The Gradual Interview

Post by **wayfriend** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:20 pm

Today the SRD official site yielded this:

FORBIDDEN:
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Just in case anyone else is seeing the same thing and wondering.

Post by **danlo** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:05 pm

works fine for me...

Post by **wayfriend** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:29 pm

It's back. Romeo must have swiped his credit card.

Post by **wayfriend** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:30 pm

Don straightens out Mr. D:

In the Gradual Interview was wrote:dlbpharmd (Don): "I appear to have no "literary groupies"."

Hey, wait just a minute here....whattaya mean, "no literary groupies?" As a proud member of KevinsWatch, I ask you - what are we? Chopped liver? We buy all of your books and even buy the audio versions, we analyze your writing down to the most minute detail, we kill more time talking about your work than we do working at our jobs! I think that qualifies us a groupies! What do you expect? Do you want a throng of rabid fans to wait at the door to try to rip your clothes off? I'm sure we can find people to do that, and that's not even talking about the women of the Watch! And no one's waiting for you to throw your underwear at us, because we all know it would just end up on eBay like your ARCs have. So I say, be grateful for what you have
!You are not the first to correct me on this point. Perhaps I mis-stated the facts: when I wrote "groupies," I should have instead written "gropies".

(09/10/2008)

Post by **aliantha** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:48 pm

Post by **danlo** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:10 pm

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:15 pm

Geez dlb! You totally forgot to mention the fact that FBH spent over FIVE YEARS dedicating time, energy, creativity, money and love to making a parody show of one of his books. What am I, chopped liver????

Post by **wayfriend** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:35 pm

Dead on, Cameraman Jenn! .... And, based on what I saw going on in that bed, SRD does too have gropies!

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:00 pm

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:29 pm

And if you watched episodes 39 and 40 of FBH you would know by his own admission that he spent the night in bed with two girls...

Post by **Zarathustra** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 4:50 am

Hey, I just noticed he answered my question, too! (God, I'm such a groupie.)

Seriously, Jenn, that 5 years commitment is astounding. You got totally shafted by dlb's post

. . . Wait a minute, you got thanked personally in SRD's latest published work. You arrogant punk. (Burger King commercial reference that doesn't even really make sense in this context.

)

Anyway, my GI question didn't really reveal anything new. Sorry to let you all down. I tried.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:58 pm

wayfriend wrote:Dead on, Cameraman Jenn! .... And, based on what I saw going on in that bed, SRD does too have gropies!

Gropies.....

I like that term better than "groupies."

I wish I had gropies.

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:43 pm

Cagliostro wrote:
wayfriend wrote:Dead on, Cameraman Jenn! .... And, based on what I saw going on in that bed, SRD does too have gropies!
Gropies.....

I like that term better than "groupies."

I wish I had gropies.

Carla doesn't qualify??

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:03 pm

What about CovJr, Cag? Isn't he one of your gropies?

Post by **aliantha** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:19 pm

Meh. I don't think looky-loos count, Jen.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:33 pm

aliantha wrote:
Cagliostro wrote: I wish I had gropies.
Carla doesn't qualify??

She does, but it is a plural term.

Cameraman Jenn wrote:What about CovJr, Cag? Isn't he one of your gropies?

I wish!

Post by **danlo** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:56 am

dogs, my greatest friends, but dogs...

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 10:54 pm

Mark: Do you plan to include any Haruchi women in the last 2 books?

Thanks!!

OK, you got me. I am completely bumfuzzled by the sheer perseverance of this recurring question. Why in, well, Someone’s Holy Name (at the moment, I can’t think whom to invoke) do you care? Apparently a number of people do (although the GI as posted probably doesn’t reflect that fact). But I can’t imagine why.

And since I can’t imagine why….

However, please feel free to speculate as much as you want. Broadly speaking, it seems that “warrior cultures” conform to one of two basic paradigms: 1) the women are warriors as well, indistinguishable in that regard from the men (although they may serve different functions in combat), or 2) the woman are rewards, and as such, their lives have very few features in common with the men. Anyone want to guess which paradigm the Haruchai are more likely to prefer?

(10/19/2008)

Post by **Relayer** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 11:25 pm

Hmmm. Klingons or Samurai?

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:06 am

Fabulous.

Maybe Linden could heal them, tho....

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