53 Comments on “The Mockery! It’s Begun!”

1. My first impression of the tiara was that it was a crown of thorns and that the position of SFWA President was a quasi-religious one.

   Thanks for the clarification.

2. In Ur Ballot, Ritten Ur Nome

3. All Your Vote Belong to Me

4. I posted about your candidacy in my own blog.

   http://hughcasey.livejournal.com/466496.html

   Good luck John. Since I like SFWA and SF writers in general, I hope you win. Since I’ve BEEN the president of a non-profit, fan-run organization, and since I like you as a person, I hope you lose… you don’t need that sort of aggravation. *grin*

   I wish you the best either way!

5. I would not be displeased not to win, I have to say. Except then someone I wouldn’t want as SFWA president would be in the job. Gaaaah. My brain, she hurts.

6. My brain, she hurts.

   Your brain is female? That’s interesting.

   Also, someone, please make a bacon-cat-related campaign poster.

7. I really want to vote for Scalzi. But I’d have to write and publish a book, first, and I’m not sure I’d have the time for that before the election. Too bad; hopefully next time around.

8. If you lose, perhaps you should consider running as a balloted candidate next year. If the fellow you don’t think is a good fit as SFWA President has been Presiding all this time, no doubt he’ll try to Preside again.

9. You seem to be on the right track to me and I was raised by professional politicians, which is like being raised my really verbal wolves, without the fur coats.

10. Mfitz: not sharks?

11. You are correct – it’s Friday and I’m not really doing much work. Too busy watching the ESPN live scoreboard; if Georgia Tech doesn’t beat UNLV that raises me to four losses (at least I pegged Duke to lose in the first round).

12. No, sharks raise lawyers.

13. You’d make a great SFWA President. I mean, at least you understand that the internets are like a toaster.

14. John,

    Before I go tossing a bunch of soft money your way, I have one question:

    Which should be taught in school, science fiction or evolution?

15. Sharks! No they run in instinct alone, and don’t play well in goups. You need some pack building skills for politics.

    Contrary to popular belief there are honest politicians, they just don’t tend to get elected all that often. Which says more about the voting public than the politicians if you ask me.

16. The evolution of science fiction!

17. Good answer! Where do I send the check?

18. I’d post a picture but every time I post I got straight to the moderation queue… from which I will never leave.

19. You can’t post pictures anyway; they don’t show up in comments.

20. Molz ur funy, makes me laff hard and pee too.
    –me Jef

21. I

22. U?

23. What do you need posters for? Any eligible voter who isn’t lapidicolous would know you and be already basking in the mind glow.

    I warned you.

    Old Jarhead

24. John, when are you going to let people in on the April Fool’s joke. Oops…they’ll see this. Let me delete. Damn, backspace key not working on my computer.

25. So have you picked your theme song yet? Every presidential candidate needs a theme song. :)

    I was thinking the theme from Gilligan’s Island, but that’s just me…

26. Beautiful…simply beautiful.
    Can you please run for the U.S. President as well?
    Few questions.
    As SWFA President do you get access to Area 51?

    Will there be debates with other candidates that you can televise (or at least U-Tube?)

    Does it pay well?

27. Scalzi, I know that! Silly man! It’s just all my linked posts hit the queue.

    And I thought you loved me….

28. Hey previous chang, _my_ linked posts make it in! I’ll help a brother out and post the link for you.

    notchang at hotmail.com

    Now we know where the love really is…

29. ^=-=^>\’v’/: ~~~~ …`~\~~~~~___bacon cat sez Sclzy fr Prez!

    bad ASCII art wants to be free

30. O.K. Old Jarhead,

    you made me look it up. My only questions are why that word exists (same syllables as what it means) and what the eymology is.

31. Check out this one, John…

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/hughborg/scalziforprez.jpg

32. Scalzi now has competition:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/not_chang/423585962/

    Vote For Ghlaghghee!

33. Jason Stoddard: That is a beautiful thing you’ve created.

    Christian DeBaun: I loves Scalzilla.

    And Jeff Hentosz: Using “Doomed to Victory” is a stroke of brilliance.

34. “Doomed to Victory” made me LOL. (And I think that’s the first time I’ve ever typed “LOL”, too.)

35. “Doomed to Victory” is absolutely my favorite.

    Brilliant!

36. That photo of your daughter (I presume it’s your daughter? How would I know?) with an axe tells me that we’re lucky that I’m neither qualified nor competent nor interested nor actually running in competition against you — I left my daughter Skatje unsupervised at the mall yesterday, and she bought a sword cane. The idea of resolving these elections by pitting lethally armed progeny against one another has some appeal, though.

    Especially since lunge-and-thrust should beat hack-and-slash any day.

37. PZ Myers:

    “Especially since lunge-and-thrust should beat hack-and-slash any day.”

    True. Although I should note Athena’s pretty good with the throwing, too.

38. Definitely filled my laugh quota for the day. “Doomed to Victory” is perfect – you should use it as your real campaign poster. DeBaun’s effort is great, too. Brings back those memories of the ’50’s ‘B’ movies, a pretty good image for someone willing to herd a group of bacon-affixed cats (er, I mean a bunch of very idiosyncratic sf writers).

39. If she’s going to throw it, she better not miss.

    Hey, do you hear that brassy trekkie “doo doo-doo doo doo-doot-doo” music playing in the background?

40. Man, I can’t believe Ghlaghghee’s campaign picture didn’t make the fold. I’m all broken up.

    She’s got _my_ vote.

    The Official Ghlaghghee Fan Club

41. Someone had to do it, so I did:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/marydell/424609045/

42. These are all at least moderately awesome, but the Doomed to Victory one is just perfect! Somebody in a certain oddly-shaped building please send me a publishing contract, quick, so I can vote for Scalzi. (Okay, yes, that’s dead last in my list of reasons for wanting the contract. But still.)

    Incidentally, I recently was talked into running for a position I didn’t want, and decided at the last possible moment whether to vote for myself. I was relieved when I came in seventh in a field of seven.

43. What, no one’s going to comment on the fact that the video keeps calling it the “SFAW?”

    Man, you people have gone soft…

44. See. Subtlety is never appreciated.

45. Mary (Robinette Kowal): I believe that voice can one day bring the corrupt power structure to its knees.
    Mary (Dell): An image for the ages.
    Re: “Doomed to Victory.” Credit goes, of course, to John’s Russian translator (for those new to the Whatever, or those who may have missed it, that is apparently one translation of the Russian title for Old Man’s War). Thanks, though, for the props. Glad you liked it.

46. Can I just say that the juxtaposition of the “herding cats” comment and the picture of bacon-taped Ghlaghghee was brilliant? Didn’t even have to say “will John Scalzi tape bacon to SFAW [mispelled for consistency] members?”, because I thought it for you.
    Brilliant video. Awesome posters.

47. Thank you. I had waaaaay too much fun with it.

    Re: “Doomed to Victory.”… that is apparently one translation of the Russian title for Old Man’s War).

    That is what made it brilliant.

48. I made one here, but sadly it’s not nearly as funny as the ones you’ve already found.

49. “Service” and the tentacle… oh. You win.

50. Mary Robinette Kowal for Minister of Propaganda!

51. I second that, Jed.

52. I dunno. Theo Black is mighty clever.

53. Fine. Here, have a cat macro.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/muhe-e/429622971/