Oh! This is one of my grumpy days! (Okay, grumpier days.)

[greygirlbeast]

Spooky just read me a review of Ellen Datlow's Supernatural Noir, which includes my story, "The Maltese Unicorn." Actually, no. She didn't read me a review, or even a "review." It was just some dipshit's blog entry. He took issue with the fact that Gregory Frost's "The Dingus" and my story both use the word dingus in different ways, and this

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I love the word "dingus"

[seph_ski]

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2011/06/what_mother_nature_thinks_of_u/sweetnature.jpeg

Saw that earlier and thought you might enjoy the punchline. It's one of those funny because it's true things.

Re: I love the word "dingus"

[greygirlbeast]

Other than the fact that the lettering is microscopic, YES!

[mastadge]

That happens all the time. People will log onto a message board to write a question to which they could find the answer in less time than it took to ask the question on google (or imdb or other pertinent site). I've never quite understood that.

[greygirlbeast]

I've never quite understood that.

Unspeakable laziness.

[greygirlbeast]

There's a mentality, surging of late, which seems to demand being spoonfed the ideological equivalent of thin, bland porridge.

I fear this is nothing new.

[greygirlbeast]

With the addition of our wondrous electronic echo chamber, and the lack of a balancing voice in favour of/extolling the virtues of dissent and constructive disagreement, I fell the problem has accelerated.

Likely you are right. The morons of the world have a free public mass-media soapbox, and can all be heard at once, for the first time in human history.

[nihilistic_kid]

I hope my copies of Supernatural Noir are around when I go home today. I've been waiting for months to read the other stories properly!

[greygirlbeast]

I am impatient to finish work today, and read!

[sovay]

Oh! This is one of my grumpy days!

I don't know if I'm supposed to hear that in Little Nemo's voice, but I totally do.

That's y'all's Indians," one Republican said.

*head*desk*

Have a murder ballad of Edgar Allan Poe: Sarah Jarosz, "Annabelle Lee."

[greygirlbeast]

I don't know if I'm supposed to hear that in Little Nemo's voice, but I totally do.

Works for me.

*head*desk*

Made me want to eviscerate the motherfucker with a spork.

Have a murder ballad of Edgar Allan Poe: Sarah Jarosz, "Annabelle Lee."

Shiny!

[cucumberseed]

I have neither the right head handy or a sturdy enough desk to properly head desk that one, but if I did, oh, if only I did...

[greygirlbeast]

Loves me that icon.