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"Mark K. Bilbo" |
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07 Feb 2004 08:01:19 PM |
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No more vampires... |
Not that I was ever much of an Anne Rice fan but...
The news has been going on endlessly about Rice leaving New Orleans.
Though she's going all of maybe five miles to a suburb. Some gated
community around Metairie apparently.
Which is just *too much. I mean, well, lemme digress...
She grew up in the Garden District on St. Charles. For a while, I was four
blocks from her house (turns out, I many times walked past her childhood
home without knowing it). It's one of those Old South kind of
neighborhoods. Lots of 19th century mansions. Gardens in every yard (hence
the name). Street car running down the middle of St. Charles. The works.
If you're rich (and she is), great place to be.
(If you're not, it can be a real pain, believe me. I was briefly in a
small apartment right on the very weird border between the very touristy,
very rich area and the four blocks away ghetto... weird city).
But she's leaving for some gated community nobody-says-where-exactly in
some pocket of strip mall city, cookie cutter houses suburbia. In short...
Boring Central.
That's not the best part though.
Now, I'll grant she's had a ****** of a life. Her whole "Lestat" period
and what I heard her call her "fascination with damned characters" began
when her daughter died at about 6 years old. That's not easy for anybody.
And, recently, her husband came down with brain cancer. He went fast.
Still.
(Here it comes)
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: No more vampires... |
08 Feb 2004 11:04:45 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi...
Not that I was ever much of an Anne Rice fan but...
The news has been going on endlessly about Rice leaving New Orleans.
Though she's going all of maybe five miles to a suburb. Some gated
community around Metairie apparently.
Which is just *too much. I mean, well, lemme digress...
She grew up in the Garden District on St. Charles. For a while, I was four
blocks from her house (turns out, I many times walked past her childhood
home without knowing it). It's one of those Old South kind of
neighborhoods. Lots of 19th century mansions. Gardens in every yard (hence
the name). Street car running down the middle of St. Charles. The works.
If you're rich (and she is), great place to be.
(If you're not, it can be a real pain, believe me. I was briefly in a
small apartment right on the very weird border between the very touristy,
very rich area and the four blocks away ghetto... weird city).
But she's leaving for some gated community nobody-says-where-exactly in
some pocket of strip mall city, cookie cutter houses suburbia. In short...
Boring Central.
That's not the best part though.
Now, I'll grant she's had a ****** of a life. Her whole "Lestat" period
and what I heard her call her "fascination with damned characters" began
when her daughter died at about 6 years old. That's not easy for anybody.
And, recently, her husband came down with brain cancer. He went fast.
Still.
(Here it comes)
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
I once tried to read 'The Vampire Lestat.' I never finished it. It bored me
to the point where I've never had the desire to read anything else Rice has
ever written.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
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| User: "SMChristenson" |
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| Title: Re: No more vampires... |
09 Feb 2004 09:56:50 AM |
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 17:04:45 +0000, John Baker wrote:
I once tried to read 'The Vampire Lestat.' I never finished it. It bored
me to the point where I've never had the desire to read anything else
Rice has ever written.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion "There is no system but GNU,
and Linux is one of its kernels."
Hmmmmm. Well, "The Vampire Lestat" was a long and wandering tale.
If you'd read all her vampire books (I have -- for better and worse),
everything written about her conversion is true. One of the series could
be subtitled "Vampire Lestat Ascends to Heaven to Confront God and Gets
Wowed".
BUT, I would argue that "Interview with the Vampire" might go down as
"literature" -- a 20th century Frankenstein. A couple points:
1. Only one book doesn't have to stink. Name a Stoker novel except
"Dracula". (Ok, Geek points for Lair of the White Worm but name a _third_
Stoker novel!)
2. Although her religion seems very sincere now, her vampires don't have
to be taken any more literally than Frankenstein's monster.
So if Frankenstein was about fear of the rise of science, what will
"Interview with the Vampire" be seen to be about 100 years from now? I
submit widening class wealth gaps, the biotech revolution, and feeling
good about it. Widening class disparity within the U.S. and between the
U.S. and the rest of the world. The availability of health care now and
the promise of "unnatural" genetic cures and grown replacement organs
later -- for those who can afford it. It is not the red one sucks from
others, it is the green, that will let you live beyond the norm of
"ordinary" people. Not forever, but, like vampires, "longer". And you
will accept that and learn to feel good about yourself anyway as one of
the powerful who can take what you need.
Actually a bit nasty and horrible, and Rice may have had no conscious
awareness she was writing that parable. But I stand by my interpretation.
As such, it is a competently produced rococo fantasy that mirrors
contemporary social change -- and therefore could worm its way into the
ranks of "literature".
[Red Hat here but Debian has sneaked into one machine]
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| User: "johac" |
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08 Feb 2004 01:21:49 AM |
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In article <pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote:
Not that I was ever much of an Anne Rice fan but...
The news has been going on endlessly about Rice leaving New Orleans.
Though she's going all of maybe five miles to a suburb. Some gated
community around Metairie apparently.
Which is just *too much. I mean, well, lemme digress...
She grew up in the Garden District on St. Charles. For a while, I was four
blocks from her house (turns out, I many times walked past her childhood
home without knowing it). It's one of those Old South kind of
neighborhoods. Lots of 19th century mansions. Gardens in every yard (hence
the name). Street car running down the middle of St. Charles. The works.
If you're rich (and she is), great place to be.
(If you're not, it can be a real pain, believe me. I was briefly in a
small apartment right on the very weird border between the very touristy,
very rich area and the four blocks away ghetto... weird city).
But she's leaving for some gated community nobody-says-where-exactly in
some pocket of strip mall city, cookie cutter houses suburbia. In short...
Boring Central.
That's not the best part though.
Now, I'll grant she's had a ****** of a life. Her whole "Lestat" period
and what I heard her call her "fascination with damned characters" began
when her daughter died at about 6 years old. That's not easy for anybody.
And, recently, her husband came down with brain cancer. He went fast.
Still.
(Here it comes)
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
Angel vampires?
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Men become civilized not in their willingness to believe, bit in
proportion to their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken
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| User: "L. Raymond" |
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| Title: Re: No more vampires... |
08 Feb 2004 01:51:34 AM |
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johac <jhachm@ixpresremove.com> wrote:
In article <pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote:
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
Angel vampires?
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
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| User: "Mike Smith" |
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| Title: Re: No more vampires... |
08 Feb 2004 08:05:44 PM |
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(L. Raymond) wrote:
=johac <jhachm@ixpresremove.com> wrote:
=>> Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book
=>> is some sappy thing about angels...
=>
=>Angel vampires?
=
= A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out
=of people, reducing them to slaves who crawl around
=in the mud and abase themselves before an omnipotent
=super-being who kills them just for a lark. Perhaps she
=could write it, but does the world really need another
=translation of the bible?
Good one :-)
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Mike Smith | aa #1164 | Founder of SMASH
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing
in it, doesn't go away." -Philip K. *****
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| User: "Bill, The Avender" |
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| Title: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
08 Feb 2004 07:43:32 AM |
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I'm not quite sure how it should be formatted, but I thought this was
a real gem.
johac <jhachm@ixpresremove.com> wrote:
In article <pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote:
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
Angel vampires?
<nominated portion>
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
<end nominated portion>
Priceless in context. Anybody care to second? {=-?
--
L8r,
Bill, The Avender
***===***===***===***===***===***===***===***===***===***===***===***===***===***===***
A pessimist would see a hole in the ozone layer as increased exposure to deadly UV rays.
An optimist would see it as an opportunity to get free, unlimited tanning.
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| User: "Mike Smith" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
08 Feb 2004 08:09:06 PM |
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(Bill, The Avender) wrote:
=I'm not quite sure how it should be formatted, but I thought
=this was a real gem.
Attributions are wrong. Your quote was L. Raymond's.
=>johac <jhachm@ixpresremove.com> wrote:
=>
=>>In article <pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi>,
=>> "Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote:
=>>
=>
=>>> In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having
grown out
=>>> of her atheism.
=>>>
=>>> Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
=>>>
=>>> Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic
around
=>>> here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says
will
=>>> still be stories about the supernatural, just not about
"characters that
=>>> are damned."
=>>>
=>>>
=>>>
=>>> Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that
concerned.
=>>> But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
=>>>
=>>> Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy
thing
=>>> about angels...
=>>
=>>Angel vampires?
=>
=
=<nominated portion>
=
=> A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
=>reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
=>themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for
a
=>lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
=>another translation of the bible?
=
=<end nominated portion>
=
=Priceless in context. Anybody care to second? {=-?
__________________________________________
ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ
Mike Smith | aa #1164 | Founder of SMASH
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"Reality is that which, when you stop believing
in it, doesn't go away." -Philip K. *****
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| User: "Bill, The Avender" |
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09 Feb 2004 08:24:29 PM |
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In alt.atheism on Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:09:06 -0600, Mike Smith
<boatwrightsekritadmirer@godgivesgoodhead.com> wrote:
Avender@SpamMeNot.com (Bill, The Avender) wrote:
=I'm not quite sure how it should be formatted, but I thought
=this was a real gem.
Attributions are wrong. Your quote was L. Raymond's.
Wups. Yup. Attributions were right, however, just incomplete. I
must've inadvertantly snipper L. Raymond's from the top of the stack
with my nomination sentence. Soiree. :-# I seem to be having a real
problem with attributions lately. I'll have to watch my step...
<devious evil laugh arises from the depths of gehenna, itself...>
muauauahahaahah...
;-) Eh, it's all good. ;-)
--
L8r,
Bill
/\~*`-\|~/.`\*=`~\/|.-`\=~`/\.|*-`\~*
"Is not the epitome of narcissism to
quote one's self?" - Me
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| User: "*nemo*" |
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10 Feb 2004 05:05:23 AM |
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In article <40334040.12705713@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>,
(Bill, The Avender) wrote:
In alt.atheism on Sun, 08 Feb 2004 20:09:06 -0600, Mike Smith
<boatwrightsekritadmirer@godgivesgoodhead.com> wrote:
(Bill, The Avender) wrote:
=I'm not quite sure how it should be formatted, but I thought
=this was a real gem.
Attributions are wrong. Your quote was L. Raymond's.
Wups. Yup. Attributions were right, however, just incomplete. I
must've inadvertantly snipper L. Raymond's from the top of the stack
with my nomination sentence. Soiree. :-# I seem to be having a real
problem with attributions lately. I'll have to watch my step...
<devious evil laugh arises from the depths of gehenna, itself...>
muauauahahaahah...
Ah. This answers my question. Thanx.
;-) Eh, it's all good. ;-)
--
L8r,
Bill
/\~*`-\|~/.`\*=`~\/|.-`\=~`/\.|*-`\~*
"Is not the epitome of narcissism to
quote one's self?" - Me
/\~*`-\|~/.`\*=`~\/|.-`\=~`/\.|*-`\~*
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Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "Harry Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
08 Feb 2004 07:52:40 AM |
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 7:43:32 -0600, Bill, The Avender wrote
(in message <403c3c41.31271711@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>):
<nominated portion>
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
<end nominated portion>
Priceless in context. Anybody care to second? {=-?
Sure thing, I second it.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
"Nothing can stand up to atheistic critical examination. You guys are the
proctologists of Religion." - angelicusrex
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| User: "*nemo*" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
10 Feb 2004 05:04:25 AM |
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In article <0001HW.BC4B9B4800C8CB5AF02845B0@news.central.cox.net>,
Harry Leopold <hleopold@cox.net> wrote:
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 7:43:32 -0600, Bill, The Avender wrote
(in message <403c3c41.31271711@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>):
<nominated portion>
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
<end nominated portion>
Priceless in context. Anybody care to second? {=-?
Sure thing, I second it.
Erm... I have recorded this, but I'm unsure who wrote it. Was it John
Hachmann?
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
10 Feb 2004 08:31:00 AM |
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And so upon Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:04:25 +0000 didst *nemo* speak thusly:
In article <0001HW.BC4B9B4800C8CB5AF02845B0@news.central.cox.net>,
Harry Leopold <hleopold@cox.net> wrote:
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 7:43:32 -0600, Bill, The Avender wrote
(in message <403c3c41.31271711@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>):
<nominated portion>
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
<end nominated portion>
Priceless in context. Anybody care to second? {=-?
Sure thing, I second it.
Erm... I have recorded this, but I'm unsure who wrote it. Was it John
Hachmann?
L. Raymond back in message: <4025e8d2.4751001@news.mylinuxisp.com>
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
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| User: "Harry Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
10 Feb 2004 10:21:45 AM |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 8:31:00 -0600, Mark K. Bilbo wrote
(in message <pan.2004.02.10.14.31.00.266558@hoo.com-amikchi>):
From: "Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi>
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
And so upon Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:04:25 +0000 didst *nemo* speak thusly:
In article <0001HW.BC4B9B4800C8CB5AF02845B0@news.central.cox.net>,
Harry Leopold <hleopold@cox.net> wrote:
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 7:43:32 -0600, Bill, The Avender wrote
(in message <403c3c41.31271711@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>):
<nominated portion>
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
<end nominated portion>
Priceless in context. Anybody care to second? {=-?
Sure thing, I second it.
Erm... I have recorded this, but I'm unsure who wrote it. Was it John
Hachmann?
L. Raymond back in message: <4025e8d2.4751001@news.mylinuxisp.com>
Thanks, Stoney, I didn't have the original handy.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
"I've got a pen and I'm not afraid to use it."-Charles R Ward
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
10 Feb 2004 03:24:36 PM |
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And so upon Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:21:45 -0600 didst Harry Leopold speak
thusly:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 8:31:00 -0600, Mark K. Bilbo wrote
(in message <pan.2004.02.10.14.31.00.266558@hoo.com-amikchi>):
From: "Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi>
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
And so upon Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:04:25 +0000 didst *nemo* speak thusly:
In article <0001HW.BC4B9B4800C8CB5AF02845B0@news.central.cox.net>,
Harry Leopold <hleopold@cox.net> wrote:
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 7:43:32 -0600, Bill, The Avender wrote
(in message <403c3c41.31271711@newsgroups.bellsouth.net>):
<nominated portion>
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
<end nominated portion>
Priceless in context. Anybody care to second? {=-?
Sure thing, I second it.
Erm... I have recorded this, but I'm unsure who wrote it. Was it John
Hachmann?
L. Raymond back in message: <4025e8d2.4751001@news.mylinuxisp.com>
Thanks, Stoney, I didn't have the original handy.
Stoney?
Well, not at the moment I'm not...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
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| User: "Harry Leopold" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
10 Feb 2004 04:30:38 PM |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:24:36 -0600, Mark K. Bilbo wrote
(in message <pan.2004.02.10.21.24.36.292700@hoo.com-amikchi>):
snip
Thanks, Stoney, I didn't have the original handy.
Stoney?
Well, not at the moment I'm not...
No, I see you aren't. Don't ask me what happened, for some reason Stoney came
out when I meant to type Mark. Odd, very odd.
Maybe I need to hit the sack, I have been up a long time but even so I should
not have made such a mistake.
Next time I will have to thank you for something Stoney does. ;-)
But in the mean time, thanks Mark.
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
"The line separating painfully bad analogies from weirdly good ones is as
thin as a soup made from the shadow of a chicken that was starved to death."
- Alydar2
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10 Feb 2004 04:56:15 PM |
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And so upon Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:30:38 -0600 didst Harry Leopold speak
thusly:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:24:36 -0600, Mark K. Bilbo wrote
(in message <pan.2004.02.10.21.24.36.292700@hoo.com-amikchi>):
snip
Thanks, Stoney, I didn't have the original handy.
Stoney?
Well, not at the moment I'm not...
No, I see you aren't. Don't ask me what happened, for some reason Stoney came
out when I meant to type Mark. Odd, very odd.
Maybe I need to hit the sack, I have been up a long time but even so I should
not have made such a mistake.
Next time I will have to thank you for something Stoney does. ;-)
Uh oh...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
13 Feb 2004 09:55:54 AM |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:30:38 -0600, Harry Leopold <hleopold@cox.net>,
Message ID: <0001HW.BC4EB7AE013CE63AF02845B0@news.central.cox.net> wrote
in alt.atheism;
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:24:36 -0600, Mark K. Bilbo wrote
(in message <pan.2004.02.10.21.24.36.292700@hoo.com-amikchi>):
snip
Thanks, Stoney, I didn't have the original handy.
Stoney?
Well, not at the moment I'm not...
No, I see you aren't. Don't ask me what happened, for some reason Stoney came
out when I meant to type Mark. Odd, very odd.
Maybe I need to hit the sack, I have been up a long time but even so I should
not have made such a mistake.
Next time I will have to thank you for something Stoney does. ;-)
/angelic innocence
Moi?
But in the mean time, thanks Mark.
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
13 Feb 2004 09:59:40 AM |
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And so upon Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:55:54 -0800 didst stoney speak thusly:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:30:38 -0600, Harry Leopold <hleopold@cox.net>,
Message ID: <0001HW.BC4EB7AE013CE63AF02845B0@news.central.cox.net> wrote
in alt.atheism;
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:24:36 -0600, Mark K. Bilbo wrote
(in message <pan.2004.02.10.21.24.36.292700@hoo.com-amikchi>):
snip
Thanks, Stoney, I didn't have the original handy.
Stoney?
Well, not at the moment I'm not...
No, I see you aren't. Don't ask me what happened, for some reason Stoney came
out when I meant to type Mark. Odd, very odd.
Maybe I need to hit the sack, I have been up a long time but even so I should
not have made such a mistake.
Next time I will have to thank you for something Stoney does. ;-)
/angelic innocence
Moi?
Yes. He's threatening to thank me for something you do.
I'm scared...
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels."
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: AQOTM nomination: "Re: No more vampires..." |
15 Feb 2004 09:16:57 PM |
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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 09:59:40 -0600, "Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi>,
Message ID: <pan.2004.02.13.15.59.40.150565@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote in
alt.atheism;
And so upon Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:55:54 -0800 didst stoney speak thusly:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:30:38 -0600, Harry Leopold <hleopold@cox.net>,
Message ID: <0001HW.BC4EB7AE013CE63AF02845B0@news.central.cox.net> wrote
in alt.atheism;
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:24:36 -0600, Mark K. Bilbo wrote
(in message <pan.2004.02.10.21.24.36.292700@hoo.com-amikchi>):
snip
Thanks, Stoney, I didn't have the original handy.
Stoney?
Well, not at the moment I'm not...
No, I see you aren't. Don't ask me what happened, for some reason Stoney came
out when I meant to type Mark. Odd, very odd.
Maybe I need to hit the sack, I have been up a long time but even so I should
not have made such a mistake.
Next time I will have to thank you for something Stoney does. ;-)
/angelic innocence
Moi?
Yes. He's threatening to thank me for something you do.
I'm scared...
Appropriate.... (veg!)
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: No more vampires... |
08 Feb 2004 11:44:42 PM |
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In article <4025e8d2.4751001@news.mylinuxisp.com>,
(L. Raymond) wrote:
johac <jhachm@ixpresremove.com> wrote:
In article <pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote:
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
Angel vampires?
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
Excellent! That says it all!
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Men become civilized not in their willingness to believe, bit in
proportion to their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: AQOTM Nomination |
13 Feb 2004 09:54:44 AM |
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 07:51:34 GMT, (L.
Raymond), Message ID: <4025e8d2.4751001@news.mylinuxisp.com> wrote in
alt.atheism;
Re: No more vampires...
johac <jhachm@ixpresremove.com> wrote:
In article <pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote:
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
Angel vampires?
/begin
A book about supernatual visitors sucking the life out of people,
reducing them to slaves who crawl around in the mud and abase
themselves before an omnipotent super-being who kills them just for a
lark. Perhaps she could write it, but does the world really need
another translation of the bible?
/end
Seconds?
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: No more vampires... |
09 Feb 2004 08:42:39 AM |
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johac wrote:
In article <pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote:
Not that I was ever much of an Anne Rice fan but...
The news has been going on endlessly about Rice leaving New Orleans.
Though she's going all of maybe five miles to a suburb. Some gated
community around Metairie apparently.
Which is just *too much. I mean, well, lemme digress...
She grew up in the Garden District on St. Charles. For a while, I was four
blocks from her house (turns out, I many times walked past her childhood
home without knowing it). It's one of those Old South kind of
neighborhoods. Lots of 19th century mansions. Gardens in every yard (hence
the name). Street car running down the middle of St. Charles. The works.
If you're rich (and she is), great place to be.
(If you're not, it can be a real pain, believe me. I was briefly in a
small apartment right on the very weird border between the very touristy,
very rich area and the four blocks away ghetto... weird city).
But she's leaving for some gated community nobody-says-where-exactly in
some pocket of strip mall city, cookie cutter houses suburbia. In short...
Boring Central.
That's not the best part though.
Now, I'll grant she's had a ****** of a life. Her whole "Lestat" period
and what I heard her call her "fascination with damned characters" began
when her daughter died at about 6 years old. That's not easy for anybody.
And, recently, her husband came down with brain cancer. He went fast.
Still.
(Here it comes)
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
Angel vampires?
Naw. The idea's been in syndication for years.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: No more vampires... |
10 Feb 2004 12:30:53 AM |
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In article <40279C5F.89D5B25F@serv.net>,
Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote:
johac wrote:
In article <pan.2004.02.08.02.01.18.455203@hoo.com-amikchi>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <y@hoo.com-amikchi> wrote:
Not that I was ever much of an Anne Rice fan but...
The news has been going on endlessly about Rice leaving New Orleans.
Though she's going all of maybe five miles to a suburb. Some gated
community around Metairie apparently.
Which is just *too much. I mean, well, lemme digress...
She grew up in the Garden District on St. Charles. For a while, I was four
blocks from her house (turns out, I many times walked past her childhood
home without knowing it). It's one of those Old South kind of
neighborhoods. Lots of 19th century mansions. Gardens in every yard (hence
the name). Street car running down the middle of St. Charles. The works.
If you're rich (and she is), great place to be.
(If you're not, it can be a real pain, believe me. I was briefly in a
small apartment right on the very weird border between the very touristy,
very rich area and the four blocks away ghetto... weird city).
But she's leaving for some gated community nobody-says-where-exactly in
some pocket of strip mall city, cookie cutter houses suburbia. In short...
Boring Central.
That's not the best part though.
Now, I'll grant she's had a ****** of a life. Her whole "Lestat" period
and what I heard her call her "fascination with damned characters" began
when her daughter died at about 6 years old. That's not easy for anybody.
And, recently, her husband came down with brain cancer. He went fast.
Still.
(Here it comes)
In a recent interview on the local news, she talked about having grown out
of her atheism.
Yes. She has had A Religious Experience.
Found a priest and reconciled with "the church" (very Catholic around
here). Now she's going to boring suburbia to write what she says will
still be stories about the supernatural, just not about "characters that
are damned."
Since I was never that much of a fan of hers, I'm not all that concerned.
But for those of you who were fans of hers... well...
Just don't be surprised if the next Anne Rice book is some sappy thing
about angels...
Angel vampires?
Naw. The idea's been in syndication for years.
I forgot about that 'Buffy' spin off that I never watched either.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Men become civilized not in their willingness to believe, bit in
proportion to their readiness to doubt." - H. L. Mencken
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