@Bill-Lee: Thank you for the correction! That's why I couldn't Google a reference.
@Farrell McGovern: Hey, we can read about Tuckerization in TVtropes, too!
@ScavengerMonk: I remember a Ray Bradbury story in which the narrator is a writer going to visit an American director living on an Irish estate. The director is a towering character/asshole & there's a Banshee. Then I read that Bradbury had worked with John Ford. Now, I see it was made for TV, with Peter O'Toole…
@The Squid: How about R A Lafferty's story, "Primary Education of the Camiroi"? Which "concerns a PTA delegation from Dubuque who visit another planet to investigate their educational methods." [text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com]
@kingcrim84: He wears the cheese. It does not wear him.
Sounds interesting. My favorite Alternate Cold War is S M Stirling's "Lords of Creation" series—only two books long, so far.
AMC will show a mini-marathon of Mad Men tonight—some of the best episodes from Season 1.
@DoctorZoidberg: Thank you! I haven't read The Man In The High Castle in years, but do remember that the alternate/alternate history presented in the Grasshopper... novel was definitely not our history. It showed a third option. (I remember a interview with PKD in which he stated that the novel was one of only two…
The late John M Ford wrote two very different Star Trek novels, Final Reflections and How Much For Just the Planet?.
@gods-n-clods: So, can't get anybody to represent you? And you can't get a group together to organize an independent show in some condemned warehouse.
@vandinem: Or Marlowe's death was the result of mistaken identity: Mr Darcy thought Marlowe was having his way with his intended, when Shakespeare was really the interloper. Oh, wait! That was actually Colin Firth's character who had Rupert Everett killed in Shakespeare In Love—the Alt-Shakespeare tale that became an…
Fritz Leiber's "No Great Magic" is set in the Time War introduced by The Big Time. If you want to visit various important hotspots throughout Time & Space to effect change, what better disguise than as a troupe of players? On a visit to Elizabethan England, who might drop by to see a show? Look, you can read it…
@Serge.: Nope, nobody here (Houston, Texas) has blamed this mess on the Brits (or the UK or whatever you prefer). My theory: Once its plunging stock started hurting some British investors, BP decided to go on the offensive: "Don't blame us. Look, over there: those Yanks are saying bad things about Our Country!"…
@RandomThought: Ah, a "simpler, more natural time"—just as we harkened back to those Golden Days of the Old West while watching Deadwood. (Actually Brisco County was quite steampunk—with a mad professor & infernal devices.)