I finally subscribed to Talebones.
Is it because of the current current subscription drive? Is it because the new issue features Jim Van Pelt and Paul Melko (among others)–names to conjure with, in my view? Is it because, back when I was submitting to them (a few years ago now) they wrote some of the most agreeable, most encouraging rejection notes I’ve ever received?
No. All those things are true, but they’re not relevant. The real reason is much simpler.
!!!GIANT ONE-EYED ROBOT WITH PINCERS OF DEATH!!!
An excellent reason to subscribe!
Absolutely! Although, as far as I know, those are Pincers of Benevolence or something. That would still be okay with me. Or so I keep telling myself.
Now you’re talking! Enough of that Greek stuff — unless it’s killer Greek robots of death!
Hm… killer Greek robots of death…
There’s certainly Talos, whose plug gets pulled, as it were , by the Argonauts. There must have been others. I’m thinking, The Big O in the Bronze Age…
You will insist on educating me no matter what I do… Even the Robot on the magasine, I now realise, is just another version of the cyclops. You have tricked me for the last time!
It’s a kind of protection racket. I keep droning on about Greek verbs until someone pays me money to be quiet. Or until someone pours champagne on me.
Ha! great picture.
Ah, yes. It’s the simple things in life that truly matter. More people should learn to appreciate sunsets and warm summer days and an ice cold beer after mowing the lawn and giant one-eyed robots with pincers of death.
There you have it. And all at the same time, if at all possible.
Thanks, James, for subscribing! I hope to get that one-eyed monstrosity (with pincer) out in the mail soon.
Monstrosities mailed to me and I didn’t even have to leave the house! We are truly living in the future. (I did leave the house briefly, but that was because of the giant radioactive rats.)
[edited to add: Thanks!]