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Bored, now.

Spent Sunday studying for a bitch of a test this afternoon and watched "The Wish" from the Buffy S3 DVDs.

Today will be hell. So I bring you . . .

10 Things Books (or book series) I really like
SF=Speculative Fiction NF=Non Fiction MF=Mainstream Fiction

1. Jumper, Steven Gould (SF)
2. The Books of the Last Herald-Mage, Mercedes Lackey (SF)
3. Falcon, Emma Bull (SF)
4. Twilight in the Forbidden City, Reginald Fleming Johnston (NF)
5. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster (MF)
6. Heroes Die, Matthew Woodring Stover (SF)
7. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien (SF)
8. The Romulan Way, Diane Duane (SF)
9. Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima (MF)
10. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (MF)

10 Short Stories the world must not lose:

1. "Patriotism" -=- Yukio Mishima
2. "Everyday Use" -=- Alice Walker
3. "The Yellow Wallpaper" -=- Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
4. "The Garden of Forking Paths" -=- Jorge Luis Borges
5. "The Master of Chan Gen" -=- Steve Perry
6. "Paingod" -=- Harlan Ellison (Hell, ANYTHING by Harlan Ellison)
7. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" -=- Joyce Carol Oates
8. "The Lottery" -=- Shirley Jackson
9. "Bartleby the Scrivener" -=- Nathaniel Hawthorne
10. "The Cask of Amontillado" -=- Edgar Allen Poe


Hmm. I think I need to resubscribe to F&SF and Asimov's. I've lost touch with the world of SF short stories, and I miss it.

Back to work with you now.

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I'm mapping Chattanooga, TN today. Thank the Nine Hamilton County finally got a clue and built a GIS site. It's SO nice to be able to find plats online and not have to call 5 brain-dead people to get one, each of whom thinks it's someone else's job.

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I "found" a new restaurant in San Francisco. We must go there.

And no, I'm not telling you anything about it.

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I've been hearing rumours of a Buffy S3 DVD recall -- but can find no corroborating evidence of one existing.

Can one of you rumour-mongers tell me where you saw this information?

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American Problem #342: Frivolous lawsuits brought by idiotic nimrods who really ought to know better.