It should come as no surprise to any of you that I am a fan of science-fiction.  I love it in all mediums – books, movies, television, manga, graphic novels, and good ol’ comic books.  It’s all good to me. Love Heinlein, Bradbury, LeGuin, Asimov, Herbert, Zelazny, etc.  And lately, I am finding sci-fi romances to be particularly fun.

But, no. WAIT! I’m a GIRL! That must mean I’m “ruining” sci-fi for all the Spanky and Alfalfas out there.  Let me explain… 

I ran across a post over on Karen Scott’s blog where she picks out the best quotes found on the web that week.  She was sharing a quote from a post written by author John Scalzi.  John was commenting on yet a different post written by an unmitigated jackass about how women (and gays, apparently) were ruining science-fiction.  Still with me here?

I’m not going to link to the original simpleton’s post because they don’t deserve it.  However, you can find it if you do a Google search for asswipes er, “The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky”.  “War”?  Really? Hyperbole much?

Now.  I know and you know that statements like the following are merely misogynistic twaddle and deserve less than our attention.  Nevertheless, I was a bit outraged (like the sun is a bit hot) that this fool could be so misinformed (I’m guessing it’s been a while since his last blowjob):

“As we know, science fiction has inspired boys to pursue careers in science, engineering, and technology as grown men.  With women killing science fiction on television, the current generation of boys won’t have this opportunity to be inspired to work in these fields.  There is still a great deal of written science fiction that is real science fiction, so all is not lost.  However, many boys who would have gone on to make scientific discoveries and invent new technologies will not do so since they will never be inspired by science fiction as boys.”

Statements like that imply women aren’t inspired by science-fiction (news to me and my women friends who are engineers), and that women in science-fiction aren’t inspiring to others.  Guess I shouldn’t have read any of that nasty old Ursula K. LeGuin, Mary Shelley, or Anne McCaffrey.  Ruined me, apparently.  ::eyes rolling::

By the by, who else thinks this guy still lives in his mom’s basement, eating cheese from a can and drinking Mountain Dew while typing his blog posts in a bathrobe?  I agree with John Scalzi when he says that this jackass needs to…

“… STFU and take his ignorant ass back to his snug little wank hole…”

I’ll close while doing as John has suggested – just point and laugh my ever lovin’ ass off.

For When You Care Enough to Only Obsess Over The Best…

Does being gone count as an update?

Doesn’t really mean much since Karen Scott’s blog is down (again) too and she isn’t going anywhere. No really, sorry NCP no breaking out into song yet. Damn woman I can’t keep up, or is it Torquere wanting to drink on your cold, dead blog?

Whatevs.. No worries though until her site is back up you can find her here.

As for the professional writer… Your guess is as good as mine where you can find her. But, golly gee, nice of the hobby blogger to keep in touch – yes? Someone should maybe take notes? Oh is that mean of me?

Lisa Valdez: A Timeline

Hi, sorry about this again folks, we seem to be having the same issues as last time, but needless to say, it won’t happen again.

As soon as I can access the admin site, I’ll be moving elsewhere.

In the mean time, I’m blogging at here.

UPDATE – She’s BAAAAAAACK!  Go visit our friend and compatriot, Karen Scott at her blog, Karen Knows Best.  C’mon.  You know you want to.  Even the person who appears to have too much time on her hands and nothing better to do than cyber-stalk – you know who you are.  Though, perhaps you shouldn’t stop, because you are driving some good traffic for Karen’s site.  So, Never Mind!

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No – this isn’t a review of a Nancy Drew book.  It’s a note from our fellow blogger, Karen Scott, on the state of her site, Karen Knows Best… 

“Hi folks, Karen Scott here, unfortunately, my blog designer is having issues with her hosting company, something to do with overloading the bandwidth, thus they’ve suspended her accounts without any prior warning (how very effing rude?).

She’s trying to get things sorted, but unfortunately the jobsworths that she’s been speaking to aren’t much help.

Anyway, the blog will be back as soon as she kicks them up the arse. Or even better, asks for her money back, and moves elsewhere.

Whatever happened to good customer service? Sheesh.

Thanks for your patience.

Karen Scott”

I’m the key figure in an on-going government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials. It’s a global conspiracy, actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that reaches down into the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet.

So, of course, no one believes me. I’m an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky.

Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling and when it hits it’s gonna be the shit-storm of all time.

Fox Mulder from X-Files, Fight the Future. Go watch it, tis fun. I highly rec it. Story this week is Frank is working on the script for part two. But there is still that lil lawsuit with Chris Carter and FOX.

Or go watch another shit storm… Authors Behaving Badly is so gonna end up a show on FOX.