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March 7th, 2008 — book, humor, news
I’m in an alliterative mood today. Besides, sibilants are sexy.
ABC News, among others, is a-huffle
over another Joss Whedon kerfuffle.
“Why can’t he”, they say,
“keep his girls ungay,
or at least make the sex more a-muffled?”
Double-meaning FTW.
The story is interesting itself, of course, especially if you’re a Buffy fan. Perhaps even more interesting are the current 113-odd comments of people calling for censorship and of people responding to the people asking for censorship, telling them that they’re uninformed idiots. Personally, I don’t know what the big issue is. (That was a comic book joke, right there.) BtVS had plenty of steamy moments in the show. In one episode, Buffy almost gets sexed-to-death as she and Riley get it on at a haunted party. Less graphic, but equally blatant in its own right, is when Tara goes down on Willow in the musical episode singing, “Lost in ecstasy / Spread beneath my Willow tree.” The camera pans up, of course, just as Willow begins to levitate over the bed. No, that’s not obvious at all.
So what if Buffy gets a little saucy between the pages. Graphically, it’s nothing worse than what we see on the standard Image comic cover. Even DC and Marvel covers can get pretty racy these days. Ideologically? Well, considering chicks are making out on street corners these days (albeit in Canada) as a form of protest, I’d say that it’s only a matter of time before the taboo gets … well, less taboo.
In the meantime, good for Buffy, and as she so eloquently puts it, “Wow.”
January 29th, 2008 — book
I don’t expect anyone to get it offhand, so I’ll explain that the title is in reference to the fact that young men are titled Master instead of Mister. Think of Batman, where Alfred always said “Master Bruce.” Of course, it’s also an allusion to Will Shortz, who edits the NY Times Crossword and is commonly known as “The Puzzlemaster.”
I was blog-bouncing, and ended up on Amazon.com looking at crossword books for kids. I could explain how this actually happened in just three simple steps, but I’ll leave it to your imagination. Mystery, my dear readers, is the key to being mysterious.
Abby and I have been talking about the existence of this kind of book, speculating really, and who knew it would be so easy to track some down.
The (seven-letter word for “most enjoyable”) part about them is that they’re written by Trip Payne, who was just one of the many memorable crossword (five-letter word for “obsessive enthusiasts”) featured in the movie WordPlay. If you haven’t seen it, and you enjoyed films such as Spellbound, I highly recommend checking it out. Trip’s webpage is cool in and of itself because he has lots of his own puzzles, of various types, available for free download.
The books are cool because if you have a cool kid like we have a cool kid, then they’ll totally (five-letter word for “appreciate”) them, and personally I think any parent should be content knowing that their kid is rocking out on crosswords. Check ‘em out.
Amazing Crosswords
|| Fantastically Fun Crosswords || Trivial Pursuit Kids Crosswords
October 25th, 2007 — book, humor
Ornery Ahniwa arbitrates all of the arguments all his associates have;
an arduous task, he cries out, “Helas!”, and ardently argues augmenting alliances.
Inspired by Steve Martin’s new alphabet book, which was highlighted on NPR this morning.
July 27th, 2007 — book, libraries, webcomics
“The year is 1973. A priceless book has been stolen from the Oakland Public Library. A crack team of Bookhunters (aka. library police) have less than three days to recover the stolen item. It’s a race against the clock as our heroes use every tool in their arsenal of library equipment to find the book and the mastermind who stole it.”
The best part? You can read it for free, right here.
via Librarian.net
July 26th, 2007 — book, news
J.K. Rowling talks to Meredith Vieira of MSNBC about the original epilogue for book 7 (it was a lot more detailed), and her future plans to write a Harry Potter encyclopedia. There ARE spoilers, in case you haven’t finished book 7 yet.
