When I Have Nothing to Say, My Lips Are Sealed

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1. ytimynona says:
   February 15, 2009 at 11:57 am

   Good Sunday indeed. I got to play handbells for the prelude, the sermon was short, the anthems were awesome (They had percussion!), and then, to top it all off, church got out early!!! Yup, good Sunday =)
2. Chris says:
   February 15, 2009 at 12:00 pm

   Are you sick? Contagious? Anything exotic like the Black Death or Whooping Cough?
3. Romeo Vitelli says:
   February 15, 2009 at 12:41 pm

   What is this “real life” thing of which you speak? Is there a website where I can learn more about it?
4. mythago says:
   February 15, 2009 at 1:43 pm

   So are they sealed in the Go-Gos sense or in the later, Everclear-cover sense?
5. Karen says:
   February 15, 2009 at 1:50 pm

   No, they’re sealed in the Talking Heads sense, ironically enough.
6. Fathercrow says:
   February 15, 2009 at 2:13 pm

   “Real Life” A Movie Coming To A Theatre Near You!
   Starring A Super-Mega-Intelligent Penguin, A Flying Boat and A Herd of Talking Cats (who don’t mind a bit of mild torture). And introducing John Scalzi cleaning his yard of debris after that big wind storm that blew by.
7. Jonathan Vos Post says:
   February 15, 2009 at 6:13 pm

   As Wittgenstein himself wrote: “The right method of philosophy would be this: To say nothing except what can be said” [proposition 6.53].

   Well, duh!
8. Deron says:
   February 15, 2009 at 6:22 pm

   And here I thought we were getting a “Psycho Killer” post. For a fun-filled Sunday, try watching all 8 gazillion cover versions of this song on YouTube. Good times.
9. DG Lewis says:
   February 15, 2009 at 7:42 pm

   It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
   — A. Lincoln
10. Fathercrow says:
    February 15, 2009 at 9:21 pm

    By rights of Conformity to Scalzian Reality, I can’t write into the “10 Things…” thread and so must venture to ask here for a similar article concerning “Adult Writers”. What advice would you give them? I’m sure they suck too, and want to know how to un-suck themselves. Or is it the same advice, just with the word “Adult” pasted in?
11. John Scalzi says:
    February 15, 2009 at 9:32 pm

    Yes, but also by rights to conformity to my reality, a comment thread is also nominally supposed stay on topic, so you’re blowing it there, too.

    Nevertheless here’s my writing advice for grownups.
12. Dragnew says:
    February 15, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    I go and see David Byrne in concert and, next thing I know, Scalzi is quoting him on the Whatever. Hmm, I suspect someone is throwing meaningless coincidences my way, in the vague hope of making my head explode.
13. Paul Estin says:
    February 15, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    Boskone just wasn’t the same without you. (And with Brother Guy AWOL as well, panels just weren’t as much fun.) Any chance you’ll be back at Boskone next year?
14. John Scalzi says:
    February 15, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    I love Boskone, so you can assume I’ll find my way back there, yes.
15. Fathercrow says:
    February 16, 2009 at 3:17 am

    Ah, now must I wear the cured belly of a swine carcass to atone for my sins? Or is that honor reservered for only vetted Scalzian worshippers?
16. Trey says:
    February 16, 2009 at 10:05 am

    Say something once, why say it again?

    Ever notice how Psycho Killer and “T.N.T.” are so similarthematically and musically? They are even both in the key of A, although Psycho Killer is in the minor. I figure one is the nerd version of the other.

    Trey
17. Jessie says:
    June 15, 2009 at 9:05 am

    Totally sound stuff, that.
    Something I need to learn, as I often make noise just so I’m heard, not because I actually have anything to say. Why make people think bad of you, instead of waiting till you have something really good? Yep, I could learn from that. I CAN learn from that.

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