RIPs

[vzzbux]

In the next few weeks we will see who is really in charge of North Korea. I always saw Kim as a puppet for the generals and it only makes sense to put one of his sons in his place, not the eldest I see.
Still, Good riddance to bad rubbish. Rot In Piss Kim.




V

[JOE SOAP]

I thought China was.

[Adrian Bamforth]

It's kind of an odd situation (to say the least) in Korea since probably the worst thing that could happen for the regime is that the South simply walk away from the border and say "come on in!". Let's see how long the cult of personality lasts against an educated population and better living conditions (also, I suspect their army are better at marching than fighting).

[JOE SOAP]

It's kind of an odd situation (to say the least) in Korea since probably the worst thing that could happen for the regime is that the South simply walk away from the border and say "come on in!".

That ain't gonna happen in my opinion. The unsaid 'truth' is that none of the major powers operating in the Pacific want to see the North Korean dictatorship collapse. 

The one thing that is stopping support for regime collapse by the surrounding countries: South Korea -with US involvement/responsibilty-, China, Japan, and Russia is a humanitarian crisis resulting in a massive influx of refugees.

Best case -for a knackered population- is that a struggle for power between different factions of the North Korean regime eventually leads to moderation of its relations with its neighbors. Unfortunately, the transition of power to Kim Jung Un continues...

[mogzilla]

Cheetah, johnny weismullers monkey from tarzan aged 80!

[locustsofdeath!]

Glen Lord.

In short, the man who kept Robert E. Howard's works from fading into obscurity. In long:

A Korean vet and a paper warehouse manager by trade, he discovered Howard through Skull-Face and Others (1946) around 1951. He sought out earlier publications with REH's work, most notably the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. Starting in 1956, he scoured the country for all REH stories, poems, and letters. Over the course of his life he has amassed the world's largest collection of such publications and original manuscripts (actually typescripts).

Lord became literary agent for the Howard heirs around March, 1965, and served as such for 28 and a half years. In 1965, he tracked down the contents of Robert E. Howard's famous storage trunk; the contents of which were then owned by pulp writer and Howard friend E. Hoffmann "Ed" Price. The contents consisted of tens of thousands of pages typed by Howard, including hundreds of unpublished stories, poems, and fragments. Using the contents of the trunk as well as his vast collection of previously published REH materials, Lord provided the source text for almost every published Howard work appearing in books, magazines, or chapbooks from 1965 through 1997, including collections of REH letters. Lord also provided introductions, afterwords, or commentary for dozens of REH books.

Tirelessly promoting Howard's stories, Lord secured their publication in any promising venue, leading directly to the Howard Boom of the 1970s. This included books by Ace, Arkham House, Avon, Baen, Ballantine, Bantam, Barnes & Noble Books, Baronet, Berkley, Beagle, Belmont, Bonanza, Carroll & Graff, Centaur, Century-Hutchinson, Chelsea House, Chaosium, DAW, Dell, Delta, Dodd-Mead, Dorset, Doubleday, Fawcett Gold Medal, FAX, Fedogan & Bremer, Fictioneer, Five Star, Gollancz, Grafton, Gramercy, Donald M. Grant, Grossett & Dunlap, Harper Collins, Jove, Kaye & Ward, Lancer, Leisure, MacFadden, Manor, Mayflower, Meys, Morning Star Press, New English Library, Neville Spearman, Orbit, Oxford University Press, Pan, Panther, Prentice-Hall, Putnam, Pyramid, REH Foundation Press, Robinson, Ryerson, Science Fiction Book Club, Sidgwick & Jackson, Signet, Sphere, Taplinger, TOR, Tower, Underwood-Miller, University of Nebraska Press, Walker & Co., Warner Books, WH Allen, Xanadu and Zebra; periodicals such as Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Amazing Stories, Ariel, Chacal, Coven 13/Witchcraft & Sorcery, Different Worlds, Fantastic Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories/Fantastic Stories of Imagination, Fantasy Book, Fantasy Commentator, Fantasy Crossroads, Fantasy Crosswinds, Fantasy Tales, The Haunt of Horror, Heavy Metal, Lost Fantasies, Magazine of Horror, Pulp Review, The Riverside Quarterly, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, Spaceway Science Fiction, Startling Mystery Stories, Sword and Sorcery, Trumpet, Weird Tales, Weirdbook, The West, White Wolf Magazine, Worlds of Fantasy, Xenophile, and Zane Grey Western Magazine; and several series of Marvel comic books and magazines. In many cases, he was also the uncredited editor of the published version of the REH works. And this is not counting the literally hundreds of books and magazines in non-English languages to which he supplied texts, including Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Yugoslavian, nor the hundreds of amateur publications.

In the fall of 1977, he arranged with Berkley Medallion to put out three Conan paper- and hardbacks of Conan stories edited by Karl Edward Wagner, the first Conan series without any posthumous revisions and pastiches, which previous collections had in excess.

Lord published a few REH collections on his own, such as the periodical The Howard Collector #1-18 and the chapbook Etchings in Ivory. In The Howard Collector, from 1961 to 1973, Lord featured previously unpublished (or very rare) pieces by Howard, letters by REH and those who knew him, indices of poems and stories, reprints of articles related to Howard, and news about upcoming publications and other events. Thereafter, he published similar material in fanzines of the Robert E. Howard United Press Association, the Hyperborian League, and the Esoteric Order of Dagon (E.O.D. — an amateur press association primarily concerned with the writings of Howard Phillips Lovecraft).

An early admirer of Howard's poetry, Lord published the first Howard poetry collection Always Comes Evening (1957) through famed Arkham House, subsidizing the costs of the printing himself. Later, he was instrumental in the publication of the Howard verse collections Etchings in Ivory (1968), Singers in the Shadows (1970), Echoes from an Iron Harp (1972), The Road to Rome (1972), Verses in Ebony (1975), Night Images (1976), Shadows of Dreams (1989), and A Rhyme of Salem Town and Other Poems (2007).

He published the first comprehensive bibliography of Howard, complete through 1973, in his The Last Celt: A Bio–Bibliography of Robert Ervin Howard (1976), a bible for REH scholars and collectors. The book also contains biographical and autobiographical material about Howard, as well as letters, story synopses and fragments, ephemera, covers illustrating REH stories, and photographs. Lord wrote many articles on Howard (e.g. in The Dark Barbarian). Lord contributed much information to the latest bibliography, The Neverending Hunt (2006, 2008), by Paul Herman and the online bibliography Howardworks.

When Conan Properties was incorporated in 1978 to establish a single entity to deal with Hollywood in negotiations that led to the two Conan movies, Lord served as a corporate director.

Lord has befriended, assisted, advised, and mentored two generations of Howard fans, scholars, and editors, providing copies of his typescripts, letters, and vast knowledge to many of them. For his dedication, achievements, and scholarship, Lord received the World Fantasy Convention Award in 1978 and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the professional fanzine, The Cimmerian, in 2005. The next year, he was Guest of Honor at the Centennial Robert E. Howard Days festival in Howard's hometown of Cross Plains, Texas, and in 2007 was GoH at PulpCon 36 in Dayton, Ohio. He is currently Director Emeritus of the Robert E. Howard Foundation.

...

[Devons Daddy]

not the eldest I see

he does not like GIRLS, hence daddy removed him from the list of favoured sons. (not making that up)
overall its a slightly concerning situation currently if you live in these parts. we shall see.

[Spikes]

Bob Anderson, who played Darth Vader in the fight scenes in Empire and Jedi - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16383728

[Emperor]

Bob Anderson, who played Darth Vader in the fight scenes in Empire and Jedi - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16383728

Another unsung movie hero gone. God knows why the Green Cross Code Man bothered turning up to the set most days.

[JOE SOAP]

Indeed, at 6' 1" Bob could've done the rest with ease.

[TordelBack]

Intrigued by that first shot - clearly RotJ judging by the lightsabre, but Hamill's costume is entirely unfamiliar.

[Misanthrope]

Intrigued by that first shot - clearly RotJ judging by the lightsabre, but Hamill's costume is entirely unfamiliar.

No, that is Empire. Hamill is wearing the bottom half of Luke's 'Bespin Fatigues'. Don't know what is going on with the top half though.

[Sector Chief]

Pat Evans (Fat Pat), Eastenders, 28 Dec 1942 to 01 Jan 2012 ....

[A.Cow]

Judge Death, erm, a long time ago.

[TordelBack]

No, that is Empire. Hamill is wearing the bottom half of Luke's 'Bespin Fatigues'. Don't know what is going on with the top half though.

The boots don't seem to be his Dagobah/Bespin ones either, and the lightsabre hilt is his new one from Jedi.  A mystery!

Meant to note my appreciation of Bob Anderson, his lumbering fight work was great, and he's part of the elite club of only five men to portray Darth Vader in RotJ.