He had a Colt .45 and a deck of cards...
So, yeah, I think my unwillingness to become too deeply mired in human politics has reached the point that I have become functionally apolitical. For example, my first thought upon hearing that McCain had chosen Palin as his running mate was, "What the fuck is Michael Palin doing hanging out with war-mongering Republican assholes like McCain?" So,
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And on old works: I just posted one of my, uh, efforts, from 1992. It's basically popcorn - but not entirely stale!
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And on old works: I just posted one of my, uh, efforts, from 1992. It's basically popcorn - but not entirely stale!
I just saw that! Neat, even if it did give me Dreaming flashbacks.
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Yes, please.
Also, I recently acquired a copy of the 20th-anniversary edition of Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, back when it was selling for Amazon's discounted new price, and not $300. It's aged well, it cost more than some hardcovers, and it's so short as to not be considered a novel by most people. It was as good a value for me personally as any other hardback I've purchased in the last year or so, and I've bought editions of novellas in hardback before and had the same thought. I wish publishers felt likewise.
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Indeed. If I recall...no, let me just look at the bookshelf..."The Hellbound Heart" was originally published as a novella, for an anthology called Night Visions, edited by George R. R. Martin (1986). Of course, after however many Hellraiser movies, I guess publishers can risk doing a stand-alone edition (which they first did in 1988, if Wikipedia is to be trusted).
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"Goddamn it, I paid $10 (or $20, or whatever) for this, I'm gonna get my money's worth, even if it makes my stomach explode"
That's part of it, yes.
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To imagine that the female vote could be pursued so cheaply shows the utter contempt in which the Republican party holds the intelligence of American women.
The question that presents itself now, of course, is how American women will respond.
Rob McCain of a decent night's sleep and give him a monk's habit and he could - I swear - pass for Palpatine.
Snork.
Question - How do you feel when you look back on SILK? (- a beloved favorite of mine which, for obscure reasons, I relate closely with Janis Jopline's "Big Brother and the Holding Company" on the nostalgia scale).
That's not an easy question to answer. I think I mostly see it as an interesting, if flawed, necessary step to escaping the genre weaknesses that marred The Five of Cups.
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What's interesting though is that I've noticed several times that the two almost seem to be referred to as a couple, as in married. Weird with a capital W.
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What's interesting though is that I've noticed several times that the two almost seem to be referred to as a couple, as in married.
Geezer & Gidget 2008, yo.
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You know what else bothers me about her? She seems to think that she is some kind of reformer. The kind of person who does the right thing no mater what people think. But from what I've gathered so far she is confusing this with doing whatever she wants no mater what people think. Mother Hydra help us if they win and McCain croaks. She will make herself the queen of the United States of Christendom.
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Even knowing I might suffer more than most, should such a nightmare scenario come to pass, I cannot help but feel, given the circumstances, Americans, as a whole, get the leaders they deserve.
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