Just dropping by

Not much from me tonight (fortunately, Phil’s served up plenty–and good stuff, too. Well done, Phil!). I got a surprise invitation from a friend to go out to dinner tonight, and afterward he needed me to help him figure out this crazy Facebook thing. So I found myself in the unaccustomed position of cybergeek. In a relative sense, of course, like the one-eyed man in the land of the three-eyed women, or something. (COMING SOON: From Roger Corman–Island of the Three-Eyed Women!)

Somebody at Threedonia, in a comment thread today, mentioned that the skull of Hitler, which the Russians produced to great fanfare a few years back, has now been determined to be a woman’s skull. This led me to speculate that maybe the Soviets took Hitler alive, and tortured him for a while before he died.

One can only hope.

It led me to imagine a short story, where Hitler ends up sharing a gulag cell with Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish philanthropist. It would be an interesting study in contrasting attitudes toward tragedy and despair.

But I won’t write it. Not only would it call for an author with the wisdom of the writer of Job, but I generally avoid writing about Nazis. The subject has the odd distinction of being both done to death and an insuperable challenge, all at once.

0 thoughts on “Just dropping by”

  1. Ah, to be a cybergeek…. instead of a lowly old point and click-nick…

    My computer red-underlines the word cybergeek….

    I click on to see what the problem is and I see the first word the PC comes up with is, “cyberpunk”.

    Now I ask you… do you, in your wildest imaginations see Lars as a “cyberPUNK”? Nay! Let it never be so seen!!!

    Long live the Lars!

  2. I double click on cybergeek and I get the following definition.

    Cyber geek – 1 definition – Someone who can’t do anything without doing it online. She keeps in touch with family and friends via her MySpace account…

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