44 Comments

1. TomB  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:09 pm
   

   I will forward you our pony requirements.

   Put me in for a palomino.

   …but a unicorn would do nicely too.

2. Chris R.  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:09 pm
   

   Nice jab at Patrick at the end.

3. Scott Jacobs  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:15 pm
   

   P.S. Which of Patrick's posts in particular caught your interest?

   Well that was sort of uncalled for…

4. doug  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:32 pm
   

   bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Logans Run. bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

5. Scott Jacobs  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:38 pm
   

   RENEW!

   RENEW!!

6. M.  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:44 pm
   

   Poor Patrick. I snerked.

7. Marc  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:48 pm
   

   There is no sanctuary!

8. Robert White  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:52 pm
   

   Dude, I could -totally- write an article on Logan's Run and its relationship to Healthcare, as long as I could include religion and reincarnation (e.g. "Renewal") as a justification for pro euthanasia positions from a psychological and religious Conservationism standpoint.

   Particularly, the probability that decreasing food reserves caused the steadily decreasing Renewal date, and how "the circuit" and selector-only discretion in sexual congress became the norm for the despondent — and therefore unlikely to breed — subsection of the populace as a means to preserve genetic diversity.

   (I am a science fiction and fantasy author after all. 8-)

9. Robert White  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:54 pm
   

   And no, you don't get your four years back because there is no sanctuary.

10. doug  •  Jul 9, 2012 @8:58 pm
    

    I like "Soylant Green" better.

11. Mary Sue  •  Jul 9, 2012 @9:02 pm
    

    Considering I actually am a healthcare professional (non-clinical), I would like to write an article about Logan's Run and that amaaaaazing party caftan Logan's rocking, along with the implications of silver lame wash and wear in an industrial laundry setting.

12. Robert White  •  Jul 9, 2012 @9:04 pm
    

    We could also cover how the adults come out so well given what we are alleged to believe happens in Cathedral, and why don't any of the adults remember their time there?

13. Robert White  •  Jul 9, 2012 @9:06 pm
    

    As for the party caftan… Gay guys are not supposed to put on "The square half-acre" until they get too old and fat to wear the chaps and harness.

14. Brad Warbiany  •  Jul 9, 2012 @10:20 pm
    

    I don't know if I should feel honored or not… I got the *exact* same email from Maricel Anderson… For The Liberty Papers to be targeted by the same spammers as Popehat? That's gotta be a win on *some* level, right?

15. James Pollock  •  Jul 9, 2012 @10:32 pm
    

    Ahem. For those who actually READ THE BOOK, A) There IS a Sanctuary, B) Ballard led a double life because the life-clock he was implanted with was faulty and never turned red, and C) Renewal age was 21, plus a Sandman's Gun has six different types of rounds, and not all of them are lethal.

    (There also aren't any cats at the end.)

    P.S. there are two sequels, too.

16. apauld  •  Jul 10, 2012 @12:18 am
    

    Two words: LOGAN'S. FUCKING. RUN.

    Okay, that's three words, but awesome, right?yes, awesome…. I would love to see a response to this one…

17. TJIC  •  Jul 10, 2012 @3:42 am
    

    > I will forward you our pony requirements.

    The internet has broken me – I read this any my first thought was "ugh, porn?"

    I wish I'd never been exposed to the whole "pony girl" meme.

    Blech.

18. Dan P  •  Jul 10, 2012 @5:04 am
    

    @TJIC — I think Ken was referring to this post:

    http://www.popehat.com/2012/03/13/like-spam-for-ponies/

19. Lakonislate  •  Jul 10, 2012 @5:48 am
    

    I am interested in writing a guest post on your blog popehat slash com about ponies. As I was doing research, Google suggested "did you mean phonies?" and naturally I ended up on your site, as this seems to be your area of expertise.

    I propose the title " the phony pony baloney," and I intend to look into the sordid world of pony requirements on the Internet today, and how we as a nation can sue anyone who makes these totally serious yet frivolous demands. You may expect a letter from my lawyer, but I'm not entirely sure why you would expect that.

20. Kelly  •  Jul 10, 2012 @8:12 am
    

    Ba ha! I want to see a response to this one. I haven't read Logan's Run in years!

21. adam  •  Jul 10, 2012 @8:26 am
    

    one of these days, someone is actually going to agree to the pony requirements and send you one – and then what?.

    (hell, i know i would if i had the extra cash lying around to do so just to read what you write about it – it would SO be worth it)

22. Dan  •  Jul 10, 2012 @8:41 am
    

    I would greatly enjoy reading Popehat readers' treatments of the current state of care in the theme of Logan's Run. Perhaps we need to have a contest with an appropriate word limit? First place is a Sustaining Membership?

23. vanmojo  •  Jul 10, 2012 @9:00 am
    

    Renew! Carousel!

24. Margaret  •  Jul 10, 2012 @10:03 am
    

    @James Pollock:

    But the cats at the end are the best part!

25. Connie  •  Jul 10, 2012 @10:03 am
    

    Can I ride my pony on the Carousel?

26. Roscoe  •  Jul 10, 2012 @12:04 pm
    

    All I remember about the movie is that you can press this button and Farrah Faucett shows up in this tube thingee to do anything you want. Beats the hell out of the flying cars or space monsters promised by most SF movies.

27. Chris R.  •  Jul 10, 2012 @12:14 pm
    

    Ponies leave you dead inside.

28. James Pollock  •  Jul 10, 2012 @12:23 pm
    

    Alas, Roscoe, your memory fails you. Farrah played the medical tech who tries to kill Our Heroes (Jessica 3 and Logan 5) by making an automatic platic surgery machine go haywire. She is NOT delivered by pressing a button… (or at least, not in the movie.)

29. Jess  •  Jul 10, 2012 @12:43 pm
    

    @Dan – here you go

    Pass Obamba care to subsidize health coverage

    Watch as costs explode

    Raise taxes as much as possible to pay for it

    When that’s not enough, hand power over to an unelected committee to limit treatment and control prices by government order

    As part of limiting treatment costs, limit the allowed lifespan of each human being

    End result, Logans Run

30. Robert White  •  Jul 10, 2012 @1:55 pm
    

    @Jess — I disagree.

    Continue the borrow and spend policies of the right.

    Abandon orphan drugs and cull the median gene pool.

    Spend the money bilked from the system on high-paying drugs like longevity treatments for the rich.

    Let the rich include their "necessary staff".

    Let the poor ravage and overpopulate the earth till food and energy systems collapse.

    The very wealthy and long-lived create the sealed enclaves and establish that all the servator class be young, fit, and healthy.

    The rich eventually die off anyway because without the raw materials and industrial complex they didn't bring into the dome their longevity technology died on the alter of their own N.I.M.B.Y.

    What is left behind is a reasonably self sustaining minimal culture where only the good looking and young exist, all without the education to be more than sex workers and servitors. Each recycled by before they get old or otherwise taxing on a system they are designed to slave under. Those who complain or try to outwit their fate are killed outright.

    Logan's Run…

    Right down to the sex circuits and sandmen… 8-)

31. Jess  •  Jul 10, 2012 @1:57 pm
    

    @RW – you win.

32. John Pomeroy  •  Jul 10, 2012 @2:05 pm
    

    @Adam, why don't you set up an IndieGogo fundraiser?

    I'd willingly donate $10-20 to send Ken a pony. And i bet that Charles and Tara would donate BIG TIME.

33. Robert White  •  Jul 10, 2012 @2:07 pm
    

    RE: Pony Requirements — There is a book "The Hole Behind Midnight". Pretty good book. "pony requirements" by another name serve in a pivotal capacity in the resolution of the climax. (The pony in question is small and plastic, but it was, in fact, required. 8-))

    Just Sayin.

34. Robert White  •  Jul 10, 2012 @2:10 pm
    

    @Jess — I cheated, I write Science Fiction and the movie itself is based on what I shall call "the post-Orwellian dystopia" so it had a right-spin bias to start with.

35. AlphaCentauri  •  Jul 10, 2012 @9:19 pm
    

    I hope Ken's kids don't read Popehat; they'd be out soliciting guest bloggers in hopes one would actually donate the pony.

36. M.  •  Jul 10, 2012 @11:46 pm
    

    Will someone at Popehat please write a post about the validity of Wikipedia as an academic source, or a source for anything other than pleasure reading if you're not concerned with the facts? I've just gotten into this argument for the 242141251th time, with an otherwise intelligent person as always, and it just kills me. Maybe people will listen to someone with a real degree. /rabid

37. Luke  •  Jul 11, 2012 @6:19 am
    

    @John Pomeroy – I think we could easily raise enough for two ponies. Though I wonder how Ken would react if he got back from vacation to find a live pony waiting for him in his yard.

38. PLW  •  Jul 11, 2012 @6:33 am
    

    Wikipedia is a source. It varies in accuracy and reliability. So do all other sources. I don't know why there is a certain class of (old) people who get so upset about it. I use it all the time in my academic work.

39. M.  •  Jul 11, 2012 @6:56 am
    

    @PLW: I'm not going to start a debate here, but I'm not old. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

40. John Berry  •  Jul 11, 2012 @9:27 am
    

    I am now including Pony Requirements in many things. Want to be my Facebook friend? I need a pony. Want me to bid on your contract? I'll need the personal use of a pony when I visit your company. What will I charge? My standard rate and a pony. I'm gonna have a pile of ponies!

41. Robert White  •  Jul 11, 2012 @12:08 pm
    

    I'm just bummed that "not cool" is closed to posts. I was totally going to parody myself in a scathing review of my own posts. I do try to stay on the polite side of posting to avoid "chat rage" so I hope I wasn't a prime offender.

    I'm pretty good at staying calm and happy, but I could use some more work on remaining on-topic. 8-)

    [My apologies if I was investigatory Ken.]

42. Analee  •  Jul 12, 2012 @8:23 pm
    

    At what point does the blogger need to include references to "damn dirty apes" blowing everything up for the internet to explode at the fandom cross-referencing? Would that be before or after Ken receives the pony?

43. TJIC  •  Jul 13, 2012 @3:25 am
    

    @Dan P
    > @TJIC — I think Ken was referring to …

    Yep.

    I get it.

    Now hush up and go google "pony girls" so that your brain can be as polluted as mine.

44. S. Weasel  •  Jul 13, 2012 @3:41 am
    

    My elderly father has a new ipad, so he's finally internetting. Last night, I asked him if he used Wikipedia and he said, "yes, but I prefer the internet. It has more detail."

    Awright, then.