Comments on: Bring money!

By: Marina

Marina — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:19:58 +0000

welcome to california where you can learn to speak spanish badly.

By: Granola Butt

Granola Butt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:04:25 +0000

Ack! A great place in which to pass the time, I mean. Sorry, I’m sleepies .

By: Granola Butt

Granola Butt — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:03:35 +0000

Here, here! Born in Newport, raised in Carlsbad. Love it here! Downtown SD and Coronado are, although massively expensive, a great place to pass the time in. LA is too smoggy for me :S.

By: Jamar

Jamar — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:04:36 +0000

“Like that woman who wrote a sequel to Pride and Prejudice.”
But on the other hand, if we get a “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Zombies” the way we have a “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” I’ll be more than happy.

By: ormewood

ormewood — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:27:07 +0000

“Oh, if you ain’t got the do re mi, folks, you ain’t got the do re mi,
Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee.
California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;
But believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot
If you ain’t got the do re mi.”

Woodie Guthrie

By: Selkceb

Selkceb — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:43:36 +0000

Welcome to Killafornia…. Westsiiiide!

By: AdolphJosephWolf

AdolphJosephWolf — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:20:12 +0000

Didn’t we determine in a previous case that this was, in fact, NOT an actual “Welcome to California” sign because the flowers on the sign were a different state’s flowers?
I seem to recall that, but I could be wrong.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:11:43 +0000

“The Village Schwinn” carries the same meaning.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:18:12 +0000

I’m translating it into ‘everyone rides her’.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:17:39 +0000

Ok, I read that sentence five times…does “bicycle” mean something else in this context?

(Oh, and hi, good to see you, DWN!)

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:17:07 +0000

Many of us ditched that series for similar reasons–the real Anita disappears some time between books 6 and 7.
The fairy pr0n series is more consistent in character, at least…and discussed at some length above.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:15:14 +0000

Heya!

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:15:03 +0000

I only read her Anita Blake series and then ditched that series when she became a bicycle.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:12:00 +0000

@DWN: Laurel K Hamilton….she of fairy BDSM pr0n.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:06:41 +0000

Regarding “Lair of the white wyrm”. I’ve not read the book, but the movie is quite the cult classic!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:00:47 +0000

*grins*

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:36:32 +0000

I just read 7 Stars the once, and that was back when I was about your age I think (guessing 17 or 18?). I just wasn’t very impressed, but that’s the trouble with reading a true classic first; everything else is likely to be downhill. I have the same problem with Joseph Heller (Catch 22).

By: AC

AC — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:45:51 +0000

Sounds good…
But yeah, 7 stars, wth? There are two endings to it, I think… I read the sad ending and I’m told the happy one is even less coherent. Which one did you read?

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:44:12 +0000

AC, I didn’t get “Jewel of 7 Stars” either. Edison is the same sort of epic fantasy as Tolkein, and about the only other example I can think of that is pure fantasy rather than SF pre-Star Wars.

By: AC

AC — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:45:03 +0000

Yeah, and Saruman didn’t get a proper death. (Have you seen the deleted scene of that? Very undignified.)

By: AC

AC — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:41:26 +0000

@P4T, thanks. I’ve never heard of ER Edison and will have a look for him. I read another Bram Stoker: “The Jewel of seven stars” but I didn’t have a clue what the ending was all about…

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:35:23 +0000

No, some BDSM, DWN. AND HI!!!

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:23:37 +0000

Yay!

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:53:53 +0000

Jane, the Lovely Bones has the main character die at the beginning, but the book is actually about her and her family dealing with it. It’s very well-written, and worth the cringe of the initial death. I still recommend it

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:46:46 +0000

Isn’t that the book where the kids sleep with each other? One of my friends told me they get married later in the series, which seems ridiculous. I can buy boning your sister when you’ve been locked in an attic your whole life and don’t know any better, but once you get out I’d think you’d start looking around to widen your gene pool.

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:09:21 +0000

Your friend nailed it

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:06:01 +0000

Reminds me of something a friend said while showing me around Los Angeles once: “…and if you keep going east, you get into the Inland Empire region. I think it’s called Inland Empire because nobody would want to live there if they called it the ‘Sh!thole In the Desert’ Region.”

By: suicide_blonde

suicide_blonde — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:48:58 +0000

The not-lovely variety. I described it once for a creative writing class: “The coastal town of Eureka lies on an arm of the Pacific Ocean in northern California. Everything about the town belies its name. It is a sad, dingy place, with sad, squat, faded buildings clustered along a main drag that suggests going out of business. Even the beaches are depressing; barren stretches of rocks and sea and sky, all grey and lifeless. It was like a ghost town, but worse, because people still lived there. The hotel room smelled of stale nicotine and I was glad to leave.” That about sums it up.

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:50:22 +0000

To which hole are you referring? Some of them are every so much more lovely than others, hehe.

By: The Steve

The Steve — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:13:53 +0000

Blonde – I do prefer to buy American!

Diss – Hey! *fondles and gropes inappropriately* I’ve been busy at work, not much time for surfing PK. Also, most of these LoLs have been pretty dull.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:15:44 +0000

Froo… -dribbles and crosses legs- Sorry.

By: meglet

meglet — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:33:14 +0000

thanks pittypat, am running on basically no sleep so probably taking things the wrong way

By: pittypat

pittypat — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:17:27 +0000

No, no meglet. It’s just a jokey way of pointing out that the thread pattern in the nest got broken. No worries

By: meglet

meglet — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:14:19 +0000

did i do something wrong?

By: the_original_shortright

the_original_shortright — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:41:16 +0000

me! MEEEEE! *shakes tassels*

By: Combo BROKEN!

Combo BROKEN! — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:18:20 +0000

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER

By: Captain Wow

Captain Wow — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:14:01 +0000

Thanks guys!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:26:46 +0000

That annoyed me too, but mostly because we couldn’t have the Scouring of the Shire (important because it’s an “actions have consequences” moral) but could have Bilbo’s journey to the White Havens shot in real time (well it felt like it took 3 or 4 weeks).

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:23:32 +0000

If you like that stuff AC, you might want to give “Lair or the Whuite Wyrm” by Bram Stoker, and ER Edison (sp, but a good SF bookshop will know him) a try too.

By: meglet

meglet — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:14:25 +0000

Cal i for nya nya supercool to the homeless…

–Look, glen! We’re saved!
sooo awful and sooo hilarious

(Change?)

By: AC

AC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:28:04 +0000

I was a bit sad that they couldn’t put the old forest and Scouring of the Shire into the films… But then again, the Scouring of the Shire upset me so maybe not…

By: AC

AC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:21:14 +0000

I liked the second one… I could scare my sister when I read the Basilisk voice to her…

By: AC

AC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:19:41 +0000

My comfort fiction is “Lord of the Rings” or “Dracula”… I’ve loved them since I was about 11 (And now my sister’s discovered how good “Dracula” is. Yay!) so I know them well enough to just pick a random chapter in the middle and read what’s familiar.

By: AC

AC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:15:51 +0000

Tyler, I think you’re thinking of “The Book Thief.”
And I like the POV changes in”Atonement.”

By: AC

AC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:12:59 +0000

she didn’t even realize that he’d started bonking leah’s mom.
Neither did I… It’s news to me…

By: AC

AC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:07:32 +0000

Nah, that looks fun. I mean “Pemberley” by Emma Tennant… I think some other hacks also tried to do the same thing and write a sequel. They probably have their own ring of hell…

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:30:06 +0000

Wait, what? Who am I supposed to know now?

By: froofrou

froofrou — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:15:22 +0000

Mark, Tyler, hubby actually REQUESTS that I read the naughty bits, because then he benefits from the….er………effects of the fairy smut. hehehe.
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*goes off to read books again*

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:41:06 +0000

* Jordan It’s Jordan that doesn’t suck

By: minerva146

minerva146 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:40:05 +0000

Joran doesn’t suck, just some of the middle of the series gets bogged down in subplots. The main storyline is great, and well written. The characters have a bunch of depth, and for bonus points each represent a figure in norse mythology