[UA] Re: UA List

[Will]

Gregory Paul Stolze <holycrow at mindspring.com> a écrit :
>
> If UA became more popular -- say, to the 10,000 sale level -- sheer
> mathematics makes it very unlikely that all its purchasers will be
> thoughtful folks of the type who dominate this list.  Once you get a number
> of nimrods buying the game -- which, at that level of success, is
> inevitable -- they'll start to post.  And since it's easier to be a nimrod
> than to be thoughtful, they'll soon outnumber the intelligent posts on the
> list.  Then the intelligent people will do the intelligent thing and
> unsubscribe...

I don't think Trinity/Aeon ever hit the 10,000 sale level, but unfortunately
that's what happened to the mailing-list... :(

To get a little more on-topic (well, slightly more, ok), I've seen Wonderboys
recently (no idea when it came out in the US) with Michael Douglas and Robert
Downey Jr. So now at least I know who you were talking about. I had seen him
in a few other movies, but couldn't put a face on the name.

This movie is completely crazy, I really liked it. An once-famous writer is
in his car, smoking weed, with a transvestite, a dead dog in the trunk, and
then with a younger weird would-be writer, an eventually-not-a-toy revolver
from a christian school and the jacket Marylin wore at the wedding just
stolen from the cabinet of a, maybe, Iconomancer ? Really weird. Oh, and I
almost forgot the 2500-pages or so book he just "couldn't stop writing"...

It reminded me of Big Lebowski, when I asked a friend to give me a summary
that would help me decide if I should watch it or not, he answered: "well,
there's a man, he plays bowling, he has a rug, a guy comes in and pees on his
rug. That's it." I didn't really believe him but well, that _really_ was it :)

Will


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