In a message dated 12/9/2004 1:39:18 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Its about over, sigh!
Last night I finished up my final project for my Distance Education SF class
I've been taking and now must turn to my take-home final. I have to write a
1000 to 2000 word keynote address.
* "As I've only got a little time to speak, I would apreciate it if the
* Klingons and the barbarians would stop growling at each other.
* It can't be good for the throat, and as they always say, "Why
* can't we all get a lozenge?"
Scenario: It is the year 2025 and I'm a
well established SF author and I'm the Guest of Honor at a Science Fiction
Convention.
* "And since I've signed soooo many books today, if you strongly
* disagree with anything I say, and say so while I'm saying it, I'm
sorry
* to say that I will only be able to respond verbaly. [Holds up hand.]
* It's way to cramped to select out just one finger. [Pause for
audience
* laughs.] And I'd probably get the wrong one."
The topic is "The three SF books I wish I had written."
* "We're not just talking royalty checks or another rubber chicken
* dinner at another Con and another boring speech to sit through."
I have
to pick three of the books we discussed during the class. I'm picking
"Gateway", "Childhood's End", and "Snow Crash." Should be fun, and not too
difficult.
* "'Childhood's End.' How often does an author start his work by saying
* that he doesn't believe in what he's writing?"
This is been a fun class, a great learning experience. We had an excellent
instructor who was very involved in the "classroom" discussions and LOVES
SF.
* Such a rarity.
Next term I'm taking "Major American Authors". None of them SF, dang!
* If you went by the greatest number of people who remember a quote or
* a familiar saying, you'd have to select as first choice:
* * Leo Bennet.
>From the Advertising Age webpage:
Leo Burnett
(1892-1971)
Leo Burnett Co., Chicago
Although rumpled, overweight Leo Burnett hardly embodied the "adman" image,
his copy always impressed. Taught by Theodore MacManus at General Motors Corp.,
Burnett, a Michigan native, imbued copy with the product's "inherent drama"
through warmth, shared emotions and experiences. He left Erwin, Wasey, Chicago,
in '35 to open an agency that spawned a distinctive "Chicago school," i.e.,
sentimental ads drawn from heartland-rooted values. He created such evocative
icons as the Jolly Green Giant, Pillsbury Doughboy, Charlie the Tuna and Tony
the Tiger. His Marlboro campaign, a legendary example of advertising's power to
build a global business, ultimately became a magnet for legislative
crackdowns on tobacco marketing.
George A
* Go ahead, freak out your next teacher by suggesting his name.
Vilyehm Teighlore
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