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Jed Hartman for SFWA President

As many of you know, I’ve had some doubts about Scalzi’s bid for presidency of SFWA. While other candidates have announced their runs, I haven’t felt comfortable with any of them.

Finally, there’s a candidate I can support. Jed Hartman, of Strange Horizons, announced his write-in campaign today. I think, if you read his platform, you’ll agree that this is a candidate worth endorsing.

Edited to add: For reasons that are unclear, YouTube seems to have taken the video down. It was up for about two hours. Conspiracy? Thank heavens there’s this other company Google–wait.

10 Comments »

10 Comments

  1. -e- -e- on 01.04.2007 at 12:54 (Reply)

    Mary, I confess that I really don’t know these people, and can’t be certain who you are actually endorsing vs. whom you are mocking, but THE ADS ARE A RIOT!

  2. Michael Michael on 01.04.2007 at 13:38 (Reply)

    Happy April Fool’s Day?

  3. Chris Billett Chris Billett on 01.04.2007 at 13:49 (Reply)

    These are superb, Mary – is that you doing the voice overs?!?

  4. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 01.04.2007 at 13:52 (Reply)

    Glad you are enjoying them even with no knowledge of the grave issues at hand.

    Chris: yes, that’s me.

    Michael: Yarr!

  5. Chris Billett Chris Billett on 01.04.2007 at 13:54 (Reply)

    Awesome. I guess you may have been speaking a bit differently, but I didn’t recognise your voice. Not that I’ve heard it tons.

    I hope I do something interesting enough that you find the need to mock it someday! Haha.

  6. Frank Wu Frank Wu on 01.04.2007 at 19:00 (Reply)

    Funniest. Video. Evah.

  7. Susan Susan on 01.04.2007 at 19:17 (Reply)

    Hee! This is absolutely brilliant, and hysterical. I love it.

  8. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 01.04.2007 at 23:12 (Reply)

    Chris: I look forward to mocking you.

    That didn’t come out right.

    Frank and Susan: I’m so glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you’ll consider endorsing Mr. Hartman. Remember: Jed Hartman = Naked Pirate Emperor.

  9. Evan Nichols Evan Nichols on 02.04.2007 at 05:33 (Reply)

    I love seeing what creative people do when they have too much free time! ;-)

    These ads are great. Very, very amusing!

  10. Mary Robinette Kowal Mary Robinette Kowal on 04.04.2007 at 00:32 (Reply)

    I think it might be more accurate to say, “When creative people do not use their time wisely…”

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