I live in Illinois. In Chicago. I don't keep up on litigation, but this is one wacky place for courts. The cliche about the Chicago Way of politics is true. It's true and it's apeshit silly.

Yes. We must now spread the word to the unwashed masses.

There needs to be more Tom Thomerson in things. Tim Thomerson makes things 15% better. Fact.

I'll take it.

What is the syndrom called where one is attracted to a pretty psychiatric model? [Asking for a friend].

Just like the guy at the bar who said he'd call. AMIRITE? I'm here all week people. Tip your waiters.

William Gibson is already William Gibson meets William Burroughs. Check out his use of the word "spectral" for one.

That man is the most brilliant man ever. EVER.

"He causes things to look different so it would appear time has passed." PKD, VALIS

I agree.

TSR isn't returning as such. WoTC let the copyright slip on the TSR name and the fellows above got it in December of last year. While the company has the same name, it's unrelated to the former except by tribute and some old school talent.

Kurt Vonnegut was a great writer. Half od the literati upon which praise is heaped don't have a tenth of the insight that Kurt did. In fact, about half of the 100 Greatest Living New York Writers posted by New York Times Magazine [I think] couldn't touch Kurt Vonnegut.

So did I.

I didn't know she was leaving. Crap.

I'm working on a deconstruction of Space Opera. Those are a lot of rules to subvert.

Misspelled? I agree it was rushed, but I kind of liked the austere finality of the card.

I'd be perfectly willing to write some fanfic you folks can make fun of. I just like to give, especially at the holidays.

Ah... Yes, I read that and really liked it. I should read it again, it's been a long time.

Slobodan Milosevic is back from the dead, huh? Need to kill the fucker again it seems.