Warning - Rugged Language

[Don Schenk]

Here are 2 short Youtube videos by writer Harlan Ellison.

The first is about Intenet Piracy and what writers (and other creative peoples such as music and graphic designers) should be doing about it.

The second is about writers being paid for their efforts.

The warning is that his language is a bit on the rough side. If that offends you, don't watch.

:-Don

Internet Piracy:

YouTube - Harlan Ellison on Creative Piracy

Writers being paid:

YouTube - Harlan Ellison -- Pay the Writer

[John Rogers]

Wow, Harlan is looking friggin' old! (and he has a gut) Back in the days when I read a lot of fiction, I couldn't get enough of his stuff. I look forward to watching the videos and hope he hasn't lost the edge in his voice.

John

[John Rogers]

LOL, that was f#$*ing sweet! Thank God Ellison hasn't changed a bit.

When I was a junior or senior in high school a new bookstore opened in the small town I lived in, and I became friends with the owner/operator, Chet "C.C." Clingan. He had sold a couple of short stories, and back in the hey days of the SF fanzines, he and his brother published one called The Diversifier. They also founded an organization called the Small Press Writers and Artists Organization (SPWAO), which I believe died along with the SF fanzine market.

Four or five of us were hanging out and bullsh1tting on his front porch one day when Chet got a phone call and disappeared into the house for over an hour. He came back out looking like he had been dragged sideways through a knot hole. We asked what happened, and he said it was Harlan Ellison on the phone.

Apparently he had written an opinion piece about something Harlan had said, done, or written (I don't remember the specifics now) that Ellison took exception to, and he phoned Chet and chewed him up one side and down the other for over an hour.

Chet didn't care that Harlan Ellison chewed his ass. He was thrilled to get the phone call.

John