Your rebuttal also seems to be a bit of a strawman. To extend your metaphor, what if you can't "pay your bills" not because of the vacation, but because you've recently blown all your money on a new rifle? Buying both the rifle and the vacation, which then drains your ability to pay your bills, is silly. But if you…

Buy me dinner first and we'll talk.

"It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination."

You're totally right, i'd forgotten about the "Leo has heart attack" story line completely, my bad! The post-Sorkin years are not nearly as clear in my memory as i think i only watched them once. I too would have been in tears over that, so you're not alone.

If memory serves they couldn't give Leo a proper send off because the actual actor had died, of a heart attack, during the season. So there's that.

Way late on the comment here (i'm just catching up on io9 after the holiday and work imposed break) but i'm totally on your side with this one. They don't grow, they lengthen, there's a serious difference. And the "we only use 10% of our brain" thing also drives me up the wall in its repeated inanity. I'm thinking…

Holy crap, that has got to be the scariest ambien episode i've heard of yet. I mean, ok, i understand getting up and trying to drive and all that, but sleep-poison-drinking!? That's some scary shit right there.

Yeah, i saw that pic and now i'm dead of cute.

replying to promote. the "NOT EXPERIMENTS" part made me laugh.

Ok, that Knight of Passage one really really got me. I'm all goose-bumpy.

Which is why its so very important to disinfect every drink on a plane with lots and lots of alcohol. Its the only way to be sure.

Yeah, its one of the reasons they've stayed with me through the years... now that i'm in my thirties there are few books from my teens that i still truly love for more than just nostalgia reasons, and these are definitely at the top of the "still awesome" list. Like you said, i get something different out of them…

"I mean, it would basically make sixteen year old me's entire LIFE. " Right there with you, though make that 14 year old me ;-) Unfortunately PZB suffers from oh so many personal issues that i really doubt she'll ever get it together enough to make an anthology happen (if she even owns the rights to them anymore,…

This list... is PERFECT. I mean, there are others that could be mentioned, but if you only have 10 slots, there are 10 damn good stories. I don't disagree with any of them. And i really appreciate the range from main stream to arty, from lace and velvet to leather and chains. Well played!

Yeah, for a while a friend of mine was corresponding with PZB on a regular basis, i got a signed (and drawn on!) first edition lost souls out of it, and access to a few of the short stories i hadn't read before... but i think they were all more about the Drawing Blood kids instead of the Lost Souls ones. I'm pretty…

I actually gave up after episode 3 because it was SO BAD. Then i read (here on io9) how awesome it was and gave it another shot (just skipped the remaining 3 episodes of the first 6 and jumped in at #7) and now i am so addicted to this damn show i can't see straight. LOVE IT. One of the best things on TV right now.

The show was only cancelled because the guy who played Julian (the head vampire) died in a car (maybe motorcycle?) accident. Totally killed any chance of season 2. Its ratings weren't actually that bad for the time.

Well there's the kiss in the Lost Souls, where Steve and Ghost "accidentally" kiss, and then NEVER SPEAK OF IT AGAIN. I haven't read all the Lost Souls/Drawing Blood short stories though, so I don't know if there relationship ever goes any further than that, though this article seems to imply that it does.

That would be great. Or even something along these lines, but darker skin toned. I mean, these are fantasy princesses, while a few cultures have been referenced, it's largely all made up stuff, so why the need to stick to such fair-skinned folk? I have never understood why it is we'll add dragons, mash up time…

Or any of the other non-pale peoples of the earth. It's so lame, dark skin is pretty dammit!