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Sep. 27th, 2009 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
1. No, self, you will not watch NCIS: Los Angeles sheerly for the slashiness of Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J's characters. It is considerable, though, I must say. There's been winking.
2. Yesterday I shook hands with a Pulitzer prize winning author. He was super nice, even though my friends and I were probably about the four hundredth-odd group in line at the National Book Festival. The only reason I didn't get an autograph was because I didn't own his book at the time. I do now, and will hopefully get around to reading it soon.
3. Which will have to wait, because a new Discworld book is coming out on the sixth OMG yay. The Unseen Academicals is going to be great, I can just tell. Discworld tackles football (pun intended, though, yes, I'm aware, that's not the football we're talking about), how can it be anything but great?
4. Speaking of awesome things coming up in early October, on the eighth there'll be an encore performance of the Rifftrax live event from August. I'm only going again if I can get someone to come with, sooo any takers should let me know. I speak from experience now, it's a dang good time.
2. Yesterday I shook hands with a Pulitzer prize winning author. He was super nice, even though my friends and I were probably about the four hundredth-odd group in line at the National Book Festival. The only reason I didn't get an autograph was because I didn't own his book at the time. I do now, and will hopefully get around to reading it soon.
3. Which will have to wait, because a new Discworld book is coming out on the sixth OMG yay. The Unseen Academicals is going to be great, I can just tell. Discworld tackles football (pun intended, though, yes, I'm aware, that's not the football we're talking about), how can it be anything but great?
4. Speaking of awesome things coming up in early October, on the eighth there'll be an encore performance of the Rifftrax live event from August. I'm only going again if I can get someone to come with, sooo any takers should let me know. I speak from experience now, it's a dang good time.
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:06 am (UTC)3. I would be looking forward to the new Discworld book a whole lot more if I had actually finished the last two. *sigh* But I think it'll probably be good. Who doesn't love soccer, after all?
4. Ooh! I might be able to make such a thing! Since my parents are actually letting me drive my car. Sometimes.
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:56 am (UTC)3. Tut tut. Well, they'll still be there when you're ready.
4. Fabulous! All we gotta do is pick a theater, then.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:03 am (UTC)3. They will. I even have one here, "Making Money," I think.
4. Awesome! The one we went to before should be fine.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:15 am (UTC)3. Hm, Making Money. Not my favorite, not really what I would recommend as a first DW book, TBH. What else you got?
4. Columbia? I'd be cool with hitting the Mazza Gallerie again. You just want to drive somewhere, don't you? ;)
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:18 am (UTC)3. Well, it's not exactly my first. Just the last one I got stuck on. *laughs* I don't know, I don't find Moist all that compelling a character.
4. I do :D
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:24 am (UTC)3. Okay. Heh, ye-eah, his repeat characters, the ones he's had time to really develop, are a lot stronger than the ones that only show up once or twice.
4. Well all right then! Farbeit from me to complain about not being able to stay in my neighborhood. You know it'll be over around ten or eleven at night, though, right?
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:27 am (UTC)3. Well, even some of the one-offs are nice. I love just about everyone that shows up in Thief of Time.
4. Well, I drove in the rain at night on Saturday, so I feel like I'm ready for anything! And by then they'll probably have seen that I can manage to get myself to and from places without calamity.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:36 am (UTC)3. Oh blah, yeah, that's right, you have read a bunch of DW books. Yes, I remember that conversation now. Silly memory of mine. And yes, Thief of Time is excellent, though perhaps bolstered somewhat by Susan's presence.
4. Hee, yeah, navigating in icky weather can make you feel pretty darn competent. I'm sure you'll be fine.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:40 am (UTC)3. *laughs* It happens. Thief of Time also has one of the best cameos; I loved seeing Nanny Ogg as a teenager and then at different ages. Plus Susan as a schoolteacher was pretty great.
4. I even navigated myself to one of my friend's houses with just MapQuest directions to go on!
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:48 am (UTC)3. We talk so much, how can I be expected to remember every one, I ask you! Nanny Ogg's awesome, at any age, though that's not exactly a surprise. I'm not sure which I prefer- schoolteacher Susan or nanny Susan from Hogfather. *sigh* Looks like my next Discworld re-read will have to be Thief of Time.
4. Good work, my friend!
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:53 am (UTC)3. Heh, I still have a fondness for schoolgirl Susan trying to figure out how to do Death's job. And also because Imp y Celyn was in that book and he was also pretty awesome. I'm kind of sad that he never showed up again.
4. I was so proud. Sure, I got a little lost, but I figured it out and didn't have to call anyone for help or anything!
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:59 am (UTC)3. Oh dear, it's been forever since I re-read Soul Music. That's a big favorite. Imp should definitely come back at some point.
4. Excellent work!
(Also, I love watching Sensei Ping on Iron Chef America.)
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Date: 2009-09-28 02:07 am (UTC)3. Same. But I did randomly re-read Reaper Man quite recently.
4. I know! And sure, I had to follow another friend out, that doesn't diminish the fact that I made it.
Hee! I am watching Mad Men and I feel like I missed half an hour because none of it is making sense.
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Date: 2009-09-28 02:13 am (UTC)3. Oooh, Reaper Man. That's an interesting one. I know it's really good, but a lot of the details of it don't tend to stick in my head. Which is good for when I get around to re-reading it.
4. No it does not. If you got lost, and got yourself un-lost, then you win.
(Hm, that's unfortunate. What's also unfortunate is that I have to go to bed. Got a meeting with a career counselor type person to futz with my resume tomorrow morning, woohoo. 'Night!)
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:09 am (UTC)2. Awesome! Enjoy the book, it sounds interesting. :)
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:58 am (UTC)2. I'm hoping it will be, though I have no idea when I'll get around to reading it. *winces*
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:59 am (UTC)2. Oh man, I know. I have a whole shelf of books that I need to get through.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:05 am (UTC)2. We'll read them all someday. And we'll enjoy them.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:08 am (UTC)2. Very true. Even War and Peace, which I have on my bookshelf.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:19 am (UTC)2. Impressive. I don't think I have any classics on my shelf I intend to read. At least, not nationally recognized classics. More my personal selections.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:28 am (UTC)2. It'll be more impressive when I actually manage to read it. One day!
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:41 am (UTC)2. Hm, that's true. You'll get to it!
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Date: 2009-09-28 12:52 am (UTC)2. I have seen that book in stores, yet, alas, I have way too many novels sitting around unread. Some have been there for years. I feel so irresponsible.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:00 am (UTC)2. Same, same. It's weird- I have a ton of time on my hands these days, and yet I think I've been reading less than ever.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:07 am (UTC)Also, new Discworld is always a great thing.
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Date: 2009-09-28 01:20 am (UTC)Yes, ma'am. I think it'll be really interesting. Apparently we'll learn more about the Below Stairs of Unseen University, which fascinates me.
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