The Ellison Bulletin Board

Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20090104.htm
Freddie Hubbard passed away this morning. Now playing: Hub-Tones.

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Name: R.Wilder Source: unca20080731.htm I've read all the novellas, and everyone one of them are fantastic. The Connie Willis is a fun read, a great Christmas story, but a bit light weight in comparison to the others. The Rusch is good cracking adventure, the Shepard is a nicely spooky modern fanta...

Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20080731.htm
There's a brand new Smithsonian Folkways CD "Classic American Gospel." Rev. Gary Davis, Sister Ernestine Washington, Sonny Terry, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and Elizabeth Cotton are among the 24 tracks. Nice 32 page booklet included.

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Name: R.Wilder Source: unca20070808.htm The TV critic on Fresh Air reviewed "Masters..." glowingly, and praised "The Discarded" as the best of the episodes. He also slammed ABC for burying the series on Sat. night in August. The piece is on-line at: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php...

Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20070808.htm
The new HP rocked, in a kinda goth way. Sent a mom and her 7 yr old scurrying after the initital fifteen minutes. The creators streamlined the novel well. I like that the tone of the movies has evolved towards darkness.

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Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20070528.htm
I loved the new Michael Chabon novel, and I suspect that Mr.Ellison will love "The Yiddish Policeman's Union," too.

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Name: R.Wilder Source: unca20070202.htm "Clive Cussler is accused of inflating his book sales -- which is why the producers of SAHARA lost $105M of their investment in the movie version. It appears that the investors' math indicated that Cussler's 100M books sold equates to 100M potential moviegoer...

Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20070202.htm
Harlan, I think that Herzog was talking about you, too. "Raw Power," indeed.

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Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20061122.htm
"What was Stefano's problem, anyway?"

It sounds like maybe he was a putz.

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Name: Scott Vander Werf Source: unca20061122.htm Justin: I enjoyed "Altered Carbon" a lot. Yeah, it's not completely original, being a descendent of cyberpunk crossed with the hard-boiled tradition of Hammett/Chandler, especially the latter (in how the novel is structured), but it's a cracking good...

Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20060901.htm
Harlan: The youtube clip is an excerpt from "The Masters of Comic Book Art."

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Name: R.Wilder Source: unca20060807.htm Harlan: George R.R.Martin's post, which also references the Dangerous Visions canon, is much more apropos: "A sad story. Just a couple of days ago, I was opining on another list that Sturgeon's "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" ...

Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20060606.htm
There was that one time, when I was slumped reading in a chair reading, with my legs crossed, and Harlan silently walked up to me and kicked my shoe, saying, "Whaddaya doin', loafin' around?"

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Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20060606.htm
Sounds like Michael's last name might be Savage.

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Name: R.Wilder
Source: unca20060316.htm
I wonder if Harlan knows anybody that's involved with next Summer's blockbuster hit "SNAKES ON A PLANE."

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