My thoughts, they flit like butterflies

[magid]

I read 1602 last week (thanks, Queue), and the description that best fits seems to be "professional fanfic." I like it, don't get me wrong, but using lots of other people's characters, even with permission, is not quite the same as starting with one's own characters, though the plot is obviously new. "Derivative" doesn't seem the right adjective, having too much of a negative connotation. "Second generation," perhaps?

Is there anything that can be done with a dead keyboard? Maybe there's a use for the individual keys?

I'm feeling better; the lymph nodes are almost back to normal. And salt water rinses really do help (especially when followed by honeyed ginger tea). Plus being woken only once in the middle of the night. I'm still a bit confused by this; I've never had a cold-like-thing that didn't progress beyond my throat, though my nose is quite happy not to have been subjected to millions of tissues, however lotion-infused they might have been. And how is it that so many people are sick just now?

Anticipated local snail mail arrived! Yay!

For the politically entranced, Bush's resume (from Merde, via Aliza 250).

It's amazing that there's another Cat 5 hurricane headed to land in the Gulf. Heck, I'm surprised that we're already at R for hurricanes this year, with so much of the season left, despite the prediction that this would be a very bad year for them. Houston's evacuating, as well as Galveston, and they're even changing highway lanes to allow people to move faster. No talk this time of the Almighty's revenge, I see. (And I can't even imagine what it must be like for the people leaving a second place in less than a month.)

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

And how is it that so many people are sick just now?

The kids went back to school a few weeks ago. (hope you feel better)

Hurricanes are scary!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yabbut, lots of the people who're sick don't have direct contact to schoolkids. (And usually that starts working later in the fall, yes?)

(Thanks, I'm feeling like I'm on the mend. *hoping it's not a viral fake-out with more crud to come*)

Hurricanes are darned scary. I was thinking that though lots of people gripe about MA winters, I'm still a lot more prepared for them than other types of regional weather disasters. (Ignoring the probability of a local earthquake, though.)

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

School started around here just after (and sometimes before) labor day, which is plenty of time for new germs to spread into the community via workplaces, the T, stores, etc.

[magid.livejournal.com]

True.

Oddly enough, an orker woke up a couple of hours before I did with my sore throat (Monday morning) having the worst sore throat of her life.

[empheliath.livejournal.com]

So, I came across this reading my friendsfriends page...we've met (mostly at majes's parties), though we don't know each other well.
I think your classification of 1602 as professional fanfic is an interesting one...but by that logic, wouldn't all current runs of X-Men, Spider-Man, Green Lantern, Batman, and any other such characters be classified the same way? I mean, Stan Lee (and whoever else were original creators) isn't writing them anymore. J. Michael Straczinski is writing Amazing Spider-Man, Joss Whedon is writing one of the X-Men runs...It's just kind of the way the comics industry works, you know? Relatively little of what's out there is written by people other than the original writers.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yes, sort of. I mean, there's all the people who write Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and Boxcar Children books, too. They're part of a franchise, rather than authors known in and of themselves.

It feels different to have someone with their own other works dance in and do something like this, though. I'm not finding the right words to be able to describe the difference.

[geekosaur]

No talk this time of the Almighty's revenge, I see.

<cynical> Of course not; it's obviously quite impossible that He would be targeting the very heart of Bush-land out of revenge. </cynical>

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Now, if it looked like _Austin_ might be wiped off the map . . .