Interesting JMS Facebook Posts & Tweets

[Ubik]

A poster put up a poem called "Babylon 5 - The Great War"

https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=488153334552868&id=139652459402959

JMS' reply:

Someone's been talking to Mr. Garibaldi.

[Jan]

Another quick JMS video. This one is about decisions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTHNgzey8yo&feature=relmfu

Jan

[Jan]

Oh, dear...JMS may have been possessed. Or kidnapped and probed. Or ate some funny Christmas cookies...

Mayans, hah! It's about to turn midnight here and everything's just fi

Wow, that was freaky. Did anybody else see that? Look, here it comes agai

Okay, that'll be enough of that, just knock it o

Not the end of the world, just the fucking arcturians jamming my keyboard again so I won't talk about the coded mes

IGNORE PRIOR MESSAGES. NO NEED FOR PEOPLE WORRIES. NO ARCTURIANS. GO ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS. END TRANSMISSION.

EVERYALL IS GOOD. GO TO SLEEP. TOMORROW VERY DIFFERENT DAY. BUT NOT SHIPS LANDING. SILLY RUMOR ONLY. IGNORE LIGHTS IN SKY.

Okay, how the hell did I end up nude outside the house with three nectarines up my ass and what are those lights in the sky?

So I have nectarines up my ass and flowering tea balls. Apparently, I AM the salad bar.

ERROR. LEFT BEHIND KEYS TO SHIP. ERROR: WE MEAN CAR. DISGUISED AS NECTARINES. MUST RETRIEVE. GO TO PEOPLE-SLEEP NOTHING HERE TO SEE

Woek up nude outside the house again. Vague scent of oolong everywhere. Well, as first dates go, I've had worse.

So as you were, everybody...whatever it was, it looks like it's over now.

CAN WE BORROW KEYS TO CAR?

Sigh...fucking Arcturians....

Wish I'd been awake to watch that one unfold...

Jan

[WorkerCaste]

I alternate between being in awe of the way JMS's mind works, and thinking he is need of prefessional help.

[Jan]

In that case, WorkerCaste, you'll love this one:

IÆve mentioned before that I still hear the characters from Babylon 5 talking in my head at all hours, especially at night when IÆm trying to sleep. I alluded to one of them at the last convention I attended. I generally scour them out of my head when they come because if I donÆt, if I let them accumulate, pretty soon character A has something to say about what character B said and it starts going nonstop. But this one, despite being brief, was rather tenacious. What follows is the exchange in full.

Visualize, if you will, as I unwillingly did, Londo walking alongside Sheridan. Unsurprisingly, Londo is doing all the talking here.

ôIÆm afraid I have a slight problem with your concept of a æbulls-eye.Æ I have investigated this matter at length and it is simply a series of concentric circles with a dot in the center. It looks nothing at all like a bull, or an eye, or an eye of a bull. Not even a bull that had too much to drink the night before, unless you know something about the genetics of these creatures that I failed to discover in my research. Insofar as I can determine, a æbulls eyeÆ is nothing more than a big stiff piece of wood with a target on its front. Which brings me at last to YOU, Captain Sheridan....ö

I scanned it - gave it the once and twice over and yeah, as I've always said, " without him and his words, the character just stands there with his big hair and stares." Thanks (again), JMS

And he'd be nothing more than black marks on a sheet of paper if you hadn't given him life and an accent and beauty, Peter.

Now...did anybody *not* hear Londo's voice? And *not* smile at the exchange between Peter and JMS?

Jan

[babylonlurker]

In that case, WorkerCaste, you'll love this one:


Now...did anybody *not* hear Londo's voice? And *not* smile at the exchange between Peter and JMS?

Jan

I did indeed hear Londo's voice and had a great smile on my face at the Peter J./JMS exchange

[Jan]

This isn't a JMS post but somebody posted them to show him and it's Really Cool:

Picture:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/everydaysemiotics/7106403625/in/set-72157629882933423/

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D_KqrEVPA8

Jan

[Jan]

As the saying goes...Oh, Myyy...

Has it occurred to anyone else that the scene in the first Lord of the Rings movie where Gandalf breaks the bridge at Khazad-dûm and yells "You shall not pass!" would make a great commercial for a company specializing in vasectomies? Or is it just me?

Okay, so maybe it WAS just me...but now none of YOU are ever going to look at that scene again in quite the same way. So in the end: I win.

Miguel: no, you miss the point. You would cut out of the clip BEFORE that part. That's the thing about editing and vasectomies: you need to know when to cut.

Having two tiny residual scars from the vasectomy I had on my 21st birthday, in memory of this conversation I shall herewith name one of them Gandalf, the other Frodo.

Sauron...you don't want to know.

And between them, the Tower of Isengard.

Had a bit of a problem with the Dead Marshes for a while, but a little Tinactin took care of that.

[Dan Dassow]

As the saying goes...Oh, Myyy...

Jan, when did Joe start channeling Woody Allen?

[WorkerCaste]

As the saying goes...Oh, Myyy...

Hmmm. Well. There you go then.

[Jan]

In case there were ever any doubt that JMS is a Regular Guy:

Joe's Helpful Hint #26: When one egg in a fresh carton seems stuck and may be cracked, do NOT tilt the carton to investigate the bottom as this will have catastrophic consequences. Holy crap....

splat!splat!splat!splat!splat!splat!splat!splat!sp lat!splat!splat! all of them EXCEPT the one I couldn't get out of the damned carton in the first place, which was, of course, cracked. I am an idiot.

Genius level IQ...fat freaking good it does me most days....

I have always been capable of making a stooge of myself in ways far beyond those of mere mortal men.

Jan

[WorkerCaste]

Guess the yoke's on him!

Wait... is that the Narn Bat Squad?????

[Jan]

Guess the yoke's on him!

Wait... is that the Narn Bat Squad?????

And that, folks, was WorkerCastes 1,100th post. See how well he used it?

I don't usually copy people's posts verbatim but since it was a paraphrase and since it earned him a request from JMS to put his "face in the book", I'm making an exception:

In my life, I have never seen anything like it; He would weep, he would pray, he would say goodbye to his loved ones, and then throw himself without fear or hesitation at the very face of albumin itself, never surrendering. No one who saw him fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by his courage. His stubborn nobility. When he ran out of paper towels, he used napkins, when he ran out napkins he used rags and sponges and bare hands. He was magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may clean with half as much dignity as I saw in his eyes in the end. He did this for two years. He never ran out of courage but in the end, they ran out of eggs.

JMS sure puts up with a lot from us...

Jan

[WorkerCaste]

And that, folks, was WorkerCastes 1,100th post. See how well he used it?

Wait. What exactly are you saying? Are you saying it wasn't a good use? And what's so special about 1,100 anyways?

[OmahaStar]

Wait. What exactly are you saying? Are you saying it wasn't a good use? And what's so special about 1,100 anyways?

One never asks a lady their age...


*hiding*