Usually when you have a black man or a woman president, a meteor is about to hit the Statue of Liberty.As I type this, Barack Obama's inauguration is well under way in Washington, and it is impossible to ignore the historic nature of this event. And I mean literally impossible, in that if I had a dollar for every time someone has used the defining phrase "historic" to describe the situation, I'd be heading off to Fiji this afternoon instead of a job interview.Jon Stewart, 80th Academy Awards
However, this event should have some kind of impact (no pun relating to the introductory quote intended) on the science fiction community. Sorry, it will now be necessary to create a different cliché to indicate a future or near future setting. Personally, I think that having a native American president would have a nice feel of irony to it, let's use that for our fallback position for now. However, I'm a fair minded man: I think that we can continue to cast Morgan Freeman as God.
- Sid
And here I thoght your next post would be about Ricardo Montalban and Majel Roddenberry
ReplyDeleteWe welcome guest postings - the late Mr. Montalban doesn't inspire me, but Majel Roddenberry would be a pretty good topic for a post. (In fact, I started to cite the reasons why and damn near ended up with one in this comment.)
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