JamesSavik

Agent to the Star by John Scalzi I like Scalzi- a lot. I was listening to the audio-book version laughing my ass off. Our hero is a Hollywood agent who gets a very unusual client: a gelatinous alien that smells like dead fish, speaks in smells and name smells like a year old cat box. These aliens, who know humanity by our television, need lots of help with their image so naturally, they went to find a publicist. http://www.amazon.com/Agent-Stars-John-Scalzi/dp/0765357003/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401753146&sr

ROFLMAO She ain't Halie Berry

that last scene is brilliant.

Enjoy it while it lasts. You'll find out how fast you go from the hot twink that everybody wants to buy drinks for to the troll no one notices. That distance is passed very quickly and its very hard to swallow.

Thanks granny!

Before there were LOLcats there was Kliban's Cat Slap-stick! Suspense! Romance!

70s era heart throbs from the movie: Jan Michael Vincent Jackie Earle Haley (later to be Rorchak in the Watchmen) (Yes, yes... when you get our age, lucky to be alive and looking this good you will be)

Wait until they've got a few more hundred million years evolution under their belts.

Oh deer lord...

to catch the really fat rats, you have to use the right cheese

>>Professor Snape We know he's up to something.

All hail our benevolent sovereign, Myr the Magnificent! :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship: :worship:

If you liked that, you're gonna love this... http://www.nationalgeographic.com/k19/radiation_main.html

A primer on southern dialect:

I speak High Southern. In other words i have a southern accent and I sound high.

Stop getting older! I'm not far behind you and I'm not ready yet!

What is it? A rather longish short story... just for fun. You haven't abandoned your other stuff? No. I got stuck on both of them and am writing something fun to get back in the habit. Where is Case: Black? It's happening but I bit off a lot more with that project than I though. I'm having to do some research and some other stuff to keep it real. How about Operation Hammerhead? The next installment of that will be several chapters at once. It's coming to a climax and I don't want to leave my readers hanging too long. Back to Adventureland- It seems to be a real departure from what you've done before. Are you concerned about jumping genres? Not really. I like the freedom to write in any genre that interests or inspires me. To me writing is writing and the same things that go into Sci-fi works in thrillers or mysteries. I think the publishing industry gives people the idea that you can only write in one genre. What they don't tell you is that there are authors who write in several genres at once under different pen-names. What are you doing with Adventureland? We've all seen the work of urban explorers. Some of the creepiest places on the planet are abandoned amusement parks. What better place for suspense, jeopardy for characters and the itch of curiosity that you just must scratch. That's what drives the urban explorers. That curiosity and a desire to connect to the past. Why have you written Tony so dumb? Antonio Sanchez isn't dumb. He's a kid. He is a little younger than his friend Ross and doesn't have his head stuck in the books like Ross does. You'll find out more about them in coming chapters and find that, as friends often do, they have strengths and weaknesses that compliment each other. You're really going to finish this one? Yes. It's not my signature space-opera or a potential global pandemic. I think I can get this one done for early summer. See. I said they were creepy.

i. Ross pulled up the urban explorers’ website and scrolled down to the amusement park tab. Adventureland was first of course. It was the only abandoned amusement park in the region and it started with an “a”. The pictures scrolled across the screen- big and creepy. The once busy amusement park and everything in it had been completely abandoned for years. Tony said, “If it’s just on the other side of Coal Ridge, how come I’ve never heard of it?” “Because it finally shut down in 1992 and we w