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scarfman- @markgatiss @steven_moffat Please don't let Cumberbatch hide his face at the moment of revelation in The Norwood Builder. Like Brett did.
- Does U2's Where The Streets Have No Names make anyone else think of that one Homer Price story?
- RT @woodmuffin Why don't they have a WHITE history month?? Why don't they have NON-handicapped parking spaces? Why's there no cemetery for ALIVE people??
- So, the groundhog saw his shadow. Are we going to get six weeks of winter now?
- Every time I turn on a TNG rerun at random it seems to be Cause And Effect.
- Uh oh, I think for tomorrow's AKOTAS I need to finally decide what Ragnell looks like. ...And Gyngolyn. #kingarthur
- Of course I know who Ragnell looks like. Marilyn Munster. #kingarthur
- @PeterDavid_PAD What you said about Before Watchmen, that's what I'd've said. If I were someone they'd ask.
- Demi probably hasn't been on the covers of People, Us, and InTouch at once for years
- "I know the water dish is full and the crunchy food dish is full. But the soft food dish isn't." #catworldproblems
- Restraint: didin't pull out my laptop at the game party till four out of six people in the room were already playing Words With Friends.
- It's the beginning of February of AKOTAS' grailquest year. It might be time to crack my sources and remind myself of the order of events.
- Of course, for one timezone, my "source" is a previous work of my own
- I may have lost all respect for Alan Moore as a person for his argument against Before Watchmen apparently being "it's a derivative work".
- Alan Moore's defense against the charge of hypocrisy is that he stole from the dead but "adaptations" are "evil".
- The root of all internet drama is the mistaking of enthusiasm for an attack.
- (Of all internet drama I've been in, anyway.)
- The Marvel Comics-Gary Friedrich suit decision tends to support the contention that corporations are people. Petty, vindictive people.
- I would hate, at my age, to have to shop around for a new nation.
- I probably ought to be ashamed of the way Arthur's election campaign allows me to reuse art, but I'm not.
- MSPaintXP has some quirks (e.g. newer OSes crash it a lot) but not having to remix my palette every time I open the program is worth it
- I've seen it complained that people who are disturbed by the dad-shoots-laptop video can't be real abuse victims and (cont)
- (cont) and I've seen it complained that they must be abuse victims who are taking the dad too seriously. (cont)
- (cont) For the record, I am disturbed by the idea (haven't watched the video) and I'm not an abuse victim, (cont)
- (cont) and neither were my stepkids.
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Date: 2012-02-12 06:08 am (UTC)Missy: I want that blanket you've got. It looks warmer than mine.
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Date: 2012-02-13 05:55 am (UTC)Last I checked, Mr. Moore, Pete Morisi was alive and well in 1986, and Steve Ditko is still kicking.
Not to mention Messrs. Wein and Wrightson, or Mick Anglo ... .
Just today, in a discussion about John Byrne, my friend
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Date: 2012-02-13 01:26 pm (UTC)Though your point is well taken, the question Moore was actually responding to was, "What's the difference between Before Watchmen and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?"
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Date: 2012-02-13 01:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-13 02:05 pm (UTC)The ceremonial magician should appreciate that, symbolically, he is dead, having condemned himself most willingly to that Hell of Ellisonian Irrelevance in which his primary contribution to the medium and the genre are curmudgeonly complaints about his former employers, his erstwhile colleagues, and his audience.
Were Alan Moore still "alive", DC wouldn't DARE to trod upon his most sacred works.