The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Randall M:

xeger @117

What else would I be doing with a quantity of lime, anyways ;)

I assumed, between that and the pit, you had finally decided to deal with your enemies list once and for all. ;-P

Tolkien had Gollum solve one of Bilbo's riddles in the Hobbit by remembering his days at home, teaching his grandmother to suck eggs. Or, as he put it, "eggses".

How about furries - could they get Thundercat-shaped 'bots?

Yes they can. Go to the bottom of the page. Marvel.

Jeremy Preacher @137, you beat me by seconds. "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" is in _Skeleton Crew_.

Vian @23: couldn't Kevin have told the Canadian delegate to get out of the way, too? We would have cheered.

FungiFromYuggoth @#192:

Proposition: the Electoral college creates watertight compartments for vote fraud.

So, what you're saying is that the Electoral College is a box, then?

Teresa:

The link at the very top of the article, to Kathryn Cramer's blog, is set to go to: http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/www.kathryncramer.com. Which page, alas, does not exist.

#150, Bruce Cohen:

I admit Dennis Rodman's not much of an actor. What, however, has he to do with Demolition Man? Were I less convinced of your erudtion, I might think you had him confused with Wesley Snipes, who played the villain in that movie.

Madeleine Noted:

In the days when the old windows were still in place (and I worked near the "nosecone") in the Flatiron Building, there was both a wuthering and a rattling,

So, Madeleine, you're saying you worked at a Wuthering Height?

Okay, there seems to be a trend in Open Threads to ask for help identifying stories read long ago but for which the titles and authors are lost. So this is mine:

There's a new drug on the street. Users are found refusing to believe that the people they are talking to are real. An undercover cop is sent in to infiltrate a drug-using site. He takes the drug, passes out, wakes up in the morning with the sun shining in through the curtains of the window. Goes out, calls in the rest of the cops, bust is made, gets a promotion, has a good life, marries, has kids, dies . . . and wakes up in the morning with the sun shining in through the curtains of window. This time he doesn't get the bust, accidentally cripples himself, loses his job, has a lousy life, dies . . . and wakes up in the morning . . .. He goes through several more lives before he gets to one where he solves what's going on (aliens are involved, if I remember correctly). . . and eventually he wakes up in the morning with the sun, yadda yadda.

Sound familiar to anyone?

So comic-book writers are Byrne again?

The satanic cults, of course, didn't seem to have much in the way of internal politics going on, despite all those political figues, judges, lawyers and teachers who were alleged to be members (not any specific names, mind you, just that there were supposed to be a lot of rich and powerful people in them so that they could so completely hide *all* evidence of their own existence), nor any specific theology. They existed only to sacrifice victims, sexually abuse kids, and impregnate young women to make them give birth to more victims. Does that sound like an organization of humans?

Kevin Andrew Murphy :

Left Behind can also be expressed as Sinister Buttocks. As in the No Child Sinister Buttocks act.

Of course, from what I saw of the plot of the Sinister Buttocks books, from thumbing through the graphic novel at my local Barnes and Noble, all children, fetuses included, are drawn up to heaven in the Rapture, thus saving the government a buttload of money from the education budget which they can then use to wage war across the Middle East. Rather like the No Child Sinister Buttocks act, though of course in reality, the kids haven't been taken up in the Rapture, not that Chimpy is letting that troublesome fact bother him.

Slacktivist has been commenting on the Sinister Buttocks first book--practically one page at a time, though, so it's taking him a long time:

http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/index.html

I would say that Livejournal is the Hotmail or Yahoogroups of blogging. It's free and immensely popular (I'm sure that the two are related somehow), and inclined to be buggy (I'm sure the three of these are related somehow). Which also explains the strange names: do you want to be BruceJones1277, or do you want a name that's uniquely yours?

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