Hello --

After being a fly on the wall for several months, I had posted a greeting here somewhere around
July 18. For any who might remember, I'm the guy that first heard the name "Ayn Rand" in a Mad
Magazine cartoon (about Playboy Magazine!) in the mid-1960s.

Well, that greeting, and the few replies to it, are gone, casualties I presume of the hack-job and
inadequate backup. So, hello again. I don't have time now to try to recreate the full original post, just
this short message.

I am hoping to find time and inspiration to participate more (well, I couldn't possibly participate less)
in discussions here. Also, living in the Los Angeles area, I'll this weekend be checking out a local
Objectivist salon (LAON). Maybe some other people on this list will be there?

MBM

My wife Becky and I will be there. I'm speaking (briefly) on the objectivity of direct awareness and the reality of perceptual and introspective contents, and how scientific discoveries do not change any of that.

Looking forward to meeting you!

REB

MBM,

Looks like you are the No. 1 prizewinner in the all new cheap thrill...


HACKED!


Your very existence turned an axiomatic concept on its head - "MBM is non-MBM" - and that can get serious...




btw - Can you remember any of the stuff you wrote about Mad Magazine's lampoon of Rand's Playboy interview?

Glad to see you made it back. It's good to have you here.

Michael

I expect to be there, too, with James Kilbourne, John Hospers, and Alec Mouhibian.

Roger, I'm looking forward to your talk. MBM, please say hello.

Barbara

Hi MBM, Glad you found your way back. Unfortunately, I cannot make it to the meeting in LA this weekend. It's a bit of a hike for me. I'm sure you will be in good company though. Have a great time!

Kat

Well, I've always regarded myself as the personification of the excluded middle....



My memory of the cartoon is that Hugh Hefner and his editorial staff were having a meeting
about introducing more intellectual material into Playboy....The final panel of the cartoon
contained this text (from the web page linked below):

It’s all great, Hef! Except…do you really think our readers will dig a
nude fold-out of Ayn Rand?” —“Hefner and His Pals,” a comic strip in Mad
magazine (1967)

http://www.reason.com/0503/fe.rand.shtml


MBM