Mark on SFWA politics

[mrissa]

markgritter: More organizations should have a piracy committee!
Me: It's an anti-piracy committee, honey.
markgritter: Oh. Well, never mind then.

Comments

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

I agree... More organizations should have a piracy committee. Especially at universities where resources can be scarce. My department could then run over and raid supplies from genetics...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oooh, and then you could get superpowers out of the deal! Because that's what kind of supplies come from genetics labs, right?

(I mean additional superpowers, of course.)

Hey, how come nobody ever writes a story where the Superman equivalent is bitten by a radioactive spider equivalent and gets different superpowers? Hmmmm....

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

But how to strike fear into the hearts of the criminal fraternity ? Bruce Wayne had been brooding about this question for hours when abruptly a spider came crashing through his window. "Don't be silly," he said, and brushed it away.

[ and for once, I have the perfect userpic for a comment. ]

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

I think there was a really bad Charmed episode where the sisters powers all got switched around with dubiously hilarious results... I'm sure you could do better.

And actually, I wasn't contemplating GETTING the super powers when I was writing the comment, so much as I was contemplating how our raiding party would get past the genetically engineered Guardian-Lab-Rats (TM). Though I suppose we could plant a Mole though I don't see how that would help us out much... Contrary to what the CIA believes, Moles make horrible lookouts. They are blind, after all...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, that's very *cough* short-sighted of the CIA.

Hmmm. If I knew what department you were with, I would be better able to come up with the superpower-related solution to the Guardian-Lab-Rats. Bright green potions? Hacking implausibly into their alarm systems? Engineering Guardian-Lab-Rat-only drugs or viruses? Slaying them with your erudite references to Jacobean drama? So many possibilities....

[mightyjesse.livejournal.com]

Oh, our power possibilities are limitless, though distinctly more "Mad Scientisty" than "Super-powery." I am with the Nutritional Sciences department, so I suspect we would just make up a batch of desserts that the Rats would find to be IRRESISTABLE, that would subsequently result in a long period of unscheduled napping... Or suchlike. (This power already belongs to one lady in our department... She makes the most lovely cakes for EVERY departmental meeting, and the resulting sugar crash causes me to sleep through most of the meeting...)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Wait! I have that superpower! Neat!

[timprov.livejournal.com]

They do. It's never good.

(Among other things, I think this was part of the plot of the most recent Fantastic Four movie.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I thought that was trading them around like Pokemon.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

I had not known about rainbow kryptonite.

Do you have a complete list of which other superheroes Superman has been at one point or another? My brain is only digging up Batman and Gangbuster, but I'm sure there are a lot more.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

bwahaa!

[supergee.livejournal.com]

With the people they've got running it, they could try to crack down on Talk Like a Pirate Day.

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

::Waves hand:: I wanna be on the piracy committee!

[katallen.livejournal.com]

See, if it was a piracy committee the people on it would only get to wear *one* eyepatch... :D

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

*steals the loot, cabana boys, and rum of other writer's organizations*