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Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven)

Literal translation makes figurative translation possible, however crudely: When three ways simmer down to two A man who knows not...

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #1 from Serge

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:41:56 -0500

Sigh. Makes me miss him all over again, especially the bits abount Brontë's Moby Dick and Zeppelins of Phobos...

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Posted March 6, 2007 4:41 PM by Serge

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #2 from Bob Oldendorf

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:00:08 -0500

I miss that man.

(Or, on preview, what Serge said: "Sigh.")

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Posted March 6, 2007 5:00 PM by Bob Oldendorf

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #3 from Marcos

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 17:00:45 -0500

Oh. My. Goodness.

Out of all that shining brilliance, it is somewhat disturbing that what stands out for me is "The Naming of Dogs", which is a bit fluffier than Mike's other works, but an amazing piece of doggerel (ahem) nonetheless.

This is why we miss this man...

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Posted March 6, 2007 5:00 PM by Marcos

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #4 from Fragano Ledgister

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:08:50 -0500

I smiled. I laughed. I cried when I remembered that no more such works will come from him.

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Posted March 6, 2007 6:08 PM by Fragano Ledgister

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #5 from Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:51:01 -0500

Did he at least get to see the first levitating Dalek?

Marcos, "The Naming Of The Dogs" did it for me, too. I couldn't believe what I was reading.

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Posted March 6, 2007 6:51 PM by Nicole J. LeBoeuf-Little

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #6 from Bruce Cohen, SpeakerToManagers

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:13:54 -0500

"Naming of the Dogs" got to me (reminded me of one I lived with who wanted to be a show dog, but could never quite live up to his registered name), but I fell apart at Velveteen Shoggoth. I almost snorted my soup.

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Posted March 6, 2007 7:13 PM by Bruce Cohen, SpeakerToManagers

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #7 from DarthParadox

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:54:27 -0500

Wow. I had actually never heard of the man until I saw obituaries spring up all over the Internet last year, and I miss him. I'm going to have to go back and find parts 1 through 6 now (having only started reading Making Light within the past month)...

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Posted March 6, 2007 7:54 PM by DarthParadox

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #8 from Bruce Cohen, SpeakerToManagers

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:38:51 -0500

I am deeply saddened. I have heard Mike Ford's name before, but knew only very vaguely of him or his work. In the last hour or so I've been following some of the links on Making Light and elsewhere, reading his poetry and his postings, and I wish that I had learned more about him long ago, so I could have had more time to savor it while he was still with us. My congratulations to those who knew him; you were clearly blessed.

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Posted March 6, 2007 8:38 PM by Bruce Cohen, SpeakerToManagers

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #9 from Clifton Royston

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:51:19 -0500

I never met him, never knew him other than via his books and ML, but I really miss him.

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Posted March 6, 2007 10:51 PM by Clifton Royston

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #10 from Linkmeister

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:05:42 -0500

The thing that continues to amaze me is that he thought that stuff up on the fly and typed it into a comment box (well, maybe he typed it into Notepad and pasted, but still...).

The sheer speed with which that man came up with such brilliant rhyme and enchanting foolishness is something to be treasured.

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Posted March 7, 2007 1:05 AM by Linkmeister

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #11 from Dave Langford

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:59:17 -0500

More wonderful stuff: thanks. Wish he was here.

It was only a few days ago that the statute of limitations allowed me to add my SFX magazine column about Mike to the website. One can't say much in the allowed space, but adding links to 110 Stories and the ML anthology threads helps a lot....

Do I remember a posting here about plans to publish the Wodehouse/Tolkien silliness that he circulated with filename MIRKWODE?

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Posted March 7, 2007 1:59 AM by Dave Langford

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #12 from Dan Blum

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:11:31 -0500

Do I remember a posting here about plans to publish the Wodehouse/Tolkien silliness that he circulated with filename MIRKWODE? It has been rumored that Dreamhaven Books was planning to do it as a chapbook, but I don't know if that is still true (I expect the plan is on hold, at least).]]>

Posted March 7, 2007 11:11 AM by Dan Blum

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #13 from Faren Miller

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:29:35 -0500

Like everyone else here, I'm both laughing and missing him all over again. Incomparable!

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Posted March 7, 2007 11:29 AM by Faren Miller

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #14 from fr richard

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:37:50 -0500

Hello Carrie and Rob:

Thank you for respondng to my post. I don't know if you'll see this one, but I still can't quite figure out to get in on the conversation and make a post on a current thread. Can you help me a bit? Be VERY specific; I'm old. (47) Thanks again. This is a facinating conversation.

Fr Richard

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Posted March 7, 2007 11:37 AM by fr richard

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #15 from TexAnne

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:43:02 -0500

Fr. Richard: Just the way you did this one. Go down to the bottom of the thread you want to comment on, and leave your comment.

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Posted March 7, 2007 11:43 AM by TexAnne

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #16 from Mary Aileen

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:45:50 -0500

Fr. Richard (14): I still can't quite figure out to get in on the conversation and make a post on a current thread.

You just did. :)

To be more specific: go to Making Light's front page, nielsenhayden.com/makinglight, click on one of the posts to read it and its comments, scroll all the way down to the bottom to comment.

Welcome!

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Posted March 7, 2007 11:45 AM by Mary Aileen

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #17 from P J Evans

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:56:47 -0500

Even easier, scroll up to the top of the page, and on the left, a little way down, you'll see

Go to Making Light's front page.

It's a link. Click on it. And welcome to Teresa's vine-decked terrace. Just watch out for the dinosaurs.

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Posted March 7, 2007 11:56 AM by P J Evans

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #18 from elise

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:11:03 -0500

Oh, Mr. Ford, you beloved silly man. (Yeah, I still talk to him. Probably always will.)

There should probably be a gathering on April 10 this year, or possibly several gatherings. He would have been fifty. I'll give something to the Book Endowment Fund in honor of the day.

Reading his work is a comfort.

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Posted March 7, 2007 12:11 PM by elise

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #19 from Kate Nepveu

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:47:46 -0500

re: The Fellowship of the Woosters:

It has been rumored that Dreamhaven Books was planning to do it as a chapbook, but I don't know if that is still true (I expect the plan is on hold, at least).

To be precise, when Ford read from it at last year's Boskone, he stated that it would be published as a chapbook by Dreamhaven. However, I don't if contracts had already been signed, etc., etc.

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Posted March 7, 2007 12:47 PM by Kate Nepveu

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #20 from Fragano Ledgister

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:45:03 -0500

PJ Evans #17: And sodomy.

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Posted March 7, 2007 2:45 PM by Fragano Ledgister

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #21 from P J Evans

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:48:43 -0500

Fragano @ 20

I thought of it. And decided not to go there.

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Posted March 7, 2007 2:48 PM by P J Evans

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #22 from Nina Armstrong

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:50:39 -0500

Dave @ 11 Thanks for the link-i hadn't read that.

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Posted March 7, 2007 2:50 PM by Nina Armstrong

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #23 from abi

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:26:13 -0500

Fragano @20
Not yet with that. He's new.

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Posted March 7, 2007 4:26 PM by abi

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #24 from Fragano Ledgister

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:26:07 -0500

P J Evans #21 & Abi #23: OK. OK.

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Posted March 7, 2007 5:26 PM by Fragano Ledgister

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #25 from James D. Macdonald

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:09:49 -0500

For the newbies: what it is about dinosaurs and sodomy on this blog.

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Posted March 7, 2007 11:09 PM by James D. Macdonald

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #26 from Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:32:30 -0500

Really, what do you expect from a couple of guys from Philadelphia except dinosaurs and sodomy?

Bruce from Philly

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Posted March 8, 2007 2:32 AM by Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers)

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #27 from vee

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:19:40 -0500

Dave @ 11--Thank you for posting the piece and for linking the previous "Occasional Works" entries. And as always, thank you, Mr. MacDonald, for putting it all together.

To the dinoslash commenters: I started reading the comments around then, and it never fails to elicit a "hee!" when it comes up.

(Previously, the idea of reading three figures worth of comments was too daunting...but now I've lurked on the thread that hit four figs, so....)

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Posted March 8, 2007 4:19 AM by vee

Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Seven) -- comment #28 from Ken Burnside

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:21:12 -0500

Jim, I've been gathering up Mike Ford's posts from the gaming industry, some dating back to 1999 or so, and am collecting permission from those quoted to be included.

When I gather them all up, could they be packaged into this series?

Thanks,

Ken.

(Token Conservative On Making Light.)

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Posted March 13, 2007 7:21 PM by Ken Burnside