august 8th, 2008
11:54am: Carrots? ...why?
So after it being on my DVR for two weeks, I finally watched Shoot 'Em Up.
( spoilers )
Michael Davis, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?
current mood: i'm laughing, really
9:55am: Encyclopedia Dramatica is near death...
... and needs your moneys.
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Ded from lulz?
august 7th, 2008
11:35am:
Okay, remind me. I've modded and killed 5 RPGs so far. So, starting a new one...bad, right?
But I'm jonesing for so bad and miss my characters. And wouldn't a Harry Potter universe wehre the war has dragged on into a sort of Cold War be awesome? Intrigue, politicking, magical spies, double and triple agents, magical mutually assured destruction oh help me I suck at modding and don't really have the time.
5:02pm: I'm out of books to read
Just recently saw and read the first movie and the first book of Sergei Lukyanenko's Night Watch/DayWatch (Nochnoy Dozor) series. I have to wait till my brother finishes the second book, so I am in desparate need of some good, novel based fanfic in English, Hungarian or Hebrew. I know there is some out there in Russian and I believe there must be some in languages I can understand. After all the first generation of Harry Potter fanfic writers must like Nochnoy Dozor!
9:05am: Woes.
The fucking raccoon has to go. It has decided to move from obnoxiousness - I can deal with plants getting trampled and my fish tubs being stirred up - to out-right destruction. Woke up this morning to find my tomato plant pretty much shredded and half-corpses of almost ripe and green tomatoes strewn across the deck. And the coup de grace was the shit on the steps. Motherfucker is getting trapped and moved five miles away. I am not pleased.
Also discovered last night that my squash plants problems are being caused squash vine borers. Thankfully, it's just the plants in the back so I should get some squash this year. It's still really frustrating. I dont' remember having these sorts of problems before, but I was probably just lucky.
Lost a couple of fish recently. One was a serpae tetra that must have swallowed some gravel or something. I knew that one was coming. The surprises were Roslin (who may have been eaten by the fucking raccoon) and my female rainbow darter. The new catfish still have ich spots although the killies seem to have fought it off for the moment.
Work has been frustrating. IT fuckwittery and a new supervisor that likes to send out emails and hold meetings that are full of business prattle and meaningless pap, none of which actually helps me do my job and mostly makes me hate everything.
So yeah, not the greatest week.
4:35am: Two icons from recent wanks!
A gay-friendly, Diablo III icon, inspired by this wank, and a very self-aware "fake" icon whose state of non-existence was thrown into sharp relief by this wank. 
august 6th, 2008
11:29pm: Role Play Anyone?
So I have this idea for a game but I'm unsure if only someone like myself (a huge history geek) would like. Basically I've set up an original RPG on a pro-board of an RPG that takes place during the Boshin war of Japan. Since y'know you've got plenty of samurai fighting each other along with some assassins and possibly ninjas thrown in. Realistic as one can be however, so no magic or mutants and the like. So basically it be a pan-fandom, AU, with some RPF thrown in (since you can play historical figures too) along with original characters.
( Anyone )
I'm just wondering if anyone would be interested in something like this.
current mood: Amped
8:34pm:
So of course a trolling admission happens after I go to bed. :( Ann has all the fun.
5:04pm:
I can't even mock this. It's like watching a sheep optimistically wander into a woodchipper looking for food.
--![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
jkefka in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small}
fandom_wank:
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fan
2:34pm: Because we haven't had anime-related wank in a while here...
Thanks to an IJ friend and a kind mousie from wank_report!
In the code_geass LJ comm, Serenityreview pokes her way in...
( O hai there pplz... )
From then on, we have the following...
* LOL N00B LOL!111ICHI
* You don't like 'em coz they're both ukes? wtf?
* My eyes, they bleed, I'll show you!!
* LOL N00B, take two
* FIIIIIIRST MACROOOOO and RP threads like this one, this one, and more
Serenity then goes and posts a sort-of swan song.
Goodbye, cruel comm. Sorta.
Enjoy before it goes away. =3
current mood: 
amused
2:32pm:
They're still going! That's amazing. And would you look at this duck?
I swear, I'll do that Rorschach spam at some point. I swear. And I wish I could make decent icons out of the comic book, but most have looked like crap :(
Alya, I got your comment but have reached a roadblock in my brainstorming so I'm still thinking about it.
Have started Stephen King's Misery. It's... scary, but not interesting enough for me to not want to skip pages and see what else Annie Wilkes does. Which is why I read about fifty pages of the beginning and the last twenty pages at the end and haven't picked it up since. I have no stamina :(
ETA: http://www.journalfen.net/community/ran
what the fuck is going on here? page rapist >:( and why is lightnote_blend upping his losergame lately?
11:54am: Elijah is the moon?
Back when I was still a 'mouse, I remember reading some wank about a person who wrote an essay about Elijah Wood. The writing seemed to concern itself mostly with how perfect and whole the hobbit was, and how the rest of us were so broken and pathetic.
Anybody have the link to this essay or the actual wank report? I don't remember when this all went down.
9:11am: Our new rainbow overlords
Here we have yet another tale of video game fanboy entitlement, but one that doesn't involve the ongoing Console Wars for a change. In fact, the game involved is a PC/Mac title: Blizzard's highly-anticipated Diablo III.
It all started with an online petition calling for "Renewed artistic direction for Diablo 3". According to the petitioners, the Diablo universe calls for gothic, dark realism, but the new game's art direction is "cartoon'ish" and reminiscent of the Warcraft titles, with color and variety and *gasp* RAINBOWS! What they want is:
( Teh Gothicness, basically )
Rounding out the petition are several links to images depicting what Diablo III should look like. In short, everything should look a lot more grey and brown.
MTV Multiplayer later posts an interview with Diablo III's lead designer in which these fan mockups are discussed and criticized at length. For example, here's what the designer had to say about this one, depicting what the petitioners want in terms of lighting:
The key thing to remember here is that this has been Photoshopped. This isn’t created by the engine. Though it looks really cool, it’s almost impossible to do in a 3D engine because you can’t have lighting that smart and run on systems that are reasonable. If we could do that, we probably would in a few of the dungeons.
Now in terms of the actual texturing, this texturing, where they grayed out everything and it’s very flat and the monsters are all kind of a similar tone — that does not play well. It’s very boring to run through more than a couple of times, and it’s very difficult to tell creatures apart and pop them out of the environment. So those things don’t really work for us. A lot of the lighting stuff I think is very cool, but it’s also not very doable for us.
The rainbow (or lack thereof, rather) in one of the altered screenshots is also discussed:
More rain? It’s funny because if watch later on in the [debut gameplay] video, we have more rain. It is much stronger than that. I’m sure they got rid of the rainbow. Yeah, rainbow — gone. I think our artist just put [the rainbow] in there because they knew that’d be controversial. And I’m sure they were like, “Well we’ll see how far we can push it.”
There is anger and annoyance in the comments, representing both sides of the argument:
( COLOR IS BAD! COLOR IS NOT BAD! )
And of course, there's the obligatory Penny Arcade comic.
ETA: So it seems Blizzard is now looking for a new art director for Diablo III after their previous one quit. Fanboys, now's your chance!
12:18am:
So I got this friend. I've actually probably mentioned her a bunch of times, but always under a different name because of poor planning she has eight billion and is deeply ashamed of what she does on all of these.
She makes me rp Heroes stuff with her (I'm Mohinder D:) to the point where I think I've developed Stockholm Syndrome. Did I mention she's a Sylar fangirl? She camped out for the Heroes panel. I told her I was going to write this stuff about her, which is why she said I had to put her under a new pseudonym.
But what I'm getting around to saying is, Sylar isn't an exception. She watches Withnail and I, Withnail is sexy sexy to her. Sylar is dreamy. There's other examples I totally can't remember right now. Oh yeah, Snape's a woobie. I'm pretty sure when we finally meet, she's going to go all Hannibal Lecter on me.
And she's been watching Dark Knight more than once.
From Gmail:
Flammis: Joker/Batman forever
John: you're so creepy
Flammis: :-D
You complete me!
John: batman/gordon, ho
Flammis: That too
Batman knows he doesn't deserve Gordon so he totally uses Joker on the side.
John: no flammis no!
Flammis: and this delights Joker to no end. :D
John: stop making me picture it!
Flammis: He totally is all "GORDON!" while the Joker cackles maniacally.
John: D:
--
John: do I have to put you under a pseudonym if I post about you in my journal?
Flammis: Yes
John: "This is my pal... Bobo"
ooh
what names can I call you
Flammis: Flammis works.
John: what's the smush name for Mohinder/Maya
Flammis: D:
John: Mayinder?
Flammis: I, I will kill you.
please note, I love her dearly. She's totes my bff.
OTHER NEWS:
Who's this little twit? 1, 2, and 3.
OTHER OTHER NEWS:
I got Igraine the Brave today and so far it is ridiculously cute. But I was expecting goodness from the author of The Thief Lord.
august 5th, 2008
6:52pm: TWILIGHT
In all it's sparkly, caesarean-by-vampire-bite glory. Four icons, two animated, two still.
current music: OM NOM NOM NOM
4:05pm: Are you speaking Bat? Is that what Bat sounds like?
Awesome The Dark Knight spoof.
Parody of the Joker/Batman interrogation scene and Christian Bale's Growly Bear Batman Voice. No real spoilers if you still haven't seen the film.
current mood: *sporfle!*
2:48pm: (things that make me make the face in this icon)
The crescendo in O Fortuna (of Carmina Burana) makes me feel exactly same way as the truck-flip scene in Dark Knight.
(Similar to the feeling of a fast acceleration on the back of Dad's motorcycle, and that of being pushed up against a wall. It's that rush of something bigger than myself, taking over me and moving me. Physically, almost.)
2:39pm: Will all of you shut it?!
Popular Pirates of the Carribean fic comm Pirategasm is being overrun by a shipwar, and the mod has had enough.
The Captain is angry and completely disgusted.
I am well aware that the subterranean SparraShip war has erupted into full-fledged battle. I will NOT have it here. Don't try my patience over this, folks. I already have no time to read anything posted here because I'm too busy checking the comments to make sure you cuttlefish aren't cannibalising each other. ( Read more... )fried_flamingo asks if hippediva's explosion is in reference to anything in particular. This does not go well.soleilpirate questions why the post was necessary, since the wank seems to have happened off-comm mary684 points out that most people have no idea what the mod is talking about.madam_pudifut threatens to flounce to which the mod replies "GTFO".
All of this results in a second modly decree from on high: "I am, at this point, undecided about whether or not to continue this community at all."
What? No! What a shocking outcome. Ack! Don't shut down Piratagasm! DON'T LET THE TERRORISTS WIN!111!!234".
ETA: Whoa, the mod is actually behaving sensibly and taking a break? No way! no pirate speech today, this is too serious to make light of it.
5:47pm:
So, at least the weird line on/under my thumbnail is nothing troublesome. It's some scarring-over inflammation (my translation from medicine-speak to german, then german to english anyway), but nothing vicious or fungal or anything.
Yay for harmlessness, but on the downside it's not going to go away on it's own and you can't reach it to make it go away. Oh well. I mean, it's just a line on my nail, but still. There goes my glamorous hand model career. :|
Hey, did you know my camera has a pictures-with-extremely-cheesy frames mode*? I didn't, I always thought it was a back-button or something like this. Why I assumed my camera has heart-shaped back-buttons I do not know. Probably just because it was the last of the mode buttons.
( catpics with and without the cheesy frames )
*A modern camera would have a cat macro mode instead.
3:45pm: Ginny and Ron vs. Hermione! Round 27496.
For years Ginny and Ron fans have been whinging all over the web about the film and promotional treatment of their characters. For a short while at least, it seems they can take a break from whinging while Hermione fans pick up the gauntlet.
Recently a teaser trailer was finally released, and all were joyous! The trailer mainly featured young!Voldie, Dumbledore and Harry, but there were snippets of Ginny and Ron. Alas! There was no Hermione. The insult continued recently when some promos were released, featuring Ron and Harry, but still no Hermione. The final straw came when some pictures of foreign merchandise were released, featuring new pics of Ron and Ginny, but nothing new for Hermione. As well as some trading cards featuring Ron and Harry.
There were some small signs of dissent in the posts linked above, but it never really went anywhere. The Leaky Cauldron was not so lucky, maybe because they didn't link to the old pic of Hermione. There, some of the Hermione fans rage and the Ginny and Ron fans rub it in.
As I can't link direct to comments, I'll copy paste the juiciest from each page, so this will be quite a long report.
( Read more... )
But I'll leave you with my personal favourite!
Who needs to be entertained by the HBP film? Reading all these comments have me rolling on the floor in laughter! Remember, children, they’ve only released the “Teaser” trailer… obviously, teasing releases “the Dark Lord ” in some of you. Wicked.
So True!
Thank you to the Mouse on wank_report for dropping this in my lap.
ETA: More wanksting about the promos, on LJ this time. Thanks peachespig!
current mood: devious
8:40am: Nuked the Fridge
As a result of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, we have a new version of "jumped the shark": "nuked the fridge."
Personally, I agree with the OP: the scene in Temple of Doom where Indy parachutes out of a plane in an inflatable raft, toboggans down a mountainside in it, and then survives it falling off a 1,000-foot cliff into a raging river, was much more ridiculous.
august 4th, 2008
3:57pm:
Surely someone else has made this icon, but I can't find it, so:
JF's image code continues to outwit me. I have been schooled.
1:22pm: The aftermath of "Breaking Dawn"
We are falling behind on the Sparkledammerung, you guys. Previously: Twilight had its own Carpet Book. Fresh off the truck:
>> Don't Burn It, Return It!
Just got back from Borders, where they took back my book with no problem. Got into a discussion with the cashier about how I was the 15th (!!!) person to bring my book back today. Seems like many customers felt that SM was not true to her characters and her self created Twilight world, and are calling foul.(See also: Half.com's BD listing; more anecdata at iworkatborders and ONTD).
>> Two new communities are up, mmmcradle (specifically protesting ( spoiler )) and whysofailsmeyer, and those are just the ones I know of.
>> Epic ONTD post is epic, complete with macros and Dark Knight rewrites (ALFREDS EYES WERE A BUTTERY, BURNING GOLD; HIS PERFECT FACE ALMOST SEVERE WITH THE DEPTH OF HIS EMOTION AS HE STARED INTO MY EYES AND SHOUTED "NEVAH").
I hear the Twilight Moms board is supposed to open back up today (apparently Stephenie Meyer asked her fan boards to go on hiatus prior to the book release...?), so that should be interesting. ETA: The Twilight Moms loved it! Bless. ETA 2: ... And so it begins. ETA 3: And continues! ETA 4: NO DISSENT!
ETA 5: It was a
ETA 6: OH SHI--
ETA 7: Alleged MySpace defriending by the author!
ETA 8: A new letter-writing campaign: EDIT MOAR; a J/B shipper decides to rewrite the book.
By the way, you guys, if something else happens, feel free to post a new entry. I'll be over here battening down the LJ hatches.
11:31am: The Sparkalypse has come
My daughter is reading the Twilight books. She bought the latest one for band camp and has already read it. And she loves it, despite the snarky comments Mrs. Terrific and I have made nonstop.
DEAR JESUS, WHERE DID I GO WRONG????
3:08pm: Spanish Language Help
Looking for anyone who speaks/writes Castilian who may know the appropriate/equivalent for ( Read more... )
august 3rd, 2008
11:05pm: "Venom: The Movie"?
So, apparently Sony, following in the footsteps of the upcoming Wolverine spinoff movie, is interested in doing a Venom spinoff:
"Sony may bite on Spidey spinoff"
8:00pm:
I need music. Specifically, Celtic music. Rocky stuff to stuff like Greensleeves. I thought, where on the internet could I find an interesting assortment of that? Then I realized I was on the internet.
Pretty please? I'll pay you back in icons if you want that. Or comic uploads.
In other begging news:
Me, Snacky, and Hina are going to have a Disney Day on sunday where we watch three Disney cartoons together on im, starting at noon or so. We just have a problem choosing what. The last two slots are open, with only Sleeping Beauty chosen so far.
So what should we watch?
Poll #400 Make up my mind for me!
Open to: All, results viewable to: All
Which Disney cartoon?
Mulan
11 (45.8%)
Pocahontas 2 (8.3%)
Beauty and the Beast 9 (37.5%)
Other (please tell me in the comments. With music?) 2 (8.3%)
4:39pm:
So anyway, my truck.
MY TRUCK. ;-;
I exaggerated a bit on the whole 'exploding' thing. What actually happened was that a wheel blew and the truck ended up flipping off the road upside down, whereupon the cab crushed.
I was in another country at the time. My cousin who was driving was fine except a gouged up hand and the other cousin had to wear a neckbrace for a few days. The cousin has witnesses who only noticed him driving in the first place because he was the first person they'd seen all day on that road who wasn't speeding. So that's good. The truck's going (we assume) to be written off, so we're going into town next week to pick out a new ford ranger.
Poor Doktor Von Truck.
OTHER NEWS:
I have downloaded 135mb of Mercedes Lackey books, god bless her. Including my favourite of hers, Bedlam's Bard. I lost my paper copy some point when I was like, thirteen. Apparently there's lots of sequels! Yay! Yay? Oh god? I don't know. I remember reading the second one and being all 'oh my god, why would you do that to her'
But either way, yay. I think I'll get papercopies of whatever I end up liking just so I don't have to read the entire thing on a computer screen.
Don't you diss my taste, you people like Stargate and Spn and Dr. Who. I AM JUST SAYING.
not the face!
5:00pm: LOLOLOL
While trying to find a parking spot today, we saw a guy holding a sign that said "STOP BIRD PORN!" on one side and "LEAVE THE BIRDS ALONE!" on the other. Later we found these fliers stuffed into the display section of every newpaper box on the corner of K and 17th. This is my new favorite protester.
11:43am: The Googles: They do nothing!
All I want is a list of recommended grape cultivars to grow in my area! Why is the internet failing me so?
Also, all of the information from the Virginia Extention is very depressing. It's like talking to the gardening ladies at the farmers' market. "Here are all of the way and means that your planned project is going to FAIL! But if you insist on attempting such foolishness, we will begrudgingly give you information. Why can't you just grow flowers like a good suburbanite?"
12:33am: Meme Time!
Brought over from LJ: List three stories you think I will never ever write, and I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them. Hit me with your best shot! I can take it!
Oh, and I ended up with 23 comment fics in July, BTW, which is less than I'd wanted but way better than I'd been doing before that, especially considering I didn't have any at all until July 16 and also there was a full-length fic in there at 1366 words, so go me! \o/
august 2nd, 2008
11:57pm:
( And so it goes. Two more pictures under the cut. )
Now I just need to set up their dollhouse.
10:48pm:
Hello everyone. Sorry to be a bother, but I are the "current mood" smileys disabled or something? I wanted to change mine, but when I went to the modify style page there was no mood icons section. When I went back to my friends page, I saw that no one had a smiley next to their mood. Is this universal, or is it just my computer?
10:01pm:
They have such a thing as chocolate pasta now. Did you know? I didn't know. I bought it for a friend, so I don't know how it tastes. In fact, when I bought it I thought it was just, you know, pasta-shaped chocolate. But no, there's cooking directions on the back and everything. It's good I eventually looked at the back of the package, huh? :D:
HOW CAN I CONVINCE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR WATCHMEN? WITHOUT RESORTING TO POSTING JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN PICTURES IN MY POSTS, I MEAN. THERE ARE LIMITS.
I suppose I'll have to find some dead sexy picture of him for HD that will convince people to
10:06pm:
I admit it, I'm a twilight h8tr. I do think books that end with the stupid annoying 'heroine' getting married to the 'prince/glowing vampire/this unattainable guy' while just continuing to be stupid and irritating deserved to be mocked relentlessly.
I hate Rose for being an entitled cunt and leading people to believe that being an entitled cunt gets you rewarded. Much as I loathe this story and how it leads people to think it's ok to give up your inner self for 'love'. The girl is pathetic and plays on that patheticness. I don't like people who use others and manipulate others in this way and it irks me to see it glorified.
Gah, no wonder I never read YA fiction when I was a kid. If it was all like this romance bullshit I'd have given up reading altogether.
2:20pm: Must share story about Twilight party
So there was a "Breaking Dawn" party at the local bookstore last night. One of my kids went with some friends even though they don't read the books. They just wanted to watch the show (and win Twilight-branded Godiva chocolate bars for their outrageous outfits). The theme was "prom." At least one girl came as Bella in a wedding dress, and another cross-dressed as Edward for the same occasion.
It was also covered in the local paper. Best quote:
"I like that it was written by a mom, not a writer," Maggie.., 18, said through fake fangs. "It's the perfect book. It's what everyone wants — a model boyfriend who glows. It's relatable."
2:15pm: Garden rambling
One thing that really cracks me up is how the former owner of our house advocated using Roundup to kill off these nasty thistle plants that pop up in the front garden and it obviously didn't work. I mean, the damn things kept coming back! Since I started digging them out at the beginning of the summer, they've dwindled down to four or five occurances of small, weak plants. Unfortunately, the neighbor's flowerbed that connects to mine is fairly neglected and the damn things are running rampant over there. I'll probably just have to keep digging them out when they spread over to my part of the bed.
Composting in Rubbermaid containers is going very well! I turned over the first one today and started a second. We got a metal trash can to keep in the kitchen for food scraps and have been dumping that in the bin about every 2-3 days. This is probably why I opened the bin and found what are probably black soldier fly larvae chewing away happily. They kind of freaked me out at first because they were so big compared to housefly larvae. But I'm glad to have them as they pretty much the best thing ever for cleaning out the bigger-than-is-probably-ideal kitchen scraps I dump in there. Yay nature!
One thing I noticed is that the bottom of the bin seemed drier than it should have been. Where I have the bins is right on the other side of the fence from my neighbor's a/c unit which puts out a lot of heat and I suspect that has something to do with it. I'll just have to keep an eye on things and water as neccesary, especially since we've had a drop in rainfall recently.
Squash plants continue to bloom like crazy. Two of them are having a weird problem near their roots where the plant seems to be spliting and I'm not sure if it's from damp or slugs. It could be both, so far as I know. The plants out front aren't having that problem and it's drier and less slug-filled there. Oh, and the first squash I've seen is growing on a plant out front. Should be edible in a couple of days. Woohoo! Should all of the blossoms the squash plants are putting out turn into squash, I ahve a feeling I'm going to be heartily sick of the stuff in a couple of weeks. Good thing I already have a coworker who's interested in buying my excess.
4:20pm:
Lolololol she so crazy she accidentally used the Soviet Russia macro in real life! Lolololol!
Oh metaquotes.
august 1st, 2008
8:29pm:
Without trolls, there can be no good in this world!
other news:
HAY GUYS. MY TRUCK BLEW UP. And I have nothing to do with it. Details later.
6:38pm: Scott Kurtz releases the hounds
This is something that has been building up for a while, but escalated today. I don't think it yet qualifies as full blown wank, but if I'm wrong, I'll gladly move it.
So several months back Scott Kurtz, webcomic artist of PvP, linked to a blog which was created to criticize PVP. PvP Makes Me Sad, authored by Fake Scott McCloud (FSM), was said to occasionally flail, but mostly be some good constructive criticism. Of course, this wasn't good enough for the PVP fen, who all inundated the blog with inane comments.
But, time moved on, and the blog turned into a nice community for people who wanted to discuss PvP further than "LOL! Great comic!" (The PvP forums are notorious for banning pretty much any criticism at all.) Some of the criticisms weren't completely warranted, and there was definitely some nit-picking, but FSM mostly stayed away from that. Some Kurtz apologists stuck around in the comments, and Kurtz himself showed up to flail at times. (There was one instance where Kurtz posted a very bitchy response to a criticism, which he then followed up by claiming wasn't him, and someone took his laptop.) Full disclosure: I did post in the comments of that post, though none in the wank I'm leading up to.
More recently, Kurtz has Twittered (Is that a verb now? I'm not sure.) that he's done with PVPMMS, and won't be reading it anymore. No one really cares and the community continues mostly in peace. Until yesterday.
After about two weeks of almost universally reviled strips, Kurtz finally comes back with a funny strip. Unfortunately, FSM fails to get the joke. Everyone immediately corrects him, and he posts a correction to the original post. This doesn't stop the PvP fen from coming out of the woodwork and telling him how stupid he is, and how he needs to shut down his blog.
FSM posts a slightly tl;dr response which admits that he was wrong, but gets way more defensive than necessary. Not completely clear of wank, but nothing worthy of much comment, unless you are one of Kurtz's posse. The following shows up on Kurtz's Twitter:
I'm told my most public critic is starting to flail and eat himself. Kris made me block his site in terminal with httpaccess. I can't see.
Then, a few hours later:
Free original PvP artwork to anyone who can bring me the true identity of the Fake Scott McCloud.
This set the fanboys off. They tracked his IP down to Brooklyn (which FSM denies) and keep sending him IP tracking images, plus requesting to reset his password. (As an aside, does anyone know how this would accomplish anything? You have to have access to his email to get the password reset.)
Kurtz claimed that he wasn't trying to set off this big a man hunt, but sounds like back pedaling to me.
3:18pm: spamming you with my spamminess
I LOVE STEVEN MOFFAT. And also this Simon Brew person, whoever he is. THAT IS ALL.
12:33pm: Hahahaha!
If Freema beats Karl Urban in this month's poll, I will laugh until I die. Oh, poor Bree Karl. HEE!
PS: Keanu Reeves getting no votes makes me LOL. I don't know why.
1:13pm: I just moved my house. Now I have to move my store.
Spending the day and probably the beginning of next week packing up the store here. Lots and lots of books. Ugh. We'll see how this experiment goes. Instead of any content, I leave you with a picture of the first cucumber and tomato from the garden this year. I was completely surprised to find a cucumber that big because I thought that the plants had just gotten started fruiting. I went down to check them because a squirrel had decided to eat a half grown one and I wanted to see what all was started on the vine. This was a very, very tasty cucumber. I can't wait for more! The tomatoes are ripening very slowly and the squash is mostly just flowering like crazy. Can't tell if those are going to do anything before fall or not. There's a few small peppers started on the plants out front. Not a huge harvest, but not bad for not really getting anything going until late May.
july 31st, 2008
8:30pm: It was about robot buttsex and now you make it EVEN WEIRDER.
Remember this wank (also known as this wank) about death threats over Transformer porn?lady7jane, you were right.
( Cut because this is getting damn long. )
5:03pm: The Sheeple Law
Any use of the word "sheeple" in a serious context automatically disqualifies you from ever being taken seriously again.