So that's WTF was wrong with 2004

[cpolk]

In the year 2005 I resolve to: Drink more beer. Get your resolution here

[23:58] matociquala: This is a surfacy and ridiculous book.
[23:58] katallen: yay
[23:58] matociquala: No deep social issues here
[23:58]cristalia: My antags look like they make it up, and somehow were coherent without me noticing all along.
[23:58] cpolk: well okay.
[23:58]cristalia: I appreciate them. :)
[23:58] matociquala: Just masturbatory spy loff
[23:58] cpolk: but it's a magical character book.
[23:58] matociquala: and elvis!
[23:59] sosostris2012: elvis!
[23:59] katallen: it has meaning!
[23:59] cpolk: i will babble theme at you when I'm doen reading it.
[23:59] matociquala: *g*
[23:59] katallen: one minute
[23:59] matociquala: Explain to me why all the characters are dead, Chelsea.
[00:00]cristalia: Chelsea says: Ask again later.
[00:00] cpolk: RAbbit Rabbit
[00:00] matociquala: Rabbit rabbit
[00:00]cristalia: Happy New Year!
[00:00] sosostris2012: *shakes chelsea*
[00:00] katallen: Happy New Year!
[00:00]cristalia: *confetti*
[00:00] sosostris2012: Happy New Yeaqr!
[00:00] matociquala: Happy new year!
[00:00] matociquala: Chelsea does the rabbit thing too
[00:01] matociquala: That makes me ho^Happy
[00:01] cpolk: your characters are all dead because it doesn't really take place in Las Vegas.
[00:02] tanaise: maybe it's time for a round of the hoppity song.
[00:02] matociquala: (hop hop hoppity)
[00:02] matociquala: It doesn't?
[00:02] cpolk: no.
[00:03] matociquala: Stipud book ends with a sunrise.
[00:03] tanaise: or maybe it's time for bed.
[00:03] matociquala: Ah well, not much I can do about it.
[00:03] matociquala: freakin' vampires.
[00:03] cpolk: your stroy takes place in the underworld, through the twelve stations of Ra.
[00:03]sosostris2012: *snuggles vampires*
[00:03]sosostris2012: oooooh
[00:03] matociquala: OOo. Shiny.
[00:03] sosostris2012: shiny
[00:03] tanaise: night all!
[00:03] matociquala: Night!
[00:03] sosostris2012: Night
[00:03]cristalia: Night, Celia!
[00:04] cpolk: the book ends with a sunrise because its signaling that the work they did went right, and now the sun can rise on the real Las Vegas.
[00:04] sosostris2012: *cowers before chelsea's brain*
[00:04] matociquala: Wow.
[00:04] matociquala: She's smart.
[00:04]cristalia: It is mighty.
[00:04] katallen: Night Celia
[00:05] matociquala: (So wht are the 12 stations of Ra, Egyptologists?)
[00:05] cpolk: so I wonder, does your book divide neatly into twelved divisions, one for each of the stations?
[00:05] cpolk: I was just going to look that up!
[00:05] matociquala: Chelsea, have you read Judith Tarr's Pillar of Fire?
[00:05] matociquala: Not on a bet, Chels. *g*
[00:05] cpolk: I haven't read it.
[00:05] matociquala: Hmm.
[00:06] matociquala: I'll send you my copy when I'm done
[00:06] matociquala: It looks good.
[00:06] cpolk: fuck. I DO have a scaryass brain.
[00:06] matociquala: But it's Judith, so it would.
[00:06] cpolk: either that or I'm the biggest spewer of mumbo jumbo BS evar.
[00:06]cristalia: Either way, I am impressed.
[00:06] matociquala: the two are not dissimilar
[00:07] matociquala: so tell me about this Ra thing, for I am ignorant of egyptian myth.
[00:07] cpolk: well, the egyptians were big on old Ra, see
[00:08] cpolk: and they believe that Ra was the sun
[00:08] cpolk: and that he died each night as he passed under the earth. which is why the great burial sites are on the west side of the nile.
[00:08] cpolk: consider the ankh, symbol of immortality.
[00:09] matociquala: *pulls up a chair*
[00:09] cpolk: the loop is the sun, Ra.
[00:09] cpolk: the cross brace is the horizon.
[00:10] cpolk: the vertical post is the path Ra leaves for the wise man to follow to journey safely through the land of the dead.
[00:10] sosostris2012: (neat)
[00:10]cristalia: (ooo)
[00:10] matociquala: ooo
[00:11] cpolk: see people thought it was all about making pharaoh comfy in the underworld. nuh uh.
[00:11] cpolk: he needed all that shit to GET BACK. to be reborn, except higher on the spiral.
[00:13] cpolk: blarg i'm not finding sites--wait!
[00:13] cpolk: everybody comb www.sacred-texts.com
[00:15] cpolk: budge.
[00:15] cpolk: they've got budge.
[00:15] cpolk: i'm already weeping with ennui.
[00:15] sosostris2012: you so rock
[00:16] sosostris2012: like a great rocking thing
[00:16] sosostris2012: And dammit, Anubis just woke up
[00:16] cpolk: hi puppy!
[00:16] cpolk: *pet pet*
[00:16] matociquala: Hi Puppy!
[00:16] sosostris2012: He's a good puppy
[00:16]sosostris2012: But he needs to wait a few books
[00:17] matociquala: Chelsea is queen of the weird and random goodness
[00:17] katallen: ::glares at puppy::
[00:17] katallen: ::hisses::
[00:17] cpolk: I think it's the Book of the egyptian heaven and hell, volume one
[00:17] sosostris2012: yes
[00:17] sosostris2012: it lists the 12 divisions of the Duat
[00:17] cpolk: that's going to determine if i'm compltely talking out of my ass or not.
[00:21] cpolk: everybody's skimming it?
[00:21] cpolk: that or they all said OMG what a psycho RUN!
[00:21] katallen: I'm checking it out
[00:22] cpolk: heh.
[00:22] matociquala: Okay, you know what makes me laugh and laugh and laugh?
[00:22] cpolk: what?
[00:22] matociquala: One word.
[00:23] matociquala: Memphis.
[00:23] cpolk: what?
[00:23] matociquala: *g*
[00:23] cpolk: LOL
[00:23] cpolk: oh man I didn't even think of that!
[00:23] cpolk: shit.
[00:23] cpolk: did I just make you have to revise this book again?
[00:23] matociquala: Nope, because I don' know enough about Egypt to pull this off.
[00:24] cpolk: k.
[00:24] matociquala: Not in a billion years.
[00:24] cpolk: and damn, that's WAY too much research to do.
[00:24] katallen: ::grins:: it'd be rather tempting to drop in a few words just to make the Chelseas of the world analyse the rest
[00:24] cpolk: but it's a journey threough the underworld, and that's why all your characters are dead.
[00:24] matociquala: *g*
[00:25] cpolk: Felix is the eeeeeeevil necromancer dude who wants shit to go BAD for the world.
[00:25] katallen: and that's strange because yes, they are apart from the rest of the world
[00:25] matociquala: Well, I can probably give a small yank to the whole Memphis-Luxor thing
[00:25] cpolk: yank!
[00:25] sosostris2012: That rooooocks
[00:25] cpolk: heh.
[00:25] matociquala: and let people make shit up.
[00:25] sosostris2012: *steals all up*
[00:26] katallen: ::grins:: it's a mirror
[00:26] cpolk: throw in a few egyptian East/light/life/good and West/darkness/death/kinda suckish?
[00:26] matociquala: It always is.
[00:26] cpolk: oh.
[00:26] cpolk: LA is west of veags.
[00:26] sosostris2012: oooh
[00:26] cpolk: and who goes to hold it?
[00:26] matociquala: *g*
[00:26] cpolk: the vampires.
[00:26] sosostris2012: *basks in smartness*
[00:26] cpolk: YAY!
[00:26] matociquala: Actually, LA is south of Vegas.
[00:26] cpolk: 18 miles to memphis!
[00:26] matociquala: Alas.
[00:26] cpolk: and west.
[00:26] cpolk: and west!
[00:26] matociquala: Mostly south
[00:26] sosostris2012: Chelsea, I will pay you cash money to fix my books. :)
[00:27] matociquala: The continent curves.
[00:27] cpolk: stupid continent!
[00:27] matociquala: It kinda tucks in like a dog's butt.
[00:27] matociquala: Reno is actually West of San Diego
[00:27] matociquala: Cool, huh?
[00:28] cpolk: hmm.
[00:28] cpolk: upper egypt is south of lower egypt.
[00:28] cpolk: it'll do.
[00:28] cpolk: *still comfy in her delusions*
[00:28] matociquala: *g*
[00:28] matociquala: Chelsea has the coolest brain.
[00:29] matociquala: And needs to write more novels.
[00:29] katallen: Chelsea needs to novel
[00:29] katallen: Chelsea needs to write more things to entertain me
[00:30] cpolk: silly old mad brain.
[00:30] matociquala: yes.
[00:30] cpolk: it can make any crackpot theory fit.
[00:30] cpolk: oh.
[00:30] cpolk: OH.
[00:31] cpolk: Elvis is pharaoh.
[00:31] matociquala: *g* he is.
[00:31] cpolk: fuck
[00:31] matociquala: I figured that out.
[00:31] katallen: yes
[00:31] cpolk: it just dropped on my head now.
[00:31] sosostris2012: goooooooo elvis!
[00:32] matociquala: He's the King, baby.
[00:32] cpolk: he's the King.
[00:32] sosostris2012: *gives him a glowing pshent*
[00:32] katallen: I'm still wondering if the bit about getting fed fits with where he eats
[00:32] katallen: ::conflates Budge and OEJ::
[00:32] cpolk: oh you wait
[00:33] cpolk: I'm going to wait until there's this list of elizabeth bear fans...
[00:33] matociquala: LOL
[00:33] matociquala: You can found the fan club, Chelsea
[00:33] katallen: heee
[00:33] cpolk: and I'm going to bust in and tell them that they're all WRONG, and this is what the books are really about
[00:33] cpolk: and they'll flame me off the universe.
[00:33] cpolk: and I will laugh my silly ass off.
[00:33] katallen: she wants to mess with your fans' heads :)
[00:33] matociquala: They'll adopt you
[00:34] matociquala: and I won't know what my own damned books are about any more.
[00:34] katallen: you'll have to go in disguise Chelsea
[00:34] matociquala: You know, Las Vegas has a pyramid.
[00:35] matociquala: and it's all shiny shiny gleaming black glass.
[00:35] cpolk: hee.
[00:35] cpolk: i'm right.
[00:35] matociquala: Actually, our county government building is a pyramid too.
[00:35] cpolk: *exercises mind control*
[00:35] matociquala: Of course you're right.
[00:35] matociquala: You're the reader.
[00:36] cpolk: nodnod.
[00:36] matociquala: If you can get it out of the book, it's in there.
[00:36] cpolk: damn yes.
[00:36] matociquala: And Tribute definitely has this whole death/rebirth thing going on.
[00:36] cpolk: yes
[00:37] katallen: and the other guys are all immortals of a kind
[00:37] katallen: good and bad guys
[00:37] cpolk: and what's the big old silent ever present there looming in the backs of our heads and making me nag you for two freaking years?
[00:37] katallen: and they want to swallow Tribute ::grins::
[00:37] cpolk: the hoover dam.
[00:37] cpolk: holds the river back, don't it?
[00:38]sosostris2012: All right, kiddos, I fear it's my bedtime
[00:38] katallen: NIght Amanda
[00:38] sosostris2012: if you keep talking all smart-like, blog it
[00:38] cpolk: I am doing this to your fans bear
[00:38] cpolk: i am
[00:38] cpolk: I'll drive them crazy.

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