giving in to the memishness

[mckitterick]

As I said before, this is fine as long as it's not the RAH who brought us abominations like "The Number of the Beast."

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So Kij is on the road to Minnesota, to pick up (if it's as comfy as the decade-old one her parents own) a chair her parents are buying for her for Christmas x [infinity]. So comfy she was able to sleep in it, sitting up. Oh, and pricey as hell. Then she's back late Tuesday!

Chris

Comments

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Oh good. For a moment I read that as "The Star Beast" and I was going to have to hide my head and make snuffly noises at the thought of someone hating my dear Lummox...

[brother-che.livejournal.com]

I don't know -- RAH is love? Sounds sort of like a Lazarus Long kinda thing...

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, 'fraid so.

Chris

[brother-che.livejournal.com]

Okay, Elder One -- I just wanted to know where we stood... Although in light of my recent reading choices, calling you Elder makes you sound more like something out of HP Lovecraft than RAH.

[c3fyn.livejournal.com]

I grok it. :) Someone told me that "The Number..." was an intentional example of all the things not to do in a sci-fi novel.

Me, I loves the early, pre-Stranger era the most. All of my truly fave books come from that period: the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Farmer in the Sky, Starship Troopers...

His "dirty old man" period really doesn't do much for me as a rule.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Yeah, 'zactly.

Chris

[keikaimalu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I preferred his early work too. So much more inventiveness, promise, and hard edge. Toward the end it wasn't just the dirty-old-man stuff but the intellectual laziness and self-indulgence that got to me.

But some of his early work -- boy howdy. "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag." I still shiver sometimes when I look at mirrors.

[arian1.livejournal.com]

I have this vision of Kij bringing home the "Comfy Chair" from the Tick. THUS TRAPPING YOU ALL! So with her away, Sanju is back down to one competitor eh?

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Ha!

Nah, she has the same competitors. However, she has indeed been relegated to Lowest-Concubine status. (She stayed in the downstairs bathroom last night. Poor thing. Or something.)

Chris

Speaking of The Number of the Beast (although Completely Different)

[skyflame.livejournal.com]

I was at a post office in Overland Park on Saturday and discovered that they now have ATM-type stamp machines that you can use your credit/debit card with(boy, what a bad sentence that was). Oddly, they don't sell sheets of 20, but rather of 18, which comes out to be...

(wait for it...)

$6.66.

Re: Speaking of The Number of the Beast (although Completely Different)

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

The End Times are indeed here. All bow down to me and despair!

Ooops, wait, I mean, "Golly, what a coincidence!"

Lord Sa-... I mean,
Chris

Re: Speaking of The Number of the Beast (although Completely Different)

[skyflame.livejournal.com]

That's really why the Post Office wants to bump stamps up to 41 cents, you know, just for appearance's sake. They're burying the code, just like the Masons.