Originally, thanks to last week’s Malaise, I thought I had missed the correct date but I would still post because it would balance out, similar to averaging two numbers.
Doesn’t matter, I still want to wish my gaming sensei a great birthday with his family up there in Wisconsin.
If you’ve seen one of his recent posts, Lester has had the audacity to say Twilight series of books was better than Bram Stoker’s Dracula, a rather bold claim. Now before you get upset and demand his man card, hear me out. Lester is a huge fan/expert on monsters and horror. I don’t think he’d make such a call without good reasons, especially if Bram Stoker is as trying as Mary Shelley, then I completely agree. Over 15 years ago, I tried to read the original Frankenstein…ugh. A rare triumph of Hollywood doing a better job than the source material. As for the Twilight stuff, I’ll classify it with guacamole…I know I don’t have to try it to know I won’t like it. Ellroy and Coupland will remain my literature of choice.
Last time, I promised a funny anecdote regarding his four daughters since Jeremy mentioned this factoid about which ethnic group is most represented on Earth, Han Chinese (around 20 percent). I had heard such a thing long ago when we worked together at GDW (more like one of every four people is Chinese), stored it in my memory and waited for the right time to bring it up when Lester would usually ask us if we had any questions before he left for the evening. The other typesetter sprang the tired one about the usage of driveway for parking but I got him laughing over mine; “If every one in four people on the planet is Chinese, why are all your daughters White?” Later that evening, he asked his children the same question yet phrased it by saying “Maggi claims one of you should be Chinese based upon the makeup of the world.” This resulted in a reply of “Maggi is weird.”
Happy birthday again Lester! Try to make it down to Austin again.