dust!)
talk about a time machine!
i was almost instantly
transported to some wacky places...
it's crazy what we have embedded
in ourselves as auditory memory ;)

[avad]

thought of youuuu
haha squidfashion
also DO see her crocheted squid...how can one live without??!
We actually bought the crocheted octopi 'couple' for a friend's wedding extra gift..she loves octopi.hee

[space_botz]

WOW! I love that you see squids and think of me :)
The octohat is the koolest thing I've ever seen!
I just emailed my mom about it, casually reminding her of my upcoming(ish) birthday...

[avad]

upcoming-ish When again?
please bat me over the head with it shamelessly over and over because I'd like to remember and have no 'system' for it.seriously. please. thanks.
:)

[space_botz]

lol, isn't it obvious? I'm such a May baby! A total spring bug! Somewhere on or around the 10th, almost 23 years ago, a l'il botz sprouted out of a crocus bulb. (or so the stories tell ;)