croggling adj.

I liked Son of Univac, too. Real croggling stuff.

I imagine this is what the performers in ‘danger’ acts learn to live with; they become adrenalin addicts and feel only half alive unless they are all hopped up for superhuman effort and danger. Rather a croggling thought.

Tin Age Robot was filled with those mind-croggling puns & sick humor.

Again, by today’s standards, there was nothing earth-croggling about the program. The principal entertainment was a showing of the old silent UFA film, Metropolis, which didn’t offer nearly as many weird effects as the fannish baseball game the following day.

I like emotional involvement, strong opinion, and I’m not afeard to show my inner self, ugly as it sometimes is. So...as a reflection of my character and personality, SFR will continue to be wide open to informational letters and emotional tirades as well...with the hope that the tirades lead to some truth…or inspire it…or are simply croggling to read.

Modern Hollywood has apparently decided that, as the day of the privately owned gasoline vehicle enters its late afternoon, the automobile in most cases must be reserved for funny car chases (as in Foul Play and the cheerfully mind-croggling Grand Theft Auto) or a kind of sappy reverence (The Driver).

The damned thing [sc. William Stout and William Service’s The Dinosaurs] is already a trade paperback bestseller, so you probably don’t need me to rhapsodize over it, but in the unlikely event you missed hearing about it, this is the very latest we know about dinosaurs, presented in mind-croggling paintings by the multi-talented Stout and in delicious, innovative text by Service.

Royalty statement arrived from NAL on Driftglass yesterday: They’re claiming that, after five printings and a bookclub sale, the thing still hasn’t earned out its initial $6,000 advance in thirteen years now. $415.25 to go, they say. This is croggling, but we’ve already written them about it once; and they stick to their story.

One suggestion that drew Gibbons’s attention and admiration was to approach venture capitalists and beg them for the capital to sue Disney and then use the settlements from the suits to pay back the VCs. This mind-croggling Ponzi scheme is the closest thing to a business model we’ve yet heard of from the chip-addled techno-hippies of the New Work and its post-boom incarnation.