But, have you actually gone through a complete withdrawl? You may be unaware of your own personal heart of darkness, buried as it is beneath layers of congealed coffea arabica alkaloids and caffeine crystals that would be wrenched forcefully away by the forces of entropy, layer by layer revealing the monster beneath...

Yeah, I was wondering what that was about too, but I thought he was going for irony.

Water shortages and droughts are a global issue. Its media bias we only hear about the one in California. Brazil is in the middle of a drought that is going to boost the price of coffee.

Oh please. Starbucks coffee is SOOOO pedestrian. If you want real coffee you have to drink single-origin peaberry coffee roasted in small batches by this guy who works in Soho, and then brew it using the slow pour method from a Takahiro pot.

/smug self-satisfied snob off

Most people drink coffee from a hotpoint drip…

You should look at the distribution of review scores for both novels. I don’t need to do a chi-squared test to say ‘it was better *for you*’.

All I’m saying is I bring my wife coffee at her work. Not because I love her, although thats true, but mainly because I fear what might become of her coworkers.

I find it more likely you’d be involved in a criminal case the police would later describe as ‘clearly self-defense - the deceased attacker hadn’t had coffee in three days’.

You indeed will survive your week long headache. Your loved ones however may not survive you.

You’ll get yours when blister blight sweeps asia.

Fun summer read? How about survival guide.
http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/

Well, I stand corrected. I’ve just never found the Conan stories all that compelling beyond being hack and slash low fantasy, and honestly in my mind they all start to run together - much like the formulaic as you say pulp serials but I am sure they could use a revisit. But I certainly concede the inclusion of…

I’ve also eaten billions of bacteria but I don’t go out of my way.

They taste funny, and the rubber noses get caught in their teeth.

The moment you can devein and husk a cricket so I’m not eating semi-fermented whatever it just ate with a side of chitin and urea crystals, I’ll think about it.

I’m good with eating meat from non-vertebrate sources. I’m not good with eating entrails from anywhere. Lobsters, shrimp and crayfish are large enough that…

Sounds like Canada needs some FREEDOM. Ready the drones!

Well, they are generally bad writers who are probably supported and humored by their more successful professional wives while they stay at home making up stories about rayguns and supermen. Its the rare genre fiction author who is genuinely rich as opposed to just scraping by, probably burns them up that guys like…

Just like Tom Clancy!

It is kind of awful and ridiculous, urban dictionary is entirely split on what these people are talking about, apparently gamma is just worse than beta in every way.

People aren’t packs of wolves following behaviors originally described by poor ethnobiologists who had no clue about what they were looking at in captive…

If you are writing bad science fiction and trying to game popularity contest awards, under no circumstances should you be holding court on other peoples non-alpha male status.

I thought those were Beta males - not dominant enough to get sex by impressing women with money, muscles and dominance displays over other males so they turn to subterfuge. Gamma males either are just normal men who don’t play the alpha-beta game, or they can’t get laid at all because they are complete worthless…

I enjoy Conan too, but its a guilty pleasure reading pulp adventure stories along the lines of Doc Savage and Buck Rogers compared to the least of Leiber’s work. I’d also add Silverberg, Lord Dunsany and Vance to your list, if you really want to talk about who invented modern literary fantasy. Conjure Wife by Leiber…