But I had to open them with the other end of the corkscrew, coz it was teh foreign beerz without screwtops. Oooops. So unamerican of me.
The older generation of sf writers lost it sometime between 9/11 and Obama's presidency. Particularly the GREATHOOD pros. The last decade has seriously challenged all their unexamined assumptions carried about themselves and their place in the world -- from their unrealized homophobia, bigotry, racism and intolerances of all kinds. In the meantime, for the last thirty years everyone in contact with them bow and scrape and proclaim them the GREATHOOD, so they can't possibly be wrong. Or irrelevant. Times really cannot change for the sf GREATHOOD.
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Date: 2010-09-16 04:30 pm (UTC)But I had to open them with the other end of the corkscrew, coz it was teh foreign beerz without screwtops. Oooops. So unamerican of me.
The older generation of sf writers lost it sometime between 9/11 and Obama's presidency. Particularly the GREATHOOD pros. The last decade has seriously challenged all their unexamined assumptions carried about themselves and their place in the world -- from their unrealized homophobia, bigotry, racism and intolerances of all kinds. In the meantime, for the last thirty years everyone in contact with them bow and scrape and proclaim them the GREATHOOD, so they can't possibly be wrong. Or irrelevant. Times really cannot change for the sf GREATHOOD.
With a few terrific exceptions, of course.
Love, c.