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[alansplace]

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

The Dresden Files Irrational Optimists Club
Roster as of 11/9/13

Nyssa - President
Alan - Librarian of Trivia Emeritus
CWatkinsNash - Chief Archivist and Title Processor
eschwartz - Officiating Secretary
AlbertaCowboy - Great and Benevolent Progenitor of the Legacy
red_phoenix - Chief of the IOC Firebirds
leanansidhe - Official Fairy Godmother

In accordance with my duties, I hereby submit this record to the most permanent and unforgiving of all archives, The Internet.

Originally Posted by Nyssa

My name is Nyssa and I approve of this message!

Librarian of Trivia, Emeritus

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

I love and applaud your enthusiasm. I hereby declare you Officiating Secretary of the Irrational Optimists Club.

Who else wants a title, while I'm handing them out?

Why thank you. It's good to know I still have friends here, with all this hate on the countdown. You deserve some K for this.

Excuse me for a minute.

...

The Irrational Optimist's Club believes Skin Game will be released in:

24 DAYS!

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Why thank you. It's good to know I still have friends here, with all this hate on the countdown. ...

Should I be concerned??

Where's my Chief of Staff?

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by Nyssa

Should I be concerned??

Where's my Chief of Staff?

- Librarian of Trivia Emeritus

[Nyssa]

**Sigh**

I said Chief of Staff, not Chief Staff.
It's so hard to find good help these days...

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by alansplace

- Librarian of Trivia Emeritus

[CWatkinsNash]

We really do have the coolest Dresden fan club ever.

Lady President, I'm afraid we haven't yet found any additional cabinet members for you. However, we're considering handling the issue eschwartz alluded to by offering the offender a position within the order. We have bridges that need policing.

A-hem.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by alansplace

- Librarian of Trivia Emeritus

Oh no.

God no!

I doubt even Injun Joe would approve (and he allows himself to be nicknamed after a Tom Sawyer character.)

Hmmm. Then again, maybe he would. He's a little odd.

Seriously, too much red just mugged my eyeballs, ( ) and the smile is creeping me out. No one is that cheerful.

Anyway, good job.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

We really do have the coolest Dresden fan club ever.

Lady President, I'm afraid we haven't yet found any additional cabinet members for you. However, we're considering handling the issue eschwartz alluded to by offering the offender a position within the order. We have bridges that need policing.

A-hem.

Didactic Enforcement, Inc., yeah, I know those guys.

Are we allowed to contract out for that? I mean, technically, they are the enemy.

Obviously, we must include a clause about not publicly decrying our cause, ESPECIALLY as an affiliate member. Can we get this to stick, legally speaking?

I for one do not want to see anyone denouncing the countdown while wearing a signature that includes a Dresden Files Irrational Optimists Club logo/link/title.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I just finished re-reading Side Jobs and was going to follow it with Ghost Story but instead I've decided to first re-read the 6 short stories (Curses, Even Hand, AAAA Wizardry, B is for Bigfoot, I Was a Teenage Bigfoot and Bigfoot on Campus that have only been published in separate anthologies) and the excerpt from Bombshells (which will be published on December 3rd) first.

Originally Posted by alansplace

For my own convenience I've combined the above 6 stories and the excerpt into a single volume which I call Dresden Short Stories so I can read them as a collection on my PW.

Just completed Dresden Short Stories so now on to Ghost Story!

- The Dresden Files Librarian of Trivia - Emeritus

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I just finished re-reading Side Jobs and was going to follow it with Ghost Story but instead I've decided to first re-read the 6 short stories (Curses, Even Hand, AAAA Wizardry, B is for Bigfoot, I Was a Teenage Bigfoot and Bigfoot on Campus that have only been published in separate anthologies) and the excerpt from Bombshells (which will be published on December 3rd) first.

I've created my own collection of short stories as well. Mine has...

B is for Bigfoot
I was a Teenage Bigfoot
Curses
AAAA Wizardry
Even Hand
Bigfoot on Campus

I don't have the excerpt. But then, I tend to remove excerpts from eBooks as I don't actually read them.

[alansplace]

...............
“Evil isn’t the real threat to the
world. Stupid is just as destructive
as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a
hell of a lot more common. What
we really need is a crusade against
Stupid. That might actually make
a difference.”
― Jim Butcher, Vignette - Side Jobs
.............

- The Dresden Files Librarian of Trivia - Emeritus

[CWatkinsNash]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Didactic Enforcement, Inc., yeah, I know those guys.

Are we allowed to contract out for that? I mean, technically, they are the enemy.

Obviously, we must include a clause about not publicly decrying our cause, ESPECIALLY as an affiliate member. Can we get this to stick, legally speaking?

I for one do not want to see anyone denouncing the countdown while wearing a signature that includes a Dresden Files Irrational Optimists Club logo/link/title.

Nah, they aren't really the enemy. A necessary balance, actually. Every good story requires an antagonist, yes? This is no different. Consider - the doses of downer is what spawned this sudden rallying of the membership.

Without the pessimist, there would be no Irrational Optimists.

[eschwartz]

Ah, the old "Good cannot exist without evil to balance it argument".

I'm not entirely sure I agree. Though in certain cases they may be useful.

However, that wasn't my point. I merely question whether under the articles of our confederacy, we are allowed to give succor to the "necessary balance". Even the necessary balance is still evil. You can only say that we know, while we strive with all our heart to destroy evil, we will never fully succeed. And that's all right, since we don't need to. Even the threat of a resurgent evil balances out the story and offers an antagonist.

And no hero ever invites the antagonist over to a party (unless it is a cunning plot to assassinate him.)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash

Nah, they aren't really the enemy. A necessary balance, actually. Every good story requires an antagonist, yes? This is no different. Consider - the doses of downer is what spawned this sudden rallying of the membership.

Without the pessimist, there would be no Irrational Optimists.

I am an Irrational Optimist in that I am irrationally optimistic that we won't get the new book until sometime in 2014.