Well I did it. I registered for Readercon.
Day: February 18, 2008
Spam for the ages
More pearls of wisdom from recent spam:
“Japan refuses to accept a single export from the United States in meat & dairy produce! Now, what does that tell you? That Japan is snobby? Nope! That Japan citizens hate milk and meat? Come on, you know better than that!”
“Tip: Make sure you keep batteries in sets. One bad battery will upset all the others!”
So full of words
I’m sort of half joking when I say it, but the frustrating thing about movies is that they’re not collaborative, all you do is sit there on your ass and watch them. Books are very collaborative, they invite the reader to do half the work, but the problem with books is, they’re so full of words. What I like about comics is that they invite the reader in to collaborate just like a book, but they move with the acceleration of a film, and that makes them extremely fun to play in.
Naughty words
So apparently Jane Fonda dropped the dreaded C-word* on the Today show last week. They bleeped it when the show was re-run on the west coast a few hours later, and co-host Meredith Viera went on to apologize to the viewers at home.
“We would do nothing to offend the audience,” she said.
Well yeah, but that’s sort of the problem with the show, now isn’t it, Meredith?
* It’s “cunt,” okay? I’m sorry if you’re offended, and I’m not arguing that it’s the sort of thing that does belong on daytime television, but it’s just a word. Maybe Meredith Viera should try reading this on the air.
Is there any day that is not a holiday?
Remember the house in my neighborhood that I said had Valentine’s Day decorations up for a whole month (after more than a month of Christmas decorations)? Well now they have shamrocks up in all the windows for St. Patrick’s Day…which, of course, is still several weeks away from now.
I guess on March 18th they’ll hang Eastern decorations, but what they’re going to do after March 23 — Easter is fairly early this year — is anybody’s guess.