the Atomic Messiah's miracle

[essentialsaltes]

citizenbrown had a little shindig last night to celebrate the miraculous non-brokenness of his leg. What further proof is needed that the Atomic Messiah can rearrange atoms to suit his needs, and transmit salvation?

In any event, many friends were about for conviviality and conversation. Important news and revelations vied with less serious conversations, such as determining the best proxy for sex among the activities that earn one points in weight watchers: squat thrusts or wrestling?
graydons amused all with his profound ignorance of fantasy literature. Not only did he defend later Amber novels, and expose his ignorance of Leiber and Moorcock, but he seemed to be under the impression that sword and sorcery originated roughly at the same time as his own mayfly-like existence. He uttered something like: "I mostly read Dragonlance. I had no idea sword and sorcery existed in the 1930s."

I'm very sorry, Richard. Please drink some rum to dull the pain. Rest assured I heaped scorn upon him. I am not a violent man, but I think flame shot out of my eyes as I shouted 'Conan!?!?!' at him.

And since I mentioned it at the time, I like a lot of Zelazny's short stories better than his novels. So seek out his collections, particularly Last Defender of Camelot.

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[richardabecker.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as nice as the chainmail bikini looks in all those pinup drawings and photos, forget Red Sonja. She's not in the stories and is 99.999% apocryphal. Howard's actual warrior women of the Hyborian Age include Valeria the thief and Belit the pirate queen. Conan does tend to spend a lot of his time with sexy bimbos in the stories, but he also tends to piss away his money on sprees, get drunk and hang out in sleazy taverns, and do a lot of irresponsible nonsense before he finally gets ambitious.

And despite the many artists that depict him in the classic loincloth and helmet garb, pay attention to all the times in the stories that Howard has Conan put on armor and use a shield -- he's incredibly tough and deadly, but he's not actually stupid...