[Thanks to tOP.]
It's no wonder Harlan Ellison has health problems. As a matter of fact, I'm astounded he's lasted as long as he has, given that he is always it a total frenzy of a fury about *everything*. It must be a hard life.[Note: if you click on the YouTube logo instead of the Play button, it will take you to the video on YouTube itself. This often allows for higher resolution, or you can get the address there for downloading a video with the help of sites like keepvid.com or 3outube.]
'you can get the address there for downloading a video with the help of sites like keepvid.com.]'
ReplyDeleteA VERY handy little tip that allows you to download from YouTube FOC without software ... even the 'restricted' stuff that you need to sign in to watch (after you have signed in)
Now, I know this sounds way too simple / unlikely, but if you replace the 'y' in the YouTube url given in the address bar (on the page that shows the video) with a '3' and hit enter, you are taken to another site that simply gives you 2 options: download as an MP4 file, or an .flv file!
In this specific case, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE&feature=player_embedded is changed simply to http://www.3outube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE&feature=player_embedded ... it really IS that simple, works flawlessly, and astounded me the first time I tried it!
If you were 5'5" you might have an attitude too. ;-) Add to short stature an above-average intellect and he probably had a difficult childhood.
ReplyDeleteHe's right, though, he should be paid, although I think he meant "idiot" instead of "asshole" here.
Is his rate for raging the same as his rate for essaying? If not, that was good publicity--I had never heard of him before (not unusual: his output is the kind of stuff that will be enjoyed by those who like that kind of stuff, but not me as Dene Swift probably did not say) but his Wikipedia double entendre is whirl worthy:
ReplyDeleteQuoted by the New York Times on May 10, 2009, he said "If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump".
Harlan Ellison has had a weird sort of "mid-level" fame for almost fifty years now, never really breaking through to mainstream consciousness in anything, despite a big output (I think) in many different media.
ReplyDeleteAnd he's at least as famous for his personality as for his productions.
One of his classic SF stories is "I Have No Mouth, But I Must Scream".
Anyone who knows the name "James Cameron" should have heard of Harlan Ellison.
ReplyDeletefrom wikipedia:
ReplyDeleteEllison claimed that James Cameron's film The Terminator drew from material from two episodes Ellison wrote for The Outer Limits ("Soldier" [24] and "Demon with a Glass Hand" [25]). The production company that made Terminator, Hemdale, and its distributor Orion Pictures, settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, "gratefully acknowledging" the work of Ellison at the end of the film.[26] Cameron has labeled Ellison's claim a "nuisance suit" and Ellison a "parasite."
Most Star Trek fans would know his name, too, since he wrote the City on the Edge of Forever script. It was changed a lot from his original, though, as he tells you in his introduction. He's still pretty bitter about it.
ReplyDeleteWoa, surprise!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's a shocker, ain't it? :-)
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