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Jun. 28th, 2012 12:17 amThis came in the mail.( Read more... )
Jun. 28th, 2012
What I learned from this Mind Meld
Jun. 28th, 2012 09:50 amQ: With the growing success of Steampunk in recent years, is Space Opera losing its appeal as a subgenre?
1: Wow, people feel comfortable talking about trends without supplying supporting data. If you wonder why I go off on bean-counting sprees, this would be why.
2: There's no common definition of space opera being used here, which means the contributors are answering different questions.
3: It's all well and good to talk about the success of NuBattlestar but it went off the air almost 3 1/2 years ago. Look at TV now: see any spaceships?
What do people think of Mike Cobley's book? I am unfamiliar with them.
1: Wow, people feel comfortable talking about trends without supplying supporting data. If you wonder why I go off on bean-counting sprees, this would be why.
2: There's no common definition of space opera being used here, which means the contributors are answering different questions.
3: It's all well and good to talk about the success of NuBattlestar but it went off the air almost 3 1/2 years ago. Look at TV now: see any spaceships?
What do people think of Mike Cobley's book? I am unfamiliar with them.
Seen on CBC
Jun. 28th, 2012 10:19 ambreaking Split U.S. top court upholds entire Obama health care law
Not the way I would have called it: I figured on a 4:5 split with the conservative judges ruling the maximization of misery is the core American value, which even the feeble measures passed by Obama contradict (with Scalia adding a section advocating the banning of vaccination as Muslim invention in favour of beating patients with plague rats).
Not the way I would have called it: I figured on a 4:5 split with the conservative judges ruling the maximization of misery is the core American value, which even the feeble measures passed by Obama contradict (with Scalia adding a section advocating the banning of vaccination as Muslim invention in favour of beating patients with plague rats).
You may want to learn who this man was and why he is regarded as the Greatest Canadian.
