Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 08:37:49 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Another Tom Clancy novel coming soon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>kfl at KeithLynch.net 07/03/03 12:10AM
>> Why should we care?
>
>I was just remarking on how short a time it was from submission to
>being in bookstores.
>
>We has a similar thread a year ago, with his previous novel, but this
>list has some new subscribers since then.
>
>> (Only 13?  I thought he had more than that.  Hey, even *I* have more
>> than that....)
>
>He has more only if you count the ghost-written Op Center books (which
>I find unreadable).
>
>I look forward to buying and reading his latest book.  In paperback.
>Used.

Awwwww, poor Tom ain't gonna get any royalities . . .
Look for this problem to be remedied by Disney the next time the copyright =
act needs to be "fixed".

>
>Speaking of violent stories, I just saw Terminator 3.  It's even
>more violent than Terminator 2.  It also has lots of humor.  Many
>scenes from T2 are parodied.  For instance the one where a naked
>Schwarzenegger obtains clothes and sunglasses.
>
>It was also fun seeing Kristanna Loken (an evil terminator) pick up a
>cell phone, dial a modem number, and start speaking modem tones to it.
>I wish I could do that.
>
>I see that Lee Strong wrote a review of T2 for The WSFA Journal.  It's
>online at http://wsfa.org/journal/j91/8/index.htm#t2.  I haven't yet
>worked my way back to the Journals that might contain a review of the
>original Terminator movie.
>
>T2 won the Hugo.  I think T3 might do the same.

It may get a nomination, but I somehow expect LOTR-Return of the King will =
get the silver rocket.

>
>I paid for the movie entirely with quarters, since I'd spent nearly
>all my folding money to stock up on farecards before the 10% bonus
>went away, and the last bit of it on groceries, then found the local
>ATM to be out of order.  Fortunately there's another ATM directly on
>the way to First Friday.  (Of course I could use another bank's ATM,
>but then I'd have to pay a penalty.)

I've found that by purchasing groceries with an ATM card and getting cash =
back alleviates the problem of the "foreign ATM" problem.  I expect YMMV . =
. .
>
>See you all on Friday.

Yuppers.

mjw