RIP Harlan Ellison

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Always liked his work:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/harlan-ellison-prolific-and-pugnacious-writer-of-science-fiction-dies-at-84/2018/06/29/f812a6a0-7bac-11e8-aeee-4d04c8ac6158_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.23202b3e0304

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I loved a boy and his dog.  My mom confiscated my first copy of it when I was in junior high after she glanced through it and realized it was mostly about getting laid.

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From OP's link:

 

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He dropped out of Ohio State University after arguing with a professor who said he had no talent as a writer. Mr. Ellison then moved to New York and promptly began selling stories; for the next 20 years, he sent the professor a copy of everything he published.

 

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Early in his career, he was hired by the Disney studio but was fired in his first week when he talked about making a pornographic film featuring Disney cartoon characters. (He said his comments were overheard by Walt Disney’s brother.)

Another time, when a studio executive muttered, “All writers are hacks,” Mr. Ellison leaped over a desk and punched him in the throat.

His hair-trigger temper was frequently on display to critics, producers and people he casually encountered, including the equally combative Frank Sinatra. In a memorable passage from Gay Talese’s 1966 Esquire article, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” the singer confronted Mr. Ellison at a private club in Beverly Hills over the way he was dressed.

Mr. Ellison was playing billiards at the club and was wearing, in Talese’s words, “brown corduroy slacks, a green shaggy-dog Shetland sweater, a tan suede jacket, and Game Warden boots.”

 

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Mr. Ellison described himself as “a blatant elitist” and said his first four marriages ended in divorce, in large part because “a lot of the time I’m a pain in the ass.”

 

Anybody know what his shaggy surly handle was?

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Ellison was such a creative yarn spinner and short story guy.  I've been combing the internet trying to refind an Ellison story I first read years ago, about an ancient sound recording embedded in the grooves on the side of a (Sumerian?) urn.  Also, The Basilisk, the reading of which will get you hood and high.  There are some good H. E. rants on theYouTube.  Guy was a trip.

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The City on the Edge of Forever - the greatest Star Trek episode ever 

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“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” ― Harlan Ellison

I always liked that quote.