Things That Are Ridiculous

[snurri]

1. George W. Bush. Occasionally, as this man worms his way out of office, I have irrational flashes of nostalgia for his slapstick leadership. Like, during the press conference this morning, when he made that little joke about the press "misunderestimating" him. Then I remember that he is not the governor on Benson or the mayor on Spin City, and everything that he has managed to fuck up, and I am angry again.

2. Save the Sea Kittens. I swear PETA was relevant once; or did I imagine that?

3. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror is no more. Seriously, this was the anthology that made me want to write short fiction, and introduced me to a zillion writers. One of my career goals was to get a story into one of those volumes. I can't believe it's going away. (At least Ellen has a deal with Nightshade to do a couple of horror Year's Bests.)

Comments

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

We did misunderestimate him. I mean, we knew he was going to be a bad president, but we had no idea how bad or in what ways.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

So true!

So sad that this is true!

[veejane.livejournal.com]

You know, I am just young enough that for at least half of Benson's run, I thought Benson was the governor. (I have no idea who I thought the clueless white guy was supposed to be.)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Well, he was governor in all but name. Wait, didn't he run for governor later?

. . .

According to Wikipedia, he did.