Okay, this subject can be all about promoting the things you like best, preferably if you have nothing to gain by promoting them. Just fill in the fields you want to, and add some of your own, if you wish.

Books:
Yoss - Odo Hirsch
Anything by Matthew Reilly
The Mennyms - Sylvia Waugh
The Key to the Lost Kingdom - ??? (This book was also published as Looking for Ilriand, does anyone know the author?)

TV Shows:
Futurama
Daria
Just Shoot Me!
Junkyard Wars (US, they don't show us the UK ones)

Websites:
I can't think of any! Maybe I'll post some more later.

Computer Games:
GTA: Vice City
Bubble Ice
The Sims



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

Stargate SG-1
Elizabeth Peters (Author)

MY website!
[www.geocities.com]

I'll think of some more later.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Web cartoons: Sluggy Freelance, Shlock Mercenary, Ozy & Millie.

Big Bands: Duke Ellington's Orchestra, Artie Shaw's Orchestra.

Tex-Mex restaurants in Worthing (just in case any of you ever happen to be looking for one...) : Montague's.

re Tex-Mex restaurants: I'll keep that in mind in case we're get hungry when passing through Worthing on our vacations

Books: Secret History by Donna Tartt, the stuff I already put on the list in the help from the fforumites-Thread, Bloodsucking fiends and The Lustlizard of Melancholy Grove by Christopher Moore and and and, too many too mention

Websites: No use mentioning them here, most of them are German

Computer Games: I rarely play, but if, stuff like Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Discworld

Pets apart from Cats: Rats (no rhyme whatsoever intended)



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Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

(N. Chomsky 1957)

Books:
Darksong - Isobelle Carmody
Mirror Wakes - Catherine Webb
Anything and everything TP
The Superior Person's Book of Words - ?

TV Shows:
Scrubs
The Simpsons
Shortland St
Liked Robot Wars when in UK for a bit

Websites:
[url] www.orisinal.com [/url] quite a cute little games website
[url] [www.sjsu.edu] [/url] -
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Awards!

Computer Games:
Don't have any :'( [probably for the best though]

ILS



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

Only just noticed that there is a category at The BLFP website headed, the Great Panjandrum's Special Prize! :D

ILS

P.S Vi, I am so jealous! We don't have the Discworld games here! *grumbles and stomps off*



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"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

Sarah - How wonderful to find another Elizabeth Peters fan!

Have you read her Barbara Michaels books as well?

Tracy - no, I haven't. I keep meaning to, but things like 'You must read A Brief History of Time - you said you had on your application form!' get in the way. I will do though, they look good.

In your opinion - Ramses and Nefret. Good idea or not?



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Hmmm. I liked the idea in the beginning. But honestly is there really anyone worthy of him? I suppose she is a good choice but I liked her better before they married.

If you would like, I can send you a few of the Michaels books. I've read and still have most of them.

She gets a bit too girly, doesn't she?

Do you happen to know if there's going to be another Peabody after this one? Just wondering.

AS for the Micheals, yes please, but not right now. I'll only be tempted to read them when I'm supposed to be working...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

What was the last one you read, Children of the Storm? The next one should be out here in April. Have you been to her website to get the newsletter? It's www.mpmbooks.com

Email me your post address and I'll send them whenever you want.

I have the Bulwer-Lytton site bookmarked too. I love going to read all the terrible published stuff that people submit.

The 2002 results are great too, Skiffle. Particularly some of the ones in the Kids section:

"Oh dear, Mr. Hippity Hop the Bunny is late, and if he does not arrive soon, we shan't be able to hold a birthday party for Good Old Busy Beaver before it is time for me to leave the Fluffy Forrest, which shall be most disappointing indeed," said Susan, because she was completely smashed on the narcotics she had purchased in the alleyway behind the club from a foul-smelling yet reputable dealer called "Skullz."

Nicolas Juzda
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

ILS



"What I need is a strong drink and a peer-group." -Ford Prefect

The Band.

Check 'em out...



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Books:
The Bottoms- Joe Lansdale
Ender's Game- Orson Scott Card
Outlander- Diana Gabaldon
The Eight- Katherine Neville
Robin Hobb, Janet Evanovich, Lynn Flewelling

TV Shows:
Stargate SG-1
Gilmore Girls
Trading Spaces

TV Shows on DVD:
X-Files

Music:
Grant Lee PHillips/ Grant Lee Buffalo
Pernice Brothers
(Both new discoveries and I'm wearing out the discs)

Music:
Godspeed you! Black Emperor
Dirty Three
16 Horsepower

Carla, I take it you're a fan of the "sonic landscape" sound then, heh.

Kudos for getting the exclamation mark! in the right place (Godspeed You Black Emperor! changed their name to Godspeed You! Black Emperor a while back; don't ask...) - have you also heard The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band, started by GSYBE guitarist Efrim in honour of his dog that was dying of cancer? Excellent stuff...

No-one else seems to have been plugging much non-fiction, so I hereby plug anything by Douglas Hofstadter (cognitive science and related topics); Steven Pinker (linguistics, and more recently cognitive science and moral philosophy); Stephen Hawking (come on, you know him, don't you? - oh, all right, then, cosmology and physics); and Ian Stewart, with or without Jack Cohen (mathematics and biology).

yep, got the new album for free the other day but still haven't had time to listen to it...
Went to Amsterdam last year to see GY!BE at the Paradiso, quite good.

The Eels. Don't ask, just go and buy their entire back catalogue. Stripped down songs about love and eath that somehow managed to be uplifting. Imagine the anti-Coldplay, if you will. The latest album has a song about stalking, "Restraining Order Blues", that manages to touch the heartstrings.



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