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KES 33, 34 & 35 [message #51260]

Wed, 08 August 2012 20:20

Robin
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http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2012/08/09/kes-33/

http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2012/08/13/kes-34/

http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2012/08/15/kes-35/

[Updated on: Wed, 15 August 2012 20:05]

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Re: KES 33 [message #51261 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 08 August 2012 20:27

PamAdams
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I looked somewhat queasily down on the van

Let's hope that she can get spelunking equipment at the mall.

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Re: KES 33 [message #51262 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 08 August 2012 20:33

jmeadows
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Mr. W on the stairs? MAYBE? What a creeper! Razz

Smooshes!

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Re: KES 33 [message #51263 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 08 August 2012 20:50

Vikkik
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Okay, now I NEED a t-shirt that says "If I wanted your opinion I would read your entrails!"

This could be a great merchandising opportunity, Robin!!!!

[Updated on: Wed, 08 August 2012 20:51]

Don't worry about the dust bunnies, they're just here to guard the treasure.....

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Re: KES 33 [message #51266 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 08 August 2012 22:42

abigailmm
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I wish I were of a temperament to see a Kes episode, say, "Oh, how nice," and pass it up. Then after a couple of weeks I could read five in succession, gleefully clicking right past the cliffhangers to the next section.

But I'm not.

Drat you, McKinley! You're having way too much fun with this.

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Re: KES 33 [message #51267 is a reply to message #51263 ]

Wed, 08 August 2012 23:17

boddhi_d
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Vikkik wrote:

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Okay, now I NEED a t-shirt that says "If I wanted your opinion I would read your entrails!"

This could be a great merchandising opportunity, Robin!!!

Me, too!! Something with a looming Lovecraftian graphic.

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Re: KES 33 [message #51270 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Thu, 09 August 2012 01:05

danceswithpahis
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I kind of like the Gerbilcon idea. I've got enough geeky friends that would find it amusing, plus enough that would look at me and scratch their heads. It would be great.

"Oh good! My dog found the chainsaw!"

-- Lilo ("Lilo and Stitch")

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Re: KES 33 [message #51271 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Thu, 09 August 2012 04:58

Susan in Melbourne
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GERBILCON 2008—the latter mildly infamous in the small world of SF&F cons for the official con mascot having got loose in the convention hall during my Guest of Honor speech. It was hard for both me and the audience to keep their minds on what I was saying while we were all breathlessly attending to the little ripple of reaction marking Ozzy’s progress around the room.

Peter's ferret story!!
http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2008/12/28/peters-ferret-story /

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Re: KES 33 [message #51272 is a reply to message #51270 ]

Thu, 09 August 2012 05:34

Catherine
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The t-shirts made me laugh, too. I hope Mr W isn't about to bring in divorce doom, Kes doesn't need that. She needs to sit in front of the fire with a nice cup tea and the SWD and think life is good.

So these were my reactions to the end:

I was still sitting there staring at my phone (it was after office hours: I didn’t have to do anything until tomorrow) when the porch steps creaked. I looked up. I’d left the door open. A dark shadowy figure . . .

Eeeeeeep!

tripped over the top step, swore, staggered forward and grabbed the doorframe.

That's okay then, axe murderers don't trip.

What does that say about my brain? No, I don't want to know, actually.

Cath

PS-Peter's ferret story, cue suppressed laughter because I am at work. But, somehow, that's exactly the sort of story I'd expect. Not that it's any less entertaining for that.

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Re: KES 33 [message #51274 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Thu, 09 August 2012 07:00

Katsheare
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Okay, thirty seconds to freak out. It wasn’t like I wanted to keep the van. But losing it—get a grip, MacFarquhar: you don’t lose a rental vehicle unless you drive it into the lake or something: you rent it and then you stop renting it—but losing it, um, coming to the end of my rental and having it go away, was breaking one more link with my old life. I’d had that life for nearly twenty years.

For some reason this part of the story really hit me. It actually phwoomped down on me in ep 32, but I couldn't figure out the words...

I can't imagine having a consistent type of life for 20 years (I could full stop there, since my life has massively changed tracks every 3-5 years for almost the last two decades) that was suddenly and without any say-so from me gone. Impossible. No longer any breed of option anywhere. And I sort of think that getting the Lovecraftian Utopia makes up for it, but... Somehow the story hadn't felt dark (or really, really REAL) to me until I had that flash.

I hope you're enjoying this new way of storytelling, McKinley. Because damn. Just DAMN.

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Re: KES 33 [message #51275 is a reply to message #51274 ]

Thu, 09 August 2012 07:18

Catherine
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Katsheare, I kind of get what you mean, I've had a few nothing-is-going-to-be-the-same-again moments in my life and they've all involved gibbering as a first reaction and then pulling myself together and making a new, better life as a second. But when you're aware of stepping over the line of that moment it hits you even more--that moment where you know following through means no going back (even if there wasn't much to go back to). Like you I've had it happen in smaller chunks, but I can imagine the feeling of it after twenty years would be multiplied. Exponentially. Yikes.

Katsheare wrote on Thu, 09 August 2012 12:00

I hope you're enjoying this new way of storytelling, McKinley. Because damn. Just DAMN.

And yes, seconded!

Cath

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Re: KES 33 [message #51276 is a reply to message #51263 ]

Thu, 09 August 2012 11:13

EMoon
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I've seen that T-shirt at larger SF conventions! Don't remember who the dealer was, though. If I see it again in a few weeks (going to WorldCon in Chicago) I'll grab a card from the dealer and post it here for those who want one.

Never saw a loose gerbil, though.

Loved KES33, as I have all the KESes. Esp. the shock of breaking that last tie with "before" and the reluctance to check phone messages when there is a worst to fear.

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Thu, 09 August 2012 11:37

PamAdams
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I've actually got the 'Entrails' T-shirt. We do need 'GerbilCon 2008' shirts, though......

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Re: KES 33 [message #51284 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Fri, 10 August 2012 08:28

Mockorange
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I feel that Merry is sure to work out for Kes, but I'm rather worried about what Mr W is ringing for.

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Fri, 10 August 2012 13:14

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Susan in Melbourne wrote on Thu, 09 August 2012 09:58

Peter's ferret story!!

Thank you, Susan. I'd forgotten that one so have just had the pleasure of reading it all over again. Smile

Have got to get the 'entrails' T-shirt. Can just imagine my colleagues' faces if I turn up at an advisory meeting in that! Very Happy

_{"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."}

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Re: KES 33, 34 [message #51318 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Sun, 12 August 2012 21:19

librarykat
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I really needed a new episode of Kes tonight. And there it is! Yay!

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Re: KES 33, 34 [message #51322 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Mon, 13 August 2012 05:07

Catherine
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See, I knew anyone who tripped over a step wouldn't be dangerous.

“I think I’m going to try to sleep out there tomorrow. Get on with my new life and everything.”

Yes, Kes, that's exactly what you should do, even if you do wind up camping in the kitchen for a bit. Be adopted by Serena, and everyone who has adopted her, it's all good (except, maybe, for Mr W's tentacles, but ignore those for now).

Cath

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Re: KES 33, 34 [message #51328 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Mon, 13 August 2012 22:31

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Once again, I was having a crummy day and Kes cheered me up! I'm looking forward to the discussion of grand opera and Latin declensions.... having forgotten most of my Latin and being an opera singer in training myself Wink

Also, I saw a bumper sticker today which made me chortle and which I thought you would appreciate: "Cthulhu for President. Why settle for the lesser evil?" Very Happy

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Re: KES 33, 34 [message #51329 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Tue, 14 August 2012 00:01

Kathy_S
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Hurrah, more Kes!

I'm not sure why I expect the Silent Wonder Dog every time there's a mysterious disturbance. Especially given there's every possibility s/he's silent! But I do like Serena. Very Happy

(Was the 'ille' in the Horace one of her efforts at forgetting? lol)

[edited to add missing ")"]

[Updated on: Tue, 14 August 2012 00:03]

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Re: KES 33, 34 [message #51351 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 15 August 2012 09:10

Mockorange
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I'm taking to Serena in a big way. I don't know if she's entirely motivated by general kindheartedness to strangers in distress, or whether she perhaps is a little bit lonely herself and would like a friend with some of her own outlook on life. Either way, I think she and Kes are clearly going to be good for each other.

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Re: KES 33, 34 & 35 [message #51356 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 15 August 2012 20:29

anne_d
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Yay, more Kes! I really am enjoying this. I enjoy all your blog posts, but another in the great Kes serial is always a treat.

Was the Really Baaaaaaad Books video incident by any chance based on real life? I'm getting horrible mental flashes of one of your heroines in a chainmail bikini as not described in any of your books. Bad Anne! Bad brain!

“Buffy never wore pink spandex or stilettos,” I said.

I vaguely recall some, um, unfortunate pink leather pants, though...

And I do love Serena.

"The creative urge can come out in any form: in embroidery, in... cooking, in painting, drawing and sculpture, in composing music, as well as in writing books and stories... the artist's inner satisfaction was probably much the same." ~ Agatha Christie

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Re: KES 33, 34 & 35 [message #51357 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 15 August 2012 21:25

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Seren's commentary on what Gus is doing. Oh man.

Smooshes!

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Re: KES 33, 34 & 35 [message #51358 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 15 August 2012 22:12

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Quote:

. It needs a little rehabilitation before we find out how much of it is lawn.

I LOVE this landscape. I want to move right in and help her find out what's there.

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Re: KES 33, 34 & 35 [message #51360 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Wed, 15 August 2012 22:54

glanalaw
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Wow. Gus is basically my little brother (minus the earring, and minus the long shaggy hair now that he's a Marine, but he had it as a teenager.) I remember many of those "I DID remember to turn on the oven!" moments...

Also Serena is awesome. She's going to be good for Kes, I think.

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Re: KES 33, 34 & 35 [message #51361 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Thu, 16 August 2012 00:03

EMoon
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You cannot have known how much I needed a Kes segment tonight. Lost a friend today.

Love Gus already...of course he was doing something upstairs and forgot to put whatever in the oven.

I used to read or write when I got home from school, and calculate to the exact second I needed to leap up, race into the kitchen, wash the breakfast dishes, get the crumbs off the tablecloth, and turn the water on for coffee for my mother when she got home from work. Some days I was a tad late, and I hadn't dried the sink by the time she walked in. She never said anything. (Dogs and cats were fed the moment I got home, so as to have more time to read.)

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Re: KES 33, 34 & 35 [message #51362 is a reply to message #51357 ]

Thu, 16 August 2012 00:30

librarykat
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jmeadows wrote on Wed, 15 August 2012 20:25

Seren's commentary on what Gus is doing. Oh man.

Having a teenage son, I can relate. Had to giggle at Serena's commentary. ^_^

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Re: KES 33, 34 & 35 [message #51363 is a reply to message #51260 ]

Thu, 16 August 2012 05:26

Catherine
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I like Gus, and it seems like he and Serena have a really good relationship, which I also like. And, judging by all the comments, I get the sense I'm not the only one who wouldn't object to having Serena for a friend myself. Can't wait to see Gus get to grips with the garden/lawn, I think he and Kes will enjoy that (although Kes's level of enjoyment may be relative!)

Cath

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