The “Elephant” of fandom died suddenly this evening, aged 65 years.
(If I hear that there is to be no funeral I’ll freak, because no Bruce Pelz rite is an anagram of Nobel Truce Prize. Bruce was fond of anagrams.)
The t-shirt in this snapshot reads FIJASOI: fandom is just a source of income.
Bedtime approaches and wacky ideas start to creep in through the cracks. Here’s one: Nobel Truce Prize.
Alex Knapp puts the case for permanent war:
There is an old Anglo-American common law principle that imposes a duty on people to defend third parties so long as such defense doesn’t put their life at risk. The same principle should apply to our foreign policy. Dictatorships should be undermined and invasions should be repelled by the United States, so long as doing so would not dramatically undermine our own security.
Logically, then, the ‘good’ states have not only the legitimate power but a positive duty to maintain military forces strong enough to suppress any ‘evil’ state, damn the cost in taxes and the necessary regimentation of society. And if some dictator should seize power in a formerly ‘good’ state and apply the splendid military machine to ‘evil’ ends, why, them’s the breaks. Continue reading
Andy Kashdan‘s last bon mot?
In our next foreign adventure, it will be said that perhaps, theoretically, those kooky non-interventionists had a point, but now it’s too late, again. I have just one question: When will it be a convenient time to start learning from history?
What fun! The Covers Project uses a database of cover songs to create chains of cover songs. (GirlHacker)
I wish I were clever enough to write spoofs like The Kizombe Correspondence. (from acb)
The Lord of the Rings: The Novelization
My readers may not know that I occasionally visit bookstores. At one such establishment this week, I heard a customer say, “I’ll wait a year and a half to read LotR if I have to, because I’m not going to buy it with the movie cover!”
Later: more Novelization