Joe Major, Louisville Kentucky USA
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Interesting cover. You do remember Enemy Ace, don't you?
Fandom won't put Charlie Williams and Marc Schirmeister and Randy Cleary and Jeff Potter and Kurt Erichsen on the Hugo ballot next year. They will be overwhelmed by the folks who say, "yeah, I know Teddy Harvia, I'll put him down ..." Just like the people who say, "Fan Writer? Sure, Langford and ... and ... and ..." Not to mention the people who say "I saw Berkwits ask to be nominated and I saw Flynn, so I'll put them down."
“The Real Future of Space”: Today Bert Rutan's SpaceShipOne flew. Spending $20,000,000+ to win $10,000,000 I hope the foundation has . . .
Fred Pohl wrote "The Midas Plague" as an examination of how a post-money society might work. Then he thought about how it would work and wrote "The Man Who Ate the World". Nothing in a post-money society ever has to be fixed, even the people. Er, make that "repaired". Having goods is only half the problem of economics.
Mike Resnick would profit from examining the Internet Movie Data Base (http://www.imdb.com) where many of his questions can be answered. For example, he asks, "Let's take Blade Runner (and someone please explain the title, since I never saw a blade or a runner in the whole damned movie)."
Ridley Scott read a script that was an adaptation of Alan E. Nourse's The Blade Runner. (Written by William S. Burroughs, for what it's worth.) He liked the title, so he bought the rights to that. Just the title. Then he bought the rights to Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and made that into the movie. Deckard is supposed to get the replicants before they kill Tyrell.
I don't think we can say anything against Blade Runner, considering that Kiln People, which has much the same idea, was nominated for Best Novel Hugo.
As for E.T., he is the advance scout for the aliens of Independence Day. "We've got them psychologically softened up: now we attack!"
"What is a woman with an unexceptional day job doing living in a $900,000 house in one of the posher parts of the Los Angeles area?"
Because everyone the director knew who had an unexceptional day job lived in a $900,000 house in one of the posher parts of the Los Angeles area. Movies always overstate the real income of the characters. In Flashdance Alex (Jennifer Beals plus Marine Jehan [dance double]) is a union welder and an interpretative dancer. She lives in a loft that a yuppie would pay $3k month for.
Mad magazine had an even better question about E.T.; if he can cure injuries by touching them, why doesn't he cure himself?
People who are in horror movies don't watch horror movies. You know: "Well, here we are, the car broke down in the middle of the storm in the middle of the night and we have to take refuge in the scary old mansion where all the people were killed thirty years ago. What are we going to do? Hey, let's go skinny dipping!" The people in The Blair Witch Project were in a part of Maryland where walking in a straight line in any direction for two hours would get them to safety. So they wandered around shooting grotesque close-ups of each other.
Actually, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen left out a number of Victorian figures. Frank Reade, for example. Or Harry Flashman. Captain Nemo is an Indian, according to L'Isle mysterieuse. The karate, now . . . The movie people couldn't get the rights to the "Griffin" character of Wells's original book, so they put in a new Invisible Man.
Blast Taral Wayne. Now I've got the theme song from Fireball XL-5 running through my head. "My heart will be with Fireball ... with Fireball..." and since there were only three channels we could pick up then, in Hopkinsville, I can't even find anything else distracting.
If Dr. Hilton will get in touch with Cathy Gill or Greg Sullivan of the Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle Symposium (I can provide email addresses), to arrange to read or have this read there, I am sure all those involved would be extremely pleased. As for Sutton having the seven thousand pounds, I recall reading a book on the Great Train Robbery which listed what each of the robbers did with his money. The largest category was "stolen by minder." And the Brinks Robbery was broken because O'Keefe had had his share stolen by Joe McGinniss. So it makes perfect sense to me that Sutton/Blessington would keep the seven thousand quid, but tell the bobbies (and the Crown Prosecution Service) that the others had it.
"In a bedroom I found my little cousin Joe, with at least two bigger, older girls piled on top of him". Of all the people in the world, I turn out not to be related to Tim Marion. Sigh.
Milt Stevens says of Vic Mackey from The Shield: "If Mackey was assigned to the case, he would immediately de-rail a train, commit piracy on the high seas, burn down a pre-school, torture a few nuns, and then decide he didn't give a shit about the Unabomber anyway." And then he would open this package he got from Montana.
IMDB says "The police technical consultant to the show told Michael Chiklis (who plays Vic Mackey) that all police officers would love the show, even those above the rank of captain who would denounce it in public." Doesn't this worry you?
To E. B. Frohvet: I suppose George Price and I will get around to editing the article on Citizen of the Galaxy by the end of the year. You will be able to see then the point about infant footprints, which determines slightly more than an insurance payment . . .
Robert Kennedy: Back a decade and a half ago there was quite the kerfuffle over one year's Best Fanzine Hugo. A committee of thirty-one fans signed an advertisement saying that since none of the nominated fanzines was really Hugo quality, fans should vote "No Award" for Best Fanzine. A Noreascon Hugo administrator pointed out that only five of the fans who had signed the ad had bothered to nominate anything, and if they had all nominated a fanzine, it would have got on the ballot. It was later pointed out that the thirty-one fans would probably have nominated a hundred and fifty-five different fanzines (at five each) or something like that; anyway, that there wasn't that much agreement. Nevertheless, the incident confirmed my belief that fandom consists of people who don't do things they think should be done but corrosively criticize those who do.
Martin Morse Wooster: Why do you think I had the CSI team make up a profile that so failed to describe Hut Man? Especially since real profilers did exactly that.
"It's Me, Katy, Talking": Why am I reminded that Whittaker Chambers translated Felix Salten's Bambi?
“Strange Schwartz Stories”: You never know when you have it so good. I think that applies to all of us.
Interesting cover. You do remember Enemy Ace, don't you?
And how. Remember that his first book-length adventure made my top-15-comics-stories list a few issues back
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Fandom won't put Charlie Williams and Marc Schirmeister and Randy Cleary and Jeff Potter and Kurt Erichsen on the Hugo ballot next year. They will be overwhelmed by the folks who say, "yeah, I know Teddy Harvia, I'll put him down ..." Just like the people who say, "Fan Writer? Sure, Langford and ... and ... and ..." Not to mention the people who say "I saw Berkwits ask to be nominated and I saw Flynn, so I'll put them down."
“The Real Future of Space”: Today Bert Rutan's SpaceShipOne flew. Spending $20,000,000+ to win $10,000,000 I hope the foundation has . . .
Fred Pohl wrote "The Midas Plague" as an examination of how a post-money society might work. Then he thought about how it would work and wrote "The Man Who Ate the World". Nothing in a post-money society ever has to be fixed, even the people. Er, make that "repaired". Having goods is only half the problem of economics.
Mike Resnick would profit from examining the Internet Movie Data Base (http://www.imdb.com) where many of his questions can be answered. For example, he asks, "Let's take Blade Runner (and someone please explain the title, since I never saw a blade or a runner in the whole damned movie)."
Ridley Scott read a script that was an adaptation of Alan E. Nourse's The Blade Runner. (Written by William S. Burroughs, for what it's worth.) He liked the title, so he bought the rights to that. Just the title. Then he bought the rights to Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and made that into the movie. Deckard is supposed to get the replicants before they kill Tyrell.
I don't think we can say anything against Blade Runner, considering that Kiln People, which has much the same idea, was nominated for Best Novel Hugo.
As for E.T., he is the advance scout for the aliens of Independence Day. "We've got them psychologically softened up: now we attack!"
"What is a woman with an unexceptional day job doing living in a $900,000 house in one of the posher parts of the Los Angeles area?"
Because everyone the director knew who had an unexceptional day job lived in a $900,000 house in one of the posher parts of the Los Angeles area. Movies always overstate the real income of the characters. In Flashdance Alex (Jennifer Beals plus Marine Jehan [dance double]) is a union welder and an interpretative dancer. She lives in a loft that a yuppie would pay $3k month for.
Mad magazine had an even better question about E.T.; if he can cure injuries by touching them, why doesn't he cure himself?
People who are in horror movies don't watch horror movies. You know: "Well, here we are, the car broke down in the middle of the storm in the middle of the night and we have to take refuge in the scary old mansion where all the people were killed thirty years ago. What are we going to do? Hey, let's go skinny dipping!" The people in The Blair Witch Project were in a part of Maryland where walking in a straight line in any direction for two hours would get them to safety. So they wandered around shooting grotesque close-ups of each other.
Actually, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen left out a number of Victorian figures. Frank Reade, for example. Or Harry Flashman. Captain Nemo is an Indian, according to L'Isle mysterieuse. The karate, now . . . The movie people couldn't get the rights to the "Griffin" character of Wells's original book, so they put in a new Invisible Man.
Blast Taral Wayne. Now I've got the theme song from Fireball XL-5 running through my head. "My heart will be with Fireball ... with Fireball..." and since there were only three channels we could pick up then, in Hopkinsville, I can't even find anything else distracting.
If Dr. Hilton will get in touch with Cathy Gill or Greg Sullivan of the Sherlock Holmes/Arthur Conan Doyle Symposium (I can provide email addresses), to arrange to read or have this read there, I am sure all those involved would be extremely pleased. As for Sutton having the seven thousand pounds, I recall reading a book on the Great Train Robbery which listed what each of the robbers did with his money. The largest category was "stolen by minder." And the Brinks Robbery was broken because O'Keefe had had his share stolen by Joe McGinniss. So it makes perfect sense to me that Sutton/Blessington would keep the seven thousand quid, but tell the bobbies (and the Crown Prosecution Service) that the others had it.
"In a bedroom I found my little cousin Joe, with at least two bigger, older girls piled on top of him". Of all the people in the world, I turn out not to be related to Tim Marion. Sigh.
Milt Stevens says of Vic Mackey from The Shield: "If Mackey was assigned to the case, he would immediately de-rail a train, commit piracy on the high seas, burn down a pre-school, torture a few nuns, and then decide he didn't give a shit about the Unabomber anyway." And then he would open this package he got from Montana.
IMDB says "The police technical consultant to the show told Michael Chiklis (who plays Vic Mackey) that all police officers would love the show, even those above the rank of captain who would denounce it in public." Doesn't this worry you?
To E. B. Frohvet: I suppose George Price and I will get around to editing the article on Citizen of the Galaxy by the end of the year. You will be able to see then the point about infant footprints, which determines slightly more than an insurance payment . . .
Robert Kennedy: Back a decade and a half ago there was quite the kerfuffle over one year's Best Fanzine Hugo. A committee of thirty-one fans signed an advertisement saying that since none of the nominated fanzines was really Hugo quality, fans should vote "No Award" for Best Fanzine. A Noreascon Hugo administrator pointed out that only five of the fans who had signed the ad had bothered to nominate anything, and if they had all nominated a fanzine, it would have got on the ballot. It was later pointed out that the thirty-one fans would probably have nominated a hundred and fifty-five different fanzines (at five each) or something like that; anyway, that there wasn't that much agreement. Nevertheless, the incident confirmed my belief that fandom consists of people who don't do things they think should be done but corrosively criticize those who do.
Martin Morse Wooster: Why do you think I had the CSI team make up a profile that so failed to describe Hut Man? Especially since real profilers did exactly that.
"It's Me, Katy, Talking": Why am I reminded that Whittaker Chambers translated Felix Salten's Bambi?
“Strange Schwartz Stories”: You never know when you have it so good. I think that applies to all of us.
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