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Asshat of the day
Oh the things you find online when just clicking around at random. The man’s name is Tad Safran, he’s from the UK, and I do not think he gets laid enough. He has an article at Times Online (which I found via a post at the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Read more…
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Apparently, Furries Drink Lots of French OJ.
I guess this means that it’s a shade more likely that Forests of the Night might make it to the big screen. I don’t know if that’s exactly a good thing.
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And in the interest of equal time. . .
Christians can be stupid too. The minister with the stuffed pig is really on the same moral level as the idiots in Sudan who were demonstrating to have that teacher executed over a teddy bear. I have the really sad feeling that the ultimate apocalypse will be waged over something Read more…
intellectual property
On looking stupid, clueless, and unprofessional. . .
SFWA is becoming an on-line spectator sport. I’m not going to go into too much depth here, as the bandwidth expended on this is already reaching critical mass. I’ll only comment by posing the following rhetorical question: If the chair of your e-piracy committee screws up so bad that it Read more…
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Eddie Vader Lego
Everyone’s doing it. . .SF Signal, Big Dumb Object, Whatever. . .. . . so I have to post it too. Eddie Izzard, Lego, Darth Vader. Just to be different, here’s a bonus Eddie Izzard Lego video about movies. (Bet you didn’t know that was an actual subgenre) Warning, language Read more…
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J. K. Rowling Throws the Slashfic Writers a Bone
Well J. K. Rowling has confirmed that Dumbledore was gay, and you know something is very strange when the sexual preference of a fictional character is a major story on CNN. I’m just saying. . . I just hope things go well for the headmaster of Hogwarts. After all, we Read more…
intellectual property
Well, this is ironic. . .
Sometimes you come across news that so twisted in recursive levels of self-parody that you cannot even express an opinion on it, you just have to sit back and say, “gee that’s f__ked up.” Case in point, this series of events, the latest of which I found thanks to a Read more…