I like this idea. And don't laugh (okay, laugh if you want to) but after seeing the musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" I was thinking how cool it would be to have some sort of H+ themed musical. You know how show tunes tend to stick in people's heads? We could have lyrics like:<br><br>"Some years ago they froze me<br>They vitrified my head<br>Most people laughed and mocked them,<br>saying, "Why preserve the dead?"<br><br>But now I stand before the world<br>With body made anew<br>And gaze about in wonderment<br>At what this world's come through<br><br>Through war and existential threat<br>Through peril deep and dark<br>And yet I live, a child once more<br>Aloft on some strange ark.<br><br>Some say it happened much too fast:<br>An exponential function<br>But others (those who rode the curve)<br>Look back without compunction.<br><br>I wander through the shining streets<br>With eyes of diamond staring<br>So much has changed: I don't know what<br>to
call that thing you're wearing!<br><br>But still, some things remain the same:<br>Like friendship, love, and heroism,<br>And arguments on mailing lists<br>On freedom and determinism."<br><br>...or maybe not. OK, back to working on some more, um, serious writing...<br><br>- Anne<br><br><b><i>A B <austriaaugust@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br> A while back I suggested that someone NEEDS to make a<br>pro-Transhumanism, pro-Singularity fictional<br>(hollywood quality) movie in order to help spread the<br>memes to the masses who are less reading-inclined. I<br>was a little disappointed that there apparently wasn't<br>much interest in getting something started (Except by<br>maybe one or two people possibly). But I still think<br>this would be a great, highly-leveraged opportunity to<br>do some real, tangible good. Now personally, I pretty<br>much SUCK at
writing fiction, I'd probably be no<br>better than average. But if *no-one* else, is<br>interested, I'm going to *attempt* to start writing a<br>free-of-charge screenplay. But without any help, the<br>result could be pretty abysmal. Would someone else<br>here *please* consider taking up the reigns entirely,<br>or at least collaborating if they don't want to do it<br>by themselves? Heartland, might you be interested,(I<br>recall that you replied to the original post)?<br><br>SINCERELY and with Best Wishes,<br><br>Jeffrey Herrlich <br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com <br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></blockquote><br><BR><BR>"Like and equal are not the same thing at all!"<br>- Meg Murry, "A Wrinkle
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