Happy birthday, Heidi! (The fortune in the cookie I just opened has the transliteration of the Chinese word for birthday as Sheng-dan-jie, so there you are.) No seriously folks, think about it. If comics does not equal superheroes, then comic fans per se shoudn't be embracing a superhero show as a comic-book show unless they really suspect that comics do equal superheroes, in which case they have no cause for complaint when non-comics fans make that presumption. (And good lord no, I don't hate TV; anyone who watches the Food Network, the Travel Channel, the Science Channel, Create and Fox Soccer as much as I do cannot hate TV. And the fact that I have no interest in this particular program is entirely beside my point.)
• Speaking of the birthday girl Heidi MacDonald joins Variety in mourning the passing of VHS. Robin's in the process of converting of all our stuff on tape (both video and audio) to digital media, after which we hope to donate our cassettes to needy families still living in the 20th century. However, you'll still have to pry our vinyl LPs from my cold dead hands...
• It's supposed to get up to around 62° F today here in southern Westchester County, NY, and Claire reports that it's been snowing in Australia. So that's where our mid-November weather has gone. Also, via CE Petro, northern Japan, Russia, Hawaii and Alaska are bracing for possible tsunamis.
• So, that Freeper fake-anthrax terrorist? Also loony when it comes to science fiction. Teresa breaks it all down brilliantly.
• Kathy Flake spots some sexism as yet another article about blogging comes out that completely ignores over half the blogging population. Hey Roxanne, has it been three months already?
• Et tu, Johns Hopkins? (Via Bint and Barry.) Et tu, Maru?
• Atrios inadvertently supplies a very good reason why blog ads are a bad idea. I don't think "people fail to understand" his point, I just think people disagree with it. Running any ad is an implied endorsement - maybe not of a specific product, but of the idea of selling out. Blog ads are an acknowledgement that you can be bought and paid for. Don't fall for the newest version of this age-old scheme, folks (aka ReviewMe) - to these people, any publicity is good publicity, and any hobby-bloggers reviewing anything primarily for money that they wouldn't ordinarily consume (i.e., "get paid to review products and services...increase your traffic!") are buying into that.
• Bill Connolly's hanging it up. *snif* I'm actually surprised more liberal bloggers aren't given it a rest after this election season, remembering how exhausting '04 was for so many.
• Kai examines the PC propaganda phenomenon, using bigger words than I'd be able to muster.
• Okay, I'm not necessarily a "Michael Moore liberal," whatever that means (after all, there's a thin line between Moore and his camera crew and, say, Borat and his), but I smiled at his Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives.
• Like Karen, I also like the idea of the newly-elected Democrats cranking out popular legislation on a weekly schedule for Bush to either sign off on and accomplish positive change or veto and appear obstructionist.
• Justin's had an earful of Quiverfull. What century is this, that some folks on both the right and the left are still suggesting mandatory multiple childbirths? Betcha it's mostly guys doing the suggesting.
• I gotta say, even the phrasing of Fox News' internal memos creeps me out.
Now on to read through all the accumulated posts in the News+VIews Guys and Group Blogs sections. And another thing, I still like Studio 60 even when some of the writing makes me wince, so there.
• Speaking of the birthday girl Heidi MacDonald joins Variety in mourning the passing of VHS. Robin's in the process of converting of all our stuff on tape (both video and audio) to digital media, after which we hope to donate our cassettes to needy families still living in the 20th century. However, you'll still have to pry our vinyl LPs from my cold dead hands...
• It's supposed to get up to around 62° F today here in southern Westchester County, NY, and Claire reports that it's been snowing in Australia. So that's where our mid-November weather has gone. Also, via CE Petro, northern Japan, Russia, Hawaii and Alaska are bracing for possible tsunamis.
• So, that Freeper fake-anthrax terrorist? Also loony when it comes to science fiction. Teresa breaks it all down brilliantly.
• Kathy Flake spots some sexism as yet another article about blogging comes out that completely ignores over half the blogging population. Hey Roxanne, has it been three months already?
• Et tu, Johns Hopkins? (Via Bint and Barry.) Et tu, Maru?
• Atrios inadvertently supplies a very good reason why blog ads are a bad idea. I don't think "people fail to understand" his point, I just think people disagree with it. Running any ad is an implied endorsement - maybe not of a specific product, but of the idea of selling out. Blog ads are an acknowledgement that you can be bought and paid for. Don't fall for the newest version of this age-old scheme, folks (aka ReviewMe) - to these people, any publicity is good publicity, and any hobby-bloggers reviewing anything primarily for money that they wouldn't ordinarily consume (i.e., "get paid to review products and services...increase your traffic!") are buying into that.
• Bill Connolly's hanging it up. *snif* I'm actually surprised more liberal bloggers aren't given it a rest after this election season, remembering how exhausting '04 was for so many.
• Kai examines the PC propaganda phenomenon, using bigger words than I'd be able to muster.
• Okay, I'm not necessarily a "Michael Moore liberal," whatever that means (after all, there's a thin line between Moore and his camera crew and, say, Borat and his), but I smiled at his Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives.
• Like Karen, I also like the idea of the newly-elected Democrats cranking out popular legislation on a weekly schedule for Bush to either sign off on and accomplish positive change or veto and appear obstructionist.
• Justin's had an earful of Quiverfull. What century is this, that some folks on both the right and the left are still suggesting mandatory multiple childbirths? Betcha it's mostly guys doing the suggesting.
• I gotta say, even the phrasing of Fox News' internal memos creeps me out.
Now on to read through all the accumulated posts in the News+VIews Guys and Group Blogs sections. And another thing, I still like Studio 60 even when some of the writing makes me wince, so there.
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