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New Plan: Same as the Old Plan: Only Different!

September 6, 2011 by

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Hi all. You may have noticed that I missed last Friday’s scheduled Icky Theory post (or not). That was actually because I was out of the state visiting a fine un-conference BookCamp hosted by IF:Book Australia (as a part of the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. May I also note that IF:Book and founder Bob Stein have been very […]

Bibliotek: Chapter Three-Four

September 6, 2011 by

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<— Previous ~~~~~ They were moving again. They’d returned to the Tube. “Cute.” Graham muttered. “They own an illegal print-job for the intrinsic flaw that it’s been Auteured. That it isn’t an auto-correcting text. That bound’s only ever been valuable to them for once having been ‘right.’ That it’s become a part of their own […]

This Comes Under the Category: Science = Hilarious

September 6, 2011 by

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So according to this article I have gay fingers? And according to this one drinking could fuel me to previously unforeseen creative heights. And according to this one Fight Club’s Jack is really Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes. This comes under the category: science = hilarious. Along with ‘the cosmos tastes like raspberries and smells […]

Everyone is a Villain Until Proven Otherwise

September 5, 2011 by

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I had a number of responses to my call for petty villains on Friday but nobody specifically prepared to let me kill them out of hand. Which I have to say strikes me as a lack of commitment on their part. Arkem: While I might be a villain, I would not consider myself petty and […]

Wanted: One (or More) Petty Villains, Willing to be Killed Out of Hand while Remaining Stoically Silent About Their Tragic Past

September 2, 2011 by

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“So who’s the bad guy?” “I can’t tell you.” “Why not?” “I haven’t written it yet.” I realised a few days ago that Wizards is missing a villain. I mean, I have a large epic-style villain for the universe type thing — you know, I know what the overall struggle should be. But I need […]

Oscar the Grouch and the Cookie Monster. Totally OTP.

September 1, 2011 by

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There’s been this thing recently about Bert and Ernie getting married — or not actually as the Sesame Workshop claims they are just friends (which is fine) and takes pains to point out that they’re ‘just puppets’ so they don’t have a sexual orientation (which is a bit ridiculous. They’re characters, of course they have […]