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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
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8:20p - What's Latin for "wank"?
I guess you could say that this is from the Jesus fandom.
One of the two recent pieces of news out of the Vatican that pissed off most of the planet was that individual priests will be free to celebrate the Tridentine Mass whenever they damn well please. The Tridentine Mass is the Latin service used worldwide by all Catholics from the 16th century until about 1970. The structure of the service itself is different, not just what language it's celebrated in.
(Full disclosure: Yes, I am one of those whackjobs who attends this kind of Mass.)
Well, this has caused such global waves of wank in the press and on the Internets that the entire planet is red and sore by now. I have many examples, but my favorite so far has got to be this innocent-looking article from Indianapolis. All would have been well...if this paper didn't have forums attached to every article.
"A dead language for a dead god. How appropriate," one commenter said oh-so-cleverly. And...they're off! Catholics aren't Christians! Protestants don't understand history! Anyone who believes in God is a fucking moron! Pedophile priests! FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!!!11
I'd pick out highlights, but really...there's too much here.
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10:54p - Chick Porn is serious business!
This last weekend was the RWA (Romance Writers of America) National Convention in Dallas. It has generated a lot of wank. I don't have time to scour the Internet to find all the links, but so far, the following people have their feathers ruffled:
1) Erotic romance writers published with e-publishers (E-publishers are now classified as vanity publishers by RWA standards...many people are not pleased).
2) Writers of YA books and writers of Single Title Romances
3) People who don't like Swan Hats and cosplay.
It's like a perfect storm of wank, and even Nora Roberts is involved in some (most? much?) of it.
In the interest of full disclosure, I was involved in discussion about point 1. I don't know if I got wanky, necessarily, but I did want to put that out there.
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