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To Whom it May Concern: There are people here who, if I wanted to get to their level, I’d have to hire Sherpas and carry supplemental oxygen to attempt the climb. There are others, did I wish to stand eyeball to eyeball, I’d have to rent a diving bell and pay extra for the really long cord. Or maybe...

Name: Steve Perry
Source: unca20100401.htm
Typo, wrong tense: " ... pissed ..." should be " ... pisses ..."

Perry

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Name: Steve Perry
Source: unca20100219.htm
Typo, wrong tense: " ... pissed ..." should be " ... pisses ..."

Perry

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Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm Josh -- Why wouldn't I want to direct? For the same reason that the script is usually -- usually, I say, son, pay attention boy! (ala Foghorn Leghorn) better than the movie. If it's just me and the page, I truly do get to be king of that world. Once it lea...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100219.htm Josh -- Why wouldn't I want to direct? For the same reason that the script is usually -- usually, I say, son, pay attention boy! (ala Foghorn Leghorn) better than the movie. If it's just me and the page, I truly do get to be king of that world. Once it lea...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm Don't you just know that when a statement starts "With all due respect" that what follows isn't apt to be very respectful ... ? Josh and Pogue, it seems to me, are rather like parents being given lectures on child-raising by folks who don't have any of the...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm For the non-Hollywood writers among you -- including those who don't think scriptwriting is "real" writing, a cautionary tale: A buddy of mine wrote an episode of ST: TNG for the tube back when. He had a big party at his house to showcase it. I flew down t...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm I used to find it amusing -- albeit in a how-fucked-is-that? kinda way -- that when Siskel and Ebert were still doing the reviews, if they loved the movie, the director got credit. If they hated it? Well, it was the writer's fault ... Linda Seegar's book, ...

Name: Stephen
Source: unca20100401.htm
Happy New Year!

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Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm Speaking here as somebody who has read all the Holmes stuff, starting with Doyle and running through Solar Pons, as well as Phil Farmer's version, and someone who has messed with the canon himself ("The Case of the Wavy Black Dagger," in the Reaves/Pelan a...

Name: Steve Perry
Source: unca20100401.htm
Two words:

Jeremy Brett ...


Perry

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Name: Stephen
Source: unca20100401.htm
Merry Christmas!

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Name: Steve Perry
Source: unca20100401.htm
Not really any grat words to offer on the death of one's other. Sorry for your loss.

Perry

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Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm At the risk of making your view of world-wide technology worse than it already is, P2P (person-to-person) bittorrent file exchanges pretty much have the books and stories of anybody who's ever sold those available for download for free. Even bush-league ha...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm DTS -- Conservative types, like Perry ... ? Oh. Oh, my! Best laugh I had all day, son, truly. Colonel Mustard in the drawing room with the lead pipe, dude -- since you obviously don't have a clue. Chris -- Naw, man, you should have said something and you s...