why do my friends not love me?

Jade:  what background music should I use?

[…]

Quark:  background for what?

Jade:  writing

a story about me

in third person

Quark:  fields of gold?

Jade:  ooo

you are creative

goes

Jade:  okay now what

Quark:  safety dance

that love hotel song thing

Jade:  love hotel song thing?

Quark:  you know

Jade:  ...

Quark:  there's a bunch of people

LOVE SHACK

that's it

Jade:  I

oh dear God

yet another famous death

and since I'm coming upon this in a timely fashion, I'll actually post about it.

John Updike died today.

I hear he's best known for his Rabbit books, which I haven't read, but my first exposure to him was a poem I read in 9th grade English, and hated.  Guess it's time to give him another chance.