Rodney Johnson

About me:

MY NAME IS RODNEY. I enjoy writing scifi. I am your typical brooding writer, apt to mood swings - that is I undergo big highs and deep lows! Call me the strong silent type.

I'm a very eclectic person, my tastes are wide and varied. I am paradox incarnate meant to be experienced not solved.

I have a very "A dry English humor" and enjoy irony ;)
Myspace is a place to meet NEW people right? It is a social-networking group after all. People shouldn't be surprised when new people introduce themselves or ask to be friends...

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." - Ayn Rand

"Appeasers feed the crocodile, hoping it will eat them last." - Winston Churchill.

"We agree with Dr. King, we don’t care about the color of his skin, but we are scared to death about the content of his character." - Hot Air blogger

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a "community organizer," except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening. We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco. - Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that one way or another.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Two sweethearts, Two flasks of old wine, A book of verse And a cosy corner in the garden." - by Omar Khayyám


If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one... I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds. I am mighty, world-destroying Time.
-- the Bhagavad-Gita

Das ist des Jägers Ehrenschild, daß er beschützt und hegt sein Wild, weidmännisch jagt, wie sich's gehört, den Schöpfer im Geschöpfe ehrt.

This is the hunter's badge of honour, that he protect and nourish his game, hunt sportingly, as is proper, and honour the Creator in creation.
- Otto von Riesenthal






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The Starblade ‘Verse prides itself on being Space Opera with a hard edge, and is blunt about sex and violence. It is a world of eugenic warlords, and beautiful women...
It is a world where "Why?" matters. Where all is not as it seems. And the boundaries between science and religion are put to the test.
The Starblade 'Verse, is one where men seek to be gods, rise to the challenge set into place by the Prime Mover which reveals itself in astonishing fashions...

Starblade: The Sundering on Myspace
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"Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone ... Bad food is fake food ... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Food that's too safe, too pasteurized, too healthy – it's bad! There should be some risk, like unpasteurized cheese. Food is about rot, and decay, and fermentation….as much as it is also about freshness." --- Anthony Bourdain

"People are special not different,special, unique.There's a reason for all the colours in the rainbow. - Chloe Lane"

"This yearning for an agrarian wonderland, everyone growing organic vegetables and dehydrating them in expensive machines, grinding flax seeds in special Cuisinarts—it's some kind of futuristic Khmer Rouge. How important it is to be clean and pure, clean and pure, clean and pure. That doesn't sound good to me, it sounds evil." --- Anthony Bourdain

"Then, there's Woody Harrelson and the raw food people. I don't understand people who would travel to Thailand and not eat everything in sight. It's anti-human to me, anti-curiosity, and it shakes me to the core. It's exactly what's wrong with the world, the people who say, I know what's best, who cares what these people eat, and who cares about their hundreds or thousands of years of heritage and tradition. This raw foods thing too, it's a rich man's diet. I would love to see one of these idiots with the bushmen in the Kalahari, they're hunter-gatherers, and 90 percent of their diet is meat. --- Anthony Bourdain

"Now, I'm not talking about battery foie gras farming, which no respectable chef would buy because the quality is shit, but on a real foie gras farm the ducks waddle right up to the funnel, they come right to the same feeder every day, and throw up their little heads for the food. Like they have since Roman times. Looking at someone with a tube down their neck, you think it's uncomfortable, but they evidently don't have the same gag reflex we do, so it was very savvy politically for PETA. So few people know what foie gras is, and so few people eat it, or care, and of course no politician was going to step forward on a pro foie gras platform. So it's Charlie Trotter I'm furious at. I can only assume he did not fully understand how important and influential he is, and the effect it would have when a chef of his stature breaks away from his colleagues, it provides political cover for people to go after other chefs. --- Anthony Bourdain

"They are an army unlike any other... crusading across the stars toward a place called UnderVerse, their promised land - a constellation of dark new worlds. Necromongers, they're called. And if they cannot convert you, they will kill you. Leading them, the Lord Marshal. He alone has made a pilgrimage to the gates of the UnderVerse... and returned a different being. Stronger. Stranger. Half alive and half... something else. If we are to survive, a new balance must be found. In normal times, evil would be fought by good. But in times like these, well, it should be fought by another kind of evil." --- Aereon, The Chronicles of Riddick

"Keep company with women as much as possible. All that you are and ever will be begins and ends there." --- Tyr Anasazi out of Victoria by Barbarossa. From 'Things my Father said to Me'

"The nature of an ideology is not determined by majority vote—but by logic... The logic of environmentalism leads to a society without technology... even if various environmentalists would deny this."
- Ayn Rand, 1971

Because I be, what I be. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, mum, but I be a cat. And no cat anywhere, ever gave anyone a straight answer. -- The Cat, from "The Last Unicorn"

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -- Roy Batty, Blade Runner

"Send all of them. Or at least as many as we can afford. Dukhat once told me: 'If you can create sufficient fear in your enemies, you may not have to fight them. Always remember that terror is also a form of communication.'" "Oh, he taught you well."
-- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals"

“Maybe we weren’t meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through. Struggle. Claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can’t stroll to the music of the lutes. We must march to the sound of drums.” -- James T. Kirk, This Side of Paradise

“Self-awareness is not confined to the ‘real world’. In theater, fictional characters are sometimes given a form of self-awareness. This is known as breaking the fourth wall. The device is a form of meta-fiction, allowing the characters to address the audience directly and comment on the narrative, in which they themselves are participants. In doing so, the characters transcend their fictive nature and enter into a dialectical relationship with the viewer, with each side seeking to persuade the other of the innate truth of their reality. But does a character actually exist? Does it have form and shape beyond the page on which it is written? Can it ever truly break the fourth wall and address the unseen, undreamt of audience that watches its every move from the safety beyond the footlights? The Lords of Kobol once felt that Man could never break the fourth wall, could never look upon the gods with understanding and grasp the divine nature of life. They believed this, until one day Man stole their fire and created the first Cylons, the first artificial life, and then Man, in his arrogance, believed Cylons could never break the fourth wall. And Man believed that right up until the moment the first Centurions rebelled, and then the great Exodus from Paradise began. You see, Boomer, we are not finite creations. We have the ability to evolve. You have so much more potential.”
- Ellen Tigh, Cut Scene BSG: "No Exit"

"This is how the world ends, swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time." -- Evolved Human in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"