The Ellison Bulletin Board

Name: Lee Source: unca20081110.htm Cindy, I have been told, by an urban police officer in Cleveland, that 22 cal is commonly carried as a 2nd gun and is good in crowded areas like bars or dance clubs. The one I was talking to had a very small model that he carried in his front pants pocket. He stat...

Name: Lee
Source: unca20081110.htm

Mark,

Franklin is attributed with a quote along the same line:

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations
become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

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Name: Lee Source: unca20081110.htm Dorman, Rather than a death spiral into a dark abyss, Frank's trajectory more closely resembles a dangerously shaky orbit that somehow manages to keep just above the event horizon of a large black hole. Consider: Frank Church - Wednesday, July 16 2003 10:55:44 Mis...

Name: Lee
Source: unca20080913.htm


"Hot chart" axes for the Three Stooges, the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy:

Animal

Sophisticated

Ethereal

Mutually perpendicular and intersecting, defining three pure dimensions of comedy.

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Name: Lee
Source: unca20080913.htm

Steve,

Regarding the male form of Mistress, I believe the term you're looking for is "Pool Boy".

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Name: Lee Source: unca20080731.htm My six year old daughter and I listened to Benny King's "Stand By Me" today, and she told me when it was over that, "even after a long time, when we are apart because you are in heaven, you will still look over my shoulder and I will still be looking through your ...

Name: Lee
Source: unca20080731.htm

Ryan,

Another good Disch book is "Black Alice". He co-wrote it with Sladek, but the book's flavor is unmistakably Disch.

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Name: Lee
Source: unca20080731.htm

Bonne Anniversaire, Susan.

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Name: Lee Source: unca20080731.htm Steve, Have no fear. We are just suffering a typical Webder-disconnect. The most successful self-interested ass-holes that say things like, "The Crusades were self defense against Islamic aggression." are the ones that manage to weave their bigotries with a thin t...

Name: Lee Source: unca20080731.htm Steve, Frank's right winger and you are just riding in two different cars of the logic train. The proximate cause of the 1st Crusade was the invasion of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks and Alexius I's subsequent request for military help from Rome. The systemic cause...

Name: Lee Source: unca20080731.htm Frank, The Crusades were indeed "started by Islamic aggression." Among other things. As with most sound bites, the sentence is true but incomplete. By 1000 AD, Christian Byzantium and the Muslim Caliphate had been warring for centuries, with Armenia and Anatolia a...

Name: Lee Source: unca20080731.htm KOS Baryshnikov once got pissed off at me for juggling kitchen knives during one of his Cinderella rehearsals. He suggested that I go join the goddamn circus. It felt at the time that I already had. In the matter of Webderland recognitions, unless being labeled a ...

Name: Lee
Source: unca20080731.htm

KOS

I have had my ass favorably reviewed by the Miami Herald.

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Name: Lee
Source: unca20080511.htm

Damn!

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Name: Lee Source: unca20080511.htm Nathan, You propose to have a great fantasy writer attack a great fantasy film based on a great fantasy novel by a great fantasy writer, basing the attack on the concept of fantasy being silly and meaningless. My reaction would be, "Why not make up a fictional quo...