tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952925068925494892.post6526593760525793678..comments2023-10-29T05:06:20.610-07:00Comments on Citizen O'Kane: The Day the Space Age Didn't StartJim O'Kanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01806624628546492210noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952925068925494892.post-65304444801085312322011-09-22T15:46:20.078-07:002011-09-22T15:46:20.078-07:00Thanks, Brian! This was one of those timely topics...Thanks, Brian! This was one of those timely topics whose anniversary arrived a bit before I was ready to type. Some chunks of this screed may be destined for the Sekrit Rocket History Book, so it was a good ironing-out of a bunch of scrawled notes and text files. <br /><br />After re-reading the Tolstoy-level spew, I really need to work on better thumb placement for the end of the rhetorical garden hose - - less fact-reeling and blah-blah-blah, more campfire stories and "A to B to C and back to A" stuff.Jim O'Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01806624628546492210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6952925068925494892.post-44561128590871942302011-09-22T10:20:36.498-07:002011-09-22T10:20:36.498-07:00Terrific, Jim! You tell a good story. I bought a c...Terrific, Jim! You tell a good story. I bought a couple of those old Collier's magazines for my own research and they're pretty amazing (the two-page Bonestell spread in WHTTWOT is from a Collier's piece I scanned myself because Bonestell's official archivist didn't have a good enough version available). And any essay that works in a Tom Lehrer title is tops in my book.Brian Fieshttp://brianfies.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com