X-Message-Number: 12606
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:21:02 -0700
From: Jeff Davis <>
Subject: Clarification Re: Those likeable cryonicists

Friends,

I emailed Mike Darwin and asked him about the Roger Ebert movie review from
which he "adapted" his description of cryonicists.  He pointed me to the
recent movie "Superstar", the unmodified review of which can be found at:

http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1999/10/100803.html

 In it, Ebert writes, referring to the movie's main character: 

>            There's another problem. Mary Katherine isn't simply an
>            "unpopular" girl--she's creepy and not very nice. She's one of
>            those people who inspires in you the inexplicable desire to be
>            hurtful and cruel. You don't meet people like that very often,
but
>            when you do, you know who they are. And you want to get away
>            from them before you do something that would undermine your
>            self-image as a nice person.

Mike took the above paragraph and "adapted "it thusly:

>"The real problem with many cryonicists is not simply that they are
>"unpopular" -- they are creepy and not very nice. They are the kind of
>people who inspire in you the inexplicable desire to be hurtful and cruel.
>You don't meet people like that very often, but when you met them, you know
>who they are. And you want to get awy from them before you do something
>that would undermine your self-image as a nice person."

To which he then appended:

>                                        --with thanks to Roger Ebert

I was confused.  I was left thinking that Roger Ebert had some problem with
cryonicists.  Not the case.  It is how Mike feels about cryonicists.
Which, of course, he says in his post, when he says:

>It summarizes *exactly* how I feel,...

Anyway, I thought I might clear that up, in case anyone else got confused.
			Best, Jeff Davis

	   "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
					Ray Charles				

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