There Goes the Neighbourhood

[f4f3]

My best mate in the whole world just got his own lj.

Wit, raconteur, bon viveur and first class wordslinger, yes, even if you are all of these things you still need a friend like

http://billking1959.livejournal.com/

S'Right.

(Well done on that obscure user name, guy),

Comments

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

based on **your** glowing recommendation, I was just about to friend him, then I remembered two things: he's married, and he writes science fiction. Sorry billking!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

So all your friends have to be single and not into SF?

Actually, that's not a bad rule...

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

I am married and into SF...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

And/or female. That's the version of the rule I use, anyway...

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*lol*

Looks like Jo and Frankie were right after all...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Of course they were right - don't you trust their judgment?

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Implicitly...but I was still trying to give you the benefit of a doubt. :)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

"I was still trying to give you the benefit of a doubt."

My favourite scene from Raymond Chandler is a little moment in "The Lady in the Lake" where the mean, psychopathic baddy has Marlowe and a small town sherrif at gunpoint, and is just about to shoot them. the sherrif is described throughout the book as lazy, old, a bit slow. But he also catches Marlowe poking around, and seems to know just about everything that's going on in his town/

Anyway, the baddie (a horrible piece of work, a multiple murderer and a crooked cop who's beat up Marlowe more than once) taunts them by saying that he'll give them a chance, and puts his gun back in its holster - "C'mon old man, try and outdraw me."

The sherrif starts to complain about how Marlowe's put him in this corner, how he's an old man... The baddie goes for his gun and next thing it's flying across the room and the sherrif is shaking his head.

"I've been handling guns more ears than you've been alive, son, you never want to give someone like me a break."

Like he says. You never want to give someone like me a break.

;-)

The Sherrif's experience

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

But you aren't *that* old, are you? ;)

*ducks*

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[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Would I lie to you?

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[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

If it suited you, of course!

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[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Ah, you know me so well...

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[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

I'm perspicacious...I just hide it very well...

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[f4f3.livejournal.com]

...and I'm as transparent as glass, obviously.

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[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd never say that to anybody!

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[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Of course you wouldn't.

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[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*smiles sweetly*

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[f4f3.livejournal.com]

*goes off to buy some wax for use in moustache twirling*

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[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*lol*

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

well noooooo

but married people who are into SF are much less likely to be interested in anything I have to say... (viz nhw, for example)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in what you have to say!

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

Did I know you were into SF?

If you are, you wear it lightly...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Well, last year's world-con was my first con in, er, *mumbles* 15 years, but some of my best friends are SF writers (and not a few of my sworn enemies).

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Do you think he will tell interesting stories about you?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Not if I keep making the payments.

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*sniffs*

Meanie...you just broke my heart! Dashed my hopes to the ground!

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Hell, the boy's a pragmatist. You make him a better offer, and there's not telling what he'll do...

(Why do I keep getting flashbacks to the "New Rose Hotel"? )

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

*g*