| What some idiots are doing these days. |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|08:19 pm] |
Boycott McDonald's: A Project of the American Family Association
Is this really an issue? Do we have to go over all the things which aren't gay-related and which actually are tearing apart marriages and families to demonstrate AGAIN just how stupid this sort of scapegoating is?
(Translation: Get your own shit together and keep it wired, before you go off worrying about other people.)
My favorite part of the whole thing -- aside from the legions of morons with poor spelling who apparently support this boycott -- is this:
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What the boycott of McDonald's IS NOT about:
This boycott is not about hiring homosexuals.
It is not about homosexuals eating at McDonald's.
It is not about how homosexual employees are treated.
What the boycott of McDonald's IS about:
It is about McDonald's, as a corporation, refusing to remain neutral in the culture wars. McDonald's has chosen not to remain neutral but to give the full weight of their corporation to promoting the homosexual agenda, including homosexual marriage.
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So, all the bigots and homophobes will take their business to Burger King. Good. McD's fries are better anyway, and this means the lines should be shorter.
I just hope you're not waiting for BK to come down on the other side of this issue. I mean, have you seen their mascot? The King looks just as likely as Ronald to diddle your winker when you're not looking. Don't say we didn't warn you.
WWJD? He'd smack the shit of some of these people. Twice. |
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| George W. Bushism for July 8. |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|08:17 pm] |
"I tell people, let's don't fear the future, let's shape it."
-- Omaha, Nebraska; June 7, 2006
Oh yeah. Shaped it right into a giant throbbing dildo for us, didn't ya?
196 days to go! |
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| Price of XBox 360 dropping |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|04:11 pm] |
I have been really, REALLY wanting to get an Xbox 360 this year.
But, I've been good. I was going to buy it with our tax return money, but I didn't, and rolled that money into auto repair, home improvement, and clothes for the girls.
Then I was going to buy it with my bonus (from work). I didn't, and paid off some old school bills with it.
Then, by Thor's Hammer, I was going to use our stimulus check to get it, and stimulate the damn economy. Well, didn't do that either, as the Wonder Wife already had plans for that (new bed and mattress).
So, I've been good. Taking a dollar here, a penny there, and socking it away into my "360 fund" (Read: Superman coin bank), following the solid debt relief advice that if you can't buy it with cash, don't buy it.
So now, the rumor is that Microsoft will be slashing $50 off of the 360 Pro (Premium) the middle of this month.
That puts me one month closer to having some kick ass video game action on my big ole' tv.
Geek rant off. |
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| Cool! |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|04:37 pm] |
I was checking the TrekMovie.com site, where there's currently an excerpt from Geek Magazine's interview with Wil Wheaton in their current issue:
Wheaton Talks More Trek + Added To Comic Con Book Panel
The TrekMovie piece also reports that he's been added to the "Star Trek without a blueprint" panel at Comic-con, representing the Tokyopop Trek manga efforts. Nootch!
For those who only know Wheaton as "Wesley Crusher" on TNG, you're missing out. He maintains an awesome blog which should be required reading for fans of Trek, pop culture, or just witty observations while making one's way through this weird-assed pastime we call life. Among the many guest-blogger stints he's done are a set of various TNG episode retrospectives, which are part review, part anecdotal stories by the fireplace as he recalls his days on the set filming said episodes, and all hilarious (Hey, he had me at "Star Trek: The Motion Picture award for unnecessary and entirely too long visual effects jerk off"). Check 'em out.
I was already looking forward to this panel, anyway, just because of the energy any Comic-con panel seems to generate (What is it about that place?). Now I'm actually psyched, and looking forward to meeting the real Wil Wheaton. |
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| 7 Questions With: Ben Templesmith |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|03:53 pm] |
Interviewed By: NickD
Artist and Writer Ben Templesmith of the new comic book from IDW Welcome to Hoxford, stops by the Septagon News Blog to talk about his upcoming comic book. Fans of Wormwood and Singularity Seven should be prepared for another ride of fantastic art and great storytelling. And yea…there will be blood.
For the full interview please click the link below:
http://news.septagonstudios.com/?p=221
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| 7 Questions With: Ben Templesmith |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|03:46 pm] |
Interviewed By: NickD
Artist and Writer Ben Templesmith of the new comic book from IDW Welcome to Hoxford, stops by the Septagon News Blog to talk about his upcoming comic book. Fans of Wormwood and Singularity Seven should be prepared for another ride of fantastic art and great storytelling. And yea…there will be blood.
For the full interview please click the link below:
http://news.septagonstudios.com/?p=221
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| 7 Questions With: Ben Templesmith |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|03:44 pm] |
Interviewed By: NickDArtist and Writer Ben Templesmith of the new comic book from IDW Welcome to Hoxford, stops by the Septagon News Blog to talk about his upcoming comic book. Fans of Wormwood and Singularity Seven should be prepared for another ride of fantastic art and great storytelling. And yea…there will be blood. For the full interview please click the link below:http://news.septagonstudios.com/?p=221
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| 7 Questions With: Ben Templesmith |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|03:40 pm] |
Interviewed By: NickDArtist and Writer Ben Templesmith of the new comic book from IDW Welcome to Hoxford, stops by the Septagon News Blog to talk about his upcoming comic book. Fans of Wormwood and Singularity Seven should be prepared for another ride of fantastic art and great storytelling. And yea…there will be blood. For the full interview please click the link below:http://news.septagonstudios.com/?p=221 |
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| Bullshit: Defined. |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|12:51 pm] |
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US rejects Iraqi demand for troops' withdrawal timeline.
Let's be clear here. "The US" didn't do any such damned thing. This is Bush and his cronies, who apparently don't possess a functioning brain cell between them. Setting aside all the other ridiculous concessions Bush & Co. were asking to be included in the security agreement for American forces to remain in Iraq, how frikkin' arrogant do you have to be to take it to this level?
Do you ever wonder if Bush was that one guest who hangs around even after the party's over and everyone else has gone home, and whom the hosts hope will just frikkin' get lost so that they can fall into bed before trying to tackled the mess everybody left behind? No, instead of being polite, he was propbably hanging around, munching on half-eaten Doritos he found between the sofa cushions and making sure the abandoned drinks were free of cigarette butts. You know, doing his part to clean up.
Is it January 20, 2009 yet? |
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| Damn gremlins. |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|10:19 pm] |
Mechanical glitch grounds Obama's plane.
What they didn't report was that just before the forced landing, Obama looked out one of the windows and saw Hillary Clinton on the wing, pulling chunks out of one of the engines.
William Shatner and John Lithgow were both heard to say, "The same thing happened to me once!"
Film at 11. |
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| George W. Bushism for July 7. |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|09:12 pm] |
"The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like."
-- New York, New York; September 21, 2004
What most folks didn't know was that he was talking about lower and middle-class America, circa 2008.
197 days to go! |
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| More Comic-con stuff. |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|08:00 pm] |
An addition to my schedule arrived today. In addition to the previously announced panel with folks from Pocket Books and IDW, we've now got book signings on the docket!
Thursday, July 24:
5:30pm-6pm
Kevin Dilmore, Dave Mack, Dayton Ward - signing copies of Star Trek: Corps of Engineers - Creative Couplings
6pm-6:30pm
Andy Mangels - signing copies of Star Trek: Excelsior - Forged In Fire
Not sure if other signings are being scheduled, but hey: if this is it, that means my "Got to be some place at a specific time" requirements are over before dinner time Thursday. Sweet! |
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| links for 2008-07-08 |
[Jul. 8th, 2008|01:35 am] |
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3-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical & archaeological circles, because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three
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synthesis of the world’s first DNA molecule made almost of entirely artificial parts. The discovery could be used in the fields of gene therapy and other futuristic high-tech advances, such as nano-sized computers
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Redesigned dress for Samuel Delany’s books, from a few years ago. Nice look.
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The murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko was carried out with the backing of the Russian state, Whitehall sources have told the BBC.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
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| Flashback recap and update for July 07, 2008 |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|06:21 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
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| San Diego 2008 |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|08:08 pm] |
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Just because this question seems to be popping up again in email etc: no, I will not be attending the San Diego Comic-Con this year. I do one big American comics show a year, at best, and this year it was the Chicago gig. Doing two of those in a year would incinerate very important parts of my brain.
I don’t expect to be doing San Diego next year, either.
In fact, I’d be okay with not going back until 2017.
(Automatically crossposted from warrenellis.com. Feel free to comment here or at my internet church at Whitechapel. If anything in this post looks weird, it's because LJ is run on steampipes and rubber bands -- please click through to the main site.) |
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| more fantasy art |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|08:57 am] |
The Naked Berserkers of Klegg's Pass
Click on the thumbnail for this biggie of this one.
You can read more about what's going on in this picture over in my art blog. |
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