Prognostication on the P-list

[Mike Weaver]

>
>Then again, if you're a
>believer in free will, you'll recognize that it's possible that those
>talented and intelligent people will, after all these years, finally elect
>to suck it up, accept the fact that they might never be reconciled with 1-10
>people who also happen to be on the mailing list, and lay off the sniping.
>
>Mixing metaphors,
>
>list nanny d.

Nicely stated - I'll second that. The recent enhanced list levity has 
muffled the gunfire, but a holster trumps a silencer every day.

A suggestion:
The paranoia set off by staccato appearance of details, the hopes and 
fears and giddiness released, seem to have left in their trail rich 
pickings. We could spend those 100 odd days exploring them.
What went on between 1893 and 1923, in Chicago, New York, London, 
Gottingen, Venice,  Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia , 
Mexico, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood. (If we exhaust that 
theme could check out those off the map places)

Then there are all those characters, the anarchists, balloonists, 
gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and 
decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and 
stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. 
What were  the states of their arts and occupations in those years. 
Historically or fictionally.

Put some structure in place -
15 or 17 weeks, two years a week, or a place and an occupation? Hosted or no?

AtDAtD
Afore the Day, Against the Day.



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