The Irrelevance of the Hugo Awards for SF

[mishalak]

"Why should I mind, Sam? Let them laugh. I am still their Emperor."
      -Emperor Norton I, in Gaiman's Fables and Reflections

Go ahead and laugh at the Hugos. Laugh, complain, groan, and rant. Call all the nominators "doodyheads" and "ignoramuses" who live up to your low expectations. And keep posting about them and making more people aware of them. That's exactly the way to make them irrelevant. And then come back next year to rant at the people who buy memberships saying exactly what they should nominate.

Me, I'm going to throw some popcorn and enjoy the show. Even when what I want to win doesn't take the prize it and amusing thing to watch. Because that's my role. To watch, and mock, and laugh.. at everything including myself. But especially the kvetching people who just hate, hate, hate the people of the SF ghetto. Yes, I'm laughing at you.
 

Comments

[bovil.livejournal.com]

I had to go digging for this one. I've got to admit, "Locus-Pocus" aside (thank you Torque Control! (http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/)) that the Neth Space rant was a bit amusing (where amusing also equals "dumb"), but will probably die out like they all do.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Oh he was hardly the only person I was aiming at, there are many, many others less famous but just as pompous complaining that this that or the other should have been nominated and that it didn't proves, proves they say that Science fiction is a ghetto. I doubt any of them have the google juice to be found easily though.

I'm certain it will die out, but before it dies out I can at least get a bowl of cherries and have a good fun laugh. Heck, if this little cherry stone has the effect of rousing the critics for another round of bitter denunciation for my entertainment, all the better. It would amuse me.

[kaffy_r]

It's been so long since I paid attention to the Hugos (not for any high-falutin' reasons, but because I gafiated for very non-high-falutin' reasons) that I had forgotten how they become rich fodder for drama every year. Heh.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

Yes indeedy. Because it is the WORST travesty since, since, the Golden Globes didn't honor There Will Be Blood. Yar! Foam at the mouth!

[kaffy_r]

*snrt*

[julesjones]

I hope you've made enough popcorn for everyone, young man.

[settles down on sofa to watch the show]