Has anyone cited the "bazooka" yet? How about "kludge"? Spike Jones (with an ess not a zee) invented an instrument, sort of a cross between several woodwinds and brass, and named it a bazooka. I think the army named their infantry rocket launcher after the bazooka. Or was it the other way around?
Groo the Wanderer, by Mark Evanier and Sergio Aragones
The Spirit, by Darwyn Cooke (continues Will Eisner's classic and updates in crucial ways, viz Ebony White)
Hmmm. Falls in love with torturer. What was that novel, Ring of Swords, now I am blanking on the name of the author. But anyway, the novel concerns a human-alien war, the aliens capture and torture a human, who then falls in love with the alien commander. And the aliens are all gay cat people.
The most British of all the English composers is one person you wouldn't think of as a composer. Anthony Burgiss.
O fishhead tree!
O fishhead tree!
How squamous are your branches!
They writhe!
They throb!
They vibrate so!
Just like the mob on Arsenio!
O fishhead tree!
O fishhead tree!
You adumbrate flanges!
Writing is in the province of Apollo, god of creativity, and publishing is in the province of Hermes, god of markets, and bearing this in mind is certainly useful. But Apollo and Hermes are brothers, not enemies.
I thought Hermes was the god of thieves. I guess it amounts to the same thing in the long run.
Nice work. This setup works better in Opera, as a fringe benefit.
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