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This is an unauthorised biography, so it's quite possible she will contradict considerable parts of it. However, it's written strictly from the perspective that I have as one of her fans. I'm not really sure when I first knew who Leslie Fish was, but I think it was an mp3 circa 1999 of a song called The Sun is Also a Warrior, which entranced me. Who knows who gave it to me (my first introduction to fandom was Pern, so maybe one of my fellow online-RPers on AOL?) or who ripped it. Around the same time, I read an amazing novel called Death Count, it's one of the best Star Trek novels (The Rihannsu novel, The Great Starship Race and Dreadnought are some of the others, along with the Final Reflection, of course). It was by this author named L.A. Graf and I didn't have the faintest idea of who said author was.
It turns out it was a collaboration group including Leslie Fish, standing for "Let's All Get Rich And Famous".
She's been a rebel, a radical, and a rabble-rouser, proudly so in all cases, since the 1960s. She's also been a thinker and a dreamer, ranging from her science experiments on the intelligence of cats to her promotion of space travel and colonisation. She has sung with the protest songs of Vietnam--and defended our right to war in many of her songs, especially the kind of war of a people standing up to totalitarianism.
Since then, I have been honoured to hear her story of 9/11, which I watched live on television. It's called Flight 93, and if you haven't heard it, please do. Matching it is her Kipplefish, her putting of Rudyard Kipling poems to music. I love every single one of them. She's written lots of other filk, and I love all of it, but turning this into a discography would be ridiculous. Go google her work and then buy it if you like it on youtube. You will.
One amazing thing about Leslie is that she is amazingly consistent and amazingly principled. We, and quite possibly you and Leslie as well, will only agree on maybe 50% of things--and she can certainly defend the other 50% on her own. But her beliefs are enormously consistent, principled, and proudly held. I think that if even a tenth of the United States population were as committed to free speech, gun rights, and people interacting honestly with each other as she was that our Republic wouldn't be in half the straits it is now, or perhaps less.
In a final aside, Leslie represents a fandom that spacebattles.com has been highly separated from--congoing, filk, that sort of thing. Our fanfiction is actually fairly isolated, and our community has been something of a bubble in fandom. I hope that by asking questions of Leslie and hearing her stories, we're going to shatter that, and open ourselves to a wider world.
And of course Leslie may in fact contradict any of this.
It turns out it was a collaboration group including Leslie Fish, standing for "Let's All Get Rich And Famous".
She's been a rebel, a radical, and a rabble-rouser, proudly so in all cases, since the 1960s. She's also been a thinker and a dreamer, ranging from her science experiments on the intelligence of cats to her promotion of space travel and colonisation. She has sung with the protest songs of Vietnam--and defended our right to war in many of her songs, especially the kind of war of a people standing up to totalitarianism.
Since then, I have been honoured to hear her story of 9/11, which I watched live on television. It's called Flight 93, and if you haven't heard it, please do. Matching it is her Kipplefish, her putting of Rudyard Kipling poems to music. I love every single one of them. She's written lots of other filk, and I love all of it, but turning this into a discography would be ridiculous. Go google her work and then buy it if you like it on youtube. You will.
One amazing thing about Leslie is that she is amazingly consistent and amazingly principled. We, and quite possibly you and Leslie as well, will only agree on maybe 50% of things--and she can certainly defend the other 50% on her own. But her beliefs are enormously consistent, principled, and proudly held. I think that if even a tenth of the United States population were as committed to free speech, gun rights, and people interacting honestly with each other as she was that our Republic wouldn't be in half the straits it is now, or perhaps less.
In a final aside, Leslie represents a fandom that spacebattles.com has been highly separated from--congoing, filk, that sort of thing. Our fanfiction is actually fairly isolated, and our community has been something of a bubble in fandom. I hope that by asking questions of Leslie and hearing her stories, we're going to shatter that, and open ourselves to a wider world.
And of course Leslie may in fact contradict any of this.