The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Carrie V.:

I remember my parents being disappointed at my and my brother's reactions. We were teenagers, but they'd been teenagers when the wall went up. They kept saying, "Don't you realize how big this is? How important?" And we kept saying, "Yeah, we know, it's really big. It's cool, we get it." And they kept saying, "But don't you understand?!?"

It's like we understood, we got it, but we didn't have this visceral emotional punch like my parents did. They weren't quite able to express that emotion, but they wanted badly to share it.

I just had a rather horrible thought: I wonder if Ray even knows the names of the people he killed?

I feel absolutely no need to pay $10 k for a newage retreat.

However, I have my eye on this $5000 all-inclusive 7-day dive trip to Fiji... And I'd have more fun...

Xopher@#32, don't we call those science fiction conventions?

Smackdown! Thank you!

The self-help section was my least favorite part of the bookstore when I worked there. The problem I find with all these "programs" that promise you your "heart's desire" is that most people don't know what their "heart's desire" really is. They want to be rich and happy, or think they do, and they want getting those things to be easy. That's their heart's desire, for success to be easy.

People who have a good idea what their heart's desire actually is generally don't need anyone telling them how to get it.

It's a bit wordy, though, containing as it does actual information. Anyone fancy coming up with a one-liner response?

The Nobel people have been doing this awhile and might actually have a clue about the process...

Thanks for posting the link to the ballot. It was a sufficient kick in the pants for me to finally send off my nominations. (I second The Middleman, which I have just discovered, and suggest An Autumn War by Daniel Abraham for novel.)

I for one am doing what I can for werewolf advocacy.

As for zombies, I always preferred the Serpent and the Rainbow Haitian voodoo zombies to the Night of the Living Dead shambling brain zombies. Lots more interesting subtexts there. At least I think so.

The jello mold dessert my grandmother served at Easter dinner in 1991 helped me decide to go to Occidental College in Los Angeles instead of Willamette College in Salem Oregon.

Columbina, I'm doing exactly that. It's at the top of my "to read" pile.

This past Thanksgiving, I hosted the family dinner for the first time. (It's a long story. My mother called my bluff. 'Nuff said.) It was so psychologically interesting. My elderly grandmother has always hosted Thanksgiving, and there was definitely a sense of a mantel being passed. I'm the family's black sheep/wild child (mid-thirties, still single, Bohemian profession), and I had a sense that me putting together the meal was also me saying, "Look, despite being unconventional, I'm still a functional human being who can pull my weight in the community."

I think McCain deserves some credit for conceding this early. He certainly didn't have to. I feel like I'm watching 2000 McCain rather than the one of the last three months.

Free at last, free at last...

I just started tearing up a little because until right this moment I was afraid it wasn't really going to happen.

Jackie L. in #3: Where in Colorado are you?

While Colorado Springs is a bastion of conservatism (home of Focus on the Family, 5 major military installations with a 30 mile radius, etc.), it's been my experience that Colorado College has the typically left-leaning student body you'd expect from a nationally-ranked liberal arts college. It attracts students from all over the country and can't be judged by its home city.

There are small, vocal bastions of liberalism within Colorado Springs, Colorado College & the downtown area being one of them (Manitou Springs being another).

I lived in C. Springs for years and ran screaming to Boulder about 10 years ago, but my parents still live there, and my mother graduated from Colorado College in '71.

Summer Storms #61: A story that may have gotten more local coverage than national coverage is how protesters pretty much ignored the "freedom cage," which stood empty for most of the convention. Story via Christian Science Monitor.

There's hope, I think.

So, a friend and I hung out for a while in downtown Denver last week because I thought it would be fun. And it totally was. My friend (who is much more gregarious than I) had conversations with several of the scary riot cop guys who were swarming around the Pepsi center. One of them went like this:

My friend: "So, would you let us take a picture of one of us sticking a daisy in your gun?"

Scary Riot Cop: "Um, no. That's a bad idea. But do you want to take your picture with us anyway? Because that's cool. Look, Joe over here does Captain Morgan." (Joe proceeded to demonstrate his Captain Morgan impression.)

Granted, I wasn't involved in any protests or anything, but for the most part the riot cops seemed to be, you know, posing for pictures more than anything else. Intimidating but not scary.

I can't recall any kind of crackdown of this magnitude happening in Denver. What's different? Is it just Republicans are more paranoid?

Carol:
It's not enough for me to see my books in print. I want lots of people to read them and I want to make a living at writing. Because I am vain and arrogant. I won't deny it.

#89 and #91. My favorite bit of dialog from "The Real Ghostbusters:"

Venkman: Cthulhu? What's Cthulhu?
Spengler: Cthulhu makes Gozer look like Little Mary Sunshine.

Once again, YouTube comes through with the episode, "Collect Call of Cthulhu." The villain is Clark Ashton. Teehee. I totally didn't get that when I was 14.

I did indeed! I kept trying to explain to people that this was more than a cheesy kids show. The internet told me about Straczynski, so now I know I'm not making it all up. (The internet also got me a DVD set of episodes. Score!)

CP also shares a few writers and producers. There are hints of B-5 all over the thing.

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