Thursday Fun Link: Ray Bradbury Always Wins

If you feel, along with LA Weekly jazz columnist "Brick Wahl," that Nick Gillespie was out of line in his recent tirade against L.A.'s own science fiction gem Ray Bradbury, you'll be happy to know that comedian Rachel Bloom agrees. The real achievement of a science fiction writer can only be measured in whether he's got Game. And apparently the turning-90-next-week Bradbury is pwning the competition:

Take that, Neil Gaiman!

Courtesy of PJ Manney.

Comments

[Irresponsible Hater]

Lame.

[Pro Libertate]

Really? I thought it was funny. And, of course, the subject was a mite surprising.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The music video "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury" safe for work?

[Pro Libertate]

Say, I wonder if we could've embedded videos yesterday?

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Don't even go there.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I don't care how long you've been commenting here, you need to be banned.

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Or at least fisted?

[Pro Libertate]

I had a moment of supreme irony when I was referring one of the editors here to a great--but obscure--book debunking the myths around universal service, while at the same time using the blink tag in another thread. What a strange day yesterday was!

[Jeff P]

Can we expect more? Baby's Got Simak and On The Pohl?

[Pro Libertate]

Smiak, unfortunately, is dead, but Pohl is alive, and he's older than Bradbury. I demand respect for an important Golden Age of Science Fiction author/editor!

[Jeff P]

So "Urge for Sturgeon" would be wrong?

[Pro Libertate]

Yes, as would "Boff the Asimov" and "Last Train to Clarksville."

[Jeff P]

I prefer "Ass Him Off."
and the name Pournelle just writes its own jokes...

[Pro Libertate]

Inthesack Asshimoff?

[Pro Libertate]

Isuck Asshimoff?

[Jesse Walker]

What, was the Philip K. Dick joke too obvious?

[Jeff P]

We're skewing towards the old ones rather than the dead ones.

[Jeff P]

Jesse, I completely misread your comment. Ignore me.

[Pro Libertate]

Simak is dead, too. Smiak is maybe less dead.

[MCab]

Eating Herbert's Sherbert?

[Episiarch]

I can't WTFV, but Bradbury is a fucking great author, and I can forgive him a little curmudgeon-like behavior.

[Pro Libertate]

I agree 100%. I was a bit surprised at the Bradbury hate earlier in the week.

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Everybody hates you if you live long enough. Then when you die they love you again and buy your CDs.

[Tman]

How come I never meet women who want to fuck Ray Bradbury?

And by women, I mean the chick with the catholic school outfit and the unbuttoned shirt.

[Jozef]

Boobies...

[Jeff P]

I think we can all agree on that.

[Pro Libertate]

I'd complain that this was posted on Urkobold previously, but I'm sure we stole it from another site, and I'm also sure certain members of our clan are on Double-Secret Probation around here.

[peachy]

I don't think the probation's any secret, old chap.

[?]

I enduro-ed 9 seconds of the video. Six of those were because I'd scrolled another window down and lost the mouse pointer off in a corner somewhere, but still, I had to hear the music the whole time.

BEAT THAT

[Jeff P]

Some people blamed Asimov for Al Queda and Falon Gong, and Heinlein for Charles Manson, now Bradbury is inspiring girls to dress sexy.

[Pro Libertate]

I'd say he wins, then.

Clarke only gave us communications satellites, after all, so he's not even worthy of the list.

[Ted S.]

For some reason, your comment gave me this horrible mashup in my head of Ray Bradbury singing I'm Too Sexy

[Jeff P]

That would be Right Said Fred Saberhagan.

[rac]

I have to disagree that Farenheit 451 was the worst movie ever made. That honor belongs to Zardoz. And The Illustrated Man was a horrendous piece of shit adaptation of Bradbury's book.

[Jeff P]

Don't forget the Electric Grandmother afterschool special.

And what does everyone think about the Martian Chronicles miniseries?

[Sandy]

Confession: I really can't stand Ray Bradbury. Every time I read it it just seems to come across as horror with a thin veneer of SF.

I would totally gay marry Clifford Simak, though mainly because I would want to have someone to hang out with as I told all the teenagers to get off my big front yard. So maybe I'd just genteelly befriend him at the local general store.

[Episiarch]

You shithead. Zardoz is great; you just have to understand Boorman to get it. Plus, it's a phenomenal watch if you're really fucked up on various pharmaceuticals.

[Pro Libertate]

The key to understanding Boorman is becoming aware that the naked chick having sex with an armor-wearing Gabriel Byrne in Excalibur was, in fact, Boorman's daughter.

[SugarFree]

And Boorman spent weeks filming his nude son for The Emerald Forest.

[Jeff P]

I thought the key was having Merlin portrayed as a cross between Fred Schneider and Fruitpie the Magician...

[Jeff P]

Also, Helen Mirren made brother-fucking fashionable, or at least hot.

[Pro Libertate]

Strange. I've always loved Nicol Williamson's portrayal of Merlin.

And Helen Mirren was great in that film, too.

[SugarFree]

LOOK INTO THE EYES OF THE DRAGON AND DESPAIR!

[Pro Libertate]

Eeexactly.

[Jeff P]

I kept expecting Williamson to break into a Curly-esque "Woowoowoowoo" throughout the film.

There was a film-buff drinking game back then where you did a shot everytime you saw a camera or crewmember reflected in a knight's armor.

Typing the above I forgot what a horrible film that was.

[rac]

Age of Consent. Now that's a Helen Mirren movie!

[Pro Libertate]

Man, I've always liked that movie.

[Pro Libertate]

Excalibur, I mean. I don't get the Jeff P hate.

[R C Dean]

[Clicks over to Netflix, updates queu]

[Jeff P]

I once did acid and watched a double feature of Gamera vs. Zigra and The Incredible Mr. Limpet. The amazing part was how seamlessly they became the same film.

[hmm]

Fuck PJ!!

I posted this three days ago in the article you linked to you troglodyte! It's even the first fucking comment!

http://reason.com/blog/2010/08.....nt_1854236

[Pro Libertate]

Sure did. Why you even linked to it!

I'd sue.

[hmm]

I plan to sue!

Or at least bitch and whine until I get more recognition! I won't let the man keep me down!

[Art-P.O.G.]

Don't worry, hmmm. We already know you're the best.

[Art-P.O.G.]

Hawt and clever. Clever and hawt. I enjoyed.

[J Mann]

I'd do Bradbury. I'd have to close my eyes and think of England, but he's earned it.

[Tim]

He's no Heinlein.

[roystgnr]

No, but a bunch of hot young girls swooning over an old writer sounds an awful lot like a Heinlein book.

[Franklin Harris]

+1

[SugarFree]

As a Heinlein aside...

If you ever want to read a critique of Heinlein from someone who clearly doesn't know what he's talking about 50% of the time, I'd like to recommend Robert A. Heinlein: America as Science Fiction by H. Bruce Franklin.

[Joe Kristan]

"L.A.'s own science fiction gem Ray Bradbury"?

Ahem.

[stubby]

I'd do Neil Gaiman. But then again, who wouldn't?

I saw the Bradbury vid two days ago and I've had the song in my head ever since.