The 6.4 Billion Dollar Question
Jan. 20th, 2006 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleAs I may have remarked here, I am disappointed with our current crop of eccentric billionaires. With hundreds of men made ridiculously rich by the rising tide of computers in all walks of life, some of which must be hardcore SF fans, none was willing to step forward and say "hey, Joss Whedon, what say I bank roll this Firefly show of yours? Sure, it'll cost me $30 million I won't see again, but who cares? It's for art!"
It's got me wondering what I would do if I were rich beyond all good sense, and from there wondering what other people would do. So, gentle readers, I put it to you: if you had hundreds, if not thousands, of millions of dollars, what frivolous projects would spend some of them on? Whatever it is, it can't be more than incidentally beneficial to anyone, and you must cheerful expect to never recoup a dime of your money. Also, it probably shouldn't be something horrible, like buying plutonium to dirty bomb the Mall of America, or actually significant, like buying congressmen to vote for laws that you want.
Myself, I would bank roll Joss Whedon to make more Firefly (or, at least I would have) and J. Michael Straczynski to make more Babylon 5. I'd fund my own local gaming/comics/SF con, and put it in a good hotel, and pay for all the cool guests that I want, and then make it so that only people personally approved by me get to come. And I'd totally buy a geiger counter.
Which is actually a pretty boring list, now that I look at it. Perhaps more interesting stuff shall come to me. In the mean time, can you top it?
ADDENDUM: If I really had money to burn, I would start up a national direct market comics distributor to compete with Diamond.
It's got me wondering what I would do if I were rich beyond all good sense, and from there wondering what other people would do. So, gentle readers, I put it to you: if you had hundreds, if not thousands, of millions of dollars, what frivolous projects would spend some of them on? Whatever it is, it can't be more than incidentally beneficial to anyone, and you must cheerful expect to never recoup a dime of your money. Also, it probably shouldn't be something horrible, like buying plutonium to dirty bomb the Mall of America, or actually significant, like buying congressmen to vote for laws that you want.
Myself, I would bank roll Joss Whedon to make more Firefly (or, at least I would have) and J. Michael Straczynski to make more Babylon 5. I'd fund my own local gaming/comics/SF con, and put it in a good hotel, and pay for all the cool guests that I want, and then make it so that only people personally approved by me get to come. And I'd totally buy a geiger counter.
Which is actually a pretty boring list, now that I look at it. Perhaps more interesting stuff shall come to me. In the mean time, can you top it?
ADDENDUM: If I really had money to burn, I would start up a national direct market comics distributor to compete with Diamond.
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Date: 2006-01-20 11:44 pm (UTC)i'd love to see at least one of the games made into some sort of moving picture art that i could watch.
also getting more star trek, more firefly, and buying the rights to star wars from lucas. but for half of what they are worth, because i doctored a photo of him and some underage trassexual prostitute or something. just for making the last movies so frikkin bad.