Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 09:48:38 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Harlan - like most of us - have our inconsistencies and contradictions.
& being such a public person, these inconsistencies & contradictions are =
magnified even more.

OTOH, it is rather amusing to see self hoisting via petards.

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/01/02 09:34AM >>>
	It wasn't a zen question.  To paraphrase George S. Patton, I admit
that I'm  a silly human; what I can't stand about (fill in the blank) is
that he won't admit it about himself.  (Substitute feminine pronouns for
masculine as required.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:16 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions

Ah . . . it's a zen point.
Who is silly: you or Harlan or both or . . .?

mjw
 . . . and zen there were none . .

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/01/02 09:18AM >>>
	Well, yes.  And your point is...?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 9:03 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions

Silly human.

mjw

>>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/01/02 08:59AM >>>
	Since the United States as a whole did not adopt the proposed =
"Equal
Rights Amendment", is Harlan Ellison boycotting the entire United States, =
=
=
or
is he having an Alec Baldwin moment?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted White [mailto:tedwhite at compusnet.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 11:51 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions

Steve Smith wrote:

> [...]
>
> To bring a SF note to the discussion, at Iguanacon II in 1978 in
> Phoenix, Harlan Ellison was the GoH.  When he found out that Arizona
> hadn't ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, he talked about doing all
> sorts of nasty things to let people in AZ know what assholes they were
> (he used stronger language, of course).  One of them was to have as many
> people as possible avoid staying in the hotel and camp in the desert.
> Now, desert camping is no more dangerous than any other form of camping
> -- if you know what you're doing.  Fortunately, the locals talked him
> out of it -- not only does it get cold at night, Labor Day is right
> about at the beginning of thunderstorm season ...

Harlan supposedly boycotted the hotel by living in a RV out front.  But in
actual fact he slept in a hotel room most nights.  It may get cold at =
night
in the desert -- particularly at higher altitudes -- but in Phoenix it =
went
*down* to 95 at night...after daytime highs in the 110-115 area.

--Ted White