Fandom Lounge's Journal - Day
Saturday, December 2, 2006
1:01AM
If you like Les Mis, or if you like Doogie Howser, or if you like "How I Met Your Mother", or if you like all four, then you clearly must watch this clip.
1:20PM
Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, criticizes the burnings of Harry Potter books in a Forbes article.
"He [Taylor] doesn't know what witchcraft is," says Bradbury. "It's about wits. There's nothing wrong with the Potter books, because they're not promoting witchcraft. They're promoting being wise."
Regarding Taylor himself, Bradbury is succinct: "He sounds like a stupid man. He just shoots off his mouth, and he should just go somewhere, sit down and shut up."
3:25PM
Does anyone know of a site with good-quality scans of Paul Kidby's Hogfather art?
6:49PM - Manga Otaku Research
My Japanese teacher forwarded me this survey about manga otaku in the US, and who did I think of? You, Fandom_Wank! You.
Please help Dr. Kinko Ito, Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, by filling out the questions in the survey and emailing them to kxito at ualr dot edu. Spam him/her and I will cut j00.
( Read more... )
8:26PM - Fanfiction.net greasemonkey script?
I'm betting the answer to this question is "no", but I'll give it a shot.
Is there a widget that will make browsing Fanfiction.net less horrifying? I'm looking for something that would let me block certain authors or fics from appearing on results pages.
Even something that would let me mark things "DO NOT CLICK" would make my life easier, because it's impossible to memorize the names of all of the authors on Fanfiction.net who suck.
11:26PM - How the mighty have fallen...
Once upon a time, Orson Scott Card wrote entertaining SF novels, like Ender's Game (well, for a certain definition of "entertaining"). Then he apparently went a bit nuts and exposed himself as homophobic, but some fans argued that, crazy or not, he was still a good writer.
Here is an excerpt of his latest novel, just to disprove that.
( If you're too lazy to click the link, the last few paragraphs are here )
ETA: Here is a summary of the novel, ganked from here:
When the president and vice-president are killed by domestic terrorists (of unknown political identity), a radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Other blue states officially recognize the legitimacy of the group, thus starting a second civil war. Card's heroic red-state protagonists, Maj. Reuben "Rube" Malek and Capt. Bartholomew "Cole" Coleman, draw on their Special Ops training to take down the extremist leftists and restore peace to the nation...
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