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Quirkykitten
04/08/09

In reply to Escape!
Ah escapism, my old friend.

I spend my time listening to Jimmy Buffett and wishing I was wasting away in Margaritaville when in fact I'm usually just wasted on megaritas.

Close enough, right?
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happysquid
04/08/09

@Quirkykitten: As long as you're not listening to Coconut Pete and wishing you were in Pina-Coladaburg.
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Trashtastic
04/08/09

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See also: Facebook game apps; I'm looking at you Sorority Life.
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denna
04/08/09

@Trashtastic: I'm addicted to Farm Town.
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Trashtastic
04/08/09

@denna: Don't tell me! I don't wanna know!
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
04/08/09

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Does this mean I have to start reading those terrible Star Wars spin-off novels again? Because let me tell you, once they killed Chewbacca I swore off them and I can't go back now.
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merv
04/08/09

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Also hot right now: the cupcake market!
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tomatoheart
04/08/09

@mervbaby:
God I love cupcakes. or cuppycakes. or anything with frosting.

I drive 20 minutes just to get these from a place called Crave

They are strawberry and they are the most delicious things i have ever put in my mouth

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raineoffire
04/08/09

@mervbaby: Can we somehow combine cupcakes with vampires? I feel like there's money to be made here.
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happysquid
04/08/09

@tomatoheart: Those look like Sprinkles Red velvet cupcakes to me.

Not that, you know, i'm a secret cupcake fiend or anything.
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merv
04/08/09

@raineoffire: i've seen those before! they look like a cupcake that's been bitten into with fangs, dripping with red goo. my nerdy-ness growing increasingly difficult to hide.
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megnificent
04/08/09

@tomatoheart: Those cupcakes confuse me. I now have an inexplicable urge to be nursed.
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Eric Northman is mine
04/08/09

In reply to Escape!
Have you seen the Amazon best seller list- The top selling books are Twilight, Sookie Stackhouse mystery series, The Watchmen, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies etc. Why worry about getting laid off/patying your mortgage when you can escape to a world to hot supernatural sex.
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Trashtastic
04/08/09

@Sookie Stackhouse: The Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward. Trust your sister on this one.
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megnificent
04/08/09

@Trashtastic: I am STILL pissed about the decision to put it out in hardcover. I'm not shelling out $25 bucks for it, I'm not *that* interested in barbed phalli.
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Trashtastic
04/08/09

@megnificent: Meh,I'm not that interested in Rehvenge's story.
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megnificent
04/08/09

@Trashtastic: I'll chehck ouht the hhardcover, bhut I wohn't bhuy it uhntil it's in papherbhack.
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Jello Mix
04/08/09

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I escape to Dokapon Kingdom, where money flows like water, fish are deadlier than bandits, you draw on people's faces if they piss you off, sharks are considered a hairstyle, and alien abductions make you stronger.
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megnificent
04/08/09

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As much as I loathe some of them (cough *meyer* cough), vampires, werewolves, and their ilk are keeping us in business. The only Serious Important Literary fiction we're selling is on a buy 2 get 1 free table.
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inabook
04/08/09

@megnificent: I buy all my Serious Important Literary fiction at used bookstores. But, I also don't buy any fantasy stuff anymore.
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pandorasmittens
04/08/09

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That's because all of our current problems can be solved through the actualization of sci-fi and fantasies:

Depression=soma

Carbon emissions=transporter

Poverty=replicator

Republicans=destruction of the One Ring
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Jack_Burton
04/08/09

@pandorasmittens:

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happysquid
04/08/09

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It's always Time for Romance...

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Jack_Burton
04/08/09

@happysquid:

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happysquid
04/08/09

@Jack_Burton: that's hot.
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YourScreenplaySucks
04/08/09

In reply to Escape!
No argument here. I'm having a long day and a couple of throbbing Pirate members & heaving breasts would probably go a long way towards improving my afternoon.
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Whiskey and Popcorn
04/08/09

In reply to Escape!
Oh hai people- SLEEP! Cheap, easy, unlimited, awesome. Good times.
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inabook
04/08/09

@JanicefromSA: Whiskey and popcorn: but escapism is like dream you pick, as opposed to dreams where you fail out of law school.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
04/08/09

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This is how I will attempt to sell my romance novel. "The people want to read my stupid novel! It's better than shooting yourself in the face. Not much, but some!"
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megnificent
04/08/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Reading doesn't get brain matter all over the walls.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
04/08/09

@megnificent: Not when you do it right!

--The More You Know (TM)
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Trashtastic
04/08/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Lets have the premise. Are the zombies???
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megnificent
04/08/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Depends on the book. Some may make your head asplode from the awesomeness.

I totally want to read your book, btw. I am a romance junkie and unashamed to own it.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
04/08/09

@megnificent: I will make a note and add that to my agent queries. "Also, Megnificent totes wants to read my book. So, like, it'll be a bestseller fer sure!!"
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
04/08/09

@Trashtastic: Zobies are about the only thing my book doesn't have.

PS I might have to throw one in. Yes, it's that kind of book.
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megnificent
04/08/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Who said anything about buying it? I could just be a cheap bitch and wait for the 90 day mark to pass, strip it, and read it for free! ;-P
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Trashtastic
04/08/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Hot sweaty zombie sex. Plz.
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morninggloria
04/08/09

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I've been escaping by searching Youtube for recut movie trailers. Like the one that puts clips from "The Shining" over a Peter Gabriel song and makes it look like a feel-good movie about one man's self-discovery. Or the one that makes Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments look like a high school comedy circa 1998. I found a hilarious one yesterday called "David Lynch's A Goofy Movie" that caused me to nearly cramp my abdominals from laughter.
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happysquid
04/08/09

@morninggloria: OH I LOVE THOSE! "10 Things I have about Commandments~"

My personal fave is this one though:

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maneki neko
04/08/09

@morninggloria: I LOVE those. Have you seen "When Harry Met Sally" as a horror film?
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Janie Jones
04/08/09

@morninggloria: My personal favorite: Taxi Driver as a comedy!
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raineoffire
04/08/09

@happysquid: This might be my favorite.
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happysquid
04/08/09

@raineoffire: I actually think that's really creepy... killer nannies = terrifying
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taranwanderer
04/08/09

@everyone: I've never seen these before but I think this is the coolest thing since otter pops!! I've been watching the different trailers at my desk and laughing maniacally. I think my office now thinks I'm crazy. AMAZING.
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Santos L Halper
04/08/09

In reply to Escape!
Escapism? Haven't we all wandered out of our houses, confused,clad in loincloths and carrying light sabers, only to pass out in the forest? Don't the tiny aliens that live next door regularly try to laser your heart from you chest? This is reality, my friends.
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morninggloria
04/08/09

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... because imagination is free!!!!11!!!
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
04/08/09

@morninggloria: But Vicodin, sadly, is not.
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Trashtastic
04/08/09

@morninggloria: And so are orgasms. Huzzah!
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superconnected (is it time to leave?)
04/08/09

@morninggloria:

But ~*~collectible items~*~ are not. Escapism in a recession makes sense, although I'm not sure people will be able to as easily justify purchasing nerd fandom treasures that so often accompany the escapism.
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