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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 »

  • -e-

    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!

  • Michael

    Happy April Fool’s Day?

  • http://www.chrisbillett.net Chris Billett

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

  • http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

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

    Chris: yes, that’s me.

    Michael: Yarr!

  • http://www.chrisbillett.net Chris Billett

    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.

  • Frank Wu

    Funniest. Video. Evah.

  • Susan

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

  • http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

    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.

  • http://evannichols.livejournal.com/ Evan Nichols

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

    These ads are great. Very, very amusing!

  • http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com Mary Robinette Kowal

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

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