It's about the Tuskegee Airmen, and Hollywood thinks it's not "green" enough, meaning...well, see what George Lucas has to say about it:
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Ohm's law still applies: at the nano-scale level. The presumption was that quantum effects would take precident. I still think it will the smaller the technology gets and the more we demand of it. Meaning, we'll need some "replacements" as the nerd workforce ages. More kids need sci-fi to inspire them.
It's not too hard to extrapolate Xray vision, or at least how such a "super power" could work. "We have the technology..."
Terrahertz radiation, the dream of most pre pubescent and pubescent boys:
Outside of a Memphis, Tennessee courthouse, a shoeshine stand acquired one of its regular customers. Three elevated chairs were available, the patron took the middle seat. Looking up at the middle-aged Fats Domino-like man in need of service, a slender white teenager, who wore a blond crew cut, greeted the gent. Unsullied was the milky suit of the customer. However, the shoeshine boy’s grey t-shirt, blue jeans and blue tennis shoes had dirt smudges.
“Summer in the South is worse than a grill at full blast, especially this time of the day. At twelve noon, no divine hand is goin’ to adjust the charcoal grill’s temperature. Nothing is goin’ to be exempt from this great Clambake. What’s wrong with you, Elvis Aaron Presley? You’re workin’ like some King Creole. Wake up, boy, it’s August 16th, 1977 in America.” The customer placed his newspaper on an empty seat to the right of him.
“Hello there, Colonel P, I-I-I was rememberin’ this here dream I had about a night ago. It’s got me “All Shook Up.” While recalling and discussing the dream, the boy stopped polishing the large black man’s White Bucks.
“Go on and tell me about it, but don’t get so distracted that you forget what you’re doin’. I do declare, son, somethin’ made you Girl Happy.”
“Uh-huh, yes, sir.” Upon realizing that he was neglecting his work, the boy proceeded to polish the shoes. “Well, it’s like this, in my dream, I became this big music star loved by millions. Oh, yeah and the President of the United States gave me a law badge and shook my hand.”
“You got to be joshin’. Next you’re gonna tell me that you was rich. Plus you had long greasy hair and you was wigglin’ like a red light hoochie coochie mama.”
“I-I-I don’t rightly recollect.”
“That’s got to be the biggest fool dream that I ever heard about in my whole black life.”
The portly man began to laugh hard. Disturbed by the thunderous guffaw, pedestrians looked over to find the reason for the amusement.
“I-I-I know, Colonel, I know it was a weird dream.”
“Perhaps you were famous in another life. And as some kind of punishment for something you said or did, you were given your present life in Hell.”
“Ain’t I still in Memphis, sir?”
“Forget it, son. You got to be the craziest redneck that I’ve ever seen, but you sure are the best shoeshine boy in the South. You know how to make a brother’s shoes out gleam stars.”
“Thank you, thank you very much.”
Copyright 2011
by Bob McNeil
More on the Higgs Boson. If at first you don't succeed...
WHAT IS THIS?
This is something I've wanted to do for some
time and, as usual, don't have enough cash to
pay anyone to do for me. I don't like waiting
for other people to come around and I really
don't like begging people for favors so....
THE ABOVE IS TWO THINGS.
1) it's the first segment of the first episode
of the DREAMNASIUM web series which
will be debuting this year. Each episode will
be done in different formats so, while this is
the first look, it's not representative of
everything that will come. Not hardly.
THINGS ARE HAPPENING, IS THE POINT.
2) it's the animated adaptation of an existing
comic I did some years ago so, if you want to
know the rest of the story and don't want to wait,
SEE BELOW:
I'm not kidding this year.
I'm really, really not.
Greetings to all our Friends here at Black Science Fiction Society!!
Please Join..Support..and Follow our blog!! We have just added the new revisited 9th Episode
to the blog..and would love your Feedback!!
http://www.thecrocodilefactor.blogspot.com/
Just a few more Episodes and we are off to find a Publisher!!
Thank you for your Support in advance...!
Blessed Happy New Year~
The Croco Team
D. Jahman Deidotree
J. Peterson
Happy Friday, Peeps! The Ig Nobel Awards...
We sometimes forget that the road of life we travel is fraught with "bumps" and challenges. This young lady is fulfilling her dream of getting a PhD in Astronomy and raising a child as a single mother...
Editor and author Cat Rambo is offering some online workshops and classes for speculative fiction if anyone is interested http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2012/01/04/online-classes-and-workshops-for-2012/
I'm taking a class from her now and its been very informative. It's got me writing more and thinking about writing more.
"Know Your Bones" will be included in the next blog post entitled, "Follow The Dollar, Follow Where It Bleeds".
http://evilforalltime.blogspot.com/
"We Are The 99%" artwork listed on Socialpoliticalart.com:
http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2011/12/kenneth-neal-modern-day-abolitionist.html
Enter Kenneth Neal (you can call me Ken):
A social journalist doing my part to promote social, cultural, and class destruction awareness with my blog.
Most importantly, analyzing the current outcry of the top 1%'s attack towards the vulnerability of middle class America.
I invite you to a challenging conversation detailing critical points within modern Capitalism & Christianity.
Thank you for your time.
If you have any questions after viewing my work, feel free to let me know.
-Kenneth Neal, A Modern Day Abolitionist
Facebook, "Ken E-FAT"
http://evilforalltime.blogspot.com
Contributor @ Political Fail Blog:
http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/09/ken-neal-writer.html
Now available at Amazon, SHADOWS & DUST, a gothic horror story and an extended tale to the Dragon Queen Series.
What would you sacrifice to get rid of the creatures beyond the madness?
When darkness falls, Vampire Huntress Joan “Havoc” Dawson and her team gears up and steps out to meet the evil as it threatens to spill onto the streets of mankind.
On the second anniversary of her sister’s death, Havoc finds herself lured into a rundown neighborhood by an unknown entity. She stumbles upon a dark secret, one that’s guaranteed to claim many innocent lives.
But in order to destroy the creature behind the madness, Havoc may have to surrender her soul to the darkness.
I couldn’t let the first hump day of the year go by without writing something sexy for you. ;o) Swing by and check it out. http://yvonnenicolas.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/new-beginning/ Happy New Year!
Nobel From Space: apparently, the quazicrystal that garnered Daniel Shechtman of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa last year's Nobel prize in chemistry is of extraterrestrial origin. A meteor this time, and not little green men...:-)
E-Book Boom Boosts Self-Publishers: thought I'd share what's already known.
To see more of the story description, please visit the blog where it originated, happy new year to my BSFS fam! Love and light. Link: bit.ly/sVIArk
-Robert Trujillo
Some fun with Double Entendre. Enjoy the embed below:
Another Dilbert Post (video embed), and deep, DEEP geek...
Milton, thanks so much for agreeing to interview with me. I love your work with sword and soul.
To see the rest of the interview, visit: http://www.aliciamccalla.com/blog/69-author-milton-davis-discusses-upcoming-womens-sword-and-soul-anthology-
How did you celebrate bringing in the New Year? http://yvonnenicolas.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/what-did-you-do-for-new-years-eve/
