ita, I found yesterday's Scalzi post ... frustrating. Today's, on his own blog, is horrifying. There's one guy who is posting swastikas over and over again.
Scalzi might have chosen a better day to post that than a day he's at a con...
Giles, help! He's going to scold me!
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Consuela - May 17, 2012 1:34:01 pm PDT #5581 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
tommyrot - May 17, 2012 1:37:54 pm PDT #5582 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Is Ready To Make A Comeback
Prince looks young in this picture. Like... two.
JZ - May 17, 2012 1:41:55 pm PDT #5583 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Scalzi just showed up himself a few seconds ago, and is about to start swinging the mallet.
I really really really like both posts, but the comments are a swamp (those on the first post rather less so because he was actively malleting most of the day, but today's... oh, dear God have mercy).
Consuela - May 17, 2012 1:49:51 pm PDT #5584 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
le nubian - May 17, 2012 1:52:38 pm PDT #5585 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
check out this photo shoot with Noomi Rapace (original "Dragon Tattoo" and now in "Prometheus").
Gorge.
§ ita § - May 17, 2012 1:52:44 pm PDT #5586 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela, you mean the post about yesterday's post? I started reading it and got this far into the comments:
I have always thought this analogy explained it so much better than the “P” word (I think that offends white people as much as the “N” word does blacks)
...and I'm out. Jesus, way to go to be a case study, while still being convinced you're part of the solution. Not to mention how long I had to spend reading that over and over before I even worked out what he was talking about.
Of course it's a flawed metaphor. How could something so complicated with such twisted roots in history be explained with a simple equivalent (however, I now know what a dump stat is, so that's cool)? Why do some of the readers not get that it's going to be hard to explain?
But I guess if you don't actually pay attention to what you're reading, it's easy to...BE FULL OF OFFENSIVE BULLSHIT.
I'm gonna wager, anyway.
Consuela - May 17, 2012 1:55:18 pm PDT #5587 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I started reading it and got this far into the comments
Oh, it got SO MUCH WORSE than that. Be glad you stopped. I just kept reading because I couldn't believe the overtly racist shit was not getting nuked.
erikaj - May 17, 2012 1:56:49 pm PDT #5588 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Aw, Scola, I feel you. Gonna keep fighting on that lie, though.
JZ - May 17, 2012 2:10:43 pm PDT #5589 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I have a feeling that once he finishes his dinner and works his way through the thread, it's going to get shorter by at least a hundred comments, probably quite a few more.
It's been a long while since I've seen a comment thread so full of furious butthurt arguments that accomplish exactly nothing but proving the original thesis they're arguing against with all their might. And that's even before the racism, which is a whole other (and worse) universe of vomitous.
Sue - May 17, 2012 2:21:16 pm PDT #5590 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I just found a phobia I didn't know had a name. My sister suffers from it, and I have mocked her seriously.
I hope you didn't send her the wall of vaginas.