"...the more star systems will slip through your fingers." This is the quote that springs to mind every single time I see yet another blogger begging people to vote for him or her in some weblog awards or other. Enough already, please! Two begging posts are at least one too many. The more times I see "please vote for me" the less inclined I am to vote for anyone at all.
Thanks to Michael Bérubé for being so gracious in the comments about that in-joke that has me in a pissy-against-lib-bloggers mood. My problem now becomes, I fear I'm not even up on the "Blogspats That Shall Not Be Named" that this show trial is supposedly parodying. I know all about the liberal bloggers that post stuff that other bloggers read as racist then get all bent out of shape when they're called on it, and lose credibility entirely when they then complain about other bloggers' sexist remarks and so on and so forth... but this We Are All Hezbollah Now stuff he's talking about, I think that's from some radical reactionary idiot and, hey, I don't read so-called conservative blogs, it's enough just to try to keep up with liberal ones!
Speaking of being in a pissy mood, is it true that industry professionals have to pay to attend next February's NY Comic Convention? That seems rather ingracious, considering just about every other comic con in the country does not charge pros to get in the door. Hardly seems worth spending $90 for me and Robin to squeeze into a too-crowded Javits Center hall just to see our friends. (We'd spring for the $45 for me, as I'm not the comics pro in the family, but no working professional should have to pay to get into a convention like that!) Maybe we could arrange to meet folks after the show instead? Chances are, whatever we do during or after, it won't be remotely like Chris Weston's description of what happened at the Granada Comics Festival. You must read it to believe it, and even then you won't.
Thanks to Michael Bérubé for being so gracious in the comments about that in-joke that has me in a pissy-against-lib-bloggers mood. My problem now becomes, I fear I'm not even up on the "Blogspats That Shall Not Be Named" that this show trial is supposedly parodying. I know all about the liberal bloggers that post stuff that other bloggers read as racist then get all bent out of shape when they're called on it, and lose credibility entirely when they then complain about other bloggers' sexist remarks and so on and so forth... but this We Are All Hezbollah Now stuff he's talking about, I think that's from some radical reactionary idiot and, hey, I don't read so-called conservative blogs, it's enough just to try to keep up with liberal ones!
Speaking of being in a pissy mood, is it true that industry professionals have to pay to attend next February's NY Comic Convention? That seems rather ingracious, considering just about every other comic con in the country does not charge pros to get in the door. Hardly seems worth spending $90 for me and Robin to squeeze into a too-crowded Javits Center hall just to see our friends. (We'd spring for the $45 for me, as I'm not the comics pro in the family, but no working professional should have to pay to get into a convention like that!) Maybe we could arrange to meet folks after the show instead? Chances are, whatever we do during or after, it won't be remotely like Chris Weston's description of what happened at the Granada Comics Festival. You must read it to believe it, and even then you won't.
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