Jan. 17th, 2007

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At 3 AM, the 2.5 L bottle of white vinegar I bought at the local corner store and left standing on my kitchen counter instead of putting it away turns out to look surprisingly like the 4 L bottle of water I bought at that same corner store (1).

1: My regular source of filtered water had a burst pipe.
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
At 3 AM, the 2.5 L bottle of white vinegar I bought at the local corner store and left standing on my kitchen counter instead of putting it away turns out to look surprisingly like the 4 L bottle of water I bought at that same corner store (1).

1: My regular source of filtered water had a burst pipe.
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
At 3 AM, the 2.5 L bottle of white vinegar I bought at the local corner store and left standing on my kitchen counter instead of putting it away turns out to look surprisingly like the 4 L bottle of water I bought at that same corner store (1).

1: My regular source of filtered water had a burst pipe.
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Anyone want to guess which CD is playing in the background?

Just how fast would one have to go to circumnavigate the universe in 80 days, anyway?

It's a very golden-age song, with lyrics like

spoilers

Read more... )
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
Anyone want to guess which CD is playing in the background?

Just how fast would one have to go to circumnavigate the universe in 80 days, anyway?

It's a very golden-age song, with lyrics like

spoilers

Read more... )
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
Anyone want to guess which CD is playing in the background?

Just how fast would one have to go to circumnavigate the universe in 80 days, anyway?

It's a very golden-age song, with lyrics like

spoilers

Read more... )

Uh huh.

Jan. 17th, 2007 02:36 pm
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How Jim Baen saved SF, Earth and the universe from commie leftist nihilistic postmodern anti-Western New Wave Literati.

My favourite sentence:

The "New Wave" was never really popular (New Worlds, the major New Wave magazine in Britain, was bailed out by public money after the buyers and readers stayed away in droves), but it might well have had the purely negative achievement of driving traditional science-fiction writers out of publishing.

Most people would have put "New Wave: A More Terrible Menace to SF than Evelyn E. Smith!" into a different paragraph than "New Wave: Nobody Reads it anyway." Almost nobody would have put those sentiments into the same sentence.

Uh huh.

Jan. 17th, 2007 02:36 pm
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
How Jim Baen saved SF, Earth and the universe from commie leftist nihilistic postmodern anti-Western New Wave Literati.

My favourite sentence:

The "New Wave" was never really popular (New Worlds, the major New Wave magazine in Britain, was bailed out by public money after the buyers and readers stayed away in droves), but it might well have had the purely negative achievement of driving traditional science-fiction writers out of publishing.

Most people would have put "New Wave: A More Terrible Menace to SF than Evelyn E. Smith!" into a different paragraph than "New Wave: Nobody Reads it anyway." Almost nobody would have put those sentiments into the same sentence.

Uh huh.

Jan. 17th, 2007 02:36 pm
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
How Jim Baen saved SF, Earth and the universe from commie leftist nihilistic postmodern anti-Western New Wave Literati.

My favourite sentence:

The "New Wave" was never really popular (New Worlds, the major New Wave magazine in Britain, was bailed out by public money after the buyers and readers stayed away in droves), but it might well have had the purely negative achievement of driving traditional science-fiction writers out of publishing.

Most people would have put "New Wave: A More Terrible Menace to SF than Evelyn E. Smith!" into a different paragraph than "New Wave: Nobody Reads it anyway." Almost nobody would have put those sentiments into the same sentence.
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OK, I admit it: I actually laughed during this show. I notice that the writers now include Dan Redican (FRANTICS) and Al Rae, both with comedy writing experience, and the director was Michael Kennedy, once of MADE IN CANADA.
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OK, I admit it: I actually laughed during this show. I notice that the writers now include Dan Redican (FRANTICS) and Al Rae, both with comedy writing experience, and the director was Michael Kennedy, once of MADE IN CANADA.
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OK, I admit it: I actually laughed during this show. I notice that the writers now include Dan Redican (FRANTICS) and Al Rae, both with comedy writing experience, and the director was Michael Kennedy, once of MADE IN CANADA.

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