I hear and obey! (Part 3: Citizens on Patrol.)

[sigerson]

Things I’ve done in the last year that I never expected to:
This is very tough! Does it have to be things I actively expected *not* to do, or just stuff that never crossed my mind before?
1. Kept my D&D game running for…what, three years now?
2. Played roulette in Atlantic City.
3. Thought about wedding planning. I had thought that someday I might get married, but I had never actually expected to plan something. (Bridesmaids! Find me paisley muumuus!)
4. Spent a year without going home. I think it has been a whole year since I’ve seen Portland.
5. Written up my experiences at two Samhain circles and published it online.



Things everyone should know about Jigglypuff:
1. Jigglypuff is a Balloon Pokemon.
2. Jigglypuff wishes to be called Puff Jiggly, or Puffy J. to reflect her new image.
3. Jigglypuff has no internal organs, only a kind of pinkish foam.
4. Jigglypuff’s song is the only thing that can lull Karl Rove to sleep and keep the nightmares away. She has been withholding this ever since the Abu Ghraib scandal, and it’s starting to show.
5. Jigglypuff is the only known entity that can kick Chuck Norris’ ass, and does so frequently.



Body parts:
I’m going to be non-TMI and only list my own.
1. My hands. It terrified me when I thought I was getting carpal tunnel. I need these hands.
2. Trapezius muscles: the perfect stress-o-meter. Am I more upset than I thought? Check the shoulders!
3. Neck and upper chest. I like looking like a cameo.
4. Naughty bits, because I ******* and ********* and then ************* ** ******* *******. That includes the ********** *** ***********.
5. Spleen, because it’s so much fun to say. Spleeeeeeen.



Alternate histories:
1. Last Call’s Fisher King in Las Vegas, and its attendant (but not really trilogy) books Expiration Date and Earthquake Weather.
2. The Deadlands history, with California falling into the sea and the hideous stalemate of the Civil War—that’s a good one.
3. Umberto Eco’s Baudolino, though it’s more a set of Prester John stories than an alternate history.
4. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Not the abysmal movie, but the comics.
5. Any history that explains the Great Hiatus.

Comments

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Whenever we play Super Smash Brothers, I am totally Jigglypuff.

[2h2o.livejournal.com]

Last Call’s Fisher King in Las Vegas
I hadn't thought of this as an alternate history, but only as an esoteric bit of the "real" world. But it is beautifully done.

Any history that explains the Great Hiatus.
I am ignorant. Fill me with norant.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Time spent between April 1891 and April 1894 by Mr. S. Holmes, sometime alias "a Norwegian named Sigerson." Theories range from the mundane (traveled in Tibet, dabbled in a bit of Indian intrigue) to the romantic (fathered a child on Mme. Irene Norton, nee' Adler, while playing in the Paris Opera) to the supernatural (he truly was dead, and later "Holmes" was an astral-tantric projection). All of these are "alternates" to the official version Mr. Holmes asserts in The Adventure of the Empty House, and thus certainly qualify as alternate histories.

[2h2o.livejournal.com]

I got even more than I expected out of that. Thanks.

[thastygliax.livejournal.com]

The alt-hist thing makes me even more curious about whether you read Pyramid, because I'm sure you would be a huge fan of Kenneth Hite's "Suppressed Transmission" column--alternate history, horror, high weirdness...all kinds of things I know you groove to.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I do not read Pyramid, though you are not the first to suggest it. Perhaps I shall take it up in the coming year.

[thastygliax.livejournal.com]

OK, but let me know if you ever do. I seem to be about the only one in my local circle of friends that does subscribe to it--which is often a bit frustrating when I see something there that I think they'd find pretty cool, but I can't just post a link to it.

I'm probably also not the first to suggest that if you ever wanted to try to get some of the stuff you're written for Toon published, Pyramid would be a logical market for it. But just in case I am, I shall throw temptation in your path...