This one's online mostly as a favor to Rick Wyatt, the curator of Ellison Webderland . He's one of the good ones.
Permanent insanity is defined by remaining in Portland.
To swipe from a much better writer than I'll ever be, I am here to bury Harlan Ellison, not praise him. However, if you remember your basic Shakespeare, you'll see that I have an ulterior motive when I say this. For a guy who doesn't ransack houses, rape sheep, or write Star Trek novels, he sure gets a lot of vilification for a writer person. Yes, he can be forceful, opinionated, and occasionally obnoxious, but so can a good two-thirds of the average Worldcon audience. The only difference is that he's a published author, and those members of the audience aren't.