{"id":793,"date":"2007-03-28T20:34:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T01:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/03\/28\/soda-and-presidents-dont-mix\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T20:34:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T01:34:11","slug":"soda-and-presidents-dont-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Soda and Presidents Don&#8217;t Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t talk a lot about politics in this blog. In this instance, though, I&#8217;m going to make an exception for an issue that is too important not to.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2007\/Mar\/bad-scalzi.jpg\" alt=\"Propaganda poster against John Scalzi for SFWA president\" title=\"You can't trust the cola drinkers\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is so inside baseball that you&#8217;re practically staring through cracks in the leather and past the red stitching. Here&#8217;s the synopsis. John Scalzi, a science fiction writer, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/004960.html\">declared himself a write-in candidate<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\">SFWA<\/a> presidency, SFWA being the professional organization for writers of science fiction and fantasy. In response, several of his readers created campaign posters, including some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/004975.html\">excellent remixed propaganda posters<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackarts.com\/\">Theo Black<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, as part of his reader request week, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/004995.html\">explained why he didn&#8217;t like coffee<\/a>. He&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/webnews.sff.net\/read?cmd=read&#038;artid=%3C4607fd1c.0@news.sff.net%3E&#038;\">admitted his Coke Zero addiction to SFWA members<\/a>. Put all of this together and, well, I felt the need to play with Photoshop and Illustrator for several hours last night.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the skills I&#8217;ve learned while <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/26\/making-videos-for-dragoncontv\/\">making videos for Dragon*ConTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t talk a lot about politics in this blog. In this instance, though, I&#8217;m going to make an exception for an issue that is too important not to. This is so inside baseball that you&#8217;re practically staring through cracks in the leather and past the red stitching. Here&#8217;s the synopsis. 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