Brent Nyitray
Fairlington Blade
Let the mutherfuker burn!
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Kevin S. Willis
Michigoose
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markinaustin
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yellojktWhat was I doing at this very moment 26 years ago? This:
It’s amazing I found this interesting enough to do for hours and hours at a time. But I did, smoking my Max Menthol cigarettes, dialing up the local BBS with my acoustic modem, drinking my Diet Pepsi. Sigh. Those were the days.
So, you may be asking yourself. Did Kevin compose an entire album of music dedicated to playing Downland on a TRS-80 Color Computer in 1985? Why, yes I did. Today’s soundtrack I would have wanted to jam to while playing Downland back in the day? Noodles.
This resembles a lot of my daydreaming back in 1985. And possibly yesterday.
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Words escape me, Kevin!But the lyrics were pretty funny! Where do you find all of these videos? Spend your day surfing YouTube when you're supposed to be doing databases??? 🙂
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When I run across something cool, I try to remember it. Occasionally, those things re-occur to me, or I run across them, and I set 'em aside for future Bits & Pieces now.
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Maybe I'll have to find a male version of the TRON girl video to put up one of these evenings. Why do girl geeks never seem to make videos like that???Or, just to get back at all you guys, I could do an entire post on my new boots (five pairs, all of which have been highly admired by the guys in the lab now). 🙂
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Evening, all. I'm finally back, if only for a bit. Things have been hectic in my world! I've really missed the discussions, just too many projects going on without enough time to do them. Hope all is well with everyone. I'm going to try to speed-read through some posts here.P.S. to lms: No issues with the site at all, just busy.
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Howdy, okie! Good to see you!We know about hectic. . .
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Hey, okie, yes, you are missed, but most of us are busy working stiffs. I've been in and out for a few days, too.Shame on you, kw.
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Wow, you guys are more prolific than even I had hoped!!! Congrats on some great posts. Now for going back in more detail.Cruised a bit through PL. So this is now the "blog that must not be named"? LOL. It seems to be a minor threat to some there, but lms is as always the diplomat.
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michi, I forgot to ask. Five new pairs of boots? Even my sis wasn't that obsessed, and she did a pretty good imitation. (And luckily, I have been the beneficiary of a great deal of her good taste in such things.) Is there a story that I have not yet read?
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Hunky young motorcycle cop, okie. I can tell you about it offline if you're interested. It bores the guys. . . 😉
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Mich:Why do girl geeks never seem to make videos like that???I think I posted this once at PL, but this is kind of video that girl geeks make. (five pairs, all of which have been highly admired by the guys in the lab now)Imelda Michigoose?
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five pairs of new boobs?
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Ah, yes. . . economics girl geeks! I remember I first thought you meant Selma Hayek. Little did I know! Science girl geeks (at least of a certain age) seem to prefer Lady Gaga, which is obviously not nearly as much fun.Imelda Michigoose?Full disclosure: I didn't know how many pairs of shoes I had till I moved. Lots more than I thought! The boots are way, way hotter though. LOL!
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Mark–put on your reading glasses!! ROTFLMAO!!!
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mark, what a great laugh!!!michi, are you keeping in mind all of the adages about minimum time it takes you to be crazy after a divorce? (That said, I had a great time after my divorce. Yum.) Sheesh, I would say I sound like my mother except she did not accept the premise or reality of divorce. 🙂 Email if that's easier.
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Nothing's happened just yet, okie, and I'm fine with that. It was just a cop friend reading my mind and anticipating what I was going to suggest to him. The really disconcerting part?How well he knows my taste in men. Cops. They really are mind readers.
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"Shame on you, kw."I've been very naughty. I'm a naughty, naughty boy. Someone with new boots ought to punish me. 😉
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Oh. . . just you wait, KW!I can see now that I'm going to have to do a boot post. . .You naughty, naughty boy! (LOL)(snort)
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Jeeze, I leave for a few hours and the "Girls are Back in Town". Okie, I never speculated, just hoped you be back. And I try to be diplomatic on paper regarding the Plumline, but sometimes my thoughts wander in a different direction, lol.Sorry you've been so busy but most times busy is good. We've actually been a little busier around here for this time of year so I'm enjoying it and now the checks will be pouring in before the Holidays……………yay.
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lms, not saying you speculated, but just wanted you to know that I was not absent for any reasons this blog might have caused. Yes, busy IS good. 🙂 At the moment, I'm in a race to get the exterior trim painted on my house before winter. I've now scraped and prepped and am down to the painting . . . the easy part.Time for me to check out, and I've not made as much progress as I would have liked in reviewing posts. But I am again struck by the quality of the discussions and feel blessed to partake. Good night.
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Oh and I was once a young divorcee myself………Kevin, you are really bad, I can see that now. So what's happening in the news, anything? I guess the WS was rained out, SCat will be disappointed. Oh, and I mentioned the other day that the job offers are coming in for daughter #2 and it looked like I was going to be vacationing in Houston from now on, well today the offer she's been hoping for came in from Denver so there's hope for us yet.
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'Night, okie, and sweet painting dreams!
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Night okie, good luck painting. We're having weather here so hopefully it won't come your way.
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"Kevin, you are really bad, I can see that now."I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
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So happy you're back, Okie. Now, if Scat was back, all would be right with the world. 😉
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Michigoose, I just read your "defense" of Chris Fox to QB.Bsimon and I, who are both ticket splitting moderates, were among those in 2009 who urged Cillizza to ban Chris Fox at "The Fix" because of his incendiary temper and his bragging that he had brought other blogs to destruction.He regularly bullied, bragged, called attention to himself, and threatened. He was banned, along with StreetCorner/RainForest, but insisted on returning with new I.D.s and bragging that as a software engineer at Microsoft he could always beat the IP identification at WaPo. His M.O. is actually to chase away those with whom he disagrees. I refused his bait at "The Fix" where he and someone who called himself "BroadwayJoe" passed judgment on those of us who actually thought capitalism was a preferable economic model to socialism, [and feudalism, fascism, or mercantilism]. We even learned his preferences in sex partners and sex positions, as well as hisleg strength as measured on the press. Mnteng and I had a laugh over that one. But most of the old Fix crowd who ventured to PL have never had anything to do with him and we do not respond to him. I believe I speak for BB here, as well.The exception was 12BB, who also had the mistaken notion that Chris Fox was stable.CF is so narcissistic that I am sure he would be gratified that I posted this here. I promise never to mention him again.
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"The exception was 12BB, who also had the mistaken notion that Chris Fox was stable."Ya know, everyone said Luke Skywalker was crazy when he said there was still some good left in Darth Vader.Of course, that ended with Darth Vader throwing an old guy down a pit. Maybe that's not the best example.
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I'll only say one more thing re CF, I've pretty much always stayed away from him other than trying to defend someone from one of his and a few others attacks. I can't explain why I do that but it's usually not for the person I'm debating's benefit but more for others to read a different take. I've never been much interested in what he's had to say and generally scrolled past his posts otherwise. I did catch him in a big lie the other day re ATiM but I kept my mouth shut for once. I've decided when I comment there to make more generic comments, well I'm going to try anyway.
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Mark–I wouldn't argue that he's stable. I think he has a public and a private persona, and I've gotten to know the private side. His public side has been loathsome, and I don't know why he's chosen to do that.That said, while I like him because I've seen a different side of him, I won't claim that he's been a likable person on blogs. . . for whatever reason. I'm just trying to say that there's more than one side, and I won't let him be portrayed as an irredeemable individual when I know better. I don't have a problem with all of you not liking him (believe me, I didn't either for quite some time), as long as you let me chime in on his side when he starts getting piled on.
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OK – you know I would never try to stop you from chiming in!
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Yep, I knew that!Just call me loyal. . .
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Michigoose, your defense reminds me of the Harlan Ellison story, Hitler Painted Roses. Of course, Harlan Ellison is also a brilliant guy who can be horribly asocial. I suspect Mr. Fox hunts blogs for sport. I imagine most deer don't care for the fellow in the boots and camo, either, but the hunter's family loves him dearly. Again, it's his shtick, and it really works well, when you think about it. He's got what you call brand stickiness.I used to have to respond to certain complaints about a product at a job I was unhappy with, and hadn't got my head on straight enough to just leave. Also, the product was essentially mine, done on my own time and with my resources, but I wasn't seeing any benefit from it–lots of stuff just added together, so when I dealt with complaints, I was a complete douche bag. Utter. I had some bile that needed exuding, and that was my format. In the end, I realized that wasn't good for me, and that I was doing it at all was a sign that I should have been addressing other issues in a more effective fashion. But . . . everybody has a good side. From Newt Gingrich to Ted Bundy. 😉
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My best friend, who has been my best friend since I was a kid, has a little bit of the nasty in him now and again. I treat it like performance art–because he's a good friend and I know him well. So does almost everybody who knows him. People who don't know him so well, not so much (he had a bit of an anti-Islamic rant during the Ground Zero mosque thing that pissed of some people; I give him a pass because he was such a good friend for such a long time, I've got a lot of patience).
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KW–schtick, brand stickiness, whatever. He's really quite a nice guy in private. Public, you guys can trash him all you want, but there is more than one side to a coin.Boots, Kevin, boots. You're going to get to see them this weekend. . .
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Well, speaking of douchebags, here's HotAir's own Allahpundit wondering why Michael Moore wouldn't be considered a 1%.
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Goose: "He's really quite a nice guy in private."Which just says to me he is entirely and completely aware that accusing people you disagree with of molesting their own children or talking about how someone should shoot people like me in the head is not how you treat other human beings. It's a form of exhibitionism, and I'm sure he's a great guy in private, but that's usually not a lot of comfort to the person he just waggled his willy at. So to speak.Michael Moore is part of the 99%. In the upper 99%. Like, around 99. But even if he were (or is) as wealthy as Ghadaffi, or even has moo-oo-oo-oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-oooves like Jagger, he'd get a pass, because he's anti-capitalism, so his heart's in the right place. And who can begrudge a fellow huge wealth at the expense of his underpaid and sometimes unpaid staff, when his heart is in the right place? Good intentions matter.
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KW–I'm sorry he's been so horrible to you. . . for what it's worth. I know I can't apologize for someone else. But I, myself, am sorry that someone I know has done that.
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Well at least Michael Moore didn't single handedly crash the economy. I'm afraid allahpundit has missed the point.
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I think the point that AP's making is that there isn't any consistency in who is assigned to the 1%. Clearly Obama is a 1%er, perhaps the top 1%er, but I've read many interviews (ahhhh, here comes some sweet, sweet anecdotal evidence I hope you will use, as I have, to paint veeeerrrrryyyyy broadly) in which OWSers still plan on voting for him. If their vilification is legitimate, isn't us TeaBagger's villifications equally valid?
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lms:Well at least Michael Moore didn't single handedly crash the economy.Neither did the dreaded 1%. Nor did Wall Street. So who did? And what, exactly, is the point of OWS?
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So who did?there's this just to start.
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Okay, I'm here to turn myself in to the authorities and fess up, so to speak.Some folks noticed a new commenter at PL. CyrusHarding is me, which I just revealed over there. Long story short, in case anyone is interested:I originally registered a new name to try to determine why QB no longer worked, despite Bethonie's assurance that it should be fine. It worked for a while when I logged in through my work servers, then that quit working, too.Anyway, I then thought, oh why bother anyway, then later saw something about ATiM on which I wanted to comment. But, having only the new name to use, I thought it would be interesting to comment for a few days and see (a) whether anyone spotted me and (b) how they would react if they didn't. Well, they didn't, and they reacted very predictably, mainly with insults and taunts. Anyway, being condescended to by an evasive Mr. BL gets old. He ended up thinking I was Scott (very flattering), which I did find a little surprising. But my take-away is that my comments must not be the rote, repetitious talking points they all claim, or they've have recognized me. I recognized he whom I will no longer name immediately, every time he showed up with a new name.
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Bonus question: who knows who Cyrus Harding is?
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Before I Google it, a relative of Warren? Nah, that's too obvious. Off to visit the Google. . .
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Come on you guys I was just making a tiny point. Sure Moore, Oprah, Obama, Buffett et al are easily in the 1%. And no one person or small group of 1% single handedly crashed the economy. I think the general consensus among OWS is that the financial class in general got a free pass for their part of the mess, as did regulators and policy makers for the most part. The rest of us, not so much. I'm not part of the protesters so I'm not going to speak for them, but I do know there's still a lot of frustration out here and in general people feel like they've been ripped off. That may or may not be 100% accurate but you can't deny the anger. Tea Partiers were given the same opportunity to voice their anger, they just didn't occupy which is what is making a big difference I think.The left wasn't impressed with the Tea Party and the right isn't impressed with OWS, but I think they've both had an effect on the political dialogue, which I consider a good thing. I appreciate people expressing their dissatisfaction and making a few waves…..it's "representative" government in action.
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A commenter at the Plumline?
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Just goes to show I haven't read enough.
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Yes, I guess I wasn't very clear, huh. At PL. My old handle no longer works there at all, although bethonie told me by email it should work fine. I was going to offer Greg my answer to his questions about here. In fact, I have one drafted, but I'm not sure I'm going to bother. He doesn't deserve it and likely has no real interest.
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Michi,No, he is a fictional character. You would either know it or not (read the book or not). It's a book most people would have read, in younger days.
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qb, I saw that Bernie though Cyrus was Scott….funny. Did you actually confess over there? I missed that. The real Cyrus Harding or fictional Cyrus Harding is from Fantasy Island, maybe?
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Too funny though qb, I emailed that CH exchange with Bernie to scott because I thought it was so funny bernie thought that. It never occurred to me it might be either one of you.
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I'll just tell you, not that it is important. Cyrus Harding is a character in Jules Verne's Mysterious Island, which I read as a young teen, and it was my favorite reading experience. Read it straight through over several days. Harding is the leader of the castaway group and pretty much knows everything a man in such circumstances in the 19th century would need to know. The ultimate resourceful leader. Well, there you have my level of literary sophistication.
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Lol so you were the one who "tipped off" Scott, lms? That is funny. You were watching me without knowing either!I had planned to reveal the truth to Bernie earlier, but he kept replying, so I started to think I shouldn't ruin it. But I didn't want to carry on too long.
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Lol, I got the Island correct. I left that conversation over there too soon I guess. Funny how they think they've cleaned up their act when it's really just that the targets are missing. Oh well, enough of plumline………..I drift further away every day. We're having good dialogues here and the girls all showed up so I'm happy.Night all.
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"…but I think they've both had an effect on the political dialogue, which I consider a good thing."But it's the effect on the political outcome that's important.QB, in keeping with the Dr.Quest avatar no doubt.
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You know, at lunch I often can check the interwebs. I used to go to PL first, just to see what's going on. Now it's ATiM.
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"But it's the effect on the political outcome that's important."We agree McWing!! So far the Tea Party has had some success in the House, the rest remains to be seen.
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I had not thought of that, Troll. Captain Cyrus Harding, Dr. Quest … I have some odd heroes.lms, just one last note when you see it. After cao dropped in to call Scott a lying pig, Beach told me they've agreed over there to stop the personal attacks. Just the other day Beach "joked" about raping Brigade's wife. Looniness.
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"Michigoose, your defense reminds me of the Harlan Ellison story, Hitler Painted Roses. Of course, Harlan Ellison is also a brilliant guy who can be horribly asocial."My favorite story about Harlan Ellison from Ron Moore's (now defuct) blog from the new Battlestar Galactica:"Thank you, Harlan EllisonThere are people you do thank and people you should, and it occurs to me that now is a good time to finally move a man who had a great influence on my life out of the later category and into the former. That man is Harlan Ellison, one of the greatest speculative fiction writers this country has ever produced and a legitimate legend in his own time. Ironically, it’s not his writing which influenced me, his stories nor his style, although I was an avid reader of his work, notably “Chasing the Nightmare” “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” “Harlan Ellison’s Watching” and “The Glass Teat.” In truth, the man influenced me in two encounter which seemed trivial at the time, but which turned out to have been pivotal moments in my life as a writer.As readers of this blog know by now, I was a born and bred Trek fan growing up in the mid 1970’s, watching the show in strip syndication and always on the lookout for the odd piece of merchandising that might find its way into my neighborhood bookstore. But growing up in a small town in central California, I’d never had the opportunity to come anywhere near that legendary gathering of geekdom – the convention. So it wasn’t until I was a freshman at Cornell in 1983, that I had my first chance to pay for the privilege of sitting in a badly lit auditorium and listen to panel discussions on the feasibility of interstellar travel and marvel at just how many people had the time and resources to construct their very own Gorn costumes, complete with universal translator at the college in Stony Brook, New York."
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"I do remember wandering a dealer room for the first time, pondering the cost of a fan-produced Phaser II, and seeing a screening of “The Dead Zone” but what really stuck with me, what ultimately had a far greater impact on me than anything else was when Harlan Ellison took the stage and began to read a piece he’d just written to the gathered. The piece was about a recent incident in the nation’s capitol which had garnered coast to coast live coverage in that period of embryonic cable overkill. A man had driven a van which he claimed was filled with explosives to the base of the Washington Monument and threatened to blow it up unless there was an end to the nuclear arms race. Police snipers ultimately shot and killed him and discovered that he had no explosives.Harlan’s piece that day in Stony Brook condemned not the disturbed man in the van, but the actions of the police who killed him and more broadly condemned us all for focusing more on his empty threat of blowing up a piece of stone than to the very real threat of nuclear holocaust he wanted to end.It was not a popular sentiment. Fans, heretofore fawning and sycophantic to Harlan’s every word and bon mot, began to boo and hiss, some even yelling obscenities at the stage. To be sure, I shared the feelings of most in the audience. I felt that the police had acted in a mostly responsible way, that they had no way of knowing whether or not there were really explosives in the van and that his death was regrettable, but ultimately of his own making. But what struck me that day was not the political sentiment Harlan expressed, but his willingness to say something in public that was unpopular, to challenge the assumptions of his most devoted followers and his blunt refusal to back down in the face of their outrage. He gave not an inch, refusing to bow to the rising tide of anger in the audience and continued to read his essay in full knowledge of the fact that it was probably going to cost him more than one book sale at the dealer table later that day.I remember being confused, angered, and somewhat disappointed by what one of my literary heroes had stood up and said. “How could he think that?” I said to myself and shook my head at what seemed like an inverted moral stance. I never read the piece itself, and to this day I have only the vaguest memory of him reading it out loud, but what struck me then and what sticks with me to this very day is the image of a writer standing on principle in the face of overwhelming disapproval. Harlan had made a career, admittedly, of being the skunk at the party, of saying things he knew would piss people off, but never for the easy shock value. He had an opinion and he wasn’t afraid to state it, regardless of the consequences to his book sales or how it made him look in polite society. I can still picture him standing on that stage and shouting against the ocean rearing up against him and it still challenges me to be the kind of writer willing to say the thing that no one else wants to hear.The man had guts."
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"The second encounter occurred years many years later after I had become an established writer and had been invited to participate on a panel at the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills along with several much bigger names, including J. Michael Straczynski and… Harlan Ellison. It was the first time I’d met the man and in all honesty, I was too embarrassed to say very much, to him lest I start to gush, so satisfied myself with a simple “Hello, I love your work” and then we went into the panel.Now, this panel occurred at a very particular moment in my career. I was working on “Roswell” as an executive producer, but I was deep into preproduction on the ill-fated pilot I’d written for a series based on Anne McCaffrey’s “Dragonriders of Pern” books. It had been a difficult and unhappy development process, but we were only five days away from the first day of principal photography. A major problem had arisen, however. The network had commissioned another writer to rewrite my draft over my objections and in my opinion, had eviscerated everything that I loved about the project. I didn’t want to shoot that draft and they did. As I drove into the parking lot of the Museum I learned via a cell phone call from my agent that a critical conference call with the network was scheduled to take place the next morning which would determine the fate of the entire project, and when I took my seat on the panel I was frankly distracted by the thought that my very first pilot, my very fist shot at running my own series was in serious jeopardy of coming to ruin right before my very eyes unless I “played ball” as they like to say.The panel discussion was fun and interesting and after a while I forget my Pern problems and simply enjoyed being on the same stage with some legendary figures of the genre. At the end, the final question was put to all of us was “Do you have any advice for young writers starting out?” It’s a familiar question, and to be honest, I have a stock response, (which I will someday bore readers of this blog with when I really need material) and I gave it in my usual inimitable fashion, congratulating myself on having held my own throughout the night.But when the question came around to Harlan, he leaned forward into the microphone, and with all the passion and ferocity I remembered so well from that convention stage in Stony Brook he said:“Don’t be a whore!”The world quite literally spun around me under the hot lights and it felt as though the Universe was conveying a message directly to me. It was so simple. “Don’t be a whore!” Don’t write crap because they pay you well. Don’t put your name on something that you know will suck. Don’t sacrifice whatever integrity you have as a writer for a check.The next day, during the infamous conference call, there came the point my agent had warned me would come, when I either played ball and went with the script I knew in my heart was terrible or my beloved pilot was going to die, and when that moment came, Harlan’s words rang in my ears like the church bells above Quasimodo’s head.“Don’t be a whore!”I wasn’t. The project died. And I have been grateful to Harlan Ellison ever since.I do not have the mastery of the English language Harlan does, I do not have his brilliance or his gift for story-telling, but I’d like to think that I’ve been inspired by the fire that burns so brightly in his soul and that it’s given me at least some of the courage I was lucky enough to see in person on two separate stages.So thank you, Harlan. Thank you for being one of the most influential men in my life and thank you for giving me something to aspire to."http://www.dynaverse.net/forum/index.php?topic=163353482.0
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jnc, if I have 1/10th the integrity that Harlan Ellison does I'll be happy. Thanks so much for that story!
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Jnc4p, there is a story in one of PJ O'Rourkes books, Parliament of Whores I think, where talks about a town meeting he attended, somewhere in New England, it's the town he lives in at any rate, where the town council was pitching an idea about spending money to build a park or something, and some old curmudgeon gets up and starts asking about where the funding is going to come from and who would have to maintain it, long term costs, etc. at first PJ and the audience think the guys a real buzzkill but eventually wins over most of the audience that the project just isn't a worthwhile public endeavor.The reason I remember that story (well, I remember ther rudimentary parts of the story that support my opinion anyway) is because you just have to admire the person who will raise the objection
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That should be raised but often isn't because no one really wants to be the buzzkill. I hope that I can be that curmudgeon.
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Ellison and Moore also shared the stage for an interview on BSG. After Moore shared the story about Ellison inspiring him to not go forward with the Pern series, Ellison's response was:"Ellison: [pause] You never know what pebble you're going to throw into the pond that actually kills a fish.Moore: Well, you'll be happy to know that there was an entire cast and crew that was furloughed because of that little pebble you threw out there, not to mention the hopes of millions of Anne's readers who were crushed."Harlan Ellison Interviews Ronald D. Moore on Why "Battlestar Galactica" is So Damn Good
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Mich: there's this just to start. That had nothing to do with tanking the economy, from what I can tell.
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"Just the other day Beach "joked" about raping Brigade's wife. "That's not a personal attack. That's a joke! Jeeze, you uptight conservatives can't even tell the difference.
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I though Cyrus was QB. At least you got a "He's got game" comment from Liam. I so Srw call Bernie a dick after a comment that came across rather sumg and then all bernie's clones (a Jim Rome reference) descended to get their pound of flesh. "Just the other day Beach "joked" about raping Brigade's wife. "Somebody married Brigade? I kid…Anyway, moving on from the PL: Good to see Okie and have MsJS and Michigoose contributing.
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"At least you got a "He's got game" comment from Liam."I got a kick out of that. I was ticked that my explanation to Bernie got deleted last night or this morning, for no reason, along with some other comments. Meanwhile, cao is flaming and insulting away. He seized upon the bizarro-world theory that Cyrus was both Scott and me, somehow using the same name to "troll the board." Funnily, he is also mocking me for screwing up my log in (supposedly) in some way he could tell me how to fix but won't. Which raises the question of why he had to change his own name numerous times without ever admitting it. Oh well. Bizarro world.Well, at least Bernie thought I was "worth" discussing something with when he didn't recognize me, but it is almost shocking to me that he didn't and ended up thinking I was Scott. Maybe I am weird, but I could easily spot most of the regulars. I didn't hide anything by changing my style or language. But then lms did not spot me when she was observing, either. Maybe I'm just too boring and nondescript.
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Actually qb, I don't delve too deeply into the comments there anymore, just skim for interesting links and whatnot. I barely follow the conversations and just happened to catch the one between you and Bernie. I didn't even know you'd been commenting under that name for a little previously.I don't know if anyone else remembers or noticed this but when cao came back as apocalypse he pretended for about a day to be a new commenter. He said something along the lines of reading previous posts and comments to get the lay of the land before commenting himself. Funny.
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qb:Maybe I'm just too boring and nondescript. Which explains the confusion with me.
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I really think you both need a complete personality makeover. I'd help for free if you'd just admit that single payer health care is our destiny.
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Oh, I certainly think it is our destiny. I'm a very pessimistic person.
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scott, but I really want you to be happy about it.
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Regrettably, that is not going to happen.
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"Maybe I'm just too boring and nondescript."The Avatar gets identified with the commentor. If you go another direction with your avatar, it makes it hard for folks to recognize you, even if you change nothing else. Change your style intentionally, but provide an avatar similar to your old one (or someone elses) and watch them start accusing you of being whoever your avatar most closely resembles.
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"I'd help for free if you'd just admit that single payer health care is our destiny.""Lorraine, you are my density."I will forever associate the word "destiny" with Back to the Future. I just can't help it.
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Scott: "Which explains the confusion with me."No, it's a common tribal phenomenon in regards to the Other. We've all heard it before: "They all look alike to me." When you're part of the opposition team, you're not individual human beings, your automatons in red-and-gold or yellow-and-black who must not be allowed to get the ball. End of story.
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lmsinca: "scott, but I really want you to be happy about it."It's one thing to be pleased with the idea of single payer in theory. I've come around to where I like it in theory. In practice, large bureaucracies (especially those which can be given often irrational mandates by irrational politicians, become dominated by union or pension interests, where leadership is often chosen by cronyism) are often much less appealing. And you may not end up quite as happy with single payer in the real world as one would think. Post Office, DMV, DoD (we need $5 billion dollars to even tell you what we spend any of our other money on, or what even happens to it) . . . DHS. Etc. Etc.
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I know Kevin, and I doubt I'll be around long enough to really see the end results, I'm just teasing Scott. I think it will be a long time before we see an improvement in our health care delivery system here. I do think there are probably some smart people working behind the scenes though so I'm hopeful that future generations will have the health care monkey off their backs. I doubt it will be perfect though, nothing ever is.
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"The Avatar gets identified with the commentor. If you go another direction with your avatar, it makes it hard for folks to recognize you, even if you change nothing else."I've found it easy to recognize most regulars. I always immediately spotted cao despite his changes of name and avatar and trying to cover up his style. When PL used to show names below comments, I sometimes tested my self on recognizing commenters and didn't find it hard.Btw I just realized the PL moderator deleted comments including the one where I gave Bernie five links he requested to false flag TP infiltrators. What a joke of a blog.
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