Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 69: Practically names itself.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Allyson - Nov 17, 2011 9:19:40 am PST #7274 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I read the "About" on his blog, and he apparently is trying to eliminate sleep from his schedule. Good luck with that.

It's like reading someone on a cocaine binge.

ETA: Jessica, I haven't unpacked the rage yet at comparing himself to a slave.

Next up! S&S...SS? YES. MY 22K ADVANCE BEING LATE IS JUST LIKE WAITING IN LINE TO BE PUT INTO THE OVENS !@!#$#


Amy - Nov 17, 2011 9:23:36 am PST #7275 of 30001
Because books.

I had to laugh at the six weeks. You think that's long? Stick around, bud.


Toddson - Nov 17, 2011 9:24:21 am PST #7276 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Well, as we always say - hookers and blow!


Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:24:39 am PST #7277 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, so WROD. (Wow, I haven't used that one in a while.)

Yeah, I'll wait "like a bitch" for 22K. 6.5 whole weeks! Why, I've waited 52 WEEKS for that.

Whiner.


Toddson - Nov 17, 2011 9:29:27 am PST #7278 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Years ago I read a book in which the main character is a writer. She writes "serious" pieces but writes series romances to pay the bills. In one scene she looks through her mail and finds a check for a piece in a serious magazine; it took her a long time to research and write it and then make revisions. The check is for a fairly small amount and took something like six months for them to send it. Another envelope has a check for a good deal more for a romance. It was one written very much to formula and she cranked it out in a short while and the publisher sent it fairly soon after she submitted the manuscript.


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2011 9:30:39 am PST #7279 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

He sounds like this guy: >[link]

Good god, that post uses hock as a verb twice. It's blistering my eyeballs.

My sister bought me this out of nowhere. I didn't even know she knew thinkgeek was a thing. So I'm wearing it today along with these and feeling quite cross-pollinatedly geeky.


erikaj - Nov 17, 2011 9:37:41 am PST #7280 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-

I hope his next agent is Ari.(Actually not...he can make your ass *rich*) But I hope he acts like Ari. "I just dropped you as a client, you short-sighted fuckface. You are HISTORY. Write me a poem about *that*


Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:38:07 am PST #7281 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

ita !, that reminds me...oops, can't say anything. D LURKS.

Someday, he'll say something. Maybe.


Zenkitty - Nov 17, 2011 9:50:03 am PST #7282 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Another envelope has a check for a good deal more for a romance. It was one written very much to formula and she cranked it out in a short while and the publisher sent it fairly soon after she submitted the manuscript.

I think I should be aspiring to do this. Writing serious fiction is HARD.


Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:50:41 am PST #7283 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

NB: Altho I am seriously considering this for M for Xmas: [link]