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This is the week I'll actually write something! Yes! This is the week I'll finall--pffftttttttttt ahahaha who am I kidding

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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

Oh, you edited. Now I sad. :(

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...the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time...

Fox is making plans for a new Fantastic Four movie soon, with the director of Chronicle in charge, IIRC.

And I'm pretty sure it was reported that the guy in the suit is Eric Savin, AKA Coldblood. So it's just a design inspired by Iron Patriot (or Detroit Steel). He probably won't even be called anything besides Eric Savin; maybe Coldblood.

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"The four elements, like man alone, are weak. But together they form the strong fifth element: boron."

scurvy dogs, avast, etc.

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

Oh, and here's one even icon wouldn't recommend...

Vurt - Jeff Noon

Takes place in a run-down s***-hole future Manchester where anything can breed with anything and junkies get high on shared-hallucination feather-drugs called vurt. The main character is in love with his sister, and is on a quest to bring her back after she got lost in the vurt and her place in reality was taken by an amorphous blob of drug-flesh called the Thing from Outer Space. It's ... it's a weird book.

It's technically also the first in a series, though they're loosely connected. The sequel, Pollen, is about a lethal hayfever epidemic and the goddess Persephone; the prequel, Nymphomation, involves lotteries and the discovery of magic lube and math having sex. There's also a tangentially related fourth book that also serves as a third Alice (as in, in Wonderland) book, Automated Alice.

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

I figured I'd save you some time, babydoll. :9

What translations of Borges would you recommend, by the way?

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

City of Saints and Madmen - Jeff VanderMeer

The first in a loose trilogy of books about a (violent, fungus-encrusted) fictional city called Ambergris. This, the first book, is a collection of novellas and short stories in various forms (some are more traditional, but one story is an in-universe historical pamphlet with snarky footnotes; another is a lengthy bibliography with annotations that gradually reveal their author's backstory) that show Ambergris through several lenses and at several points in history. It is excellent, as are its sequels, Shriek (a manuscript written by a character from CoSaM and interrupted by comments from another) and Finch (a detective novel set in the conquered city's future).

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

Hodor!

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"The four elements, like man alone, are weak. But together they form the strong fifth element: boron."

gat

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My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

man I wish my life hadn't fallen apart around deadline time

tag for later reading

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F*** f*** f***. I've had a lot of setbacks - computer crashed and I lost half a story, illness, family s*** - and I haven't been able to complete either of the stories I've started. If the deadline is extended again, I can guarantee one, maybe two, but I won't have time to finish today.

I'm sorry, Chris. Don't smite me. :(

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What can change the nature of a man?

Psh, 15 days ain't a short amount of time!

Says a man who didn't finish any of the stories he started...

But hey, the deadline extension is a traditional part of the Board 8 writing groups! There were probably more weeks that had extended deadlines than weeks that didn't, honestly.

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My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Hey, when you say "due April 29th," what time exactly do you mean?

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The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea.

I got two felonies.

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I, for one, plan on discovering the secrets of the multiverse by rubbing cottage cheese on my belly and eating vast quantities of fresh-water fish. Mmm, cheese.

I'm not sure this thing I'm writing even really counts as an adventure. But who cares, eh?

Well, probably Sir Chris does. But who else cares, eh?

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

http://www.atlas-games.com/nyambe/

From what I recall it was regarded pretty highly.

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THE REST IS HISTORY.

I should probably get around to reading the first week's stories sometime soon...

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I had a bunch of ideas, and spent a lot of time thinking about how to mix a few of them into a story, and then a lot of time trying to make any one of them into a story, and then I just started writing something completely different that includes none of them. Hooray.

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"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams

Hmm. Can we submit multiple entries? I doubt I'll actually be un-lazy enough to write more than one, but a man should have hopes and dreams.

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...the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time...

Reading the topics for this contest is like watching Star Trek: The Next Generation after being in the original Star Trek. I feel so lost and bewildered. WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE. WHAT'D YOU DO WITH SEPHSBLADE AND BOKO AND TURN.

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The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea.

I got one felony.

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I sleep in a drawer.

tag für later

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"The four elements, like man alone, are weak. But together they form the strong fifth element: boron."

(6)Robert Baratheon
(3)Eddard Stark
(7)Brienne of Tarth
(2)Bran Stark

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"The four elements, like man alone, are weak. But together they form the strong fifth element: boron."

Critiques have always been rare in these contests, even among people who actually participate (I say "even," but authors have been the only ones to ever critique, really). Most people lack the confidence to do it, or don't want to offend anybody, or are lazy, or forget, or whatever.

Take me, for instance. Lazy!

I might try to write something later though.

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Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!

I AM STILL SO GRUMPY THAT NOBODY TOLD ME THIS WAS HAPPENING

DID YOU GUYS HAVE A THEME THIS WEEK OR SOMETHING

CAPS CAPS CAPS

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

(11)Oberyn Martell
(3)Theon Greyjoy
(26)Syrio Forel
(15)Meera Reed

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

what the hell, the writing contest started up again and nobody told me? ;_;

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I sleep in a drawer.

Krieger > Pam > Archer > Cheryl > Ray > the rest

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"The four elements, like man alone, are weak. But together they form the strong fifth element: boron."

A BEAR

YOU MADE A BEAR

UNDO IT

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Best Englishman since Churchill?

Ugghhh, of course you like Churchill.

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

R.A. Salvatore
-Famous Sci-Fi and fantasy author, New York Times Bestseller. He wrote this game.

ugggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

Slavery is not a societal institution. Marriage is.

Hey man, slavery's been around a lot longer than marriage. IT'S A HUMAN TRADITION.

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My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

best eggs are over easy, easily

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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

Spirited Away
Grave of the Fireflies

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I, for one, plan on discovering the secrets of the multiverse by rubbing cottage cheese on my belly and eating vast quantities of fresh-water fish. Mmm, cheese.

From: YetAnothrShadow | Posted: 1/17/2012 9:25:20 PM | #011
I'm talking about Being Human UK.

So am I.

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"The four elements, like man alone, are weak. But together they form the strong fifth element: boron."

Sherlock is pretty awesome.

And I liked the Being Human pilot, but then I started the first actual episode, realized they recast my favorite character, and was so overwhelmed with furious anger that I stopped watching. So... yeah I can't speak for that one.

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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others." - Diogenes the Cynic

Community

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My theories appall you, my heresies outrage you, I never answer letters, and you don't like my tie.

Breaking Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: Skyward Sword

I would watch Bryan Cranston smoke his lucky crack pipe on the back of a giant bird every day of my life.

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Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!

yeah seriously, The Mentalist over Psych? What are you... mental?

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"The four elements, like man alone, are weak. But together they form the strong fifth element: boron."

The Wire

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Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!

Parks & Rec

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What can change the nature of a man?

Well, my personal favorite comedic (or at least semi-comedic) movies on Netflix are probably Mystery Team (think the Hardy Boys in the modern world), Wristcutters (dark comedy in a limbo for suicides), The Producers (the original, of course), Murder by Death (parody of various fictional detectives with an excellent British cast, Peter Falk!!, and Truman Capote for some reason), and... well, I'm not sure I'd really classify Repo Man as a comedy, but I think that's what it's filed under. It's about repo men and a car trunk that vaporizes people and vague references to Scientology. I like it; plenty of people don't.

For horror on the lighter side, Dead Snow is a fun goofy gory Norwegian Nazi zombie movie, Trick 'r Treat is a relatively light-hearted horror anthology that tells several criss-crossing stories on Halloween night, and Behind the Mask is a slasher flick homage presented as a mockumentary, with a student film crew following around a budding serial killer. On the more serious side of horror I'd recommend Let the Right One In, The Thing, and the original Night of the Living Dead.

Most of the other movies I'd recommend off the top of my head are also pretty serious. 13 Assassins (an excellent samurai action flick), Winter's Bone (extremely tough young woman tries to find her missing father in the Ozarks), Lady Vengeance (about a lady, and lots of vengeance; not quite as good as the fantastic Oldboy but pretty close), Buried (Ryan Reynolds in a box for an hour and a half), Brick (excellent film noir set in a high school), The Wild Hunt (the darkest movie ever made about LARPing), Dead Man (surreal "acid western" starring Johnny Depp as a slowly dying accountant)... some of those weren't the best descriptions but whatever.

As far as TV goes, there's loads of good comedies on Netflix. Archer, Parks and Recreation, Arrested Development, Better Off Ted, Psych, plus tons of British stuff: Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Spaced, Father Ted, Red Dwarf, That Mitchell and Webb Look, The IT Crowd, etc.

And if you just want to watch beautiful footage of insects doing insect things for an hour with very occasional voice-overs and music, check out Microcosmos.

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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

In the local library, none. In my university's library, one of the best in the country... still none, but there's one in Thai!

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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

I'm not going to post any recommendations here, just brag that my library has like fifty books by Carr. :smugface:

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What can change the nature of a man?

There's so much stuff on Netflix that it's hard to really suggest things without knowing what you're into.

Except Mystery Team, which everyone should watch.

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Watch 700 episodes of the classic series!

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"The four elements, like man alone, are weak. But together they form the strong fifth element: boron."