That and the scene at the rakugo comedy club is one of the funniest things I've ever read.
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That and the scene at the rakugo comedy club is one of the funniest things I've ever read.
GAH. I read that book on a trip and wound up stuffing it into the bottom of my suitcase for like four days when I got to that scene.
GAH. I read that book on a trip and wound up stuffing it into the bottom of my suitcase for like four days when I got to that scene.
White people are the only color of people who worry about their relationships and careers!
White people are the only color of people who worry about their relationships and careers!
The trilogy of books about the technomages is actually really good, if you're willing to involve yourself in that level of nerdiness.
The trilogy of books about the technomages is actually really good, if you're willing to involve yourself in that level of nerdiness.
My whole first semester teaching in Georgia, nobody told me about the scholarship program, so there were a lot of conversations like this:
My whole first semester teaching in Georgia, nobody told me about the scholarship program, so there were a lot of conversations like this:
Same here!
Same here!
I read that one too!
I read that one too!
A View from the Gallery, ugh. The opportunity for an interesting new perspective on the station and its command staff that could complicate and enrich the audience's viewpoint? Nah, that sounds boring. Let's have the maintenance staff speechify nonstop about how great the protagonists are.
Yeah, this was excellent. I have no interest in RPG, and I read the whole thing and felt actual emotions. Well done.
Yes, that WAS the joke. Well spotted!
Yes, and also Aimee Bender's "Loser" and Rebecca Makkai's "The November Story." Mostly, though, fiction seems to me to weaken the premise of the show; adapting existing reality into radio-segment narrative is an entirely different task than creating a new narrative from scratch.
Quarce.
I am so (sniffle) glad I'm in my office (sniffle) alone today.