MeFi comment:
"What Caduceus said. Furthermore:
The magazines are indeed the walking dead. This didn't used to be the case. Science fiction has been killed by its own red-headed step-child, the Internet. It's pretty funny in a way.
I loved sf as a kid and..." [
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2 days ago
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"If the car is running rough, or neds a tune-up, and you tromp on the gas, that might make it burp and stall. But without being there and actually knowing what you did, it's hard to say for sure. You say you weren't winding it, but you might not have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lunasol
10 days ago
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"Wait -- this is the same ill-educated nutball who was pushing his crazed agenda on the Philly craigslist! (It was the use of "sheeple" in the video that gave it away.) He'd go on and on about "Saturn ignition." Haven't seen him..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tev
13 days ago
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"And while we're on Wells...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Caduceus
13 days ago
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"Much ado about noshing." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by flabdablet, kev23f, no1hatchling, limeonaire, stenseng, dejah420, Nick Verstayne, oozy rat in a sanitary zoo, Blazecock Pileon, bokeh, mephron, MrMustard, Knappster, laumry
2 weeks ago
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"This is pretty silly, but The Bangles' Walk Like an Egyptian has always seemed pretty chipper to me!" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chicainthecity
3 weeks ago
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"My story is about guilt and regret. My fiancee and I met a long time ago, and I think that I have never truly truly been in love with her.
That's as far as I got, or needed to get.
Don't marry this women...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blueberry
3 weeks ago
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Introducing Heinrich Kley
favorited 17 times, recently by Cassilda, taz, squared, sebastienbailard, muymuy, P.o.B., ornate insect, ethel, shavenwarthog, effwerd, carsonb, jinjo, peacay, slyrabbit, Haruspex, medeine, drill_here_fore_seismics
Last month
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"I'm still trying to figure out what space and time are expanding into. Pre-Big Bang, there was no space and no time. What does this say about the environment into which they are expanding? Clearly it is able to contain space and time.
But why?..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Goofyy, Korou
Last month
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"I only watched the Tim Burton link, but I loved it. It's true that his Batman was a flawed masterpiece, and that the series reboot with Christian Bale is on the money -- but that shot of the Batmobile zooming through the autumn night is pure 100%..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
Last month
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"Well, if God ever needs someone to really do the deed as far as designing stuff like the End of Days and Revelations and so on, he will have to consult with Stan on it in order to do it right...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Molesome, inqb8tr, MythMaker, EatTheWeak
Last month
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"And how do you know he is a witch?
Warlocks! Apologies to Benny Hill. Witches are female.
Wrong. No such thing as a warlock, among real witches. Male and female, a witch is a witch...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cass
Last month
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"Here's a wonderful commercial of a guy at a graveside funeral service getting a phone call on his cell and merrily embarking on a conversation of purest self-serving assholery. I think this is pee-your-pants funny, but then I'm sitting here in a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ZakDaddy, zippy
Last month
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"And while we are on the subject -- I've gotcher squirrel for you... Tex Avery, Preston Blair, Scott Bradley... it doesn't get any better. Fuck Huey Lewis...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gorgor_balabala
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The Brits seem to do this sort of post-apocalyptic sf better than anyone, for some reason. Threads was notably grim, and writers like John Wyndham and J.G. Ballard liked to trash the place in various entertaining ways. Survivors sounds like a cross..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Foci for Analysis, Artw
2 months ago
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"Y'know, I am a happy guy (in a monkey suit) because I have never even heard of Rachel Ray or Michelle Malkin! Ann Coulter, yes, but not these other two knotheads. And y'know what else? I am not clicking on any of the links, because I do not want to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by CitizenD
2 months ago
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"What Thorzdad said. Practice, practice, practice. I would fill up pages with nothing but feathering -- rows and rows of it. That's the best way to develop the control you need. And that is what you need. Practice sketching with the brush, too, until..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by pantufla
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Reading Gene Wolfe is like looking at a painting by Bosch, or some of Breughel's wackier stuff. It is no easy road.
That said, though, I usually avoid series books. I did quite like most of the Lensman stuff, though. Then again, I was a teenager..." [
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2 months ago
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"It's hard for me, a non-church-goer, to see how God could be better sensed and/or apprehended in this life than by the study of such things as biology, astronomy, cosmology, particle physics, etc. What we are presented with in these disciplines is a..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by hulahulagirl, kittyprecious, toastchee
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Money. Humph. I don't use it anymore because it's so confusing, and...
I don't have any." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rokusan
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Occam's Razor would have it that most of these young men got drunk and screwed up in some way that resulted in death. I have no problem believing that. Some of them may have been victimized by evil-minded assholes, true enough. But "pods"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
3 months ago
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"My live-in inamorata smokes from time to time when she is stressed. I'm a former smoker, clean now for more than 20 years. I told her before she moved in, "I won't be nice about your smoking. I'll be a complete dick about it." And I have..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by herbaliser
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The guy is a sociopath, no question in my mind. And sociopaths are very good at being twisted, arrogant, evil fucks, right in front you. They believe their own lies and can be utterly convincing. This guy doesn't think he did anything wrong. He may..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by dejah420, Senator, dabitch, jonmc
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Pastabagel, no offense, but you're off base here. Did you look at the pictures of the underground fortress the guy built? There was nothing "dumb luck" about that. It was well-planned and carefully executed. None of that happened "on..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by topynate, nooneyouknow, DaRiLo
3 months ago
