Pixel Scroll 1/23/16 Farmer In The Tunnel In The Dell In The Sky

chronicles-of-narnia-silver-chair-book-cover-357x600(1) BACK TO NARNIA? According to Evangelical Focus, a fourth Narnia movie – The Silver Chair — could be ready in 2016

The story happens decades later. In Narnia, King Caspian is now an old man. Eustace and Jill will be asked to find Caspian’s son, Prince Rilian, with the help of Aslan.

Scriptwriter David Magee (“Life of Pi”, “Finding Neverland”) is writing the film adaptation, which will be released five years after the previous movie, “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”

Collider says the next film will be the start of a new franchise entirely – one where The Walden group, makers of the earlier movies, will not be involved.

The rebooted angle doesn’t come as a total surprise. The Mark Gordon Company and The C.S. Lewis Company took over the rights from The Walden Group back in 2013, when they first announced plans for a Silver Chair adaptation, so it’s not surprising that the production companies would want to build something new instead of relying on the foundation of a franchise that was ultimately always a bit of an underperformer.

Collider also asked about casting.

Given the plot of The Silver Chair, the fourth book in the series, which takes places decades in future from where we last saw our heroes in 2010’s Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I also asked if we would see any of the original cast reprising their roles in the new film. The answer is a hard no.

[Mark Gordon] No, it’s all going to be a brand new franchise. All original. All original characters, different directors, and an entire new team that this is coming from.

If the phrase “original characters” causes your hair to bristle, don’t worry, I asked him to clarify if these were entirely new character creations or existing characters in the Narnia mythology that have yet to get the movie treatment, and he confirmed the later. The new characters will come “from the world” of Narnia.

The IMDB FAQ has more information about what characters will be included:

Will we see characters from earlier Narnia films?

Not necessarily. We should see Eustace Scrubb as a main character, along with Aslan. But Silver Chair, the novel, does not include his Pevensie cousins, Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter. Other returning characters who may or may not be included are Trumpkin (PC), King Caspian (PC, VDT), Ramandu’s Daughter (VDT), and Lord Drinian (VDT).

(2) IDEA TO HONOR GERRY ANDERSON. Some of his admirers have launched a “Campaign for blue plaques in honour of Kilburn creator of Thunderbirds”. (via Ansible Links.)

Gerry Anderson, who attended Kingsgate Primary School, is most famous for the cult 1960s series Thunderbirds, which featured iconic characters including Scott Tracey, Lady Penelope and Parker.

The Historic Kilburn Plaque Scheme (HKPS) is looking to raise £2,500 to mark his contribution with two plaques: one on his old school in Kingsgate Road, and one on the Sidney Boyd Court estate, on the corner of West End Lane and Woodchurch Road, where he used to live.

Mr Anderson lived with his parents in a large detached house on the site of the estate from 1929 to 1935 before the area was bombed in the war.

(3) AND WE’RE STILL MAD. “Seven TV Finales That Went Out of Their Way to Anger Fans” at Cracked. Number six is Quantum Leap.

In the last episode, Sam somehow leaps into his own body in some kind of odd purgatory-like dimension that looks like a bar — which, as far as purgatory dimensions go, ain’t half-bad. Also, a guy who is implied to be God is there, working as a bartender. If the fact that even God had to have a part-time job in the early ’90s doesn’t disprove Reaganomics, what will?

(4) IS THIS CHARACTER THAT POPULAR? Suvudu’s Matt Staggs reports “Poe Dameron to Have Monthly Comic Book”.

He was only on screen for a few minutes, but Star Wars: The Force Awakens Resistance pilot Poe Dameron turned out to be one of the film’s biggest breakout characters. (Well, maybe next to TR-8R.) This week, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Marvel Entertainment announced that he’ll be the star of his own comic book: Star Wars: Poe Dameron. The new ongoing series will be written by Charles Soule (Lando, Obi-Wan and Anakin) and illustrated by Phil Noto (Chewbacca).

(5) UNDER-REMEMBERED AUTHORS. David Brin, in a post that begins with a tribute to the late David Hartwell, also names some forgotten authors – who should not be.

A fun little conversation-starter? On Quora I was asked to name “forgotten” sci fiauthors.  Other respondents were citing Roger Zelazny, L. Sprague de Camp, Ursuala Le Guin, Lester del Rey, A.E. VanVogt, Fritz Lieber, Clifford Simak, Harlan Ellison and Theodore Sturgeon. Well, of course Zelazny and Farmer and Ursula and those others should never be forgotten.  But would any reasonably well-read person say they are?  Or Walter Miller or Iain Banks?  No, not yet on any such list!  And I hope never.

For my own answer I dug deeper. From Robert Sheckley and Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.) and William Tenn, the greatest of all short story writers to lamented classics like John Boyd’s “The Last Starship From Earth.”

(6) CALL FOR PAPERS. The MLA 2017 session “Dangerous Visions: Science Fiction’s Countercultures” seeks papers that probe the following topic –

In the introduction to the chapter on “Countercultures” in his edited volume The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction (2014), Rob Latham asserts that “Science fiction has always had a close relationship with countercultural movements” (383). The alternative worldmaking capacities of SF&F, in other words, has long had resonances in the sub- and countercultural movements of the past few centuries, “especially,” as Latham qualifies and expands, “if the allied genre of the literary utopia [and, we might add, the dystopia] is included within” the orbit of SF.

The convention will be held in January 2017 in Philadelphia. Papers proposed to the panel … might address the countercultural forces of the following topics, broadly conceived, or take their own unique direction:

  • pulp magazines
  • SF and the Literary Left
  • the New Wave (American or British)
  • cyberpunk
  • British Boom
  • contemporary/world SF
  • postcolonial SF
  • (critical) utopias/dystopias
  • SF as counterculture
  • SF beyond “science fiction”
  • SF comics, films, television

(7) TODAY IN HISTORY

  • January 23, 1957 – Machines at the Wham-O toy company roll out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs–now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees.

(8) SOME GOOD OLD DAYS. The Traveler at Galactic Journey in “20,000 Leagues Over The Air!” is among the very first in 1961 to review Vincent Price’s performance in Master of the World.

Every once in a while, my faith is restored in Hollywood, and I remember why I sit through the schlock to get to the gold.

My daughter and I sat through 90 minutes of the execrable, so bad it’s bad Konga because we had been lured in by the exciting posters for Master of the World.  It promised to be a sumptuous Jules Verne classic a la Journey to the Center of the Earth, and it starred the inimitable Vincent Price to boot.

It was worth the wait–the movie is an absolute delight….

(9) TIME TRAVELING IN STONE. On Book View Café, Steven Popkes tells about a road trip that combined “Fossils and Atomic Testing in Nevada”.

It was also a different perspective to see how people in Nevada viewed such things. I was living in California most of that time. We ducked and covered in the classrooms in case war came. But, in Las Vegas, people saw the flash. There were hundreds of tests in Nevada, many above ground. Every time an above ground test happened, it was seen across much of the state. In California, we were scared of something amorphous. In Nevada, they saw it every few months.

Then, back to the hills and looking for rocks and fossils.

We ended up with about 100 pounds of rock holding down every counter in the hotel room. Fifty pounds were our addition to the adjacent rock garden but the remaining 50 pounds needed to be shipped. We ended up purchasing a sturdy suitcase in Walmart and paying $25 for a check on. We heard, “what do you have in here? Rocks?” more than once. We just smiled and gave them our credit card.

(10) TROUBLE MAGNET. Lela E. Buis shares her ideas about “The dangers of Internet activism”.

However, some of these activists have run afoul of public opinion and suffered for it. Jenny Trout was dropped by her publisher after the Fionna Man episode. Ann Rice, Kevin Weinberg and Marvin Kaye suffered from their efforts to counter some of these attacks. Sarah Wendell received a lot of negative attention after Vox Day featured her comments on his conservative blog. And Day is a prime example himself. Everyone in the SFF community should know his name after last year’s Hugo debacle, but most of the press is so negative that it leads people to discount his viewpoints.

(11) TERMS WITHOUT ENDEARMENT. Did Steve Davidson just refuse John C. Wright’s surrender?

[Davidson] Response: “Publicly repudiate slates and campaigning. Don’t participate; let your readers know that you don’t endorse slates and have requested that your works not be included on them.”

[Writer left unnamed in article] “Done! I accept your offer, I have posted a notice on my blog eschewing slate voting, and you must now perform your part of the deal, and forswear putting my works, should any be nominated, below ‘No Award.’”

[Davidson continues] And now for the analysis.

First, note that in the first quote from PP we have this “assuming it wins the nomination”.

This whole thing is about the nominating process and the final voting, not just the final vote.  PP has very carefully tried to thread a needle here by entirely ignoring the fact that slates and campaigning are pretty much a done deal by the time we get to the final ballot.

So, PP.  No.  Your assumption about what you’ve agreed to do is meaningless because the assumption is wrong – and I think deliberately so.

Moving on:  We’ve been through this in detail for over two years now.  You may have made a statement on your blog – but I see no requests you’ve made to have your works removed from slates.

[Thanks to Andrew Porter, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Daniel Dern.]

155 thoughts on “Pixel Scroll 1/23/16 Farmer In The Tunnel In The Dell In The Sky

  1. @Kip W – Fantastic!

    @TheYoungPretender

    I don’t think it’ll be at convincing when he comes in next year on a slate, claims he had nothing to do with it,

    You don’t need to wait for his disingenuousity* this year. Heck, look at his rationalisation for last year, where (IIRC) he continues to claim that it was just a result of his fans nominating him, and how dare those mean Puppy Kicker EssJayDubya CHORFS attack him and his fans for that. Slates? What slates?

    * = This is a word. Coz I say so.

  2. From what I understand, due to the lack of a proper will, Ford’s family inherited his copyrights. He was estranged from them and they will not authorize reprints.

  3. > “I read very mixed reviews of Superfolks last year and decided to skip it, despite its place in comic-related history; maybe a mistake? It sounded kinda cheesy.”

    Not really a mistake. If you were someone interested in the historical development of superhero fiction over the last ~4 decades, it’s worth looking at because of its influence on later works. If you just want to read good superhero books, skip it. It’s WILDLY uneven, veering without warning between some quite interesting stuff and “what did I just read, and why?” in the course of a rather slim volume.

    > “Chabon’s didn’t really sound like my thing, but I’ve seen a lot of praise for it since it came out (and I own it; a gift when it came out, IIRC), so again, maybe a mistake (especially since I own it).”

    Well, if you own it, I’m not going to argue against your reading it. 🙂 And unlike Superfolks, this is a genuinely good book throughout. But while it dips its toe into the fantastic, it’s mostly pretty much literary fiction, and is far more about the people behind the development of superheroes as a genre than superheroes themselves. I found that an interesting subject, but freely acknowledge that not everyone would.

  4. JJ on January 24, 2016 at 5:07 pm said:
    BravoLimaPoppa: can you expand on the first sentence? I’ve been having to get Ford’s stuff from the library and used bookstores for a while now.

    John M. Ford was a science-fiction writer whose family, apparently ashamed of his profession, has refused to bring his out-of-print works back into print. He died intestate (without a will), so his family, rather than his partner, inherited the rights to his work.

    ETA: Wikipedia has a list of links to the paucity of Ford’s works which are available online.

    What? Oh, no!

    “The Dragon Waiting” was brilliantly weird. His “Star Trek” novels are still legendary. “Web of Angels” was a genius cyberpunk invocation of the internet (from 1980!) sabotaged by a terrible cover by an artist who wanted out of the biz.

    This is a travesty.

  5. FWIW, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is one of my very favorite books, probably a Top Five. Certainly a Top Ten. There aren’t “real” superheroics in it; instead there are some interpolated prose stories of super-characters created by the protagonists. They kind of have the same role in Kavalier & Clay as the stories and poems that A.S. Byatt embedded into Possession. K&C is lit-fic by a writer who deeply believes in the value of nerd culture.

  6. BravoLimaPoppa: There’s not much to expand upon from what Ultragotha said. Ford’s family never approved of him becoming a writer, and since he didn’t make a will naming a literary executor, guess who got the job? They’ve never, and probably never will, approved any reprints of his work. The Star Trek novels belong to Paramount (work done for hire, you see; they own the copyright), which famously rewrote their contracts after each of them to say, in effect, “no more like that one!”, so I wouldn’t count on those being reprinted, either.

    If anybody ever scans his books and makes ebooks from them, that’s one bit of piracy I’d approve of, because otherwise his books are going to disappear forever.

  7. Cally: The Star Trek novels belong to Paramount (work done for hire, you see; they own the copyright), which famously rewrote their contracts after each of them to say, in effect, “no more like that one!”, so I wouldn’t count on those being reprinted, either.

    Pocket Books has put his two Star Trek novels out on Kindle:
    The Final Reflection
    How Much Just For The Planet?

  8. @Kyra & @Jim Henley: Thanks for the additional comments! I very rarely read non-SFF, but this sounds like one I may like.

    BTW I’m somewhat familiar with Chabon, though I admit I’ve only read (many, many years ago) The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, which I remember liking at the time. (I never saw the movie.)

  9. The danger of a specific “page 117” test is, of course, that authors and publishers may decide to make page 117 the really exciting one, to lure people. Assuming the idea catches on more than it has, of course. 😀

    In a bookstore, I’ve always done the “open it randomly at a couple of places and see what you think” thing, rather than starting at the beginning. It is an excellent idea, and I definitely endorse it.

    With on-line publishing, it’s more common that you only get to preview the beginning. This is unfortunate, and I don’t know of a workaround. Which may have something to do with why my e-book collection mostly consists of older stuff I know I like, or authors who have a good track record with me.

    eta: I could, of course, go to the bookstore and browse a work, then go home and buy an e-book if I like it, but that seems extremely rude, somehow. I want to support my local bookstores!

  10. Unrelated to anything:

    The Screen Junkies, home of Honest trailiers, did their 2015 Screenies Awards and had a shout-out to the dearth of ey action figures, at the end of the “Most Ridiculous Star Wars Merchandise” section (which starts at 9:10). 😉 I like the whole thing, but if you’re not into their humor and want to see the very brief comment it’s at 9:30.

  11. That’s just a shame about John M. Ford’s family. Though I do wonder if their “shame” would be assuaged by, say, gainful interest from a movie studio.

  12. Cally: I’m very glad to hear it!

    I know, at least some of his work will remain widely available. I bought and read around the first 90 Star Trek original series tie-in novels (before I gave up in the early 90s at the deluge, expense and drop in quality of them) — and yet years later, when I heard about John M Ford, I remembered which novels he’d written, because they are that memorable.

    (I wonder if his family is turning down the Star Trek royalty checks.)

    I’ve never gotten to read any of his other work. I may have to start with that Wikipedia list, then see what else I can hunt down.

  13. There is no evidence, no matter how sad a fact it is, that Mike Ford’s family would be moved by mere filthy lucre. They don’t approve.

    This is why all creative workers need a will, and it needs to be worked overy by a lawyer who understands intellectual property issues.

    I rely on the page 117 test, though I’ve always understood it as a random page about a third of the way in, not that specific page.

  14. I normally read anywhere from the first sentence to the first chapter. I’ve given up on books that might be good because of too many dumb things in the first page (The Passage) and I’ve bought books I’ve disliked because of a good first page too (The Night Circus) so on balance it’s probably a really bad test, or I should do that and the page 117 test, just to make sure.

    But on the plus side The Night Circus is super pretty to look at and I can see why other people might love it.

  15. I just met Ford one time. I played piano to accompany a cabaret of his work at Boskone (Gary McGath played half the time), and he thanked me afterward. I would have said a few words to him, but other people were really keen to talk to him, and I figured, well, I’ll talk to him next time, and let it go by. I had a high opinion of him from threads on Making Light in which he’d scintillated with no apparent effort at all.

  16. @Kendall: (Superheroes Anonymous)

    I thought the books did wonderful things with the standard superhero tropes. Basically, at the beginning, the narrator is known for getting kidnapped (frequently) by supervillains. She’s famous for it, which pretty much defines her life, and not in a way she likes. Everybody she knows/works with is convinced that her boyfriend is secretly the hero who rescues her, but she doesn’t see it. Then he breaks up with her and moves away, “her” hero starts saving people in the new city, and… she gets kidnapped again. This time, without anyone to save her from the mad scientist’s experiments. And that’s only the setup.

    Mary Frances and lurkertype mentioned Carrie Vaughn’s “Golden Age” novels (two so far), and I’ll third their recommendations for the first book while adding one for the sequel. The two series tread some of the same ground – in both cases, the narrator is a frequently-kidnapped woman who thereby straddles the “normal” and “supers” worlds – and I rather enjoy the different ways they handle the similar concept. I’ll also second Kyra’s recommendation of Black and White and (not fifty) Shades of Gray; I really liked the “dueling narrator” setup in the first, as well as the realization that neither woman has the whole picture. Once they start talking… well, “spoilers!”

    @Vasha: “I just can’t get past the concept”

    Much of the non-licensed* supers fiction I read is notable for dealing with the genre by openly questioning or subverting several of the more ridiculous ideas. In fact, the treatment of the clash between four-color traditions and realism is one of the things I particularly like there. For instance, in Superheroes Anonymous, “Hostage Girl” sticks with a job she hates because she needs the health insurance and wouldn’t be able to get coverage if she went elsewhere. It’s a small detail, perhaps, but one the comics seldom consider.

    * In fairness, novels that deal with an established universe are bound to obey its rules. Even the nutty ones. New settings are free to take a more (ahem) novel approach.

  17. Superheroes:
    I was a big fan of the shared world Wildcards series which was less about superheroes, more about superpowers, edited mainly by George RR Martin with a big cast of both characters & writers. They are very much a reflection of the times in which they are written: 80s for the first volumes, and the new ones are current day. Can be patchy but the high points are high.

    There’s also Temps which is a neat British take on the C or D-list supers: not everyone can be a Superman…

  18. @IanP: Aye, and yer Hielanders ken it’s a “French chicken”!
    (Auto-translate gets most upset when it reads the Gaelic; always thinks it’s Irish.)

  19. Following up on Soon Lee’s comments: Wild Cards has had long dry patches. But the last few volumes, particularly Fort Freak and Lowball, are genuinely good again.

  20. I loved “How Much For Just The Planet?” with the intense love of a weird kid and it is one of my few counted regrets in life that when I was lurking shyly on Making Light, I never told him. And by the time I got up the nerve to actually talk to people there regularly, he was gone.

    I’ve since tried to tell more creators when I can.

  21. Sorry, Wrong Scroll.

    Move along, nothing to see here, as you were, back to your scum and villainy.

  22. Pocket Books has put his two Star Trek novels out on Kindle:

    They’re also available for Kobo, which means pretty much any reader. (I have a spreadsheet. I may need a lottery win, though.)

  23. @JJ
    Web of Angels is quite good as well. I have not read the Star Trek novels but I am going to check the kindle versions out.

  24. @Rev. Bob: Thanks for the additional info & rec’ing! I thought something seemed familiar about one of those books (I mean, I’d read both book descriptions a while ago, but not recently); I didn’t realize both had a frequently-kidnapped woman, LOL.

    @Soon Lee & @Bruce Baugh: I read a little of Wildcards way back in the day; we still have the first two books. I haven’t tried the new ones yet, since I don’t read much short fiction, but maybe I should check them out – thanks. 🙂

    @Soon Lee: I believe I found Temps – a collection co-edited (or at least, co-“devised”) by Neil Gaiman??? It looks very silly and weird, from the one review I found on Amazon. It’s too old to have a preview, but it’s a penny plus shipping (i.e., it’s $4). I’m going to think about this, thanks.

  25. I’ve worshipped John M Ford ever since I read his short story in the Sandman anthology The Book Of Dreams (edited by Ed Kramer – THAT Ed Kramer?) I was so thrilled when I found Making Light (and Electrolite back then) and he was a regular commenter of such charm and wit and intelligence, and I was shocked at his death. His work really does not deserve to be lost or forgotten.

  26. Temps is fun. And I did get to tell Roz Kaveney how much I enjoyed her story in the first one.

    Wild Cards can be fun, at least when not falling into the “this is Adult superhero fiction. Adult means that we can do things they can’t do in comics. That means graphic sex!” trap.

    Quite enjoyed the first book of Veleteen stories by Seanan McGuire. Haven’t looked at the second yet.

  27. > “For instance, in Superheroes Anonymous, ‘Hostage Girl’ sticks with a job she hates because she needs the health insurance and wouldn’t be able to get coverage if she went elsewhere. It’s a small detail, perhaps, but one the comics seldom consider.”

    There is at least one villain in the Marvel universe who worked for Hydra explicitly because they offered health insurance. I think her husband had health problems, if I remember correctly … Elsie Carson, that’s it. Head of Hydra’s Midwest section:

    http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix5/carsonelsie.htm

  28. Re: Ford.

    John Ford is the patron saint of a small con here, 4th Street Fantasy. A few small time authors, like Steven Brust, Elizabeth Bear, Scott Lynch and Emma Bull are regulars or on the staff of the con.

    One track, one room, and I always learn a lot. You should come. 🙂

  29. Speaking of John M Ford, he also wrote one of the best RPG supplements ever, the Black Box Blues for the Paranoia line. Must have run that a dozen times, before the book literally fell apart.

  30. She had multiply iterated fun before her daddy [Karl Marx, the father of communism] took her T-bird [communist strike aircraft] away.

  31. @Rev. Bob:

    Much of the non-licensed* supers fiction I read is notable for dealing with the genre by openly questioning or subverting several of the more ridiculous ideas.

    Well, I usually don’t get into stories that engage with the idea of superheroes even to revise it; that would need some basic involvement in the concept. I found Watchmen interesting but not fascinating, for example. But as for the two stories that interested me recently: “The Last Pantheon” concerns beings who took the roles of various sorts of legendary heroes over the course of millennia adopting a style that suits the popular media of the late 20th century, and is about (among other things) how the media exploits them; “Kaiju maximus®” is a somewhat bleak story in which real people in a superhero game-world struggle with the laws of nature the writers created. So both are looking at the setup from a critical outside perspective (while having likable characters very involved).

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  33. To everyone that contributed about John M. Ford: thank you.

    I knew him through his books and reading his posts on the Pyramid forums. He struck me as great perdon and it really saddens me that his family has chosen to act the way they did.

  34. @Lisa Goldstein: “Yeah, I know I’m over-thinking this, but I’m trying to convince myself that it’s okay to stop reading a book after you’ve gone a few chapters and given it a chance.”

    When I’m at at a restaurant and the first few bites of my meal are terrible, I’m not going to choke down the entire awful mess before I decide that meal is terrible. Reading is much the same, to me. Why on earth would I want to choke down an entire novella (or *three* in the case of JCW) when the first ten or twenty pages make it abundantly clear that it is dreck? Or, in the case of truly awful works, the first two pages? As lurkertype says above, life is too short to read bad books.

    If by some miracle some of JCWs work gets *fairly* nominated, I’ll be happy to give it a fair chance. But that doesn’t mean forcing myself to read an entire novel if I can tell early on that it is bad- that’s nothing more than a pure waste of my time. Nor does it mean any kind of guarantee of being placed above No Award, despite the “professional authors” overly abunant sense of entitlement. And if I judge that it got on the ballot unfairly, it will save me the trouble of having to do even that.

  35. Heather Rose Jones on January 25, 2016 at 6:46 am said:

    @ snowcrash

    disingenuousity* … * = This is a word. Coz I say so.

    Indeed it is, but if I may be linguistically pedantic for a moment, the English phonological “tri-syllabic laxing” rule makes it “disingenuosity”.

    Hmm, well, that agrees with my instincts, but as the Wikipedia article points out, that rule is “mostly productive” in Modern English, meaning it’s common, but not mandatory. And I know from experience that my instincts are not always a reliable guide. So I did a Google search (also not 100% reliable, but often useful as a starting point in analyzing usage), and, while both spellings are found in the wild, Heather’s version seems to appear in more formal contexts, so I’d say that it looks like it may well be winning the war.

  36. Kendall,

    It’s tough for me to recognize songs I know from lines of different text without any music or credit.

    I don’t know about others, but the (really bad) reasons I haven’t been putting a reference to my films are
    1: Arrogance. Everybody should be at least as well read/musiced as me and so be able to instantly recognise my inspirations.
    2: Fear. Because of (1), having to tell someone what I am referencing is proof I haven’t done a good job in conveying the original’s essence. The filking equivalent of telling a joke badly.

    All this leads me to do a pastiche on Slim Dusty’s Pub With No Beer when I am guessing 3-4 people here max know who Slim Dusty is, let alone pick my bastardisation of the song.

  37. @Tintinaus:

    “I am guessing 3-4 people here max know who Slim Dusty is”

    There are people who don’t know Slim Dusty? Their education has been sadly neglected.

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