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MichaelEhart
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| Posted 11/5/2007 12:58 AM (GMT -5) |   | Lois thought it was hilarious, and the folks who frequent her group are pretty reaonable folks. I think it is easy to recognize someone we all know in the description :)
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MichaelEhart
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| Posted 10/17/2007 1:43 PM (GMT -5) | | | I posted this on Lois Tilton's sff.net newsgroup about the recent SFWA kerfluffle:
"All small group politics are the same. My wife is an actual politician, and believe me, local political groups are made up of wannabes, poseurs, peter-principle victims and a very few people on the rise. I refuse to attend any of her board meetings or events, because everywhere there are people whose entire existence is based around going to the mat on the most trivial of causes. I want to be able to like these people, and if I see them in a political light, I cannot. Churches, charities, professional organizations, whatever, the dynamic is the same.
As for the internet facilitating flame wars, yes it speeds things up, but for years I subscribed to Biblical Archeological Reveiw, a bi-monthly. Even at that snail's pace, with a minimum 3 month lag, the letters to the editor were flamalicious, to-the-death affairs, usually over something like the placement of a diacritical in the writing ("How the learned and oh so authoritative Dr. Humbug could mistake this for an intended chisel stroke when it is so very obviously damage from careless excavation is astounding. This makes the translation "In the sixth month of the reign of Ashurbanipal"-- not as Dr. Humbug so blindly claims, "In month six of Ashurbanipal's reign"!) on some monument that made no difference at all in the actual translation.
The sad thing is, I sometimes suspected that the event that happened in the sixth month of Ashurbanipal's reign (see, now I have taken sides, and so will be added to Dr. Screech's distain list in his next scathing letter, which will appear in about 6 months) was a violent disagreement carried out in cuneiform between two in-groups on the lay council of the First Church of Nergal (Reformed) on whether the wicked apostate members of the First Church of Nergal (Revived) would suffer 10,000 years of torment and then be cast into utter blackness, or if the utter blackness thingy was part of the torment."
Buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore available Nov. 17th from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2007!
"The View From the Shotglass Floor" Ray Gun Revival, Feb 2007
"Voice of the Spoiler" The Sword Review, June 2007
"Servant of the Manthycore" The Sword Review, July 2007
"Darkling I Listen; and for Many a Time" Fear and Trembling, coming soon!
"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" The Sword Review, August 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Summer 2007
"Nothing But Our Tears" The Sword Review, September 2007
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Fall 2007
"The Scarlet Colored Beast" The Sword Review, October 2007
"The Stars by Law, Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, November 2007
"Who Comes for the Mother's Fruit" Every Day Fiction, November 2007
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