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Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote: Sordid affair? Cerebral-cortical parasite?!

I like the sordid affair but she's going with the parasite. Sordid parasite maybe?

I put together a photo album of awkward-as-hell meme-able public domain photos of Dusty Magnum and I, posing with apparently random children in the park. Download, create your own captions and your own NORMeme! https://picasaweb.google.com/100928742466131909629/NORMemes?authuser=0 https://lh4.google...

Only one small nit to pick: Coiffed is not "koyft", but quaffed. (Those frenchies are untrustworthy with appearances.) Oops, you're right-- thanks for pointing that out! Foliage is an instance of the rural south old-timer in me rearing his metathetic head. Is that a southern dialectic pronunciation...

strawman wrote: Only one small nit to pick: Coiffed is not "koyft", but quaffed. (Those frenchies are untrustworthy with appearances.)

Oops, you're right-- thanks for pointing that out!
Foliage is an instance of the rural south old-timer in me rearing his metathetic head.

PS: My thinking was very centered on biology and futures, but there is a whole metaphysical aspect to this story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagannath . I came across the Hindu diety Jaganath in some reading today; didn't know about this or see your post Bo so I missed that whole connection. Jaga...

Oh shoot, I left some Trifecta stories out. Will post those

Any Drabblecast fans out there members of the SFWA? If so, it's nominatin' time-- and we've got some eligible stories I believe. I think it would be cool to honor an author who ran their story with us with one of the prestigious awards for SF and fantasy. To my knowledge, here are eligible stories f...

the story asks us "What is weird? What is normal?" and shows us how the relationship changes with time, along with everything else around us. Good point. We don't need some widespread mutation-virus to keep us from displaying our "Snookie" in the carnival that is network televsion. Eventually the s...

Fan-made Drabblecast video promo from chemistryguy. Pretty intense Share and share alike! Thanks chemsitryguy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlInw8f0ysQ

One of the weirder storiers I've seen in awhile.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08 ... stunt?lite

Erich Zann's instrument, the Viol, gave me pause for thought - Lovecraft's description of the playing caused me, at least, to picture some Paganini-like "devils music" played by a wild fiddler, but the Viol is a much more staid instrument usually played held between the knees, like a cello. What wo...

Labor Day weekend (August 31 - September 3, 2012) in Atlanta, GA. We're going to be giving away free stuff, filming a video podcast wrap-up of Season V Megabeast Deathmatch and also having a Drabblecast fan meetup for lunch at the wonderfully ever-horrible Mama Ninfa's. Post below and let us know if...

Kafka's The Metamorphosis, definitely worth a read! http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5200/5200-h/5200-h.htm

the idea that I-95 is in California suggests that more of the continent fell into the Pacific in the earthquake than was intended under the president's Earthquake Stimulus Program. He was trying to ease her pain in her last moments, replacing her sinister delusions with the aforementioned allusion ...

Well, if the poll would let me change my vote, I'm switching the D'ed. Magic incantations take time. Anybody who's ever played D&D or some such knows this to be true. What's the way to prevent a mage from casting? Hit him! D'ed could do this, even if he wasn't light-speed. Horses are pretty quick. ...

Here we go again! First thoughts: Necromander has no offense or defense except magic. Since magi isn't defined, if people like him he'll be all-powerful, if they don't he's weak. Barracade: "Steel scales create an impregnable body surface." It's nice to know this one can't get pregnant. Mr. Ded: Um...

Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:Sure it was a squid and not a "cuddle" fish? Sometimes the translation from Korean is tricky.

tbaker2500 wrote:Bo- My nephew's name is Malachi. Now you know someone.

It's a good thing you guys have lots of corn for him to walk amongst there in Indiana!

The man and his soot-covered mongrel walked the wasteland at dusk. Neither had eaten in days, yet onward they drifted, like meandering ash in the copper-colored sky. They hovered like flotsam; two flecks spinning in a snowglobe recently stirred. "Worlds shaken to life; worlds shaken lifeless," his r...

It's easy for all of us who read and listen to Science Fiction to say "oh that's a tired trope" about this story and that story It would be fascinating to read a story about a slush pile reviewer / editor who gets Doppelgangered and realizes he was a fool for not agreeing with himself in advance to...