29 Comments on “Still Alive”

1. a) post pictures of cats….

   or,

   b) write a novel…..

   purr-ly your option, not meaning to dare to tell you what to do with all your non-traveling time, but you know, “meow”, I mean, “get thee to a keyboard”.

2. I’m thinking zombies. Lots of zombies.

3. Still Alive eh?

   So, This was a triumph?

4. @BFD

   A huge success perhaps?

5. It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.

6. Call up old buddies, of course!

7. I’m not even angry?

8. Scalzi, I say go for waffles.

   As we all learned from The Gamers II: Dorkness Rising, when you work hard, you get waffles.

9. I see you’ve left the bar! *grin*

   –Official Scalzi Bar-Watch 2009 Co-Chair

10. Great to see you at ConFusion!

    Hope Aaron refrains from torturing you for a while.

11. You don’t know what to do with yourself? Well, there is this “High Tower” thingy that might be good.

    Or not. Your loyal fans panting for another book wouldn’t want to pressure you. Besides, it probably wouldn’t work.

12. I find it instructive regarding the demographics of Whatever readership that there are several Jonathan Coulton/Portal references in this thread due its title, but not a single ELO/Xanadu reference regarding the entry immediately preceding it.

13. Were you really expecting one of us to reference an Olivia Newton John movie? That would involve admitting publicly that we’ve seen it. Get real.

14. mmmmmmmmm waffles.

15. Clearly, you should take a vacation.

16. I’m thinking crack out a half a novel nobody’s expecting. Hey, Charlie Stross managed a whole novel in 30 days.

17. Good seeing you at the Con. I was worried you wouldn’t show up after I didn’t see you Friday, but, uh, you did, and now I have both a signed copy of Agent and a copy of Starship Troopers signed by all sorts of people who aren’t Heinlein.

    All in all, it was an excellent con.

    See you at Penguicon.

18. Drunk texting. Loads of fun. Or for you, downing a six-pack of Coke Zero and then texting.

19. Just because it’s an Olivia Newton John movie doesn’t make it a bad thing. Well maybe it does, but still.
    I’ve seen it.
    There I admit it and I’m totally OK with myself.
    Not sure if I would sit through it again but if it was the only thing on at 3:00 AM on an insomniac night, I’d give it a shot. 8D

20. Scalzi @ 12:

    Don’t bring me down, man. Do ya really think ELO fans all over the world hold tight to the machinations, the big wheels, of that sweet talkin’ woman? That stranger?

    Here’s the news: it’s over, man. Whatever strange magic she wove — whatever confusion she piped down our collective telephone lines — well, even ma-ma-ma belle was turned to stone by that evil woman.

    Now… well. Now it’s alright.

    Yours truly,

    2095

21. I saw it. In the theater. First run. Twice.

    I had my reasons.

22. Wow deCadmus, that was really “Out of the Blue” you Mr Blue Sky you. 8D

23. I was an uberfan of ELO when in high school. That was pre-Gackachoo, er, Xylonpoo, er, Xanadu. The whole Xanadu episode, not to mention the album just prior, pretty much killed off my uberfanboy for ELO. All this to get to the point, which is that the reference went sailin’ right over my head.

    Now I may have to burn out my eyes and ears with red-hot pokers to cleanse them of the sight and sound of that video-clip. ::shudders::

24. Glad you made it home all right.

    Thanks for dropping by ConFusion and for all the great conversation.

25. You could always try writing…

26. Romeo @ 13: I rented Xanadu from Netflix. On purpose. And I watched it all the way through. Sober. I may never want to see anyone else rollerskate.

27. Great meeting you at Confusion. ;-)

28. If it were me, I would, 1. Post pictures of cats. 2. Play video games. 3. Read books. 4. Play video games. And so on. I recently had a week off, in which I played many video games, and it was GOOD. Alas I am allergic to cats, so do not have a cat to post pictures of on the web.

29. Oh, I’m sure you’ll find something to do . . .