cities in flight

[sergebroom]

I'm in San Francisco this week. I landed last night, after a 2-hour stop in Phoenix that would have been extremely boring if I had not had Lindsey Davis's mystery novel Saturnalia. I arrived, exhausted, at my in-laws just in time to catch Sean Penn's Oscar acceptance speech for Milk. Yay!

Speaking of flying, do you remember this British Airways ad?

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izkgAdISB4Q )

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Where was the spindizzy?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

In the Chrysler Building?

You know what's funny? It's one of those classics of SF that I know of, but which I've never read. I'm hoping to remedy that situation soon, provided one of the Bay Area's F/SF specialty bookstores carries it, and provided it's still in print.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

You should read it. I read Cities in Flight when I was 17.

I remember my disappointment when I read in the paper that Blish had died, because he was a writer whose name I knew and with whose work I had become familiar. It didn't help that the headline over the filler story in the Gleaner was 'Arthur Dies'.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

No, but I didn't watch TV until I ended up in hospitals.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Why not until then? A matter of personal preference, or the way you'd been raised?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I never had time to sit down and watch TV. I was always doing things -- volunteering, performing, doing things with friends -- and only watched the 11pm news. When I was home at 11pm.