I’ve been asked about this quite a few times and blew it off, but here goes. I don’t know where my writing ideas come from. They seem to happen on their own. I don’t think about writing when I’m not writing. And there’s no inspiration or spark or preparation. I just start typing and essays […]
Watched a Jazz Messengers gig from Paris in ‘59 and Lee Morgan, all of 21 years old, was unbelievable. Astonishing creativity. The chances he took and never flubbed in those solos, leaping over precipices, seeing around corners, weaving a short story’s worth of narrative into every solo…. damn. When you’re that young all this stuff […]
Even the ridiculous and trivial world of science fiction fandom has split apart politically due to the genuinely evil power of social media. The “alt right” folks are constantly harassing what they call Social Justice Warriors, and the Left is doing exactly what the Right wants them to do, by shouting back, banning people from SF conventions, and so on. The Right stages protests against “pedophilia in science fiction fandom” at the World Science Fiction convention, and stages block voting that puts deliberately idiotic works on the Hugo Award. (They got something called “Space Raptor Butt Invasion” nominated, as an example.) The whole thing makes me ashamed to be a fan.
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Well that is thoroughly depressing. This too shall pass, evcntually.
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Appropriately, the SF fandom news site reports on an alt right rally that happened at the Worldcon just now.
http://file770.com/alt-right-rally-outside-worldcon-76-draws-about-40/
So many bizarre details. The anti-pedophilia thing, blocking the bloodmobile, the huge number of cops that had to come out, the German-looking flag with a weird symbol on it, etc.
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Most of the fans I’ve met were alt right types.
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