“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” — Edmund Burke On a related subject, The Nation has an intriguing article comparing Bush’s invasion of Iraq to Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. I’m reminded of, “Those who forget their history are doomed to repeat it.” :/
Monthly Archives: August 2007
On the Inevitable
I should have known things wouldn’t be this easy. The Collectibles section had come through. Lots of products. Interesting products, like a whole line of things based on A Christmas Story — a film I’ve never, ever seen. The Nightmare Before Christmas, the bane of existence? Nary an item in sight. Oh, there were someContinue reading “On the Inevitable”
On Looking Back Ten Years
I realized, while shaving yesterday, that it was ten years ago, this very week, that I discovered online Star Trek fandom. And it was a very narrow part of fandom that I found. It was Star Trek novels fandom. On the old Pocket Books Bulletin Board. A bunch of people I “met” ten years agoContinue reading “On Looking Back Ten Years”
On Things Brought to You By the Letter “Y”
Keith had this meme-thing going — ask for a hit, and he’ll give you a letter, to which you then have to name off ten things beginning with that letter. Keith gave me a “Y.” Ten things. Bugger. Here goes. Yellow Submarine. God, what a fucking trippy movie that is! 🙂 Yartek, Leader of theContinue reading “On Things Brought to You By the Letter “Y””
On New Levels of Fannishness
I had to write up a product description for something Doctor Who-ish — Creation is doing some Who shotglasses with the TARDIS and the series logo. I needed something catchy. Something the Doctor would drink. It came to me. I typed it up, giggling all the way. Something along the lines of “If you’re goingContinue reading “On New Levels of Fannishness”
On Cultural Apathy and Ignorance
I received in the e-mail this morning a the weekly sales promo newsletter from my old employer, EB Games. I get these about once a week, give them no thought, and hit “Delete” without much delay. Today? I don’t know why I read it. But I did, and it… annoyed me. I realize, it’s adContinue reading “On Cultural Apathy and Ignorance”
On Alberto Gonzales’ Resignation
And Alberto Gonzales throws in the towel. I’ve been wanting the asshole to resign for a while now. Why it took him four months to get the message, I couldn’t tell you. His lies are legion. His crimes are unknown. It may take a decade to extract his stench from the halls of the JusticeContinue reading “On Alberto Gonzales’ Resignation”
On Brian Epstein
Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article on Brian Epstein, the manager of the Beatles. He died of a drug overdose, forty years ago today. He was thirty-three. You read a book on the Beatles, and he’s there, in the background. Usually, it’s something salacious about his personal life — Brian was a homosexual in aContinue reading “On Brian Epstein”
On Weights and Measures
Anyone reading this should be familiar with the concept of the airspeed velocity of the unladen swallow. If you’re not familiar with the concept, then why do I know you? Why are you reading this? 😈 Ahem. Sorry. Naturally, oddball weights and measures have a certain appeal. Err. Naturally? Why did I use the wordContinue reading “On Weights and Measures”
On Reading “The Twelfth Album”
I wrote earlier in the month about putting together “God,” the Beatles album from Stephen Baxter’s alternate history story, “The Twelfth Album.” The Wikipedia article on the story gave the track line-up, and it was easy to put together the playlist in Windows. But I hadn’t read the story. Thankfully, I found a used copyContinue reading “On Reading “The Twelfth Album””