Add Bentley Little's The Ignored to the list of books about social invisibility (this was from Little's earlier days, when he was actually an innovative horror author).
Summer @ 16 - true, but each quiz has to be hidden individually (with a few exceptions).
Like Fragano and Jacques, I'd also love an invite, if anyone's got an extra one to spare.
Fragano Ledgister #35:
Don't ask me; I'm not on Programming. ;-)
Reincarnation: Does it ever get old?
Sure, reincarnation seemed like a good idea the first few times. But does dying and coming back to life ever get boring? And is the process itself painful? How does having multiple lifetimes worth of memories affect your sanity?
- Methos
- The Doctor
- A Bowl of Petunias*
- Carter Hall
- Spock
The panel got sidetracked when Spock explained that logically, reincarnation -- even his own -- was impossible, but in spite of the moderator's best hopes, this did not cause him to vanish in a puff of logic. Methos suggested that he was more of a regenerator, thus fulfilling the quota of the Panelist Who Doesn't Understand Why He's On the Panel. Things finally settled down, but Hall pretty much hijacked the panel, talking about aliens and ancient Egypt until getting into a shouting member with Imhotep, who was sitting in the audience. I had a conflict and had to leave before I could hear The Doctor speak to the topic, which was too bad, as he was the Thirteenth, and seemed quite brilliant from his introductory remarks.
Ray @34: But he was so great on Homicide: Life on the Street!
Seriously, there's something familiar about a Republican executive official having someone behind him who scares people so much that the executive remains the lesser evil no matter what.
I wonder if he's considered that God's given up on changing him, and is currently working to change the governorship of South Carolina to make it a better state?
Serge (#11): I shudder at that thought, if only because Starlin's storylines so often got half the galaxy destroyed before things were finally righted.
Thank you for this. There are so many wonderful (both in terms of writing quality and recipe quality) food blogs out there that I long ago gave up on finding them all, but Shauna's writing is a delight, and she's now in the food section of my Google Reader. Her use of language is a wonderful.
My favorite (non-Ruhlman) food blog remains Beyond Salmon. Helen's obsession over roast chicken, one of our household staples, is the sort of thing that has gotten me to reconsider cooking techniques I've used for years. Her slow-roasted salmon remains my go-to comfort dish to cook whenever the wife and daughter (neither of whom appreciate fish) are out of town.
I suppose that King's Thinner might not be the best weight-loss book. But the early Laurel K. Hamilton Anita Blake novels spend a lot of time focusing on her jogging routine (before the series starts focusing entirely on Anita's other physical activities).
#37 cajunfj40:
We're only missing some Munchkin decks because they keep coming out with new ones...
Yeah, we've got this problem, too. Combined with having to pay for things like food, utilities, books, etc.
Mary Dell (#41): That's an excellent idea! I've seconded that tag.
MichaelC (#23): Actually, the NY Times acknowledges him as a science fiction writer in their article. It's Norton editor Robert Weil who's quoted here.
Even if they didn't fall for those specific Tweets, Beck, Limbaugh, and Malkin have shown a willingness to believe anything that helps their causes (see here for a recent Beckian example). If they didn't buy into the Taft or Shamwow lies, it's only because they weren't aware of them.
I'm confused. You mention that you and TNH are hiding behind cameras, but I can't see any cameras in either picture.
Seriously, it looks like fun was had by all. And running the pub's page through Google Translate leads me to be jealous of the drinks, as well as the company.
So if there's no singular for "smithereens," how does one describe Pat DiNizio's solo albums?
Stephen @45 Not strange at all. Email is intrusive, and junk/meme emails keep me from stuff that requires attention. Blogs (even when using an RSS reader) are not; I have to seek them out, which implies I already have some free time, and one expects there to be something less than a 100% signal-to-noise ration on blogs (given that one person's signal is always another person's noise), so skipping/skimming posts is the norm.
I thought that the McSweeny's take on this meme was good, but this post is nothing short of brilliant.
Also, The Last Detail is a movie that really does belong in everyone's DVD library. As I was 1 at the time it was released, I suspect I was not an extra in it, although I probably wouldn't remember if I was.
I've long run Adblock Plus to avoid ads (and like Dave Bell above, the memory-hogging ones were my initial incentive). But every once in a while I see a post like this (or spend some time surfing on a library or other computer) and am reminded of just how much cleaner and more readable most pages are without the ads. This one goes beyond the pale, though.
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