Comments on: It’s All True http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rheinman http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22606 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:28:46 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22606 I would totally buy that as well. Love the cover.

]]> By: Scott http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22605 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:23:23 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22605 I just want to know why you used an octopus tentacle? Is that the plot of one of the stories? Does a plucky young squid need to save… the guitar? from the loathsome grasp of a wicked octopus overlord?

]]> By: Marc Moskowitz http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22579 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:13:37 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22579 Steven @18 et al.,

My attempt at Ironic Hexameter is at http://cnoocy.livejournal.com/67195.html for your enjoyment.

]]> By: Robert Hutchinson http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22604 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:42:30 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22604 . . .

Squidpunk!

]]> By: Chang, puppy wrangler! http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22603 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:22:44 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22603 Ha!

I know it’s a fake because PEter Watts would have to be on this one if it was for real. The man made his bone son squids!

]]> By: Adelheid http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22580 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:24:57 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22580 I find ionic hexameter a highly polarizing art form. Please, can we have a sample?

]]> By: Chris Sullins http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22578 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:36:28 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22578 Does that mean six ironies per line, evenly spaced? That’s an awfully demanding form. (Perhaps you could use some ironic substitutions, throw in a few garden-variety witticisms and a measure of biting sarcasm.)

]]> By: Tripp http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22581 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:41:27 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22581 Mike @4:

Thank you thank you thank you!

That was amazing. The music, the narration, the plucky little buggers. Just perfect!

]]> By: Unfocused Me http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22582 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:51:58 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22582 Heh. Jewel, Jackie Collins, and John in one book. Double heh.

]]> By: JGS http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/04/01/its-all-true/#comment-22592 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:32:04 +0000 http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=570#comment-22592 I wish this wasn’t an April Fools prank… I’d totally read it.

My wife refuses to eat calamari because she thinks cephalopods are cool. I feel the same way about pigs. That’s right, no bacon.

For maximum pretentiousness though, it really should be “Ode on a Grecian Squid”… I had a (pretty good) high-school English teacher who hated Keats with a passion, mostly based on that poem.

But Dan Simmons seems to like him, so he can’t be all bad. Keats, that is.

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