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From Neil Gaiman's blog

I took the Which SF Writer are You? test at http://paulkienitz.net/skiffy.html -- and was delighted to learn that I am apparently Chip Delany. Who knew?

And apparently the site crashed with too many visitors shortly afterward, which I'm sure is some sort of irony or slashdotting, but I'm not sure what. "Chipped"?

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2005_05_08_archive.asp (via metaquotes)

Also

I'm copyediting ANANSI BOYS at present. This mostly consists of either nodding or of scribbling "Stet" in the margins (meaning "leave it as I wrote it"). Mostly the copyeditor has worked hard to make me look good.

Every now and again, I'll use google to check things. For example a paragraph like,
In Mrs Dunwiddy's house there was pine-scented hard toilet paper. Mrs Dunwiddy believed in economy, and pine-scented hard toilet paper was at the bottom of her economy drive. You could still get hard toilet paper, if you looked long enough and were prepared to pay more for it.

And then I'll wonder whether you can still get hard toilet paper, and find myself reading an article in the Daily Telegraph about the eighteen-year long battle the British Civil Service waged in order to be allowed soft toilet paper, and also establish that, yes, you can get hard toilet paper if you try hard enough.

Chase me ladies, I'm in the cavalry

A friend just told me that her brother was held hostage for 6 months, without at any point realising that he had been kidnapped. He was six years old and they told him it was an adventure holiday in the jungle.

They picked him up outside school, and he got in a mini-bus with some other children. As soon as he got in they asked what animal he wanted to be. "A tiger". "Great. You’re the tiger -raaargh!- and this other boy, he’s the elephant..." He had enormous fun.

It wasn't until he became a teenager that he began to work out what had happened.

And in the comments:

I was a hostage for seven years. At boarding school.
...
*I* went to boarding school but was never hit or buggered. I am beginning to think I was unpopular.

http://chasemeladies.blogspot.com/

Also from metaquotes

From fanficrants a comment by frau_eva in regards to all those Star Wars fan-fictions that have the Mary Sue wanting Darth Vader to take his helmet off, during sex and the fact that Darth Vader was far from really, really ridiculiously good-looking...

Personally I'd like to see a sex scene like this:

Sue: You know I love you, Vader-baby. Let's have passionate love, right here right now! Take off your helmet so I can see your gorgeous face!
Vader: *takes off helmet*
Sue: OH GOD PUT IT BACK ON PUT IT ON JESUS

http://www.livejournal.com/community/metaquotes/3148594.html