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Martyrdom, eh? I understand some fellows have built a real career on it.

Sensible advice, ASID. I'll get the thing that prompted the question chipped into a shape that people can look at and thrown onto the appropriate forum

I have a concern, and I wanted to throw in in front of a group of writers with more experience. I'm also trying to formulate it as a comprehensible question, so bear with me. We live in an environment where trademarks are getting applied to a lot of stuff, and I'm wondering just how worried authors ...

I'm a little zombied-out myself (and trying desperately to work up a response in fiction), but I'm willing to overlook my prejudice in this case, for two reasons: 1) Unicorn zombies, and the nice if briefly-handled blending of the attached mythologies; 2) The extremely realistic examination of kids ...

I'm finding it a little creepy that a month or two after this story ran, this picture started showing up all over my Facebook feed: Weird. Eerie. We get that sort of thing all the time around here. We try to warn folks through the medium of licence plate motto. PlateMotto2.jpg (edited to fix The Im...

Or as it's pronounced in some parts of the world, "Shi!"

Well... if we can get to it, that opens the door for it to come to us. Seems an eminently reasonable response.

A band of supervillains running Ottawa would explain a lot of our current government's policies. Evil geniuses usually cover their tracks better, though....

I was looking at the BBC this morning, and this jumped out at me as possibly related: On 18 May 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson went to Venice Beach, Los Angeles, to take a swim and write a sermon. The female assistant who'd gone with her had to leave to make a short phone call from a nearby hotel. Whe...

I've just managed to listen to this via the Classics, and two things beyond the already-heaped praise occur: 1) How the hell is it I'm nostalgic for the cold war's looming spectre of easily comprehended doom? Sure, having The Soviets as the thing to worry about takes less energy than keeping track o...

Excellent, and I think it may have given me an idea for something with mimes. {shudders, looks over shoulder}

I had in my head one of the more madcap Playstation games, like Abe's Oddysee. No core-laugh for me, but smiles galore.

SpareInch wrote:Remind me to be on my very best behaviour if I'm ever in your neck of the woods.

I don't know as that would matter; it looks like the perception of the behaviour is what counts.

Also loved it.

I decline to answer fully, on the grounds that Toho Studios may get stroppy. ;) Anything to do this this fellow? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CSZadU68iac/TxpUxl335bI/AAAAAAAAEYI/-qaGnYu9YXU/s1600/Godzilla+Teaches+Kanji.jpg So... many... Kennys. {wilts, as a slug on a salt block} But seriously, I think...

I decline to answer fully, on the grounds that Toho Studios may get stroppy.

He heard the trick-or-treater outside the door. The candle went out as the jack o’lantern pitched off the table. “Wow,” he said. “That is a terrific costume. I usually don’t give out the good treats when a big kid comes to the door, but that’s worth a handful. Now, where’s your bag?” He craned his n...

For my own part, I'd comprehended the open format of the contest and submitted in the expectation that Avery T. Deacon Harriegh* and the web-bots of the world would be able to have a gander for free. Since this thread appeared, I've been wondering whether there would have been more or less entries i...

My only connection with this is having seen it; it seemed like the sort of thing other weirdos would like.

Why We Fear the Ocean

Giant spacecraft hung over all Earth's cities. No weapons seemed to harm them. The emissary of its race stood before the General Assembly, light twinkling on the facets of its vast obsidian eyes. Screeches and clicks from its orifice were smothered by the words from the device in its foremost upper ...

That's the sort of production to give Arch Oboler a run for his retrospective money. Magnificent, and certainly worth the amount of work it turned into.

Well, that'll teach me not to impulse-post. I was reminded by the swirls of the internet yesterday about the Aurora Airship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Texas,_UFO_incident), and I knocked this out. Mr. Sensible from his perch up on the right shoulder said "You need more than 100 words for ...