The Armageddon Blues

[bryant]

Daniel Keys Moran has put The Armageddon Blues up for download, right over here. It’s not his best novel, but it’s worth reading. And it’s a good sign, because it fulfills the promise that there’s more coming. So big thanks to him.

The judge in the Rodgers/Moran court case has apparently asked both parties to stop flaming each other online. At least, he asked DKM to take his blog down and there’s nothing left of all the posts Alan Rodgers made about how evil DKM was over on his blog. Thanks thusly go out to the judge, too.

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

Comments

[crs.livejournal.com]

The what case?

Huh, I'm way out of touch on this stuff... Are we going to get an AI War?

[bryant]

DKM and Alan Rodgers have been feuding in what seems to me to be a deeply dysfunctional and non-productive manner on both sides since Rodgers' wife (Amy Stout) left him for DKM. Rodgers says DKM's a bad person, DKM says Rodgers is a bad person, etc.

For a while, up till mid-July, DKM was keeping a blog dedicated to proving that Rodgers killed one of his children. This is not entirely out there, since the child in question did die while Rodgers was in the house and since there was probably neglect involved, but it was an ugly blog. Meanwhile, Rodgers kept posting on his newsgroup about how DKM was plotting to kill him.

A lot of this seemed to be prompted by a custody case, which I gather is about the children Rodgers and Amy Stout had together. They're currently living with DKM and Amy Stout, and Rodgers doesn't have visitation rights.

All this is more than I really wanted to know about any of their private lives.

Anyway, yeah -- DKM says AI War is done and ready to go and will be posted as a PDF sometime soonish.

[bryant]

I lie. He may not post AI War, but he's gonna try to at least get it published.

[bruceb.livejournal.com]

I like Alan, but part of the reason I can continue to do that is that I never let him talk about any of the details of that stuff with me. At all. We talk about other things, and life is fine.

My intuition is that there's probably a fair amount of truth in the charges of badness on all sides in that stuff, but I honestly never felt the urge to try to find out in any detail.

[bryant]

Yeah, that makes utter and complete sense to me.