October 26, 2006

Not In Laogai

I was concerned that Ian of Banana Oil! had met a bad fate. He has ThreeSources on his blogroll on the other side of the ChiCom firewall. A month of seeing a WordPress error page had me seriously concerned.

I was going to remove him and gave one last click:

Like Shepherd Book in Firefly, I've been out of the world for a while. In my case, it wasn't by choice, but I'm not going to talk about it. At least, not publicly.

But I am not: incarcerated; deathly ill (or ill at all); sadistically tortured by (or torturing) anyone.

I owe lots of you an email, and some of you a good deal more than that. You will get them, though perhaps not immediately.

Will try to post some interesting quotes for the next week or two, at the very least.

Otherwise, I'm remaining out of the world for just a bit longer. Many apologizings.


Alive, out of jail, and spinning off Firefly references. Excellent.

Posted by jk at October 26, 2006 8:15 PM

And I left him another RAH quote under his, posted in July: "Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse." I have a young daughter. I can say with authority that this is absolutely factual.

Posted by: johngalt at October 27, 2006 1:42 AM

It just struck me that the offspring of the ThreeSources community is overwhelmingly female. I count seven daughters and no sons among the authors and frequent commentators I know personally. I have no children myself but score nine nieces to two nephews.

I was going to ask if we were sitting too close to the monitor but don't want anyone to misconstrue: I'm not saying it's a negative

Posted by: jk at October 27, 2006 10:24 AM

Huh ... go figure. To Conservatives have more female children and Liberals have more Girly Men?

I've got a set of twins ... A girl and a bonus-boy.

I'm grooming my daugter to be the greatest war-time president in history. Planet Haliburton will be proud to have one of their own in office again.

Posted by: mdmhvonpa at October 27, 2006 1:07 PM

Mdmhvonpa, it's good to know who the competition is.

Veronica was going to be a four-star general THEN she'd be POTUS.

Posted by: AlexC at October 28, 2006 12:14 AM

Now now kids, 22nd Amendment is still in force, plenty of time for all of them.

Posted by: jk at October 28, 2006 12:27 PM | What do you think? [5]