On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 21:14 -0400, Chris Turkel wrote: > Same here, good. Sitting here trying to write a kind of clint > eastwood meets lord of the rings thing. Speaking of "Lord of the Rings" things (and totally unrelated to the topic of the list, but wtf), I ran across a really interesting and unintentially hilarious popular culture reference during my recent rereading of Vinge's _The Peace War_. They're in the banana wagon, approaching the Peace base just before the climax of the novel. One of the characters reflects on the parallel between their situation and that of the hobbits in "Lucas' Lord of the Rings." I had been reading but had to pay attention to some work stuff as I read that. I finished the paragraph and put the book down as I turned to my keyboard, thought, "wait, did I really just read that?" and picked the book back up to reread the paragraph. I guess it's annoying to an author when popular culture overtakes speculative references. :-) Vinge wrote Peace War in 1984 and Lucas was the Big Name at that time; it was a reasonable speculation. (Considering the quality of Lucas' recent work, though, it's just as well it didn't turn out that way.) -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/