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[mrissa]

Why did I write a book full of monkeys??? Monkeys monkeys monkeys! On every page monkeys!

Primates. Entirely overrated.

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[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, you wrote a book, which is something that has so far eluded me.

And I like monkeys.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Also, post with added icon is hilarious. *laughs with you*

[kendwoods.livejournal.com]

Primates. Entirely overrated.


Nice t-shirt slogan.

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Because it sounded more interesting than Planet of the Drapes?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My dad's secret of writing books is to use lots of words. Just in case that's helpful to you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

You have hit upon one of the things on my to-do list that is less appealing to me right now than writing this book. (And less possible at the moment.) Thanks...I think.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Nothing will beat the hilarity of this (http://timprov.livejournal.com/243245.html) post/icon combo for me.

[sethb.livejournal.com]

That's what happens when you don't decide which book to write next, just because you didn't have to.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I recommend books with lots of aliens, angels, and AIs in as one way of being able to pull away from the irritations of the primate condition.

[ "We do not negotiate with talking monkeys." - Gabriel ]

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I did decide to write this book next. It's just that that was last next, not this next.

[carbonel]

Perhaps your next book could be full of bops instead of monkeys.

Then the primates wouldn't have primacy.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It didn't seem to work for Mole and Bear. Still with the monkeys.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

One is tempted.

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Hee! Also good. :)

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Thank you, the icon + post completely made my afternoon.

From Mrissa's sekrit notebook:

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

When wrtg next bk,
1) Fewer monkeys.
2) More presumptuous cats.

Re: From Mrissa's sekrit notebook:

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No capes cats.

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

That's what the cats say too.

[ckd]

Clearly this book demands a playlist. I'm sure my music library has something suitable. (sfx: rummaging in iTunes)

Jonathan Coulton, "Code Monkey"
Kristen Hersh, "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey" (or the Beatles original)
George Michael, "Monkey"
Traveling Wilburys, "Tweeter and the Monkey Man"
Mark Knopfler, "Punish the Monkey"
Don Ho, "Shock the Monkey"
and last but not least: Barenaked Ladies, "If I Had $1000000". (Haven't you always wanted a monkey?)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

BNL also does "Another Postcard" (with chimpanzees), and then of course there's the $#&%@!!! hockey monkey song.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

And the Simpsons' "Stop the Planet of the Apes I Want To Get Off" song, which embryomystic tends to break into with some regularity for very little reason.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Also: John Wesley Harding's "The Monkey and His Cat"

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Right now I am looking through job listings trying to find the ones that a trained monkey could do.

Because those are the jobs where they won't mind if I leave in six months.

[pameladean]

Best monkey icon ever.

I'm reading a book with a lot of non-monkeys, and monkeys only on the horizon, but it just makes one cry, "Ack! Sapients!" a lot instead.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

In my family those got dubbed "Bobo jobs" about 15 years ago because my cousin, seeking summer jobs, felt that Bobo The Trained Chimp could do what she was applying to do.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suppose, and I have very little desire to write a book about glass objects and no sapients at all.

Very little, you will note, is not the same thing as none.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

We (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/images/060626-lemurs-africa_big.jpg) agree. (http://www.indyzoo.com/pdf/RingtailedLemurs.jpg)

/s/ The (http://www.savethelemur.org/images/ruffed-lemurs-1.jpg) lemurs.

B (http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/674700.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19332EFD823EFD41CFD02DFE53B9448F768284831B75F48EF45) (http://www.duiops.net/seresvivos/galeria/lemures/Ring-tailed%20Lemurs.jpg) ()

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The cuteness-per-pixel factor is just staggering in those.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Lemurs tend to peg the cuteness meter.

B

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

Marmoset knock you out!

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey"

[redbird]

The thing about primates is, they will get in everywhere. It's because they're clever with locks and handles. (The cats are prettier, but most have not mastered the doorknob principle.)

[timprov.livejournal.com]

There's always reason.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

And yet books in general are surprisingly lacking in cephalopods.

Ook!

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= There is a dissenting (http://www.dieselsweeties.com/shirts/#monkey) T-shirt.

[seabream.livejournal.com]

I love the icon. Aside from the obvious references, it makes me think of GLaDOS from Portal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_%28video_game%29).

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

There's something about Hello Kitty that just begs for creative misuse.

[redbird]

An unfortunate lack.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Because you're my hero! Monkeys?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, Kij, I'm sorry! It's the tailless, mostly hairless kind I mean. Like in the icon.

Now I feel like I owe you a monkey short story for getting your hopes up.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I have started your monkey story.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

I love you! I will send you a most splendid and excellent sonnet on a frivolous topic of your choosing in exchange. Which reminds me I owe someone else one.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

A frivolous topic of my choosing? Oh dear. Hmmm. I am such an exceptionally serious and solemn person, you see, that I have difficulty coming up with frivolous topics.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

And yet I am confident that you will somehow stretch yourself to come up with one.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Moose?

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Moose is excellent. I must ponder.

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

But are there ponies? Are there monsters?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Umm...sort of ponies. Carriage horses, stable horses. No ponies as characters in this one. And the only monsters are human. Mostly human. Often human, anyway.