Via By the Way and Making Light: a four letter blog entry with over 600 comments so far. Look for mine at 625, 626, and 630. The present entry's naked plea for attention is entirely consistent with the metablogging going on over there.

John Scalzi has found another link to another  web widget, this one a Science Fiction Plot Generator.   I can't say I'm impressed.  It's basically a Madlib, with lists of words plugged into the following framework:

A (adjective) (kind of person) is (gerund) (situation) in a (adjective) (place).  His/her (home locale) is destroyed by a (adjective ( Read more... )

Unbelievable - Back to the Future slash!

I don't know whether to be aghast or amused. Go see for this fake trailer and decide for yourself.

Brokeback to the Future


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From The Daily Snooze II:

The Advertising Slogan Generator

The disappointing thing about it is that they're all real advertising slogans, with your chosen word subsituted somewhere.  Still, I found myself reloading the thing for at least ten minutes, probably longer.  Here are my favorites:

It's Good To Talk Mâvarin.

More Mâvarin Please.

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"This isn't the dollar I gave you. This is ugly."

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Out tonight!


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I just want to make it totally clear that 1) I never insert tubes of coolant into my brain, and 2) if I were to chase John Crichton, it wouldn't be to acquire wormhole technology.

And if that isn't disturbing enough, try this one:

Karen

A propos of a question about how much unfamiliar material is too much for the opening of a sf/f novel ( Read more... )

Top search terms for Messages from Mâvarin  are currently as follows:

josh grayson (Yahoo) 3

Blocking telepathic messages (Overture) 1

goodbye messages (leaving school) (Yahoo) 1

palace masha (Google) 1

Shoppingtown,Dewitt,NY (Google) 1

So, what useful information did these seekers get from my blog?

1. Josh and Grayson are enemies. Anyone ( Read more... )

En route to church on Thursday or Friday, Kevin and I saw a bumper sticker that said,

Hard work pays off! 
Honor student at
O.M.O.S. School.

Took me a moment to decipher O.M.O.S. as Our Mother of Sorrows, and I couldn't leave it at that. I told Kevin that it could also stand for

Only Minimal Okra Served
or
Only Minor Ostracism Sanctioned

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