Operation Mayhem
I'm moving in about two weeks to the apartment building next door and I'm calling it Operation Mayhem. Today I've started doing some preliminary packing, sorting, etc. I have this big box full of old Anolog and Isaac Asimov science fiction magazines from 1978-1982. Paging through them, I finally understand the nerdy sci-fi fan stereotype. The art work is hilarious, and the science fiction poetry just plain weird. The funniest story I noticed was called FemWorld, about a future society where feminism has run amuck!
Maybe the nerds were all nervous in 1980. I don't know. I was barely five months old back then.
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- David Oppegaard
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Where in heaven's name did you get all those back issues? Have you been stalking my father again?
My dad picked 'em up at a garage sale and gave them to me. I'm going to sell about half of them (I've sorted out the coolest looking ones with writers I recognized) to the Half priced bookstore. No one needs an entire box of this stuff.
Hey, weren't you trying to tell me you're about 37 years old on Friday night?
5 months old??
Yes ma'am. I was born on August 19th, 1979. I share my birthday with Bill Clinton, Gary Gaetti, and David Sedaris.
Lovely. I love Half-Price books. It's a wonderful store.
Quark Soup
A mechanical hand stretches
across eons, these fingers,
temporal nodes
pass unhindered through
neutron stars, magnetars,
absolute singularities.
I dip my spoon of probability
into quark soup
and am reborn.
Thanks for the inspiration, bloppo! I should submit this ASAP to Asimov!
Appy, the science fiction poet, rides again!
The term "quark" as a term for subatomic particles was inspired by James Joyce's use of the term in Finnegan's Wake. In a poem in Finnegan's Wake, no less. And now on Bloggy-gaaaard we have a poem using the word quark.
Bloggy and James Joyce - both writers - both inspiring.
Ha ha, what a funny poem, App. Science fiction poetry. It just sounds so dorky. Yet it is so...dorky.
Thanks, Rand. Your comment was both informative AND inspiring.
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