Whoa! Always refresh before you post, children, or you'll look like me. Glad to hear Mr. Ackerman is still around. It gives me hope I can find that link...
I'm fondly remembering a list of titles that Forry drew up when A.E. Van Vogt said he was writing novels too quickly and couldn't come up with enough topics. They were names like "One Zillion Leaning Towers" and "The Twin Who United Himselves". I seem to have lost the link even as we lose the man. RIP.
I cried too. Granted, maybe it's because I'm drunk. But I'll be sober tomorrow, and Barack Obama will still be president. Life is good.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
There's some nervous energy for you. I'm chewing my nails off. I desperately need an Obama victory. If the Bradley Effect sinks him, I'm going to have to kill all the white people in this country (finishing with myself).
PS- There was one electronic voting machine at my polling place, and they kept asking for volunteers to use it, but no one would. That should make Mr. Schneier happy.
Carol @ 54
Did you mean this post? 14-point list under "context of rejection"? If not, maybe this Marion Zimmer Bradley essay would suffice.
Patrick @ 84
Yes! One of David Duchovny's hairpieces would be perfect. Or Gillian
Anderson's. Or one of Mitch Pileggi's baldcaps. (Basically I assume
that no one in Hollywood accurately represents their hairline. Maybe
your brother would know differently.)
I suppose if "The X-files" were interactive everyone would have
whatever hair we wanted them to. I think an episode of "The X-files"
with the hair of X Japan would be pretty cool, myself.
Oh, and following up on Patrick's parenthetical comment in the post
itself: what props would be appropriate to send to Warren Ellis? Some
Tom Savini prosthetic, or something from "Beyond the Valley of the
Dolls" maybe? A question for the ages, to be sure.
Has anyone else thought about how “fixed†media experiences can be a
benefit? No matter how crazy the radio show, I couldn’t have generated
David Lynch’s films in my head without his help. If you have total
control over a media experience, you may change it to suit your needs
and thus never see something you’re not expecting. I like TV.
But if all you have is fixed media, or if the barriers to
self-generated media are disproportionately high, then it seems to me
you wind up leaning on fixed media for things that they really aren’t
good at. Scott McCloud has observed that kids who want to be Spiderman
will play him in videogames, not read comics. Which lets/forces the
comics tell other stories, that aren’t so closely based around
hero-identification power fantasies. So, now we get both. Hybrid vigor.
Does this video remind anyone else of the final flowering of humanity in "Childhood's End"?
"The general standard of culture was at a level which would once
have seemed fantastic. There was no evidence that the intelligence of
the human race had improved, but for the first time everyone was given
the fullest opportunity of using what brain he had."
"One unexpected result of this was the extinction of the
professional sportsman. There were too many brilliant amateurs, and the
changed economic conditions had made the old system obsolete."
Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now
seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground, there were some
who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question:
“Where do we go from here?â€
(This is my first comment. How'd I do?)
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