I posted a comment on Slashdot which got a lot of responses, in email I mean. I said the RIAA needs to be collectively wished into the cornfield. More than a couple people mailed me asking where the cornfield thing came from. More a couple people mailed me saying where it came from. More than a couple mailed me saying they thought the same thing. I got more mail form that one comment than I did from one of my web pages being posted on the front page of Slashdot. It's weird.

Anyway, the cornfield thing is from a short story called "It's A GoodLife" by Jerome Bixby. It was in the Twilight Zone TV show, a short story, a paperback, and the Twilight Zone movie.

I wish people into the cornfield all day. It never really happens, but if you squinch up your eyes and make tiny grunting noises while you think it in front of them, then they do go away temporarily. I recommend it.