"I really articles could be re-read before hitting 'publish'"...

Who is this even directed at? Is there a chair in the room with you?

You expect merciless slaughter of a god who doesn't seem so free and easy with the terms "redemption" and "mercy"... and as far as omnipotence goes- Superman pretty well has that going on himself (aside from a curiously common rare mineral).

I appreciate it. I'm Romani and don't tend to be knee-jerkingly offended (and I know most people don't mean anything by it), so I'm not mad, but that one always gets me.

"Gypped"? ...nice. :/

Yeah- it's called The Reaper's Image (from Skeleton Crew). It's okay... but The Raft, Survivor Type and The Jaunt are in that one, and I like those three stories a lot better.

Edison, not FL (editing, not sequencing). And that's pretty bare-bones and limited by FL.

Pretty sure it's my neighbor's name, actually.

That sort of thing right there is why I have a hard time buying into most conspiracy theories- our government in the US couldn't come up with a demonstrable reason for going to Iraq that wasn't full of holes and patently false, but we're expected to believe, by conspiracy theorists, that they've covered up the…

Maybe she should let it be more apparent, then, rather than relying on meat and muppet-head dresses for attention... schtick isn't really the domain of truly talented people, usually. There are exceptions, of course, but on the other hand, nobody ever saw Ella Fitzgerald in a pair of oversize Blue-Blockers and a…

Do you think a commercially-available neural implant is gonna use open-source software? Seems unlikely. We'd probably get stuck with Windows Implant or something instead.

Oh, for sure. I think I mainly liked it because of how bizarre the whole thing was, and how unlike anything else I'd seen in awhile it was... it made a certain amount of hand-wavy sense to me, but I probably gave it a lot more leeway and suspended my disbelief a lot more than others did. I was also big on how many…

I love Southland Tales. Full stop.

Definitely read it when you can; it's pretty fantastic.

Nor should they.

Reminds me of a version of The Fountain with more characters and time periods... but I really hated that movie- just came off as really pretentious and overhyped to me.

That is, after all, how the wafer crumbles...

Exactly what I was thinking... you've got a few pockets of German farmers in the Midwest that are pretty devoutly Catholic, but they're not the ones picketing and making lofty pronouncements for god on late-night cable, either.

Didn't mean to sound so snarky, sorry :P that's one of those things I've heard often enough I can get a little bit knee-jerk.

I do love a good revap... #corrections