Everything Is Nice
Beating the nice nice nice thing to death (with fluffy pillows)
Pages
Categories
Recent Comments
 | OKBET on Notes Towards A Post-2008 Slip… |
| OKBET on BSFA Awards Voting – Sho… |
| OKBET on BSFA Review – Vector… |
| OKBET on A Really Useful Engine |
| OKBET on Two Proposals For The Structur… |
| OKBET on BSFA Review – Vector… |
| kingbart123 on Con Report – Easter… |
| kingbart123 on A Few Short Notes On Some Shor… |
| kingbart123 on The Shortlists Of The Arthur C… |
| kingbart123 on The Clarke Award: Shortlists V… |
| kingbart123 on The Pursuit Of Realism |
| kingbart123 on The Decline And Fall Of The Bi… |
 | DavidCMahler on ‘Freezone’ by John… |
 | Carl on A Few Short Notes On Some Shor… |
 | Readlist: hope sprin… on The Ascent Of Wonder: The Evol… |
Recent Posts
- The Decline And Fall Of The Big Three Empire
- Holding On For Tomorrow
- The Pursuit Of Realism
- Reviewing The 2016 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist
- The Clarke Award: Shortlists Vs Longlists
- BSFA Review – Vector #283
- The Shortlists Of The Arthur C Clarke: What Goes Around, Comes Around
- Two Proposals For The Structure And Administration Of The Arthur C Clarke Award
- A Few Short Notes On Some Short Fiction 2
- Con Report – Eastercon
Book Blogroll
- Asking The Wrong Questions
- Caustic Cover Critic
- Chrononautic Log
- Empty Your Heart Of Its Mortal Dream
- Eve’s Alexandria
- Follow the Thread
- Guardian Book Blog
- It Doesn't Have To Be Right
- Locus Roundtable
- NextRead
- OF Blog Of The Fallen
- Pechorin's Journal
- Punkadiddle
- Richard Larson
- SF Diplomat
- Shaken & Stirred
- Solar Bridge
- Speculative Horizons
- Spiral Galaxy Reviewing Laboratory
- The Asylum
- The Speculative Scotsman
- There Is No Genre
- Torque Control
Culture
Diaspora
- Brelson
- Cowfish
- Inversion Layer
- Nothing Tra La La?
- Nutty Xander
- Post-ambient Fuzz
- Simon And Rach
- Stephen’s Blog
Film
Other Places
- Big Blog Of Cheese
- BLDG BLOG
- Boing Boing
- Crooked Timber
- Futurismic
- MetaFilter
- Nostalgia For Infinity
- Political Animal
- Science Fictional
- The Guardian
- Velcro City Tourist Board
Publications
- Fruitless Recursion
- Interzone
- Locus Online
- New York Review Of Science Fiction
- SF Site
- Strange Horizons
- Vector
Archives
- September 2022
- April 2019
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- October 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
Everything Is Nice 
Because it rhymes with “veracity”
Peter Hollo
27 April 2012 at 12:19
Operaticality sounds like something from a Danny Kaye patter song and is therefore surely the winner:
The operaticality
That’s found in this locality
Is renowned for it’s banality
And numerous fatalities.
[enter chorus of children…]
P Hudson
27 April 2012 at 14:20
[…] terms of operacity-operaticity-operaticality, the story never gets beyond Mars. This is the equivalent of Aubrey and Maturin never leaving the […]
‘The Prince Of Space’ by Jack Williamson « Everything Is Nice
27 April 2012 at 16:18
I think Patrick just won the internet.
David Moles
27 April 2012 at 18:56
Actually, “operacity- operaticity- operaticality” sounds to me like an escalating scale of space operaness, along the lines of big- bigger- biggest. I suppose it’s the wrong part of speech for that, but the flow of the words works.
Joseph Nebus
28 April 2012 at 06:23