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The Five Marks of Clintonian Science Fiction
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1. So, in the example you've given -- Gillian Anderson represents sunniness and light, but her pants are the dark underside?
2. I see now why Clinton could never have defeated Obama in the primaries. Sisko has to come before Janeway.
3. And does that make Condoleeza Rice the Communications Officer?
4. We'll we see a cyberpunk comeback, or more shows and movies about virtual reality, now that the technocrats are back in charge? Maybe so, but just please don't let William Gibson write any of it. His two cyberpunk episodes of the X-Files made me want to tear my cerebrum out through my nostrils.
5. Nice X-Files pic. There must be a shortage of X-Files screencaps on the internet...that was one of the only ones I could find in 1999 when I was designing an X-Files VHS box for my graphic design class. Hey, did you have to correct the color balance on yours, too? Way too much yellow, am I right? Good times.
6. Hmm. Now I'm going to have to look into Picket Fences. I remember my mother watched it, back in the day, but I didn't pay it any mind -- I thought it was a straight-up small-town drama. Didn't know there was any weirdness involved. Now I think I know why she watched it.
11/08/08
Many years ago there was a fledgling political party called the Technocrats, and they were polling the population to see if they were making any inroads.
One day one of their surveyors knocked on the door of an Italian immigrant family and the wife answers the door. "Excuse me, Madam," said the surveyor," are you and your husband Tecnocrats?"
The woman looked a bit puzzled, turned around and yelled up the stairs to her husband, "Hey Tony, you Technocrat?"
"No," Tony yelled back, "I'm a shave!"
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The cynicism was a Reagan era by-product, the confidence to bring it out in the open and play with it was a Clinton era side-effect. (Note that Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect talk show was also launched in 1993) The cynicism was seeded and well-earned long before the Clintons came along, and, as it turned out, it has served us pretty well since.
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I think the X-files deserves to span 3 presidential terms!
11/07/08
The book that Nell receives is called "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer", not "The Diamond Age". The novel itself is "The Diamond Age, or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer".
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sorry.. I'll be back after I clean up...
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