I meant "Burroughs[']", of course. How embarrassing.

Some of Burrough[']s early stuff was clearly a product of the fertile ground between Naturism and early Mormonism, mixed with a healthy dose of punk. No snootiness necessary!

bad metaphor.
RC is *way* better than Coke.

Is *that* what you call it? Your "iced tea"?

Very Beautiful, and very, very silly
If the film consisted only of the 16th C. & future/metaphorical (delete as appropriate) sections, it'd probably be in my top 5. The overwrought histrionics of the 21st C. (sometime in the 2070's, judging by the hairstyles) section pretty much blew it out of the water for me. I'd…

I'm helping.

You say that like it's a *bad* thing.

I think he meant "Stryper".

First on… oh, never mind.

Damn, you beat me to it.

I'd like Dan Simmons a lot more if each of his books wasn't so obviously an advertisement for the next book in the series, if that makes any sense. If you like stories that *finish*, you may be disappointed.

China Mieville. Greg Egan. Rhys Hughes.

Sure. Try telling your pimp that.

Your signon almost suggests a story… all i'd need are a few characters and a pot. Er, i mean "plot".

so kevin bacon isn't jewish? really?
Please feel free to wrap up My Year Of Flops, if this is what we could expect if it went on any longer.

…you're going to need it. I actually enjoy Mervyn Peake, and even William Morris, but i found Worm a pretty hard slog.

Wow, nice bit of argumentum ad hominem there, mclarro! Or as the kids these days would say… Snap!

No, she didn't, you goddam Boomer. Nor does Bob "Ewwww, Buuuuuugs" Dylan. Deal with it.

So what i think you're saying is…
…that you hate black people just as much as Keith Phipps. Good on ya. Just wish you'd given some S.F. love to Veil Veil Vanish, who kick the arses of pretty much all of the Best music of 2k7 list… but never mind the haters, especially the "naval-gazing" ones, damn Gay Sailors…

But that was a long time ago.