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I think I have a cold. Blech. I've spent the entire day sneezing. But, hey, at least I got a good mock-up of the

dead_earth finished and ready to be typed up and posted, so I've got that going for me.

In other news, Bill O'Reilly is an asshole, but you knew that. Eighty-seven percent of the people who watch The Daily Show do so while intoxicated. I'll bet you didn't know that, but O'Reilly does, quite possibly because he's working with the same scientists who just discovered wasabi fucks up your sinuses. Well, as

ash_grey_sky pointed out, "And you, O'Reilly, are a douche. But in the morning, I will be sober." (I actually forced myself to listen to ten minutes of his show today before Don & Mike, and that moron's still bitching about France. Dude, it's over. Give it a rest. Jesus.)

Also, I glanced over at Fandom Wank when I got in out of dear-God-don't-make-me-type-anymore distraction and stumbled upon this little gem ... that's right, that massive paragraph about halfway down the page. Apparently, that's Anne Rice, responding to the bad Amazon reviews she's gotten and sounding much like an annoyed fanfic writer. I don't know if it is or isn't her, but the mind, it boggles. (Oh, I just clicked "See my other reviews" and the woman gave glowing praise to "The Passion of the Christ" and about a half dozen other Christian studies books. I ... I ... *officially has no idea how to react, breaks brain trying to come up with something*)

EDIT: *giggles hysterically* I just ... I just ... I am such a sick fucking bastard. As evidenced by the plot idea I just had for the TroNoWriMo. (Yeah, like you haven't figured that out waaaaaaay earlier.)

*goes back to my giggles*

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Oh, my. Anne Rice made me use multiple exclamation marks, the classic sign of an unsound mind.

Really, does she have any idea how pompous and silly she appears to her readers? (As if we didn't suspect this anyway, given her books.)

Can you add me to the dead_earth flist? I keep missing it . . .

I'm an idiot, nevermind. I'm there, I just can't see, apparently.

Apparently, that's Anne Rice, responding to the bad Amazon reviews she's gotten and sounding much like an annoyed fanfic writer. I don't know if it is or isn't her, but the mind, it boggles.

Oh, what I find even more amusing is how several of her comments in her riposte sound not like she was writing about Lestat, but channeling him:

I was with him more closely than I have ever been in this novel; his voice was as powerful for me as I've ever heard it. I experienced break through after break through as I walked with him, moved with him, saw through his eyes.

But I experienced an intimacy with the character in those scenes that shattered all prior restraints...[.]

Bah. I haven't read an Anne Rice book since I was so deeply disappointed by Tale of the Body Thief. From the sounds of it, I haven't missed much.

The wasabi thing is distressing in that I can't live without my orgasm in every sinus.
I note they didn't test it in subjects with colds though.

X - Bump

And you have strained my Dickensean principles to the max.

Ow! Ow! My Dickensia! Doctor, it hurts! It's been strained...TO THE EXTREEEEEEME [::slams a Mountain Dew and jumps a mountain bike over Anne's ego::]

I think I love you.

... that's just painful. Not only was the reply a weeny bit up her own arse, some of the complaints she was answering are just... just... 'Vampires were first invented in 1920, as Ann so conveniently left out in her so called "novel."'
...
I could talk at length about that review. Not going to, but... 'inane fantasy'? Hello, it's Anne Rice. That's the entire point.
*headdesk*