Horizon

Might be just as well. It's what Americans have to pretend to be when traveling abroad anyway.

Thanks, Moosifer!

I would remind you that we're not all North Americans either (snort).

And who's more popular in, say, France right now -- Canadians or Brits?

In my experience, so long as you speak English, you're indifferently categorized as one of les Anglo-Saxons regardless of where in particular you hail from.

Apparently the key thing to memorize is "Nous n'aimons pas Bush non plus."

A further thankyou to Moosifer for (his?) helpfully in-context use of the term "faffing," which it seems is what I've been doing for years without knowing it. I'm so impressed with myself. Turns out I've also been speaking in prose all my life....

Turns out I've also been speaking in prose all my life

I should hope so!

Sorry, uncredited reference to Moliere, as explained in this blog entry, which also looks generally interesting.

A tip of the hat also to Molly Bresnen, who mentions us in the context of my newfound fame. Pity that I'm too far above her now to ever comment on her blog again.

'Moosifer Jones' is actually author Mags L. Halliday. I believe Moosifer is the name of her cat.

Mags is the author of the Doctor Who book History 101, which featured Orwell as a character. She probably found us through my site, and assumed it had the same nationality as myself...

Then that really is an honor. Wow.

So, Ben, what's your favorite liberal think tank, then?

I'm not sure, but I think Mags answers to Mags (itself a non-de-plume) and not 'Moosifer'. In the same way I don't answer to Gem, Geek or Rare Bug. I could be wrong, perhaps people do respond to their online webscape name, eh, Vox Clamantis and Demisemiblog?

Well, VC is more of a zine and is communal property, therefore a communal name, I guess. Unfortunately my latest esasys are withering waiting for the other editors to get their ducks in a row.

Glad to see Horizon's insidious influence is spreading, though.

No, I don't really answer to Demisemiblog, but maybe I should -- or maybe someone should, if not me. There being an actress named Demi, maybe she should have a half-sister named Demisemi?

P.S. Is this guy the new leather-jacketed Dr. Who folks have been talking about? If so, yeah, I see what you mean. Feh.

new leather-jacketed Dr. Who

Sigh. It's just not the same. And he's apparently got a Bond girl growing out of his side.

I actually don't mind the leather jacket. The lapels are eccentric and not Matrix like, and he's being played by Christopher Eccleston, one of the best actors alive in Britain. And Russell Davies, one of British TV's best writers is writing and producing it, and I hardly expect the writer of Bob and Rose to write a Bond Girl.

It's going to be first-three-years-of-Tom Baker brilliant is what it is! You heard it here first.

Guilty of cultural assumptions as charged - I assumed any sane and interesting blogging with at least one known Canadian was, on the whole, Canadian. Any better desc would be welcome.

Yes, Mags is a non-de-plume (to be all French for a moment) and Moosifer Jones was my cat of twelve years company. I answer to my everyday name, Mags or, in the company of family, my given name. I don't answer to Moosifer. Although neither did he, due to being a cat and only therefore answering if food was likely...

(And I like the lapel width of the Doctor's jacket)

Mags, under whatever name it's nice to have your support. Per yr site and yr plans for an expedition to the U.S.: while Jan./Feb. is not the nicest time to visit San Francisco (it tends to be raining, as in three-day-soaker kind of raining), any Orwell-fan Dr. Who writers who link to Horizon and the Ursula LeGuin page on their weblogs are definitely welcome to personal tours of San Francisco if they do happen to be in town. Though you'd better ask Mr. Allport if the said personal tour of San Francisco is actually worth having. A few years ago he left here with sore feet and a sunburn. J&I are still sorry about it.