books & tea
15 books meme: "This can be a quick one. Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes."

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, short stories & novellas
Larry Niven, Ringworld
Iain M. Banks, The Use of Weapons
Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards & Five Hundred Years After
Dorothy Sayers, Murder Must Advertise
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
John Galsworthy, The Man of Property
Patrick O'Brian, H. M. S. Surprise
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Robert Graves, I, Claudius
John M. Ford, The Final Reflection
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Connie Willis, Bellwether
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Am I cheating by listing two Brust novels? I think they have to go together, though. The only embarrassments on the list are the Galsworthy and the Connie Willis. The Willis, while utterly delightful and something I'd recommend to anyone who stood still long enough for me to gesticulate at them, reveals that I have mostly froth between my ears.
think
Okay, have thought through some things and have some new policies! Translation: I threw darts at a board and now have a new idea that will live a week until it's replaced by the new idea.

Some observations aka wild overgeneralizations:
Everybody's claimed their forty acres and a mule, but nobody's farming yet. Everybody's waiting for the bellwether. I'm not in the mood to be the bellwether. As with every fannish migration, some people don't want to move at all. I don't want to lose those people. Wow, that's a lot of agricultural metaphors for one paragraph!

I'm going to crosspost only the fannish stuff I think has longevity to the dread other fannish journaling service that is either our new utopia or a new mirage, nobody can decide which. My theory is that conversation here is of this time and place, and fairly uninteresting elsewhere, especially given that LJ is unlikely to belly-up without a year of warning. I'll crosspost fic only, so when/if the DW rainbow unicorns arrive, the important things will already be there. This means I have to delete all the non-fic posts I copied over there. Procrastination!

I'm going to nuke my InsaneJournal account and leave a pointer behind.

Then I'm going to nap. Why not nap first?

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