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Welcome to WHAT IF Wednesday!
WHAT IF... you could choose a movie to make out of a favorite book?
Which book (or series) would you like to see on the silver screen?
I've always wondered why they call it the "silver screen". I know why they call acting front and center on stage as the "in the limelight". It's because the lamps on the stage (before electric power) were bright and fueled by, that's right, lime (the rock, not the juice).
Now, that's interesting...
Silver lenticular screen,a type of projection screen popular in the early years of the motion picture industry.
The term originated in reference to the actual silver content embedded in the material that made up the screen's highly reflective surface.
So, was your subconscious working on the question while I distracted you for a moment?
I hope so.
Screenshot from the PERN Museum & Archives
© Hans van der Boom 2008 and the various artists
My top choice is Anne McCaffrey's PERN stories. Flying, telepathic, empathically bonded for life to a single human, fire-breathing, time-traveling dragons.
And their riders, and the world they inhabit. Where every couple hundred of years DEATH falls from the sky for about 50 years straight.
What's not to love?
Alternate for me would be the Universe John Scalzi has created in the Old Man's War series.
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.
Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve your time at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.
John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger.
But that one is already in the works,
as of August 2014.
So I'll be sticking with PERN and her massive cast of characters, some of whom are even human.
What story would YOU love to see come to life on the big screen?
as always...
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Wednesday, July 29th
Four Corners Kos Meet-up with Meteor Blades and navajo
TIME: 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Private Residence
[Address will be given to RSVPers, Entrance is mobility impaired - there are steps going down into residence that are unavoidable.] • Durango
ORGANIZER: Send Thinking Fella a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. Thinking Fella
2. Meteor Blades
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4. nzanne
5. Gary Norton
6. redmoondog
7. relleno
8. mnguitar
9. Merry Light
Plus 30 RSVPs from email
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Maybees:
vexed weasel
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Tuesday, July 28th
Houston Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Collina's Italian Cafe
502 West 19th Street • Houston
ORGANIZER: Send Chrislove a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. Chrislove
2. nomandates
3. JJR1971
4. Blood
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Latest diary: Houston Area Kossacks: Meetup Scheduled for Tuesday, July 28
Saturday, August 1st
Nashville KosKats Meet-up to Discuss Local Ballot Issues
TIME: 12:30 PM
LOCATION: B & C Melrose BBQ
2617 Franklin Pike • Nashville
ORGANIZER: Send ZenTrainer a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. ZenTrainer
2. Anonymous 1
3. Anonymous 2
4. Jon Sitzman
5. Cassandra 77
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Maybees:
Al Fondy
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Latest diary: Confusing ballot in Nashville election. KosKat meet-up for help? With Update!
Saturday, August 1st
DKos Asheville Meet-up
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: The Bywater
796 Riverside Dr • Asheville
ORGANIZER: Send [organizer's linked user name] a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. randallt
2. davehouck
3. Lamont Cranston
4. Joieau
5. DawnN
6. Otteray Scribe
7. FarmerG
8. Gordon20024
9.
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Latest diary: DKos Asheville: Open Thread
Sunday, August 9th
Butte County Kossacks of CA-01 Meet-up
TIME: 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Broadway Heights Restaurant
300 Broadway St. (Upstairs) • Chico
ORGANIZER: Send smileycreek a kosmail to attend
RSVPs:
1. smileycreek
2. Paradise50
3. SoCalHobbit
4. Caddis Fly (most likely)
5. side pocket (strong maybe)
6. Besame (maybe)
7. Chico David RN (probable)
8. Sue
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Latest diary: Chico & Paradise Meet-up: Sunday, August 9th, 1:00 PM
Announcing Asheville, North Carolina as the location
for our next Regional Event! 9.26.15
Asheville, N.C. is the destination for September 26, 2015! DKos Asheville, the In-Real-Life group under the leadership of randallt, has been setting the example for other IRL groups across the nation regarding registering people to vote, getting out the vote, having a state open thread and setting up strategy conferences for their region. Because of this impressive leadership we've asked randallt to be the State Leader for all of North Carolina. We've got important work to do on the ground there and randallt has shown he's the person to make that happen.
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