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Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
+1 yank whose favorite Stross book is "Glasshouse". When it was initially proposed that "Glasshouse" may be tied to the "Accelerando" universe I felt the segue between the two was perfectly clean. The tech in "Glasshouse" is derivative of the...
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paws4thot commented on
Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
168 + 170 + 178 I think I'm with Heteromeles on this one; I'm arguing that "conceptual art" requires no real skill to make: surrealism, the miniature cathedral H instances for examples, SF (yes even a good time travel story even if it's informed by earlier works) so require skill by the creator....
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paws4thot commented on
Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
The "I love Lucy" vision of the 1950s is rather popular with conservatives -- or hadn't you noticed? Oh the irony. The Lucy character was not only a fairly powerful (if not in a making money outside the home sense) female character, but married to {shock, horror time} a Mexican. In a case of life imitating art (or vice versa) Lucille Ball actually was married to Desi Arnaz, and they were the real-life co-owners of Desilu Studios, which name may be familiar to people....
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george.herbert commented on
Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
paws4thot wrote in part: but married to {shock, horror time} a Mexican. Detail - Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-American, not a Mexican or Mexican-American. His family were well off in Cuba before the revolution. His father was apparently the mayor of Santiago de Cuba, the second biggest city in Cuba, immediately prior to the Revolution. He was arrested after and jailed for six months, and all the family property confiscated. They apparently left for the US shortly after....
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paws4thot commented on
Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
Cheers for the correction. Doesn't that actually make matters worse from the USian "conservative" PoV though?...
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ilya187 commented on
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No, it makes matters considerably better. American conservatives have always been fond of formerly rich Cubans persecuted by Castro....
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