Five More Reasons to live in a Cheesy SF Dome City
Posted by Jose on Wednesday, 1 of November , 2006 at 5:28 pm
New SF novelist on the block and one of my favourite blogging authors David Louis Edelman caught my attention with a frivolous post 20 Reasons Why I Want to Live in a Cheesy SF Dome City. He’s talking about Logan’s Run style Domed Cities here, probably the best of the cheesey SF movie Domed cities caught on celluloid. Good work David but you missed a few of the best reasons in my book. Here’s my addition to David’s list. I’m not saying that David necessarily missed these points, he’s probably a cleaner living character than me. Consider these personal additions as opposed to corrections.
5. No crappy weather. Anyone who has had to put up with the black pit of despair that is the English winter will understand.
4. The final solution to seagulls and pidgeons. The rats of the sky will never crap in your pizza again.
3. It’s easy to overthrow the government. All you have to do is contradict something that the cities governing AI believes. The AI will throw a fit, start repeating itself ad nauseum, speaking slowly and stuff will start blowing up (unfortunately Dome Cities use an operating system that is even worse than the OS that Mac used in the early 90s). You’ll have just enough time to hoof it out of there before the computer blows up. The results of this are pretty spectacular so use it sparingly. You may want to bring a copy of Linux with you before you move to the CSFDC because frankly their default operating system blows serious monkey phallus. The locals will probably make you a hero for you efforts (not that you need much help with the ladies considering reason No.1).
2. Fantastic parties. The music does tend to be supremely wanky, although presumably it doesn’t annoy you if you take those high tech recreational drugs. If you are 30 or over you may want to avoid parties where you are the guest of honour. Be wary they may be looking to explode you.
1. It’s easy to get laid. Those guys in Logan’s Run had it made, they made the cast of your average porn movie look like Jehovah’s Witnesses in comparison. These girls really know how to party.
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2006-11-01 20:30:19
Great addendum. Let’s not forget for #3 that the computer system will start counting down its imminent destruction on the loudspeakers in a loud, incongruously cheerful female voice.
2006-11-02 09:38:12
LOGAN’S RUN is shown on Turner Classic Movies about once every month. I can’t say I really like it, but it does have its moments.
(I used to think it looked stupid how computers in movies always exploded, spouting sparks and flame… but NOW, with all these real-life cases of exploding laptop batteries, that cheesy cliché has suddenly become prescient prophecy. Weird, eh? ;-))
The cry “Sanctuary!” later became a frequent one-liner on “Mystery Science Theater 3000″.
2006-11-04 05:41:13
Speaking of domed cities, I don’t understand why Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the Geodesic Dome (GD), still has a cult following. To the best of my knowledge, after a flurry of GD building in the 1950’s through the 1970’s, the market for this kind of structure has pretty much disappeared because GD’s don’t work very well as practical shelters. From hindsight Fuller’s career as an inventor looks pretty unsuccessful, as evidenced by his inventions’ absence in the material culture.