tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post601554984193033469..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: Scribbledehobbledehoyden: The Magpie's Eye: Page 161Michael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-48895160882329933402011-08-19T11:41:46.046-07:002011-08-19T11:41:46.046-07:00No hurry on the link, of course, and I was teasing...No hurry on the link, of course, and I was teasing about date of Psycho / how young we were. Impossibly young, really. We didn't think we were at the time, though.<br /><br />Have fun in Reno. One of my fonder memories is sitting at a video poker machine at Harrah's in Atlantic City, herbal cigarette in one hand (it helped combat the ambient second-hand tobacco smoke) and a comped drink in the other, waiting for someone to come refill the machine so the rest of my winnings would clink into the hopper, and wondering how my parents would have reacted if they could have seen me like that ... [laughter] --MarioJJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13404985455733545060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-36155983193324749902011-08-19T08:54:20.971-07:002011-08-19T08:54:20.971-07:00No, I just used that as a convenient example whose...No, I just used that as a convenient example whose spoiler everybody used. Though we WERE godawful young back then.<br /><br />I'm sitting in a casino, mirabile dictu typing on a netbook, so I'll wait until I'm back home to check out the link.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-41527056562142007232011-08-18T12:43:32.907-07:002011-08-18T12:43:32.907-07:00Was Psycho reissued while we were at W&M? Or ...Was <i>Psycho</i> reissued while we were at W&M? Or were we even younger than I remember us? :D<br /><br />Coincidentally, both the mystery fiction lists I'm on are discussing the "Spoilers don't matter" article in <i>Yahoo News</i> (and elsewhere):<br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/spoilers-dont-ruin-stories-films-161123039.html<br /><br />Talk about bad reporting of a probably rather iffy test ...JJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13404985455733545060noreply@blogger.com