Old Age Rage

Can there be anything worse, of lower standards, than an ancient intellectual making the threats of a teenaged thug? that is where Harlan Ellison finds himself. This is how I will remember him:

“If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump,” — Harlan Ellison [nyt: 5/12/09

Another promise on empty.

First, No Country

The other characters. War changed me, but I came though that, I can come through this. And you can, until. The other character. The one that never went to war. The one that is always at war. Coyotes never hate. The best hunter never hunts.

Rucker Lost

Rucker disappoints… has not grown beyond his earliest work. Perhaps he is a victim, an example of the Tenure Trap. Professors stay at the level of their students, so that even after 30 years of schooling they are no further than their current class. The same class thirty times is the same class wasted.