In Darkness

Female Coworker: “I like appletinis. I think they taste good, have you ever had one?”
Dark Icon: “No. I’m a man.”

Guess you had to be there.

The price of gas is utterly fucking ridiculous.

There’s no other way to say it; and saying it without profanity doesn’t come anywhere CLOSE to describing it.

Utterly. FUCKING. Ridiculous.
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Here it is.

I’m talking fiction. What is your preferred method for obtaining your scifi/horror/fantasy entertainment fix? By “preferred” I mean two things… how would you LIKE to get it, and how do you get it MOST OFTEN (assuming they’re not the same).

Television?
Movies?
Computer Games?
Short stories?
….online or in magazines or anthologies?
Novels?
….online or physical books? How about audiobooks?

For me, it’s television and audiobooks. I haven’t read an actual physical novel in quite a while, but with audiobooks I’ve “read” the entire Dark Tower series from Stephen King, and I’m four books into the “Wheel of Time” from Robert Jordan… all books that I would never have time to read otherwise. In fact, if it weren’t for audiobooks I probably wouldn’t read novels at all… period. I just don’t have the time, and when I DO have time, I fill it with either writing or gaming.

Oddly enough, I read very few short stories, and almost NO fiction on the internet.

How ’bout you?

So I’m in Chicago for a three-week trip (home on weekends, of course).
What’s the FIRST thing I do when I get to the hotel? The VERY first thing?

I leave my wallet in the cab.

That’s just awesome.