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| | Subject: | 'A Trip to the Moon' turns 108 | | Time: | 11:38 pm |
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| 'A Trip to the Moon' is the oldest science fiction movie in the world, with some of the most recognizable imagery in silent films.
I hope this works.
I feel a bit bad for the frog-men. They were just defending their home! | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | Saudi Arabia: It's Not Like Immigrants are People or Anything | | Time: | 02:07 pm |
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| Granted, I know Saudi Arabia is a pretty unpleasant place on the best of days, but this is particularly nasty.
Link
Human Rights Watch has called on Saudi judges to overturn a decision to drop charges against a Saudi couple accused of severely abusing an Indonesian maid.
A judge in Riyadh awarded $670 damages to the maid, Nour Miyati, but dropped all charges against her employers.
Ms Miyati, 25, contracted gangrene after allegedly being tied up for a month and left without food in 2005. She had to have several fingers and toes amputated. New York-based Human Rights Watch called for an appeals court to "impose stiff penalties on the employers, including imprisonment, and payment of significant financial compensation". Saudi officials have not commented on the report.
Ooh, $670, that's totally appropriate compensation for being starved and needing to have fingers and toes amputated! And this kind of abuse is hardly uncommon for Saudi Arabia either.
I haven't read the Koran, but surely it's got something about the need not to treat people decently and not deny justice to the powerless? | comments: 17 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | This is why hurricanes happen, and it's not because we're not Hartford, Hereford or Hampshire. | | Time: | 09:04 am |
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| Disclaimer: I hate Steve Kelley. I hate him lots. I'd put this in i_wank, but there is too much unfunny and fail, and I think he deserves to be featured here.
Steve Kelley does not have, shall we say, much in the way of artistic repertoire.
He draws one woman, one man, and occasionally, when he thinks that referencing "The Emperor's New Clothes" has never ever, ever come up as a theme in political opinions, he'll draw the same lily-white freckled little boy. (It's never a little girl. Little girls are too busy shopping and stomping around in their mommy's high heels, I guess.)
I'm not joking. The same scrawny facially-deformed woman, every time. (I'm not joking.)
Except for this Katrina 'toon. Because the best way to characterize a natural disaster is to make it a woman--an UGLY woman, of course, and everyone knows fat women are ugly! Thank god he gave her frizzy red hair so we wouldn't get confused.
...And I didn't even notice this one until I looked up links for this post.
At least he didn't make the "fat ugly women" black this time. | comments: Leave a comment  |
| From wank_report:
Someone has decided that enough is enough, and it is now time to cleanse the Pit of Voles FF.net of all that ails it. And that someone is the Literate Union! Motto: "well here are the people who are going to give it anyways!"
"It", apparently, being concrit or flaming. You know, whichever you prefer.
"The LU -- The Literate Union -- is a society that helps to improve the quality of stories on FanFiction that either break the rules or are poorly written. In the case of the latter, we try to help the author, bringing their piece up to standard. Difficult cases are reported to the admins."
( And we got to go in with our hydraulic system, and blast him out! ) | comments: 1073 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | An update on the Runaways casting sheet. | | Time: | 08:12 pm |
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| Racebending.com has received a response from Marvel for the initial casting sheet for Runaways.
The letter from Marvel:
Thank you for reaching out regarding your concerns over Marvel’s recent casting notice for THE RUNAWAYS. We appreciate your interest in our production and with Marvel Entertainment.
To address your concern over casting for the role of Nico, as we do with all of our films, we intend to stay true to the legacy and story of the comic when casting these parts. Thus, our goal is to cast an Asian American actress as depicted in the comic series and the casting notice will be adjusted accordingly.
We thank you again for your correspondence and the opportunity to clarify our process.
Marvel Studios
Source.
See Paramount. It shouldn't be that hard. Really. | comments: 23 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | Dancing with the Stars cast, Season 11 | | Time: | 10:18 pm |
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| For those who are interested!
- Brandy (singer and actress) - Jennifer Grey (actress) - Margaret Cho (comedienne) - Audrina Patridge (reality star, The Hills) - Florence Henderson - Bristol Palin (daughter of Sarah Palin) - Michael Bolton (singer) - Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino (reality star, Jersey Shore) - David Hasselhoff - Kurt Warner (NFL player) - Kyle Massey (actor and rapper) - Rick Fox (NBA player)
On the pros side, Edyta Swilinska has quit, Lacey Schwimmer is apparently back in, Corky Ballas is in (I presume to be paired with Florence), and Karina Smirnoff may be back in or may not, no one is sure. The only one I really care about is Anna Trebunskaya, and she's not saying yet.
ETA: ( Pros casting rumors from puredwts.com )
11th Hour EDIT!: Pairings have been released.
Brandy + Maksim Chmerkovskiy Jennifer Grey + Derek Hough Margaret Cho + Louis Van Amstel Audrina Patridge + Tony Dovolani Florence Henderson + Corky Ballas Bristol Palin + Mark Ballas Michael Bolton + Chelsie Hightower Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino + Karina Smirnoff (she is going to eat him alive) David Hasselhoff + Kym Johnson Kurt Warner + Anna Trebunskaya Kyle Massey + Lacey Schwimmer Rick Fox + Cheryl Burke | comments: 44 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Subject: | Stagegay wank | | Time: | 04:38 pm |
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| | I've tried searching the memories and the wiki for this, but to no avail. I seem to recall a wank about whether the members of various bandom bands (My Chemical Romance was involved, and perhaps Fall Out Boy or Panic At The Disco? I can never keep them straight) making out on stage was appropriating gayness, or something like that. It basically became bandom slash fans vs SRS BSNS. Did I hallucinate the whole thing? | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment  |
| Over in Torchwood fandom, msjaybee (best known as one of the authors of the 400+ page "Save Ianto Jones Report") hears a rumor that AfterElton's Michael Jensen (the same guy who was ridiculed by series creator Russell T Davies while interviewing him) might be in the back pocket of Starz (the network airing the new series of TW). She decides to email him about it.
Jensen posts the email in full and refutes the ridiculous accusation in his editorial column (with a CONSPIRACY THEORY banner, too!). He does not give the name of the person who sent him the email, but msjaybee (under the name Jo) shows up in the comments and identifies herself as the author. And she's not happy -- not just because he posted the email, but because they haven't posted a press release with a character/series overview (bonus wank about the press release itself here and here. Links contain spoilers.)
( Comment excerpt. )
Jensen replies, and things continue here.
( More excerpts. )
who_anon, meanwhile, follows the action with commentary here.
Original tip and some of the wording taken from wank_report. Thanks, mousie!
ETA: The Save Ianto Jones Report. | comments: 251 comments or Leave a comment  |
| Copying this directly from the diary at Daily Kos, which does as good a job of describing this bit of sexist and patronizing advertising as I ever could.
Hat/tip to puipui for this.
Want a raise? Wash your vagina.
Thu Aug 26, 2010 at 01:41:18 PM EDTSo, ladies, you say you want a raise? How should you go about getting it? First, you have to figure out how to compete with the guy in the next cubicle. After all, he went to a school almost as good as yours. His grades were nearly as good as yours, too. He works hard. In fact, most mornings, he's the second person in the office. You know this, because you're always first. He is young, ruggedly good looking, and he washes his balls with a manly but fresh sandalwood soap. What to do? ( Fortunately, the good folks at Women's Day and Summer's Eve have a few words of advice for you. )Three thousand people have "liked" this diary on Facebook and there are already 756 comments and 528 recommendations. That makes it the second most recommended diary on Daily Kos today.ETA: The diary ended up with 919 comments and 731 recommendations, the most recommended diary of the day on the site. Also, Adweek picked up the story from Daily Kos. In the comments, Summer's Eve brand manager Angela Bryant drops by to apologize. "I would like to first of all apologize if this ad in anyway has offended anyone. We are taking immediate next steps to remove the ad from circulation. We want you to know that Fleet Laboratories and the Summer's Eve brand have the utmost respect for women. While we understand how some may come to an alternative conclusion regarding our recent ad, that was never our intention. Thank you." Hat/tip to nightingale0 on my LJ for the above. | comments: 70 comments or Leave a comment  |
| | Just wondering: is anyone else going to DiscworldCon in Birmingham this weekend? I'm going for the first time, so I thought I'd enquire. If you've been before, what should I absolutely not miss? | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment  |
| (Apologies for the age of this wank [2007] and the shortage of fights, but the strangeness mostly makes up for it.)
Once there was a man called Nathan Carnes. Nathan really liked exclamation marks and the word “whom”, and he wrote a book called Space Ark! so that he could use both frequently. He also liked rainbows and the Copperplate font, so he created a website to promote his opus, and found a vanity publisher who was prepared to realise his dream of the world’s most amateurish cover.
( The writing was bad. Really, really bad. )
But, of course, if he’d just stopped there, it wouldn’t be a wank. What’s more, he was getting restless. During its 15 years (!) of vanity publication, the book had managed to sell only 2,700 copies (er, he says). Accordingly, Nathan sent what I assume was intended to be a query letter to literary agent Miss Snark [blog is archival], and, further, promised to let her see sample pages for the low, low price of $35!
( As you can probably guess from Miss Snark’s name, this was not a wise move. )
Regrettably, I’ve been unable to find any more of Nathan’s public utterances. I am disappointed about this because I’m pretty sure every one of them is gold. Oh, well; I shall take comfort from his “reviews”, which feature an ENT specialist, one of the agents condemned by Preditors and Editors and someone who says, “Your vocabulary is one of the richest I have encountered. Wow!” (Hint: there are times when that’s not a good thing.) | comments: 152 comments or Leave a comment  |
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