The Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread

[ShayP]

Ha!  Great, Weird and Nazis.  Right up there with Nazis on the Moon.

LOL!   It wasn't always Nazis.  It was everything and anything.

[ShayP]

Hoagie's name dropping is legendary.  :

[Étouffée]

I like the music.  I wonder if Hoagie has anything to do with the selections. I'm thinking, "no".  But the person should get credit.

[Dr. MD MD]

Every once in awhile Hoagie drops a word I haven't heard before.

in·ter·reg·num - a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.

[ShayP]

Every once in awhile Hoagie drops a word I haven't heard before.

in·ter·reg·num - a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.

He has one of those 'new word a day' desk calendars.

[Nobody]

It's like they are carrying on two separate conversations. Sputnik vs. Jack Kirby

Hoagland's life clearly took a wrong turn somewhere because the chap whose life revolves around comic books is the one keeping the conversation (somewhat) grounded. 

[CozyRozie]

Every once in awhile Hoagie drops a word I haven't heard before.

in·ter·reg·num - a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.

I hear words like that all the time.. in my head :

[AlternativeSide]

Hoagie shouldn't play with either fireworks or lighter fluid.

That would seem reasonable, when your as hot as Hoagland...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46dl8GrD5Mo

[trostol]

I'd love to explore space but I wouldn't want to leave Earth permanently.  I like it here. 

i'd be gone in a second

[=Schlyder=]

Speaking of comics.  Let me share. 

This was my favorite comic growing up. 

That was Kirby art too.  He did Sgt.Rock also.

[ShayP]

i'd be gone in a second

Would you take the one way trip to Mars?

[trostol]

Would you take the one way trip to Mars?

yup

[CronkitesGhost]

Every once in awhile Hoagie drops a word I haven't heard before.

in·ter·reg·num - a period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes.

He's a poseur of the highest order. I hate when writers use words they damn well know that 95% of readers are unfamiliar with. Today I read an article about Edward Teller the physicist and he was referred to as a 'caitiff'. I'm well read but that's not a word I've ever seen before so I looked it up - not surprisingly the dictionary noted it was 'archaic', a word from the Middle Ages. There are 20 other words he could have used but he wanted to show off his intellectual superiority.

[Nobody]

That would seem reasonable, when your as hot as Hoagland...

Barking mad is the new hot.

[ShayP]

That was Kirby art too.  He did Sgt.Rock also.

Another one of my favs. 

[ShayP]

yup

Huh.  I thought about it.  Always was on the fence.  It is enticing to be a pioneer.   I'd miss the forests and lakes, etc.  Can't stand a barren landscape.

[TigerLily]

How about Jeff Bridges as Capt. Kirk

[trostol]

Huh.  I thought about it.  Always was on the fence.  It is enticing to be a pioneer.   I'd miss the forests and lakes, etc.  Can't stand a barren landscape.

i guess..but this planet kinda well...sucks..least most of the people do

[Étouffée]

How about Jeff Bridges as Capt. Kirk

Capt. Dude?

No.

[TigerLily]

i guess..but this planet kinda well...sucks..least most of the people do

It would be Paradise without the people

[TigerLily]

Capt. Dude?

No.

The Cap abides

[Nobody]

He's a poseur of the highest order. I hate when writers use words they damn well know that 95% of readers are unfamiliar with.

You'll want to avoid David Foster Wallace, then.

There are 20 other words he could have used but he wanted to show off his intellectual superiority.

Who was the author of the article on Edward Teller?

[Étouffée]

19.5.
Mark it, Dude.

[ShayP]

i guess..but this planet kinda well...sucks..least most of the people do

Yeah.  I feel the same but then I realize I am 'people' also and, am quite certain many others think I suck. 

[trostol]

19.5.
Mark it, Dude.

You mark that frame a 19.5, and you're entering a world of pain.

[GravitySucks]

Huh.  I thought about it.  Always was on the fence.  It is enticing to be a pioneer.   I'd miss the forests and lakes, etc.  Can't stand a barren landscape.

Pffft

From the guy that won't cross the Mississippi

[trostol]

Yeah.  I feel the same but then I realize I am 'people' also and, am quite certain many others think I suck. 

only your taste in hockey teams

[Dr. MD MD]

That was Kirby art too.  He did Sgt.Rock also.

Yeah, I didn't even like Sgt. Rock but I'd still buy it sometimes when I was kid for the cool artwork. He really brought comics into the modern era.

[CronkitesGhost]

You'll want to avoid David Foster Wallace, then.

Who was the author of the article on Edward Teller?

it was actually his obituary on Stanford's website, had no idea he lived so long.

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2003/september24/tellerobit-924.html

In later years, Oppenheimer would take on the status of a folk hero to scientists, Teller the vengeful caitiff who destroyed him.

[ShayP]

Yeah.  I feel the same but then I realize I am 'people' also and, am quite certain many others think I suck. 

Doesn't mean I don't relish the thought of personally culling the heard.  Just saying.