Jon Meltzer

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• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  That is now an ex-chicken, headed or not. Seriously, they did what they had to when they had to....
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Wikipedia says headless chickens have survived as long as 18 months :-(...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Welcome to the new eye of the hurricane, Charlie, because the Glasgow Hugo administrator is heavily involved in the latest long-past-just-real badness. The UK is four hours ahead of us just-waking-up Americans. When do we expect a Glasgow statement about...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  And I see now that he does. (Or that it's the one I've been accessing.)...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Popehat is hanging out on Bluesky these days. I don't know if he has a new website or not....
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  If you want some really scathing lawyer comments, go over to Popehat where IP lawyers who are not fans are saying "WTF were they thinking???" And the lawyers don't have it in for Worldcon. They don't care about Worldcon. They...
• Commented on The coming storm
  Perhaps Bob and Mo should be reading pessimistic horror fiction set in our current timeline....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  @457 - So far I'm disappointed that there are no talking dogs. We were supposed to get talking dogs! "The year is 2024 - a future you will probably live to see" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog_%281975_film%29...
• Commented on WTF
  I suspect many people in England wish they could vote for the Scottish Nationalists. Have they thought about running for seats in England?...
• Commented on WTF
  "download without paying" Partially true. The NFT is what you have to pay for. The images are right-clickable like usual HTML images....
• Commented on WTF
  Getting back to the original subject of this post: The Trump trading cards. But that's not the WTF. There's a yet unconfirmed-by-me report that one can download them from the Trump site without paying....
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  @1316: "US voters still haven't found the right fascist" is more like it....
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  US election: dead heat, and we won't know who controls both houses of Congress until the Georgia runoff. The big loser: the pollsters. Relieved, sort of. At least Fetterman is in and Boebert is out....
• Commented on I can't even
  The New York Times explains the lettuce joke: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/world/europe/liz-truss-lettuce-stream.html...
• Commented on I can't even
  The lettuce won. Perhaps it's time for Charlie to write about vegetables?...
• Commented on Necroqueen!
  All right, who managed to piss off BLUE HADES enough for them to start cutting pipelines?...
• Commented on London Bridge
  Yes, here saying "we're a republic, not a democracy" is right wing rhetoric....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  No future, no future, no future for you....
• Commented on London Bridge
  When the family is told "you had better come now" one knows it won't be long....
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  When the family is being told "you'd better be here now", that's not good news at all. Yesterday I saw some scathing cartoons about the Queen feeling ill just by meeting Truss, and now that she may be actually seriously...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  @1687 - Also missing Mary 2. And arguably Matilda, but she was never crowned. Stephen got there first....
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  Labour says "if Boris doesn't go now, we call a vote of no confidence". And then the Conservatives are completely fucked. Either give Boris a reason to tear up the resignation by voting "confidence", or bring down their own government...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  I came over here to find out from the most reliable source I know of if Boris is really gone, and I find out instead that the Seagull is. May the good news keep coming. And maybe Boris is the...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
  4th in line for our library's ordered copy :-)...
• Commented on Omicron
  Oh yes. But Time doesn't do that anymore; witness the obvious choice for 2001 (bin Laden) not being picked because his face wouldn't sell magazines....
• Commented on Omicron
  For those of us who don't think we are living in a Charles Stross novel, and for those of us who would rather be living in a Charles Stross novel than the real world: Elon Musk is Time's 2021 Person...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Labyrinth Index
  Back to 179 and dosing Nixon: Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane was a classmate of Nixon's daughter Tricia, and so was invited (under her birth name, Grace Wing) to a school reunion at the White House. Slick says she...
• Commented on Submarine coming through!
  Pfizer and Moderna combine to become Kellis-Amberlee. The New Management invades our reality. They are welcomed. Brexit is revoked. The UK remains in the EU. The rest of the EU members all leave in protest. Disney releases Star Wars 10....
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  It now looks like Charlie will be able to go to cons in America again. When we have cons again....
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  @644: The Germans will have so much fun subtitling (in German, of course) the corresponding scene from the "Last Days Of Trump" movie - and there will be one....