Posted 6:24 PM by Gene

Slashdotters are no doubt guffawing because people like them who eat, sleep, and onanize sci-fi all day but somehow manage to type tons of bad prose besides have putatively given a mighty thumbs down to an alleged MySpace of "fanfic". Of course (judging from this) the site had to be launched with two left feet and twenty-five big toes, but there's a simple reason for that: SUMNER HELPED LAUNCH IT.

P. S. Yes, yes, something called "Showtime" and something else called "Simon and Schuster" helped launch it -- but people forget SUMNER has relinquished virtually no control over both His VIACONS since He split them up. Anything done by a SUMNER-controlled operation, we strongly suggest, HE does, and no matter what the company that did it might be called, this farce has SUMNER -- written all over it.

P. P. S. Evidently Slashdotters don't read as someone posted a Yahoo! logo with the summary. Yes, a couple of former Yahoo! executives did the organizing -- but a couple of CURRENT SUMNER properties did the bankrolling.

P. P. P. S. Yes, we suppose we should beamingly exclaim, "Oooh, look at the grown-ups playing Wookiees!" We suppose we should all laugh. DAMMIT, I want Fitzgeralds and Cathers and Mankiewiczes and Coplands and Kerns and Ellingtons making our culture again, not billionaire hacks and their infernal whores.