Friday Ephemera (800)
For a second, I thought it was chicken. || Intriguing meat. || Less difficult than it seemed. || For whumping. || It weighs 60 tonnes and arrived 80,000 years ago. || They do this better than you would. || On heels at the beach. || “A less crazy candidate,” says she. || The 100 most spoken languages. || Mother of six. Also drunk. Also a moron. || Two cats, two theremins. || The wrong concerto. || How to aggravate wasps. || On who should be in charge. || She knows she’s pretty, you see. || A three-year project to see music. || Pounder. || Point well made. || Today’s word is parenting. || Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue. Previously. || And yet what I noticed was the finger pinch. || He, unlike you, has an autonomous flying umbrella. || Frozen dinner. || And finally, a notable display of vocal range.
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When your conspiracy theories spawn.
You still don’t understand. Correia did not “rip them off” when creating worlds for his stories. He and some commenters merely used those names in a fake Facebook flame-war between people posing as Krasnovians and people posing as Pinelandians. It was all just silly fun, which expanded into mockery of Facebook when Facebook briefly banned him for inciting hatred of Pinelandians.
Celebrities” say so, it must be true.
Construction workers, guys working on oil rigs, rozzers, military, farmers, any or all of the them?
Of course not silly, “trans” athletes. “
Ever get the feeling those screaming ‘Nazi‘ at every turn are acting?
It’s best that way.
Lacking the pathology of either farcebook or obscure scifi, I’ll take that as a win.
‘T list’ celebs.
Monty Python was supposed to be satire.
[ Plays Rogue Defence. ]
[ Mad cackling. ]
Sporadic outbreaks of sanity.
I don’t know how obscure he is–he’s sold quite a few books, he’s been on New York Times and Locus bestseller lists, and was nominated for the John W Campbell Award. But the only one of his books I’ve read is on the Second Amendment.
I found him via someone else’s blog, possibly sf writer Michael J Williamson or maybe even Glenn Reynolds.
Sadly, a number of bloggers I followed as far back as the early 2000’s are now only on Facebook or
TwitterX.I don’t like to throw around the words heroic fortitude…