Radio Interview

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I did an interview with Public Radio International late last year, and the results have finally appeared online in an episode of To the Best of Our Knowledge, called “Apocalyptic Fictions.” I’m one of three authors (and one editor) interviewed. The whole thing is pretty interesting, featuring tales of zombies, warnings of mass extinctions, and ponderings of epidemics. What’s not to love?

I’m a bit out of place, actually, talking about the post-apocalyptic world of Uglies and Extras. All the other books are set during an apocalypse, which is a different sort of thing. Still, I’m always happy to be included.

Here’s radio KUAR’s page about the episode.

And here’s the MP3 if you want to listen to the show.

If you’re in a hurry and want to skip the other authors, I’m the last interview, about 75% of the way in. But they’re all good, really.

Warning: If you saw me on tour, the stories may sound a bit familiar. But I’ve only got so many jokes in me, okay?

269 thoughts on “Radio Interview”

  2. Ha! Thats funny. I sent you mail Scott! You should read it! Like now maybe……

    I hope it went through because it would be cool if you did what i requested!

  12. i repeat what has probably been said above.
    PEEPS/THE LAST DAYS!
    they are the story of an apocalypse!
    you know, i’m starting to get offended at all the Uglies focus here. i really like the other books better.

    but, to be a complete hypocrite, i got Uglies officially put on my school’s mandatory summer reading list. BURN to other sucky books!

    also, walking long distances is good for you. many, many ideas to write now.

  21. i am a mix of happy & unhappy.
    happy: my guy friend was being really nice to me today and like this other guy was being mean to me and my guy friend stuck up for me and everything. and then he kept smiling at me. and then he accidently made a heart on his hand with this dry-erase marker and showed it to me. (ok so that last one probably doesn’t mean anything. but i thought i would tell you anyways.)
    unhappy: it’s cold. i’m sick. coughing continually. school pretty much sucked except for the above story.^^ too much homework. and a bunch of test and quizs tomorrow. plus this chick i don’t like has been driving me crazy the past few days.

  24. Serafina Zane u know Scott is most knowen though for Uglies? lol thats probily why he talked about it!
    i have home work. ill have to listen later!:D

  26. Too much rain! Yeah so cool radio thingy. Yeah I have some wierd problems such as lately I’ve been dreming in foreign languages and then mysteriously understanding French/Spanish/ect. when I wake up. Well to a certain extent. Very creepy though. School was boring totally normal and not funny.Blah Blah Blah. I’ll stop before I start ranting again.
    See Ya!

  29. Really? Well-knowing is a sign of lameness? I did not know that. haha okay, well obscurity is pretty cool!

  33. Serafina Zane, i dont have a username, im not really sure! well thank you! lol
    yes i agree with you, most of the time popular things are pretty lame. but i like this serise very much!

  39. ahhh i hate school
    id much rather sit around reading books then doing midterm exams any day of the week….

  41. Cool, I’d love to listen to it but as of now its going…. 14%…..15%…..16%…..AGH!!!

    Out of luck. Just can’t listen to it sorry ๐Ÿ™

  42. ohhhhhhh! sorry Serafina Zane! lol! uggs are not cool popular, but super warm. i broke down and got one pair. they are amazingly comfortabe. i dont like how they look either, but its all about comfort and toasty feet!

  43. i agree with Clarissa-wa…my toes are always cold so i got a pair…they come in tomorrow & i am excited b/c now snow won’t get in my birkenstalks and get my socks wet (i seriously hate wet socks with a passion.) however i like how they look. i think they are cute. & please don’t hate me b/c i have different taste.

  44. Hmmm…Kay-wa do you mean that you like how uggs look or the wet socks?J.K. New question: Converse or Vans?
    I like them both but I think I would choose converse.
    SeeYa!

  45. hehe. whats rong with wet socks? the ONE! yes ONE! week that it snowed in december, i wore flipflops and toe socks to scool every day of the week!!! my toes are immuned to coldnesslyness…

    CONVERSE!!! they ROCK!!! the parentals wont let me get a pair of sequin converse! it sucks! sompthing about causing seizures or sompthing…

    homework sucks. its true. luckily i had ABSOLUTELY NONE today! WOOOOOO!!! i am a happy person.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜€

  46. The Sweet Far Thing! YES! Gotta love Libba. I get to see her at a book signing on Saturday. And Shannon Hale! I know, I’m lucky-sauce.

    In response to “Converse or Vans” I say: ROCKETDOGS! So fawesome. My favorite shoes ever. SO cute. ^_^

  47. Scott-La, you said you were in Britain in october and there were signs up about not serving people with black hoodies….

    WHY WERE YOU IN ENGLAND AND I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT IT?!?!?!? I never heard ANYTHING about it. NO FAIR!

    American fans get the chance to see you ALL the time…I dont ]: GRRR. SO ANNOYING.

    Come to England soon or a might be forced to….um….WRITE AN ANGRY LETTER!

    Yeah…I went there…

    Alisha-La xx

  48. Heyyyy Serafina Zane [why is Zane the last part of your username? lol]
    Is your live journal basic or plus cause i don’t know which one to have…And yours is oober cool (Y)

    ALSO. Dystopia? Sorry to sound as blonde as i look but whats that?

    Alisha-La xx

  52. actually, the name thing isn’t just because i love Zane.
    it’s also because i love Zane Cobriana.
    jk.
    no, it’s b/c Serafina Zane is one of my character’s names. and it’s awesome!

    yeah, i’ve got a basic LJ. advertisements are annoying.

    Converse! and Vans! because i love them both. am currently wearing Vans, b/c my Converse disintegrated and my mom got mad at me for wearing shoes held together by duct tape.
    but a further question…for Vans, skate sneakers or slip-ons?
    i say slip-ons, though i’m right now wearing like sneakers.
    i have a great pair of day-of-the-dead patterned slipons though…

    Libba Bray rocks.

    no offense to anyone. i just hate Ugg boots.
    they r the badge of annoying popular girls at my school.
    times are when i’m the only girl in a class *not* wearing Uggs.

  53. well, do u know what a utopia is? it’s, like, perfect and a flawless world. and a dystopia is like the opposite. flawed society.
    much cooler setting.
    like, uglies is a dystopia.

    and no, i don’t know how to make an LJ skin. i just got mine by clicking “customize” or whatever.

  54. no offence taken serafina ZANE! i am the only person at my school. so it dose not matter what i wear. really, im the only one

  55. Character? For…. You writing your own books? Or carrying on Midnighters or Uglies or something? Also..Coooolies [to the dystopia thing]

    I’ve kinda worked it out now. But mine is plus, it just went that way. I’m not too bothered about changing it. I am gunna add you now [:

    Zomgggg. I HATE UGG BOOTS. They are the typical trademarks of the ‘plastics’ at my school. And they are generally a bad shoe. A winter boot that ABSORBS water..? And everyone who i see wearing them, their feet fall inward and it looks horrible :S

    People who haven’t finished Pretties or Specials shouldn’t read belowww…

    I’m re-re-re-re-re-reading Pretties, and have just passed the bit where they split the pills! All i can think of is how Zane is as good as dead…Its so bogus…Totally unhappy-making ]:

    Alisha-La xx

  56. Oh My Zane….

    [LOL!]

    Just read your 12th comment Serafina [Unlucky number! Watch out for PhsychoKitty! Lol]

    but, to be a complete hypocrite, i got Uglies officially put on my schoolรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs mandatory summer reading list. BURN to other sucky books!

    I am so royally pissed! I SO wish reading Uglies was a compulsary book and one we had coursework on. I would be so much better than the shiiite that is Jane Eyre! Honestly, most boring book EVER written. It should come with a health warning!

    Utterly jealous Serafina. COMPLETELY Bogus.

    Gay english schools @:

    Alisha-La xx

  58. yeah, well we had to read All Quiet on the Western Front last summer, so i think we deserve it. also Animal Farm and Messanger by Lois Lowry, but those were actually coolish.
    and you don’t have to read Uglies, it’s one of five on a list you have to pick one from. including Unwind! :mrgreen:
    aside from that, my american school is pretty lame though. seriously, sucks in every way.

    ugg. ugg boots are a sign of the crowd in my school, no doubt.

    yeah, Serafina Zane is a name from one of my original stories, not any fanfic. my fanfic is like, Kirby, Tech, Connor and all the midnighters folk, and it’s up around at the HQ, which is linked to my name and full of awesome and everyone who’s read all three midnighters should go see and join the club.

  59. hey lots of talk about ugg boots on this forum…huh?
    well i have to put in my input, a lot of girls where uggs at my school, and i really didnt like them for awhile, but i got a pair of ugg-like boots, and they keep my feet warm and dry, i used to not really like how they look but now i wear them constantly, we have to go outside for school because our school buildings are seperated, and my city is constantly plagued by horrible, weather, so its very useful not to be wearing shoes that get my feet all wet, its not that i dont love converse, or shoes like that, in fact im practically addicted to converse, but i just find that if its freezing outside, at least my feet are going to be warm, i dont in paticular liike being part of the crowd, i dont like being the same as everyone, but even in my boots i dont feel like i am, i mean its just like, well yeah its not the outside that matters, as we learn in uglies, its your inside, so no offense but to the many people who view most ugg owners as popular snobs, i think we need to rise above the label…..-and i dont even really own a true pair of ugg boots…….
    sorry if i upset anyone i just really had to get that out

  60. yeah, i did have a thing in there about not offending people, but then part of my comment got deleted and i had to rephrase it, but i was rushed and in class.

    and i’m no way saying people who wear ugg boots are snobs or anything, i’m just saying that i don’t like them, and, in my school at least, they’re sort of one of those stupid expensive status-symbol things, and a lot of annoying people have them. i kind of think they look wierd, but that’s also how you wear them.
    it’s not mutually exclusive, cool people can have uggs too.
    i’m more talking about specific ppl i know IRL.
    main problem with Converse. water soaks through them.

    also, baby-blue ugg boots. or pink ones. they scare me.

  61. o yeah the colored uggs are pretty sttrange…yeah thats my problem with converse as well, the whole water thing, sorry, i guess i just didnt have any way of knowing you werent trying to offend people or anything ๐Ÿ™‚ but i understand
    sorry im just stressed, but my school is done for the week bc we have semester break tomorrow, so im just trying to relzx i guess, its nice not to have any more finals tho…

  62. i feel the same way as Melanie…like your whole comment was like exactly how i feel…well except my school is in one building but it’s always really snowy and stuff where i live so they keep my feet dry and warm. and i kinda hated them at first too. but they are very comfortable and everything so they make me happy….i just got them in the mail like 10 mins. ago. ๐Ÿ˜€ and i don’t really take offense to if people don’t like them. i just don’t like to be labeled.

  64. serafina zane, haha sorry thats kinda funny but not in a mean way, no worries, im not offended i just wasnt entirely sure what to take about it
    kay-wa, im glad you like your uggs as well, and i also agree that it isnt really my favorite thing to be labeled as well ๐Ÿ™‚ yeah teh whole snowy thing makes it hard for me to get through life in a pair of converse in the winter ๐Ÿ™

  67. laura-la, sorry im kinda laughing, the whole “big ‘shoe’ person” phrase is just kinda funny
    idk im probably just like dellusional ๐Ÿ™‚ also did you mean cool or fool?

  70. I’m rockin’ my converse right now! well…. five minutes ago. But Vans are also fawesome.

    Me too Serafina. I’m like the only person who doesn’t have boots like that, but most of the people at my school think its cool to freeze to death so alot of people just wear sneakers.

    I’m one of those people =]

  71. IM WATCHING YOU!!!!! sorry to sound so creepy but theres a girl at my school thats had like 3 differnt scott-la shirts so far
    who are you you have to blog here
    i see you
    ok im done being creepy
    but really those shirts are expensive

  72. DUDE! That was so amazing! Especially how school is dystopian…that was incredible. You’re brilliant and your music was great. So, yeah. Too bad you couldn’t have talked about Peeps more. That’s my favorite, and it’s a bit more apocalyptic.

  74. I hate converse. I hope the company doesn’t sue me for that but its just an opinion. No need to get political……
    I hate those winter boots with the big fur thing on it.
    Im more of a flip-flop, flats person. I only own 1 pair of tennis shoes. Yep, dat me!

    Ok, my guy friend need to stop stealing my bracelet. he officially took it home!

    Im reading this book. Its called ‘Fake Boyfriend’. Its funny.

  75. I know what you mean about flip flop person, Im not a flip flop person but all my shoes are flat. The only shows with heals are my horse back riding boots and basket ball sneakers, but you need heals for that.
    Oh, by the way Scott, Thanks for the email, I sent you 800 links!

  76. Im bored so im gonna talk some music sense into u people.
    Rap, hip-hop, and pop is that best. No arguments. Its final. Period.

    Ok so if you want to here some good music, ill give you a few tittles:
    (look up on YouTube by what i say)

    Florida Low (major rap music here!)
    Enrique Iglesias
    Cassie
    Rhianna
    Ciara

    Ok, thats all i say for now. Those are the best of the best people! Dont think that there not! They are! (if you don’t like the music, i balme it on my non-book reading friends, the introduced me!)

  77. He. Emailed. You.? if he did, thats so not fair!!!!!

    I dont mean flats like flat shoes, i like heels, i mean flats like the ballet flat shoes. you people should no what they are!

  80. I like gwen staffini (sp)
    and christiania agulara(sp)
    Plus I write sins not tradgities

    Imagine
    as im pacing the pews of a church chorrider and i cant help but to here
    no i cant help but to her
    an exchaning of words
    what a beutiful wedding
    what beutiful wedding says the bridesmaid to a …

  82. I’m BORED!!! I NEED to buy So Yesterday but I can’t drive to Borders cuz there’s this little issue about me not having a liscense for another couple years.Darn.

  89. Omigod, Tali-wa, i love that song!

    Oh, well imagine
    As I’m pacing the pews in a church corridor
    and I can’t help but to hear,
    no I can’t help but to hear an exchanging of words
    “What a beautiful wedding”
    “What a beautiful wedding”
    says the bridesmaid to a waiter
    “And, yes, but what a shame.
    What a shame the poor groomsbride is a shhh.”

    I chime in
    with a “Haven’t you people ever heard of,
    closing the ……… door? No,
    it’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality.”
    I chime in
    “Haven’t you people ever heard of,
    closing the …….. door, no?
    It’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of…”

    At least someone knows what good music is! So alike….so alike!

    Gwen Stafani is fawesome! I have two of her CDs

  94. srry, i think Converse rock. flip flops=so not my thing.

    *chokes* ummm, i think someone else needs music sense talked into them. because you’ll never talk that kind of sense into me.
    srsly. i would literally die before switching my taste in music.
    music. is. my. life.
    this is a girl who could recite the Yellow Submarine movie before i went to kindergarden, a girl whose first concert was before i turned 2, a girl who dies if she forgets her headphones, a girl with no less than four different pairs of great headphones.
    no offense at all, but “pop”. i hate that label. it often means crap. formulated crap. lots of good bands are labelled “pop”, but the label has bad associations pour moi.

    I Write Sins Not Tradgedies is a good song, however.
    Gwen Stefani sort of scares me though. not sure why. she just…does.

    me, Arctic Monkeys, The Raconteurs, White Stripes, Jakobinarina, Von Bondies, The Beatles and other classic awesome, and lots more.

  96. HeHeHe!!! Serafina I’ve never heard any of thier music but I just LOVE the name Arctic Monkeys! Totally fabulous band name if you ask me but you didn’t so whatever.

  99. Interview was soooo fawesome!!!
    It made me think but thats OK

    BTW people my favorite bands are:

    Fall Out Boy- because they’re fawsome

    P!ATD- Ditto

    HelloGoodbye- They have awsome Lyrics

    BoysLikeGirls- Only because of the song Five Minutes to Midnight

    Red Jumpsuit Apparatus- Because of the song Seventeen Ain’t So Sweet

    Midnighters Rule!!!!!

    Sorry for screaming I just coulnd’t help myself

  104. i’m happy, but simultaneuosly a bit sad…sad part first:
    two of my friends got ugg boots for christmas. they didn’t even tell me b/c they thought i’d get mad (which i did) so they each just wore them to school one day.
    but as long as they don’t get platinum-blonde highlights i’m good.

    now happy part:
    i just finished my last midterm…i should really just stop studying in general, like these midterms were the first time i actually STUDIED, and they were all far too easy to deserve that title. especially spanish. i already got the grade for my math one, i guess there were some hidden bonus points somewhere b/c i got a 124/120. the max points was 130, and the highest score was 127 (girl in my grade that’s in adv. w/ me, which tells you something about the 10th graders that the class is suited for).
    don’t mean to sound self-absorbed, but i didn’t exactly expect that score. it’ll help my average, though, which i’m predicting went down thanks to a crappy science test. our 2nd quarter report cards come out next wednesday.

  105. i personally cannot choose a favorite between converse and vans, they’re both incredibly fexcellent. i always get a couple new pairs of vans (slip-ons ROCK) for school, and even when they get old i use them as my anything-in-which-dirt-is-involved shoes. but converse are just classic. i cannot deal w/ the high tops though, so i get slip on or basic tennis-type shoes. there’s so many designs, coincidentally i was just on the site a couple days ago and i saw about 20 new shoes i want. i asked for a gift card to Journeys for xmas since they sell cons and vans, but i didn’t get one.

    SANDRA-LA! yay! a Hellogoodbye lover! *changes name-link*
    random fact: did you know that panic at the disco took out the “!” in their name? yeah. read that online awhile ago.

    bran-la, since your friends got you into that music, i strongly suggest you smack them over the head with a cinder block or other equally heavy object.

    i think i’ve stated my musical faves several times before, but i’ll rattle off a few: hellogoodbye (click mah name!), goo goo dolls, nelly furtado (guilty pleasure), linkin park, oasis, the fray, and my new lover is paramore…finally bought the cd, in fact it’s currently on repeat as i type this—listening through those huge noise-canceling headphones (i think my dad screamed something at me about 15 minutes ago)

  106. at the top of the page there is an invisible
    westerblog
    the blog of scott westerfeld
    and if you highlight the top of the page you can see it

  108. This is supposed to be about the Radio show thing….And we’re all talking about shoes ๐Ÿ˜›

    Sorry if i had offended anyone with the whole ugg thing. I didn’t intend on, its just they are a very main stream item that is worn by most ‘plastics’ at my school. I’m not judging the person, i just personally dont like them.

    SO. Click on my name and add my LJ as a friend (Y)

    Alisha-La xx

  110. When i listen to the beatles, it sounds like a bunch of old people in a retirement home got together and sang…….horribly.

    Gag me. I mean, ew, the BEATLES! And who in the world writes a freakin song about living in a yellow submarine!

    But back to the converse. Again, ew, gag me.

  111. Well! Taylor! My friends listen to good songs! i enjoy them! Ur songs are weird, and all…yeah, weird!

    Serafina, ur songs are weird too!

    ALL OF U GUYS SONGS ARE WEIRD!
    Except Tali-wa and her fawesome ‘I Write Sins Not Tradgedies’!

    As for the rest of you! Shame Shame for your bad taste in music!

  113. Ummmm….
    Well, Bran-la….
    Ummmm….
    I really like I Write Sins Not Tradgedies
    It’s a good song….
    All I know about Nelly Furtado is that she once sang a song with Juanes

  117. okay Bran-la.
    no offense. don’t get mad but.
    ummm…..i just had to edit out the line where i cursed you out.
    because you are [censored again]
    okay. i really suck at this not-offending thing.
    but, umm…screw that. life’s too short. and you deserve it.
    because i don’t effing care if you think my music is “wierd”
    my music is my LIFE. personally, i think your music SUCKS and is manufactured and crappy.
    i have about as little right to say that about you as you have to say
    “Serafina, ur songs are weird too!”
    yeah, i like *wierd* music. because honestly, i hate music like yours.
    and you have no right to divinely decide we should listen to your music. i love my music, and hate yours, but you have every right to love it.
    also. NO BEATLE-HATING.
    that’s my biggest problem with music.
    PEOPLE DON’T RESPECT THIER ORIGINS.
    and the fact you choose Yellow Submarine to dis makes it even worse. way to be shallowly stereotypical.
    name five other beatles songs, or a constructive reason not to like them. listen to Hey Bulldog. listen to Revolution 1. Listen to Sargent Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, the reprise version.
    and yeah. i’m really trying to resist the urge to gag you right now.
    also, Converse are awesome too.
    yeah, i get overdefensive. but this is my HEART, dude.
    don’t just dismiss that because it doesn’t fit into YOUR worldview.
    and i really don’t like complaining about somebody else’s taste in music. but when you say stupid, petty crap like that about mine, i will.

    sorry for the scary rant. but i’m trying not to scream right now, kay?

    and dude. the ! is what made Panic! at all a good band name. taking it out? LAME! i take the Honda Civic tour away from them for that.

    dude, Taylor, your link is still to Goo Goo Dolls.

  119. Wow….um……uh…….no harm done. We should just face that were completly diffrent ppl. Yea. Im like preppy and ur like….what ever u consider yourself. (no more offending) Yeah but hey ur doing good witht eh no cussing part except for the effing…….uh, so yeah. And thank you for not gaing me? yeah. Or cusing me out? thanks?

    Yea and im not smacking my friends with bricks tatlor, there friends for a reason!

  122. yeah, it’s okay. i just had to get that out.
    not listening to bands is fine.
    and yeah….i think we’re pretty different.
    i’m not really sure what i am. labels are lame. i like “freakish” though.

    yeah, well i knew if i said certain words, the comment would automatically go into moderation, so it probably wouldn’t get read. and there’s no fun ranting to an empty room.

    i am sort of puzzled by the implication that all bands “improvise”
    did you mean improve? because if you like your life the way it is, it most certainly doesn’t need improving.

  123. o yea thats wat i ment to say. And i do like it.

    Well, no that the whole music…….diversity thing is over. Phew! Ok, well. Im just waitin for my friend to get there ice cream. Yep. Life is fun.

    Yes, he finally got it!

  125. Yum…. I love ice-cream. I’m going to the mall to see if they have New Moon. I shall die of waitingness for waiting to read New Moon.

  126. LOL

    You’ve gone from wanting to gag Bran-La to being jelous of her ice-cream.

    Cheers for making me giggle XD

    Converse are cool. Music is awesome. They took the ! out of Panic! At The Disco?!?!?!?!

    THATS LAME

    I’ll leave you to your Ice cream and scary church people. I have to sleep. Where i live its LATE. AND i have school tomorrow. ON a saturday.

    Talk about gayyyy…

    Speak soons Serafina and Bran-la

    Alisha-La xxx

  128. Hmm….
    I finished New Moon…
    I can never remember anything that happened though….
    Very odd…
    I want ice-cream too…

    But, if I want it I guess I can go get it out of the laundry room…
    That lesson was learned after I got my tonsils out…
    Ummm…yeah

  132. Whoa. Music fight. O_O I feel obligated to list all the music I think is good now… sooo…
    The Kooks, the Shins, Death Cab for Cutie, the Fray, Augustana, Modest Mouse, Spoon, Feist, Jason Mraz, Relient K, Switchfoot, Hank Green (anyone heard him?), Paolo Nutini, KT Tunstall, the Kinks, The Hush Sound, the Hoosiers, and the Killers.
    Do I listen to enough music? Jeez.

  139. well, *puts hands on hips and pouts* excuse me bran-la!
    lol jk, jk…i have a friend with similar tastes, tried to convert her, but it was to no avail. and btw, it was cinder blocks. ๐Ÿ˜‰

    haha, thanks serafina it’s really changed now…don’t know why it didn’t, i distinctly remember typing it…whatever.

    and i like panic at the disco. there. we do have something in common. they’re just not one of my top faves so they didn’t make my abridged listing. and yeah, i know, what crap, right?
    i just looked it up on yahoo answers, apparently someone asked “Why did Panic at the disco get rid of their exclamation mark?”…haha the answer chosen by voters is “It appears the panic was not as bad as previously thought.”
    that made my night right there.

    i thought hank green was like some comedian dude…but me gusta relient k! but again, just not one of my top bands…

    7 frickin’ cones? that’s hardcore, right there, HARDCORE.

  141. SHOOT why isn’t my link changing?! *types fiercely*

    wait…it did it one the first comment, but not on the second one…?

    whatever. it better stay this time!

  142. BASTARD.
    Sorry, I’m just so angry at you right now!
    I finished Fine Prey.
    Why did you kill her?
    WHY?
    I kept crying and crying…
    It was so wrong to.
    =/
    But good writing in the book- a little confusing, but good nevertheless.

  147. i will always use the !. because i very rarely discuss Panic! At The Disco, and when i do, i think that the ! is the coolest part.

    survived church. didn’t argue with annoying, closeminded people. i pride myself.

    New Moon as in Twilight, to whoever asked, or so i’m assuming. New Moon was actually my favorite of the Twilight books, but a lot of people hate it.

  150. hhhhmmmm…didnt like new moon. i found it rather suckish. twilight was also suckish. but new moon just seemed rushed…altho i do like Jacob better than Edward. Edwards just so…typically hot and perfect. Jacob actally has character.

    as for the music thingy…dont listen to much music. lots of people think im wierd for only listening to like, one band ever. or only owning three cds. but seriously. i just listen to whatever i hear. and usually i dont hear much. so…yeah. but if i did listen to stuff…id probably like the kindof stuff Sera-la listens to. cause that stuffs my style. i just dont hear much of it. but. all that crappy pop music is just so…*shivers*.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜€

  152. i hate those throat itches! they are Evil with a capital E! i like get them all the freaking time b/c i have chronic sinus infection or w/e where it keeps coming back. i have it right now. and my nose feels all swollen like and stuff. it sucks buckets. anyways…i just got back from this super awesome talent show type thingy it was so fool. there was this group and they did like a stomp thing and they were beating drums and all of a sudden water shoots up and o it was awesome. and then a friend of mine was in this really cool mixed dance. and some guys were dressed in dresses w/ high heels and all. pretty hilarious.

  153. exactly. Beatles rock. anyone who says different is sadly misguided.

    well, i didn’t really like any twilights, but i figured after my rant earlier, an anti-twilight rant would be unnessacary and against that pesky resolution of mine.

    yeah. i have a friend like that. doesn’t listen to music, doesn’t like music, doesn’t care.
    she scares me.

  155. I actually just heard the interview on NPR, and being a longtime fan of dystopian sci-fi (John Killian Houston Brunner!!!) I thought I would stop by and let you know how interesting it was. I’m closer to your age than your characters’ and am really thrilled by the idea of someone exploring some of what is happening at present in popular culture – celebrity worship, consumerism, social networking – and playing these ideas out with younger characters who are growing up in this culture is a fantastic way to navigate it all. You might be targeting younger readers, but I think these are really serious ideas up there, yes, with the ‘literary’ sci-fi guys, like Gibson or Richard Powers (interesting ideas, but damn is it hard to slog through one of his books!).

    I will definitely be looking for your books during my next visit to the local bookstore. Great and interesting interview. Thanks!

  156. My eyes are burning from chlorine in the stupid spa! grrrr!!!
    Too tired to put in my usual two cents about whatever we’re talking about.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!! Thats what I should be doing now.
    See Ya!

  157. I loved all three of the Twilight Series books. Of course, Twilight was my fave, and New Moon was incredibly painful, but I just love the story. *happy sighs*

    And I don’t like the Beatles. Too weird, and I didn’t grow up with it. I love Linkin Park. It pรƒยธwns.

    Umm… let’s talk about movies now. My favorites are Phantom of the Opera, Pride and Prejudice, Monty Python and the Holy Grail… too many more. I like tons of movies. I want all of you to bring me a shrubbery, and if you don’t, I shall have to say, “Ni!” A very nice arrangement, but not too expensive.

  158. I know this is way out of the conversation, but I just saw that emeruld nuts commercial, the one with “there making him one of them…” THEY LOOK SO MUCH LIKE SPECIALS! AWWWWWWW!

  161. I liked all the Twilight Saga books but my fav was Eclipse!

    I no i hate throat itches, i had one when i wrote that and i had to scratch it withh my finger without gaging, it didnt work.

  167. kay, i’m finding the Beatle-bashing totally unnessacary. i mean, at least Zane is vaguely polite about it. i don’t need people reacting with “eewwww” or “gag me”. your opinions are highly unnessacary. i like them. sorry you don’t. doesn’t mean that they’re a lower quality than anything you listen to. i grew up with the Beatles. i’m wearing a t-shirt from the Yellow Submarine movie right now.
    but, just randomly, i will point out that i actually hate the song Yellow Submarine. prefer like Hey Bulldog.

    Scott’s middle name is David. sorry to ruin your drumming, but yeah. i already knew that.

  169. Finally. Gosh, i have listened to 12 songs waiting and waiting. Scott David Westerfeld. Not bad.

    Well, at least you didnt say you were going to Gag me this time. And yes, i was the one who said ‘gag me’.

    OHHH So Zane gets to be on your good side! I see how it is!

  171. I am really bored so i wrote things you should never do.
    And yes, these things have happened to me.
    Life Advice:
    1. If you just drank a glass of cranberry juice; dont run up and down the stairs, u feel like ur gonna barf.
    2. Dont ever ask people if you run funny; the answer is always yes.
    3. If you have a guy-girl party, dont invite guys who will complain about your mothers cheese dip and eats all your mini hot dogs.
    4. For Halloween, dont be book a character; old guys think your a goblin.
    5. If your going to talk about someone in a bad way, make sure there not in the room.
    6. When your friend brings a camera to school and then takes pictures of you when your running retardily; make sure you tell them NOT to put it on there MySpace.
    7. If your friends decide to put a shrimp tail in your skirt or flick on oozy bannana @ you; make sure you dont flick it back @ them because they only throw it at your face

  172. Ahaha!
    You changed the curse word.
    Sorry for cursing, I was just really upset.
    Shows good writing on your part that you can invoke crying in a reader.
    =]

  173. 8. dont stick a battery in someones bun, if they turn their head it might knock over soda
    9. when you make dog biscuits let em cool down, before u add peanut butter dollops, penut butter does melt
    10. you can’t bend a cracker, beileve me ive been trying
    11. socks are good especially when u have cold feet
    12. check these out, i worked hard
    http://images.meez.com/user09/4/0/9/2/0/3/1/4092031_bodyshot_300x400_1201362044617.gif
    http://images.meez.com/user05/4/0/9/2/0/3/1/4092031_bodyshot_300x400_1201361391066.gif

    oh yay
    its

    SCOTT

    DAVID

    YES HIS MIDDLE NAME IS DAVID
    okay how i know
    when i read a book and dont want it to end( touching darkness) I read every single word, of the book including the copy rights, and on the page there happened to have these words
    Scott David Westerfeld

  176. What are you talking about?
    You like my meez, if i take the special’s gloves off she has more flash tattoos on her hand.

  179. I get bored esaily
    ://images.meez.com/user11/4/0/9/2/0/3/1/4092031_bodyshot_300x400.gif

    now im making a dr. cable

  186. o well i put the @ signs in there but i have had to have my comment monderated before, it sucked. acculy 2ce.

    yea all the things only list have happened to me, includding the bannana and shrimp tail……………

  189. http:(slash slash)images.meez.com/user16/4/0/9/2/0/3/1/4092031_bodyshot_300x400_1201369664183(dot)gif

    Instead of (slash slash) put in // and instead of (dot) put in .

    http:(slash slash)images.meez.com/user16/4/0/9/2/0/3/1/4092031_bodyshot_300x400_1201369664183(dot)gif

    same thing

  198. Has anyone else noticed that we are all very highly opinionated?
    I am always like that.
    But I have a friend who NEVER tells me what she thinks.
    It drives me insane.

  199. hehe. how bad did you cuss at him Allie-wa? hehe. i think i have an idea…hehe. i think he is the one that has to moderate them…hehe. thats really funny.

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜€

  200. 13. scented erasers do NOT taste as good as they smell *couch* dont eat them *end couch*.
    14. be sure that the candy rapper is OFF the candy before you shove it in your mouth…painfulness…

    -Lizzy-wa OUT! ๐Ÿ˜›

  201. 15. Don’t burst out laughing when you cut your leg with a coke can. You’ll spill it all over the place and get really weird looks.

  202. 16. If your gonna eat string cheese, make sure to swallow it all at once or youll end up gagging

    18. Dont let your guy friends wear your braclet, they usually end up taking it home and who knows what they do wit it!

    19. When your dad says he makes home made pie and you dont like it, tell him, or he just makes more

  205. 20. If you gonna let your friends dog stay at your house, make sure to remove tape; they only eat it and tangle themselves with it.
    21. If you happen to see a cute guy standing next to you and you giggle, cover your fathers mouth before he has a chance to say “If there not laughing there farting!”
    22. I got four words for airplane rides:
    Dont. Sit. By. Bathrooms.

  208. 17. don’t use the bathroom in charter buses. Especially when going on a bumpy road or around turns.

  210. I have them all on 1 list

    Things you should never do. (started by Bran-la)
    1.If you just drank a glass of cranberry juice; dont run up and down the stairs, u feel like ur gonna barf.
    2. Dont ever ask people if you run funny; the answer is always yes.
    3. If you have a guy-girl party, dont invite guys who will complain about your mothers cheese dip and eats all your mini hot dogs.
    4. For Halloween, dont be book a character; old guys think your a goblin.
    5. If your going to talk about someone in a bad way, make sure there not in the room.
    6. When your friend brings a camera to school and then takes pictures of you when your running retardily; make sure you tell them NOT to put it on there MySpace.
    7. If your friends decide to put a shrimp tail in your skirt or flick on oozy bannana @ you; make sure you dont flick it back @ them because they only throw it at your face
    -Bran-la
    8. dont stick a battery in someones bun, if they turn their head it might knock over soda
    9. when you make dog biscuits let em cool down, before u add peanut butter dollops, penut butter does melt
    10. you canรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt bend a cracker, beileve me ive been trying
    11. socks are good especially when u have cold feet
    12. check these out, i worked hard
    http://images.meez.com/user09/4/0/9/2/0/3/1/4092031_bodyshot_300รƒโ€”400_1201362044617.gif
    http://images.meez.com/user05/4/0/9/2/0/3/1/4092031_bodyshot_300รƒโ€”400_1201361391066.gif
    -Tali-wa
    13. .scented erasers do NOT taste as good as they smell *couch* dont eat them *end couch*.
    14. be sure that the candy rapper is OFF the candy before you shove it in your mouthรขโ‚ฌยฆpainfulnessรขโ‚ฌยฆ
    -Lizzy-wa
    15 .Donรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt burst out laughing when you cut your leg with a coke can. Youรขโ‚ฌโ„ขll spill it all over the place and get really weird looks.
    -Netta-la
    16.If your gonna eat string cheese, make sure to swallow it all at once or youll end up gagging
    -Bran-la
    17. donรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt use the bathroom in charter buses. Especially when going on a bumpy road or around turns.
    -Netta-la
    18. Dont let your guy friends wear your braclet, they usually end up taking it home and who knows what they do wit it!
    19. When your dad says he makes home made pie and you dont like it, tell him, or he just makes more
    -from Bran-la
    20.If you gonna let your friends dog stay at your house, make sure to remove tape; they only eat it and tangle themselves with it.
    21. If you happen to see a cute guy standing next to you and you giggle, cover your fathers mouth before he has a chance to say รขโ‚ฌล“If there not laughing there farting!รขโ‚ฌย
    22. I got four words for airplane rides:
    Dont. Sit. By. Bathrooms.
    -Bran-la

  214. 23. If you dont want to sit on the seat of the port-a-potty and you squat, make sure your pant are out of the way before u pee on yourself.

  215. o trust me, the one about my dad and pies and guiys i had to learn, all the ones ive said i had to learn!

  219. 24.Never give the name of the book you want for your birthday to your parents. You’ll end up with underwear. Ask for a gift card to the bookstore instead.

  222. I have them all saved in my RANDOMNESS file on my computer
    [contains random facts and epiphanies I don’t want to forget, rants, jibberish, secret codes, randomness(obviously), and more]

  225. 25. Never record yourself singing, especially if you think you’re good, but you’re not. If you’re really good, someone else will tell you so (your mom doesn’t count).

    26. Never shout, “Well, at least we have booms!” across an orchestra room of middle schoolers. Especially if you’re a guy *cough* Ryan *cough*

    Ok, so 26 might not make any sense but I still lmbo when I remember it…

    27. Never attack the person you hate at soccer practice, especially when the rest of the team is her friend and parents are watching. Trust me, it’s not worth it.

  227. 28. don’t see how many times you can spin around and then jump in the pool, it can only result in a colluision with the cement.

    29. don’t go in your hot tub in the winter while your mean cousins are over, they will only throw snow balls at you and pour buckets of snow on you when you try to dash for the house.

    30. don’t double-team your friend who isn’t that great at skaing and pull them faster and faster until they fall, it will only result in you being pulled down with them and split pants.

    30 happened to my friend. she and and another friend tried to pull me really fast and i ended up falling and taking them down with me and my friend split her pants infront of our entire class. it was pretty hilarious.

  228. sheesh! there was some huge convorsation going on! but just to put my faves in beatles are awesome. they are legendary!

    I loved the twilight serise. I liked New Moon the best. but yes, it was painful to read!
    my favorite movie is Juno. its hystaricle! oh! and the Lake House, cause i was in it! ๐Ÿ˜€
    Clarissa-wa ๐Ÿ˜€

  231. Well I was just an extra in the backround. just walking around. it was really fun! but its not like im famous or anything. ๐Ÿ™‚

  232. oic…that’s still very fawesome though! what scenes were you in? and did you get to meet Keanu Reeves or Sandra Bullock?

  233. Ok i think i no what my next book is going to be ‘The Complex Infrastructure known as the Female Mind’. It sounds so fool Bri-la. Thanks to you i want to read it!

  240. Kay-wa- I got to meet Keono Reeves, but if you had a camera or a maker you would lose your job and get kicked out! i was in the scean where they are going to like that walk. i dont know. i was just walking in the backround! ๐Ÿ˜€

    aw poor Bran-la ๐Ÿ™

  243. HaHaHa!!!*falls over laughing and stops breathing*
    Can I add one? cuz I’m going to anyway.
    31: Never drink anything while your idiotic friends are…well…being themselves-idiotic.It can only result in you choking and spraying said drink all over everyone.(and yes that one is from personal experience.sadly.)
    See Ya!

  244. 32. If a door doesn’t open the first time, don’t smash into it again, seeing if it will give THIS time. Just back up, see if it’s a “PULL” door, and then continue once you have evaluated the situation.

    (Yes, experience. I am brilliant about doors.)

    33. If you and your friend are shouting out random objects to each other, do not yell “Condoms!” when you cannot think of anything else. Because then it is really awkward and appears as if you have a very demented mind.

    (I am a GOOD girl! I swear! But I couldn’t think of anything. Sad.)

    34. Always check your fly before exiting a bathroom.

    35. Don’t go to this site if it is late, because then you will be on until the wee hours of the morning, and hate life the next day.

    (Also experience)

  247. 36:If you burn yourself on something its still going to have the same reaction the second and third time. So do NOT touch it again.
    (light bulbs look warm and inviting but beware.Vicious, I tell you, Vicious!)

  248. LOL@YOUR DOOR COMMENT Tally & Zane ๐Ÿ˜›

    I’ve done that before. Got hurrrt…Stpid pull doors. The signs should be more obvious!

    I have also shouted out innapropriote things at inaproproate times…Its funny though!

    Another little tip:

    DO NOT LET CATS SIT ON YOUR KEYBOARD.

    Mine managed to restart my computer and open my documents? I’m not sure how she did it…Shes not too smart. But yes. Very bad thing to let them sit/lie down on it. DO NOT ATTEMPT!

    xx

  249. Omg. I love #33, 34, and 36 too funny! I am seriously going to write a book about these things. It will be fun! ‘Life Advice: stupid things teenagers do’. I can just laugh and laugh about it all day!

    37. If the girls bathroom over flows with water, don’t let your father convince you to use the guys bathroom.

  250. 38. When your little sister has a friend over you might want to watch them before: they dump the trash can on the dog, the dog run into a glass horse, the horse break and your dog yelps.

  251. 39. never let your friends know that things poping out at you scare you, b/c then every chance they get they will scare you and they will hide behind every corner & in your closet. ahhhhhhhhh the terror!!!!!!!

    haha yes, i get scared very easily. ok funny story time….it was May-day one year and me and my friend had just got done playing soccer all day and we made these little may day baskets for each other and we took her home and she said to go give one of my other friends their may day basket (she just lived like 3 houses down) & then come back and give her hers. so i did. then i jumped into my moms mini-van and told her to drive away fast and wouldn’t ya know it, my friend hid in the trunk and so we were driving and all of a sudden she pops out and grabs me. i totally freak out and then open the door and start running down the street like a crazy person. so i finally get back in the car we go home and like 10 mins later my mom tells me to go hide outside cuz my friends mom just called and said they were coming over to bring me a may day basket and so i hid my friend saw me and ran around the house and my mom let her and her mom in the back door and i didn’t know it so i was looking around the house for like 5 mins. then i finally went in and i found her mom easily. then i went upstairs to look for my friend and she was hidding in my closet and it was cracked open just a little bit and so i walked in my room said “i know your in there, i see you” and so i wait a minute, she pops out and scares the crap out of me i go flying backwards onto my bed…roll off and fall on my trash can and break it. lol. it was hilarious.

    ok so sorry that was like a really long story. i should work on condensing it. but i won’t. cuz i’m too lazy. ha.

  253. 41. When you stay the night at someones house and they have a really cute brother; make sure your not laughing the whole time and end up need tummies because your stomach hurts.

  255. 42. Make sure you think about what your going to say and if it makes since or you end up blurting out “Look Mom, the blinker is blinking!”

  257. 43:If you’re at your friends house and your friend just so happens to have a cute brother, do not, I repeat NOT, tell your friend that you think he’s cute until AFTER you leave.It’s like mini soap opera . *shivers*gags*runs away from computer screaming*(j.k.)
    See Ya!

  258. 44. Don’t tell your classmate’s girlfriend that he is in your Algebra 1 class, a REACH, GT, or TAG class (whatever you want to call it), because it is frequently refered to as the retarted class and she will possibly dump him…then you’ll have to explain WHY she dumped him..

  261. I would listen to the mp3, but it would probably crash my computer. Feels like being crap today.

    I think that picture makes the post absolutely lovely! ๐Ÿ˜›

  262. hmmmmmmmm to go back to the subject of bands i like:

    Keane, Telekinesis!, Jack’s Mannequin, ADELE, Benton Paul, Bishop Allen, K’naan, The Killers, MGMT, Oasis, Sherwood, Shiny Toy Guns, The Submarines, and many more

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