There once was a small little unique community that people were intrigued by. A lucky few already lived there, and a few other brave souls moved into that community, even though there wasn't much money there. But eventually, a few people saw a way to exploit that community for its uniqueness; and they moved into it in a big way, shoving aside those who had always dwelled there.

I'm talking about the comic community, of course.

All the talk at the San Diego Con seemed to have a subtext of; this is a great convention, too bad we have those comic nerds over in the corner. I wonder if we could change the name of this convention, and get rid of them. We really only care about movies and video games.....

I've figured out, if we could just move about 20k people down the river twenty miles or so, call it Bend. Then let the people call this town, New Malibu. Perfect solution.

Of course, we'd have to move the Redmond people to Madras, and the Madras people to Warm Springs, and the Warms Springs people into the middle of the desert. That's always been progress, right? Why stop now?