Things I Did This Evening

[coalescent]

1. Converted two more people to the cult of Veronica Mars.

2. Ate pizza.

3. Cast my vote for the Hugos. Have you voted? If you're going to Worldcon, you've got until 23:59 GMT this Friday. snowking should take special note.

4. Boggled some more at this exchange of letters from Astounding, circa 1938-9.

5. Accidentally deleted the receipt email Interaction sent me of my Hugo nominations. I saved the one I just got for voting ok, then deleted the one from when I nominated, with no way of recovering it. I am a numpty.

Things I did not do this evening:

1. Finish Persuasion. Sigh.

Comments

Nay!

[applez.livejournal.com]

Thou Shalt Not Convert Me! (thrusts his Star Trek:TNG Communicator pin in your direction) Away foul spawn! Away! :-p

Re: Nay!

[mattia.livejournal.com]

Yes, but he's right, and you're wrong in this case.

Re: Nay!

[applez.livejournal.com]

(shakes head at the hopeless)

(reaches for phaser, wishes it had a setting)

Re: Nay!

[mattia.livejournal.com]

Denying the truth won't help you, y'know.

Re: Nay!

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Surely, as a TNG fan you should try to reach out and understand new TV shows lifeforms and offer them your expertise in pastel-hued home decorating and therapy?

I quote Doctor Demento here...

[applez.livejournal.com]

"We Come in Peace ... Shoot to Kill!" ;-)

(and no, I'm not a big Trek fan, but it does seem a reasonable reference in the wake of its passing and the profligation of as-crap [or worse] shows to fill its vacuum).

[chance88088.livejournal.com]

and you reminded me to vote for the Hugos ...

[rparvaaz.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, we are supposed to read/talk about Persuasion now. Good diea. That is the book I'll read today. Just gave up on _WTBR_ on account of it being too sad.

I never vote

[johnnyeponymous.livejournal.com]

I've never managed to either be a member of a WOrldCon when I can afford to vote, nor have I remembered when I've been a WorldCon member. Next year I will remember, since I need to do everythign I can to get myself a Best Fan Writer Nom!

That's a great exchange there too. I love when Asimov would write about things like this. I don't normally enjoy his fiction, but he works so well in letter form
Chris

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Poor old Asimov, who would wish to be judged by the opinions one expressed at age 17? Not me for sure.

I liked this harrumph in particular (not by Asimov)

'Those who read this magazine do so for the science in it or for the good wholesome free-from-women stories' I should cocoa

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Some more discussion of this at swisstone's journal here.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Should I try and read the short fiction stuff first?

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Nah, just vote how I told you to and everything will be fine.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

The novellettes. Well, read the zeppelin story and see what you think of it, at least.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Re Astounding: yes, boggle. Nonetheless, it does evoke a certain amount of humility - if people were to read, say, all our LJs in 70 years' time, how weird and prejudiced would we look to them? (And now that Information Is Out There Forever thanks to the net, it's perfectly likely that this stuff will be at least available in 70 years...)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a fair point. :) The thing that really gets me is that Asimov's actual wish -- "no science fiction with bad romance in, please" -- is sound because, well, who wants to read bad romance? It's just that what he argues is necessary to achieve that wish is utterly ludicrous.

One thing I forgot from my list that I did last night: had an argument with myself about whether Lost is a liminal fantasy. :)

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Did you win the argument?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I think I ended up in equipoise.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Yes, well I walked into that one, didn't I?

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I shoot, I score!

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

...and as an aside antedated when I thought was the emergence of the "X... not!" idiom by nearly fifty years.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

4. Boggled some more at this exchange of letters from Astounding, circa 1938-9.

*boggles* *chortles* *gazes aghast* *returns to boggling*