The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Randy D Girdner:

Hmmm...That Stitch story is a bit freaky, and not in a "Cool, that's scary!" way. It's more of a "Why would somebody take the time to write all that crap?" I applaud the fact that they're actually getting $140 bucks for a Stitch stuffed-animal, however.

My carpet is haunted, if anybody wants that.

I pretty much tuned out after the election, viewing my former country as a lost cause. With each passing day, I look to the south and see a country that seems to be fraying at the seems. This Terri Schiavo case and the amount of attention it's getting is just absurd.

Maybe I'm just cynical, but when I look at the U.S., I see nothing but a selfish culture (and as far as I'm concerned, that goes for the left just as much as the right). What will it take to create real change in the culture of the U.S.? I think there needs to be a revolution in self-education and community in the U.S. I just wonder if that will ever occur.

(And I'm not trying to start a flame war with these comments. They're just late night ramblings.)

I'm so jealous that you work in the Flatiron building. I honestly didn't think that building existed until I was an adult. I thought it was just some sort of matte painting that was created for the movies. I used to work in Adventureland at Disneyworld. In my mind, that's somewhat linked in an imaginary sense.

Hmmm...Do you actually have to be a member to make the jokes? By that, I mean, if I'm not a member of the church, can I still make jokes about it? What about the cult? If I'm not a member of the cult and make jokes about it which are met with disapproval, does that mean I'm a member of the cult?

This seems to exclude a whole group of people like myself, who belong to nothing.

Just to add my worthless thoughts to this...

Last year we had the big blackout in the Northeast (I was in Toronto), and because I insist on driving my car until it is running on the fumes of fumes, I was caught with an empty tank of gas. Of course, I couldn't get gas for three days after that because a) gas pumps run on electricity, b) the lines were up to three miles long to get gas when power was restored, c) gas stations ran out of gas quickly because of those line-ups, and d) the gas refineries were behind because of the power outages.

One of the more clever things I heard about the whole affair was that a few hearty souls went through some of the parked cars on Toronto's streets and siphoned the gas out of them. I wish I'd thought of that. Bottom line? Don't drive on fumes.

What am I missing in not going to google every day? Is there constant entertainment? Are there links to interesting things? Sure, it's a search engine, but I don't have time to search every single day. I use sites like boingboing, cursor, and metafilter to sort out all of that information for me.

Someone please explain to me what I'm missing.

I saw him eat the rat and I have to tell you, it looked dee-licious! There just ain't enough rat eating in the world.

But there are plenty of asswits.

Here's a question: Does anyone out there have a website that they feel everyone else MUST visit every day? (and don't include this one, you arse-kissing sissies!)

Mine is cursor.org.

Actually, I prefer excessive use of italics when really trying to express myself. For example:

Those assfuckwittards are really getting on my friggin' nerves, man!

Or perhaps:

George W. Bush is really an assfuckwitard!

But then, who am I to comment?

"Assfuckwitards" is an "awesome" word, and I "really" enjoy saying "it" "often"!

"Sincerely",
The "President" of the "Andy" Perrin "Fan" club

"Asshats."

"Fucktards."

If I don't utter those beautiful, blessed words every day, from this moment on, a pox be on me! I LOVE LANGUAGE!

This is SO entertaining!

:reaches over into alsafi's popcorn bag for munchies:

Oh, come on! I insulted him, too! Don't I get any threats? Just because I'm not the head of a "co." nobody pays any attention to me.

Oh, well, back to my copy of Richard Bachman's "The Shamshock Redempsion".

I can't believe I missed Steven King's "The Shamshock Redempsion". Was that a sequel? Wasn't that the one starring Tim Robins Williams?

Gad! Me so funny!

Wasn't Steven King's "The Shinning" based on that Treehouse of Horror Episode of The Simpsons? Or a I getting mixed up?

Gad! Me so funny!

Paul,
I write not what I like to read, but what I would like to read if it actually existed. I tried on several occasions to mimic the types of things that I like to read, but they sounded like cheap imitations of things that I like to read and not anything of substance. Plus, I found that all of my writing tended to be thinly veiled adult versions of the children's novel that I would eventually write, so I just decided to go with what my gut had been telling me for years.

Of course, I sound like I actually have something published...which I don't. So you may discount everything I just said.

Hey, let's talk about "unique artistic vision" here. If you were to receive a novel that didn't fit the "norms" of what a novel should be, how open would you be to it's format? For instance, I've written a children's book that's much longer than normal children's books. It definitely doesn't fit the norm of what a children's book length should be. How open would a publishing company be to something like this on first glance? Would they take the time to read it? Or should I scrap for the 60,000 word length that the "norm" dictates?

Just wondering how lenient publishers actually are in relation to this type of thing.

Hey, not to rip on the Anne Rice discussion here, but I want to talk about ME!

Earlier in this discussion, Teresa was talking about how dismal an author's own writing might look to them. Am I the only person here who doesn't feel that way? Sure, there are times when I look at my stuff and say, "My God, that sucks!" However, most of the time I sit back and say, "Cool! I can't believe that came out of my brain."

Come one, people. Admit it. Sometimes, you all read your own writing and think, "I am a Golden God!" In fact, I think Neil Gaiman sometimes looks at his writing and thinks, "I am a Golden American God!"

And by the way, I am now 3/4 of the way through all of the books suggested to me from the earlier thread. However, every other book I read is NTotEV. That book rocks!

Love,
Randall

My favorite vampire story is Night Travels of the Elven Vampire.

Hey, I'm going to second Holly's post above and see if anyone has any thoughts on what Bill Jemas (former Marvel comics honcho) is doing with that company. It sounds like a total scam, but I wonder what others think.

Any thoughts?

We're just east of Toronto and we're enjoying lovely sunshine with a chilly 8 degrees Celsius. I'm originally from Oklahoma, though, so I miss violent weather. The wind, the rain, the thunder, the lightning, the tornados...Oh, how I miss the days when I was a little kid and the tornado sirens would go off, getting us out of class to go sit in the hallways with our heads between our legs...Now I just get harsh Ontario winters. (sigh)

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