Nov 29
Tom Noir Comments: La de da. Just out for a jaunty, inconspicuous stroll in my black leathers and goggles. Pay no attention to the laser blaster held awkwardly behind my back!
Published 2003
Tom Noir Comments: La de da. Just out for a jaunty, inconspicuous stroll in my black leathers and goggles. Pay no attention to the laser blaster held awkwardly behind my back!
Published 2003
November 29th, 2013 at 10:56 am
Urban paintball – it could catch on. Also, is The Mocking Program a possible automatic computerised version of this very site?
November 29th, 2013 at 11:29 am
The trigger-phrase for the android bomb was: “But if he’s Neil Gaiman, I must be…”
November 29th, 2013 at 1:06 pm
The Mocking Copper is a passerine police detective found most commonly under street lamps in dim alleyways. It is especially prevalent on foggy evenings, and then tends to display its winter coat of sunglasses, black leatherette and fake super soaker.
November 29th, 2013 at 2:55 pm
“Are you mocking me? Maybe you need a little dose of ….. sarcasm and hyperbole.â€
November 29th, 2013 at 3:18 pm
One day, they mocked Melvin one step too far for his short arms.
November 29th, 2013 at 3:24 pm
I’ve got a great marketing promotion for you:
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November 29th, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Suggested new tag – bad hair day.
November 29th, 2013 at 4:32 pm
“I wear my sunglases at night, so I can, so i can…..”
A. Look like a complete tool
B. Try to disctract people from seeing i have an inverted left arm, sleep hair and no right arm
C. Showing off my Johnny Cash halloween costume
D. Going for long walks in the rain while brooding about the fact “nobody understands me…” sigh
November 29th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
“By having my hair flop over one side of my forehead the phrase ‘receding hairline’ will occur to absolutely noone”
November 29th, 2013 at 4:57 pm
10 REM THE MOCKING PROGRAM
20 CLS
30 PRINT”NEENER NEENER NEENER”
40 GOTO 20
RUN
November 29th, 2013 at 4:57 pm
The most Leifeldian cover ever!
November 29th, 2013 at 4:58 pm
“Something’s wrong with the title of the book again… it seems to be dripping!”
November 29th, 2013 at 6:16 pm
The complete blurb:
‘Blending the title six times on the cover does not constitute exciting, fast-paced futuristic action, no matter what the art department would lead you to believe. – Science Fiction Chronicle
November 29th, 2013 at 10:09 pm
@Don Hilliard — Kudos. Reminds me of the infinite-loop shampoo instructions: “Lather, Rinse, Repeat”.
November 30th, 2013 at 2:00 am
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD 2: THE MOCKING PROGRAM.
Gregory Peck’s rejuvenated body as Atticus ‘Gauss Cannon’ Finch.
November 30th, 2013 at 2:14 am
Morrissey – the bounty hunter years.
November 30th, 2013 at 5:48 am
Isn’t that actually Alan Dean Foster Grants?
November 30th, 2013 at 9:34 am
Well… let’s not be too hard on the Art Department. Here’s an actual quote from the book (supplied courtesy of a reviewer):
“The ganglet of ninlocos arrived before the food did. They swaggered in past the protesting door, the lanky chieflado in the lead spizzing it with a spinner whose ident was torqued to reflect instead of inform. Behind the chingaroon ambulated a group of negs and poses, though which was who and who was witch [sic] was hard to say at first glance.”
November 30th, 2013 at 11:25 am
The prose reads like a gang of teens who are using their own home-made lingo to hide the fact that they’re not that cool.
November 30th, 2013 at 2:30 pm
@Rachel J — That reads like a second-rate Clockwork Orange wannabe.
November 30th, 2013 at 11:48 pm
@A.R.Yngve. At least now we know why so many publishers feel the need to stress that their books are “…readable…”
@Bibliomancer. Indeed; meanwhile, the sample chapter is like some sort of cyberpunk/dystopian cliché partymix to the point where I’m starting to think “mocking” is meant in the sense of “imitating” and refers to the software used to write the novel.
December 1st, 2013 at 8:13 pm
@Rachel: Hm, then let’s try the mocking program on some other works:
Shakespeare: Nowz discontenting it wint-wint, k but York summerz it up glorious; and the ocean tits are torqued to deep sdead of lourd.
Melville: The ganglet of Ishmaels swaggered to sea with a way they have in their cyber-spleens and biocierculation.
Plath: Pure hell triple tongues tendon sin sin snuffed smokes scarf yellow who was witch.
December 2nd, 2013 at 4:06 am
@DSWBT—
They were mocked. They were programmed. Their indents reflected reflections. It was real and nazz, but not good.
Hemingway?
December 28th, 2013 at 10:41 am
Ah. The Matrix done older.
January 4th, 2014 at 3:38 pm
Is that Warner Books sign “on” the front cover, or is it a part of the cover and is an ad on the side of a phone booth?
January 4th, 2017 at 4:05 am
@ Don Hilliard – nice one. I was thinking that in the future everyone will be so “cool” that we will need programs to do the mocking for us.
Either that, or Mr,-Shades-and-Conspicuous-Blaster has a nice program of mocking all lined up for himself. (“seven to eight PM – mock people without leather jackets like mine…eight to nine, mock Alan Dean Foster, etc.)
January 6th, 2017 at 11:04 am
Am I the only one who thinks the cover model looks like a young Dan Aykroyd? “Blues brothers 3, no more Mr nice musician”