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  • Protected: Hee!

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  • And then

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    Continuum 3. Hilarity ensued. Neil Gaiman said he’d been lucky to have worked in comics, because ‘people mistook a form for a genre’, and so — in comics — he could get away with doing anything he wanted & nobody noticed (& Jack Dann threw in, ‘yeah, nobody noticed, and then you revolutionised how it…

  • But first, wow

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    http://www.livejournal.com/users/zarq/308963.html “There’s a powerful video out from Sarah McLachlan for her song “World on Fire”. (Quicktime Embedded Video) Videos normally cost approximately $150,000 to make, excluding special effects wizardry. This one cost $15. “The money that would have been spent on her hair, makeup, production studio, etc., was instead donated to 11 charities, for a…

  • I can’t take your call right now, but if you leave a message, I’ll get back to you

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    :) –> http://continuum.org.au/

  • The Darville’s in the Details

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    Having met Helen Darville when she was still pretending to be Helen Demidenko, I’ve had an ongoing curiosity with her story. And the fact I took a reasonably instantaneous dislike to her persona — supposed or otherwise (‘needy’ was the sense I got) — added to the fact I have never read her book, puts…

  • WW3.5

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    I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein

  • This here world

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    The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell

  • Pretty sure this qualifies as a manifesto

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    :) benpeek goes a little crazy talking about how the rest of us are crazy for always talking about genre. Or something. Over here.

  • I die, therefore I am?

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    Just because gillpolack got me thinking about life & death, here’s one of my favourite quotes: Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. — Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  • Linkity-split

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    benpayne links two of my favourite interests, psychology & fiction, over here. (Note: I have lots of favourite interests, yes. I know some of you were expecting me to say ‘ice hockey’ just then. Or maybe ‘disposing of the bodies of friends’. Those, too, are favourite interests.)