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-|8.26.10 @ 12:44PM|#
bizarre apologies to Liza Minelli
You know what else is really cool about the internet? You can look up the correct spelling of Liza Minnelli.
Liza Minnelli|8.26.10 @ 1:12PM|#
My mother...Judy Garland...could spell it without using Google.
|8.26.10 @ 7:00PM|#
Gillespie you got owned by an hyphen
SIV|8.26.10 @ 1:02PM|#
That video blows
kilroy|8.26.10 @ 1:24PM|#
Yeah. I kept expecting a Monty Python foot.
|8.26.10 @ 1:27PM|#
I wouldn't go quite that far, but I am left wondering exactly what I was supposed to get out of it.
Anonymous|8.26.10 @ 1:05PM|#
Meh...
|8.26.10 @ 1:09PM|#
Is "Electric Literature" part of the Kochtopus or something?
SIV|8.26.10 @ 1:21PM|#
Is someone slipping the salami to "animator" Joanna Neborsky?
Fist of Etiquette|8.26.10 @ 1:17PM|#
I liked this better the first time I saw it, when it was the title sequence to toughguy Robert Conrad's TV show, The Wild Wild West.
|8.26.10 @ 1:21PM|#
It does remind me of that a little. Huh.
Night Elf Mohawk|8.26.10 @ 1:25PM|#
Except that the one for The Wild Wild West didn't suck. Now, if this had included someone punching a bar maid who was about to stab him, at least it would have a redeeming feature.
Fist of Etiquette|8.26.10 @ 1:29PM|#
You know, there was another version where the woman simply swoons after the kiss, and West tips his hat and walks away.
|8.26.10 @ 1:25PM|#
OK... threadjack...
I am dumbfounded that I found a comment so dumb.
SIV|8.26.10 @ 1:29PM|#
She wrote science fiction too?
Not just that dragon-straddling stuff?
|8.26.10 @ 1:39PM|#
Acorna the Unicorn Girl
SIV|8.26.10 @ 1:55PM|#
" 3 Galactic miners" makes it science fiction. Now if they were 7 dwarf
lumberjacksminers.... FANTASY.Sam Grove|8.26.10 @ 1:39PM|#
Yes, she actually wrote some sci-fi that had nothing to do with dragons, but for the life of me, I can't remember any of it.
|8.26.10 @ 1:29PM|#
Are you really that surprised? You're looking at Jezebel, after all.
|8.26.10 @ 1:31PM|#
And judging by her Wikipedia picture, McCaffery can conjure up some pretty terrifying post-apocalyptic imagery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anne_McCaffrey_1.jpg
Almanian|8.26.10 @ 8:51PM|#
JESUS, Man! More warning about the hideousness that awaits, please!
I'm not gonna be able to sleep tonight...
*shudder*
|8.26.10 @ 1:33PM|#
I don't think you guys understand what is dumbfounding NutraSweet; it's that the Jezebel dink said that McCaffrey is a science fiction writer, and not a blouse-ripper writer.
SIV|8.26.10 @ 1:35PM|#
Ah, now I see.You put the dragon stuff "on another planet" and it becomes sci-fi.
|8.26.10 @ 1:37PM|#
Penny Arcade on the subject.
|8.26.10 @ 1:48PM|#
Anybody here watch "Party Down"? There's a great scene in which nerdy-as-hell Roman blows his chance with a pornstar chick because she says her favorite sci-fi stuff is dragon stories. Being an apiring "hard sci-fi" screenwriter, he cannot abide the foolishness.
Jesse Walker|8.26.10 @ 2:03PM|#
Time for me to post this again.
|8.26.10 @ 2:06PM|#
And people say what I write is nightmarish.
Almanian|8.26.10 @ 8:54PM|#
Word
SIV|8.26.10 @ 1:44PM|#
OT SF
For some reason that Alan Simpson post reminded me of Piers Anthony's In The Barn
SIV|8.26.10 @ 1:50PM|#
Reading that as a child made me appreciate the egg farm in Jeter's Dr. Adder a few years later.
|8.26.10 @ 1:53PM|#
Yeah, I can see that. Anthony has some odd sexual wiring going on. It weird to go back and read the Dangerous Visions anthologies and imagine them to be so shocking, even at the time.
I got more of Chicken Little from The Space Merchants. A giant, undulating mass of chicken tumor meat, constantly growing and being harvested.
|8.26.10 @ 2:02PM|#
I remember reading the Apprentice Adept and Incarnations of Immortality series, and thinking the first ones were pretty good, and then they got successively worse, to the point of terrible eventually. I hated Xanth, and finally one of his books--it might have been a Xanth one--was so fucking awful I never read him again.
|8.26.10 @ 2:05PM|#
I read the Xanth stuff as it was coming out, but didn't make it past Night Mare. I developed my crippling pun allergy around then.
But I read a whole lot of his other stuff when I was a kid. A whole lot.
|8.26.10 @ 2:07PM|#
I was tempted to, because he put out so much material, but even if I was super bored and had nothing to read I wouldn't read someone I hated. I mean, there was an entire shelf of these huge books by someone named "L. Ron Hubbard", and while they would have provided days of reading...
ManikMonkee|8.27.10 @ 4:10AM|#
Dangerous visions is a great book
Phil K Dick's story where the world is run by robotic Chinese commies is one of his best!
|8.26.10 @ 6:32PM|#
That video blew
fendi bags|8.27.10 @ 1:08AM|#
I liked this better the first time I saw it, when it was the title sequence to toughguy Robert Conrad's TV show, The Wild Wild West.
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she actually wrote some sci-fi that had nothing to do with dragons, but for the life of me, I can't remember any of it.
bags|8.27.10 @ 1:17AM|#
Roman blows his chance with a pornstar chick because she says her favorite sci-fi stuff is dragon stories. Being an apiring "hard sci-fi" screenwriter, he cannot abide the foolishness.
ManikMonkee|8.27.10 @ 4:11AM|#
Digging the electric literature site
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