Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Great Big Sea, 'It's the End of the World As We Know It.'

2009 is clearly my year.

So let's pause a moment. It's January 20th. I'm about to be the Guest of Honor at a truly awesome convention. My first novel comes out this year. I have stories appearing in two upcoming anthologies, one of which is going to help a dear friend in her time of need, the other of which involves wiping out the bulk of mankind. Researchers have sequenced the 1918 flu, because we know that never ends badly. Multiple awesome horror movies are slated for release. I have already been part of a mad-awesome concert. I spent New Year's Eve watching Freakylinks on the Chiller channel. This should have been sufficient proof that 2009 was, in fact, my year. It has been manufactured entirely for me.

Don't worry. I'll share. And that's a good thing, because here's some more awesome from 2009:

Scientists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new giant dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago in Argentina. Meet our new buddy, Austroraptor cabazai. He was the largest raptor ever known. I mean, five meters of raptor? That's a lot of massively predatory dinosaur coming for your tasty flesh, buddy. Thanks, Argentina! Also, as this is a totally new dinosaur -- relatively speaking -- it hasn't been on Primeval, and I'm allowed to have one. Hooray!

Oh, and also? The Black Death has reportedly killed at least forty al-Qaeda operatives in North Africa. Now, they're talking about bubonic plague here, which, as everyone knows by now, I do not believe was the cause of the Black Death. But they're so vague about the details that it could just be something cheerfully making itself look like the bubonic plague. PS: if this is actually the Black Death, and is actually a virus, rather than something bacterial, we're all going to die. So 2009 might also be the end of the human race.

I am okay with that, because this is awesome.
Tags: dino dance party, geekiness, good things, pandemic time, so the marilyn
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arielstarshadow

January 20 2009, 20:51:43 UTC 8 years ago

Hmmm...I seem to remember that at least one book out there said that there were three different "plagues" going on that made up the "Black Death," and that each of the three had a different set of symptoms. This is just my memory, and I haven't touched anything dealing with the Black Death in over a decade.

seanan_mcguire

January 21 2009, 03:10:30 UTC 8 years ago

There are a lot of theories. I don't personally subscribe to the multiple disease theory, just because the existing records -- the ones we have, anyway -- are way too unified in how they report the symptoms.

I recommend checking out the link about, which has, seriously, song lyrics aimed at proving my point, and reading The Return of the Black Death: The World's Greatest Serial Killer, which is a truly awesome book on the topic.