Hello dudes. Hit the front page of Google's Blogger (where, in fact, the word blog originated. I think), and check out the link to Drive. You couldn't buy that kind of publicity. (Well, you could, but it would cost and stuff).
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Kevin - Aug 17, 2006 2:32:24 pm PDT #935 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2006 2:33:30 pm PDT #936 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Eep! I better whip up my review posthaste.
Strega - Aug 17, 2006 2:37:45 pm PDT #937 of 10001
Yes, and perhaps not, though. Unless you siphon off all the mixed people and describe them differently.Sure. That's why I said a given individual won't have every characteristic you associate with their race. Because it is arbitrary, because everybody's "mixed" to some degree.
"Mammal" is another arbitrary designation. It's a handy way of describing a particular set of characteristics in animals. The fact that the platypus doesn't have all of those characteristics doesn't prevent us from calling it a mammal. Because it's still more like a mammal than it is like something else.
Any system of categorization is just a ways of grouping a set of things (or people) together so you can talk about them usefully. The fact that exceptions exist doesn't make the categories useless.
Kevin - Aug 17, 2006 2:41:31 pm PDT #938 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Jackal has done his (hers?) and it's up.
I've got a full Drive site in development, also. I've been sitting on drivefans.com for a long while. I'm doing it under the badge of my viral fan marketing company as, you know, it's Minear. (Now a verb meaning 'good drama'. Or possibly 'death', you never know).
Jon B. - Aug 17, 2006 2:44:35 pm PDT #939 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Where is Google's blogger? Not here, I guess: [link]
Polter-Cow - Aug 17, 2006 2:46:25 pm PDT #940 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
He means the site, Blogger.com.
Jackal - Aug 17, 2006 2:48:54 pm PDT #941 of 10001
It's not that I'm the only one, it's that I'm the honest one.
Jackal has done his (hers?) and it's up.
Right first time.
Kevin - Aug 17, 2006 2:51:02 pm PDT #942 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
If I was Russell Brand I'd make a joke about your dinkel. And then kill myself.
§ ita § - Aug 17, 2006 2:55:16 pm PDT #943 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The fact that exceptions exist doesn't make the categories useless
What you said was:
When we identify someone as a member of a particular race, we are describing real things about them
And I disagree. I think you're describing statistically probable things about them. That's a distance from real.
Tim Minear - Aug 17, 2006 3:06:43 pm PDT #944 of 10001
"Don' be e-scared"
Um, my show's about a race... does that make me on-topic?