Ellison’s lack of Internet presence is a BLESSING, and should be celebrated as such. The fewer big-mouthed, bellowing chowderheads we have eating bandwidth, the better off we are.

He and his work are always there for the nostalgists. Most of them are hanging out on his site…hoping for his return…

Frankly, the world has always been run by water-headed asshats and to write and rage against it is to suffer their poo-slings and arrows. A little shitstain on the lapel is a badge of honor. Are you the minority? Yes. Haven’t you always been?

And you know, I’m actually surprised that Harlan can still command such vigorous championing at this point. As a long time fan/apologist, he lost me for good when he groped Connie Willis. Fucking unacceptable.

While the man has penned some classic science fiction gems, I find it hard to understand what his lack of internet presence robs us of. So why the (admittedly entertaining) sturm und drang? It’s not like his body of work, which is by far the best thing about him, has suddenly vanished from every bookshelf on earth.

Grow a thicker skin, and quit being such a hypocrite.

Oh, honey, no. Dreary pastiches of Harlan Ellison that indulge in hubris while missing the actual point by a country mile aren’t exactly Fighting the Good Fight, are they? Ellison left because he’s a control freak whose experience of the Internet is limited to the tiny window of his hilariously outmoded message board and its coterie of sycophants. Apparently, he’s all put out that sites are referring to this as “Harlan Ellison’s Book Purge,” instead of “Harlan Ellison’s Wife’s Book Purge, Which Harlan Ellison Is Grudgingly Allowing,” which is patently absurd.

How ironic that someone who always railed against uninformed comments should never have bothered to understand the very medium he claims to be disgusted with, and that prompted more actual writing than anything else he’s done in a decade. All in all, an embarrassing performance, as is this blog entry.

If he’s just gafiating from the ‘net, so what? Everyone has the perfect right to hermit up every so often to detox from idiot exposure, including Harlan Ellison.

I think you might be overestimating yourself there.