Comments on: Secrets Of A Professional Writer Revealed

By: gfw

gfw — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:55:05 +0000

Check out his wikipedia page:

“His series Harsh Realm was adapted to television by X-Files producer Chris Carter in 1998. Hudnall sued Carter and Fox Television when they failed to give him a credit on the show. The suit was later settled out of court and as part of the settlement Hudnall got his credits, and a large bag of oatmeal raisin cookies.”

That last bit probably needs a citation.

Also he’s clearly sockpuppeting on this page and on wikipedia!

By: Outside The Tent

Outside The Tent — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:24:33 +0000

[...] it’s not like I haven’t been blogging at all. My post this weekend at Sadly, No! about James Hudnall got about 500 megazabillion comments. Of course, [...]

By: Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:27:20 +0000

Kill The Power!!11!

By: liberalrob

liberalrob — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:09:18 +0000

Wow, I didn’t even know James D. Hudnall was still alive.

I’ve always considered him as a Harlan Ellison type. Great writer, but ye gods what an ego. Do you have to be a jerk to be a brilliant writer?

Too bad about Harsh Realm, which was just getting going when a Hudnall/Fox pissing match helped kill it. Hudnall was right to demand credit but it was poor timing. Eh, it was Fox. Didn’t want your stuff there anyways, Jim.

I wish there were some way of independently financing good SF. I hate seeing otherwise fantastic shows like Harsh Realm, VR.5, and Firefly get cut short because beancounters and nitwit execs can’t figure out what they’ve got on their hands.

By: Woodrowfan

Woodrowfan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:24:55 +0000

WOW over 500 comments and on a post that mentioned neither 9-11 or Ron Paul!

By: STH

STH — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:03:34 +0000

That’s what it looked like to me, g. I’m on the east side of the mountains, the unfashionable desert-y nuclear-waste-o-rama side.

By: K. Ron Silkwood

K. Ron Silkwood — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:56:45 +0000

Could we have a show of hands of those who think Hudnall is a good writer?

By: g

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:48:32 +0000

Isn’t White Center down in West Seattle? Or have I forgotten?

By: STH

STH — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:20:48 +0000

I just looked up White Center–looks like I’m on the wrong side of the mountains, as usual. I’m definitely up for the NW Sadlyfest, though. Sign me up to bring the cheese ball.

Or maybe we should just have pie . . . ?

By: gbear

gbear — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:55:29 +0000

Mikey, the only thing I can relate to in that post is the 7 inch extension.

By: Doodle Bean

Doodle Bean — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:44:11 +0000

Damn! I lost my super-magical double-secret decoder ring! When is the Boston/Cambridge Sadly-a-thon?

Use Code E-27. I’ll look it up in the official rules book. Thanks!

By: mikey

mikey — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:37:21 +0000

It was a plain old scoot, you guys. ’64 panhead, 7 inch extension, mid-rise bars, crashbars and cruiser pegs, fat boy saddle with sissy, flat black with chrome pipes, covers and trim.

Later on, I rode a ’74 Shovelhead, white lacquer tank with a gold-leaf eagle clutching arrows type motif.

Big, loud, comfortable and slow. That’s what I look for in a scooter…

mikey

By: Stinky Wizzleteats

Stinky Wizzleteats — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:09:31 +0000

Pity the rich white man Indeed:

"I songs was about the plight of the brothers and sisters in Jamaica, mon," Marley said. "But right now, it is the frata mon who need it more. They are standing by I music during they keg party." Marley has been touring the country, acting as the voice for America's fraternities. "Frata mon's life is hard," said Marley during a press conference Monday at Iowa State University's Acacia fraternity. "Professor, he flunk you all the time. Policeman, he ticket you for the noise. Board of Regents, they make so many rule, try to keep the fraternity music down."

By: Hoosier X

Hoosier X — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:57:35 +0000

mikey,

are you talking about scooters like the scooters in “Motor-Psycho”?

ya know, the Russ Meyer movie.

By: Beth

Beth — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:28:16 +0000

Relax, Althouse. We actually thrive in an environment where our name means nothing.…

Unless it’s Ben, that is.

By: Righteous Bubba

Righteous Bubba — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:11:24 +0000

Visiting Althouse on any given day without picturing some kind of cross between Mork from Ork and the clucking biddies from The Music Man is difficult for me.

The definitive Althouse is actually Altmouse:

http://altmouse.blogspot.com/2006/04/if-boredom-were-camille-paglia-would.html

By: Lesley

Lesley — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:02:43 +0000

er…I guess it eats posts with the href tag. posting the url seems to work.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:01:32 +0000

I’d call Ann Althouse a dog but she just doesn’t measure up:
http://www.dohiyimir.org/2007/11/meadow-break.html

(SadlyNo, can you fix your spam filter? It’s eating posts with links.)

By: t4toby

t4toby — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:00:49 +0000

See, I know nothing.

So ‘scooter’ is slang for a Big Ass Bike?

You learn something new every day.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:00:06 +0000

I’d call Ann Althouse a dog but she just doesn’t measure up.