Up today at the Sobel Wiki are two more For All Nails vignettes. First, #37: "The Candidate" by Noel Maurer, in which we get our first glimpse of presidential candidate Immanuel Moctezuma in September 1971. Second, my own #164: "Under Heartbeat City's Golden Sun", in which a popular music act performs in Manitoba in August 1975.
"The Candidate" was first posted to the soc.history.what-if newsgroup on 20 December 2001, and "Under Heartbeat City's Golden Sun" on 7 November 2002.
And heck, here's an embedded video of the Cars' "Heartbeat City" from 1984.
3 comments:
I think The Candidate set an FAN record for total footnotes with 23. And wasn't your Heartbeat City piece an outgrowth of a Cabal argument over my Hey, Mister, when Noel said you couldn't write about ATL music effectively without leaning on IOW references?
I don't remember whether Noel said that, though I do remember him saying he was pleased that the Lokes' music bore no resemblance to The Cars' music.
I remember writing the story to take advantage of two otherwise-unrelated Cars references in FAN (both of which I was, IMS, responsible for): a popular musical act called the Lokes, and a city in Manitoba called Heartbeat City.
I was also responsible for Manitoba having two cities named Harmony and Association.
I get that reference (though Googling "harmony and association doesn't). But after all, i'm the one who based the Turnerites "free love" on Heinlein's plural marriage systems...
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