I am so grateful I have a dance class tonight from 7:30 to 8:30. That's an hour that I won't be obsessing over the results. The drive home, however, will definitely involve some serious radio flipping. I need to figure out where NPR lives on the Boston dial.
I'm glad the worst seems to have passed, and I'll be keeping you both in my thoughts.
I just read this aloud to Andy, who is laughing and saying you've got it dead-on.
Oops, I just realized I did one step wrong. I thought I was supposed to pick the letter that started the number when it was spelled out. Ah well!
Gray ichthyosaur from Finland. Well, the color was right.
You know, at I watched it, my first thought was, "Well, this a little stupid, but I've seen worse." But then I got to the line about the "lesser states" and my hackles went up. "Doin' the lord's work" pretty much sealed the deal. It made me glad I didn't live in Texas, because I would be livid if that man were my voice in Congress.
Mine went in the mail last week. And I too was concerned about the
weight, but it came in under an ounce, so I was good. WTF do they need
so much paper for? And why did they make that little second envelope
such an inconvenient size?
This is yet another story that makes me so glad that the internet didn't exist when I was a teenager. I'm not sure I could have survived it any better than poor Megan did. I so want to see those parents pay. One can only hope their daughter is more mature than they are.
Aspiring writers? Pish. They survived VP X. They *are* writers!
Back in my fanfic days, everyone I knew worked on the principle of: "If you keep your head down and don't turn a profit, they'll leave you alone." Now, maybe we didn't stand on particularly solid legal ground with that philosophy, but I am 95% sure that the very litigious fandom I was involved in last was fully aware of the site I ran, but did nothing about it. (And we even sold t-shirts and gym bags and sweat pants...but carefully priced them to collect no profit.)
Making money off of someone else's intellectual property sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen, and I can't believe the folks running this site don't realize that. That's one of the downsides to internet fanfic: people are no longer being ushered into fanfic by people who can explain the history and rules to them.
Jennifer, it could equally prove that Boston is as deadly un-hip as its defenders keep saying it is.
Eh. I tried watching ATHF and didn't find it funny. I guess I'm deadly un-hip and have thus proven your point.
I have no idea where the Mooninites in Seattle were placed (except for a mural ad on a brick building on Third), and have seen no verifiable, concrete, evidence that Boston was unique in having them attached to pieces of transportation infrastructure.
That's why I posted a link to a Boston Globe article in my initial reply--so I wouldn't simply be repeating hearsay.
Xopher - I think this proves that even with all the publicity this has been getting, it's still a failed advertising campaign.
As Connie wrote:
FWIW, I've heard that very very few of the other cities' Mooninite signs were placed on overpasses and bridges and other infrastructure that would make a security person's spider-sense start tingling.
I too have heard the same thing. From the press coverage I've read, it sounds like the Mooninites were put on private property in most other cities, or on train bridges that were no longer in use.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/02/device_location_was_factor_in_reaction/
If you're going to put advertising up on a city's infrastructure, you'd damned well apply for a permit first.
Also, when news of these devices first got out, the official word from Turner was to keep quiet about it.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/02/02/turner_broadcasting_accepts_blame_promises_restitution/
I'm not saying that the city didn't overreact, but Turner definitely owes the city restititution. They could have ended the panic hours earlier if they'd just spoken up.
I'm so pleased that they went back to the original Doctor Who sting for the new series. Andy didn't believe me, so I hit Google and played him the First Doctor's theme song sting, then the Fourth Doctor's. Winner: me. And the orchestral swells...the new theme gives me chills.
He looked like a thug, he didn't sound right*, and as it turned out he went into the job knowing he was going to bunk off after a single season.
From the scuttlebutt I've heard, that's just not true. He'd gone in for the long haul, and something happened between him and the BBC, and suddenly, out came the BBC press release saying he'd only planned to be there for one year. There are various theories of what exactly went wrong, but I'll leave those to Google.
Torchwood is up to episode four. I'm not sure how it's doing in the U.K., but I can confidently say, after seeing two and a half episodes, that it will never be shown on U.S. TV. It's too racy for Sci-Fi, and no other network has any reason to run it.
Actually, BBC America might, but seeing as they're just now talking about running season one of Doctor Who, they won't be looking at Torchwood for years.
*sporfle*
Thanks, Bart. I needed that :)
Actually, Despair has several rather reasonably-priced products.
Oh, wait. Sorry. I misread.
I'm in my 666 finest: red shirt, black pants, black nailpolish, "DESPAIR" bracelet, and sparkly red devil horns. In deference to the big-name client in the office today, I'm taking the horns off whenever I go near the conference room. Hell, if we hadn't had a big-named client in the office today, I would have worn my Satan's Bowling League t-shirt, complete with flaming bowling pins.
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