Does that guy look kind of dwarfy? or is it Dwarvy?
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Line dancing dwarves! Or is line dancing soooo First Age?
Well fine. I'll just go off and enjoy the movie tonite all by myself. Actually with the 13-year-old, it's a 9:30 show, but tomorrow's the last day of school. We've got our priorities right!
(and he probably slept all afternoon cause he stayed up to watch the game last night)
Later all. I'll be back very late tonite or early tomorrow.
LOL!
;^)
Does that guy look kind of dwarfy? or is it Dwarvy?
I am gone for the afternoon.... meeting then commute home! See you all tonight!
I'll be here but not as frequently tomorrow and then will be gone for week.
Thank you for helping us out JohnRob! I guess we have the definitive answer to our question.
This means that there is no rush at all to change threads now, that we might make it to late November, after the release of the Director's Cut DVD of FOTR, but with this increase in posting it may be too close. Perhaps we should follow Hair's approach, make the next theme 'Waiting for TTT', and start it at out leisure this summer. Then the next thread after this new one would last all the way through the main release period of TTT and would be properly focused on that book and movie. Just my suggestion of course. (Then the next one will be celebrating the new right wing Congress, and waiting for ROTK, but I may be getting ahead of myself here)
I have always pictured Dwarves wearing hob-nailed boots, so stomping seems appropriate. Maybe something on the order of those dances you see with cowboys wearing cowboy boots.
2JM, if I don't make it back online before you leave tomorrow, I hope you have a safe journey to Wisconsin!
Have a good night, all!
Just chiming in with some of my science fiction experience, which started nearly 50 years ago, during a couple of week's hospitalisation. I read some of the classics, including Stapleton's 'Last and First Men', along with Welles and Verne. Some short stories, including Blish's 'Surface Tension' and Azimov's 'Nightfall' I found completely spell binding. Some of the novels of the early 1950's, including Bester's 'The Demolished Man', and Heinlein's (?) 'The Stars My Destination' were interesting and different from more recent formulaic SF.
Naturally Heinlein's future history stories, which recorded an alternate history 20th century, and Azimov's Foundation series, and the 'prequels' which were worked into the sequence of the history of the Galactic Empire based on Trantor, and its collapse, and rebuilding by the Foundation project were totally fascinating to a history buff.
Anderson and Niven are always fine, as are the military themed stories of Gordon Dickson (sp?) (The Dorsai stories), and Hal Clement for super-hard SF. I liked Zelazny's early stuff too, and Laumer's Retief stories are a hoot. If you haven't read the classics of the 40's and 50's, the summer is a good time to build a good 'foundation' (forgive the pun) in the nature of SF.
For TV SF, the only way to travel is by Stargate (without the bad guys of that series, of course), and the only previous real captain of the Enterprise was Jean Luc Picard!
Now if I can't get a flame war going here with some of these opinions, I don't know what will!
If we are going to break at 10,000 that will be between Saturday and Monday, I suggest breaking later, as I mentioned, in a month or so, unless those doing the creative stuff are sure they will be done in less than 48 hours. I think waiting till fall is a risk, and the best time is between the Fourth of July and Labor Day. What do you guys think?
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