Tuesday links

[yendi]

It's the last week before classes begin, so things are super-insane. Here are ten things that have distracted me.

1. 100 writers who have never won a Hugo. Of course, there are more than 100 writers who have never won, but since this list was crafted to list folks we might have expected to have won Hugos, it omits Piers Anthony, Terry Goodkind, Stephen Donaldson, and John Norman.

2. Neil Diamond. As seen through a crappy bagel.

3. Burger King's veggie porn scandal. Shocking.

4. PETA: Still run by assholes.

5. Food-related album covers.

6. AC/DC's new album is being sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. Wait. What?

7. It's been linked everywhere, but here's H.P. Lovecraft as a Whitman Sampler Copywriter.

8. For $149, you can get a "video autograph" of your favorite celebrity (assuming your fave is Shatner, Hulk Hogan, or Danica Patrick).

9. The RIAA is finally forced to pay for their harassment of an innocent women. Here's hoping they keep having to pay until they're broke.

10. Finally, here's Walt Disney's Sin City -- Disney princesses filtered through Frank Miller's Whore-O-Vision.

Comments

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

I. . .I kinda want those posters of the princesses. Although how sad is it, when I'm looking at those and realizing for all of his issues with women, Frank Miller is better about racial diversity than Disney?

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

I mean, the artist could have at least used Mulan as Miho so Jasmine could have been Gail, BUT STILL.

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

#1 is very, very interesting.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Re 100 authors

What about Peter David?

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

#6: So now both Liberals and Conservatives will agree that Wal-Mart is evil? :)

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

1. ...and Orson Scott Card polishes his four Hugos as he contemplates new ways to justify his hatred of teh gay.

[yendi]

*nod* As Cramer noted in her comments, the list is far from complete.

[yendi]

Yup -- there were quite a few that made me go, "wait, she must be wrong."

[yendi]

Yup. Miller believes that women can be any color, as long as they're whores.

[yendi]

Heh.

[yendi]

Yep. Of course, not one of those Hugos comes from within the last fifteen years (and you've got to go back even longer to find a fiction Hugo).

"My City Screams (Also, My Whores)"

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

He's an equal oppoturnity misogynist.

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

He's the classic case of someone who does some really good work and then coasts on it for another couple of decades (see also: John Byrne).

[brak55.livejournal.com]

That AC/DC rumor had been floating for a couple of months, but they finally confirmed it yesterday. The thing is, all the other big Wal-Mart releases (Journey, Eagles, etc.) were artists who had basically abandoned the big labels and were releasing through their own or an independent. The AC/DC is in conjunction with Columbia, so the big labels are now jumping on the Wal-Mart exclusive bandwagon.


As far as the RIAA, they probably figured it was easier to pay and then go pick on other targets. Today's is the Muxtape site. They are shut down while they "sort out a problem with the RIAA."

[booticon.livejournal.com]

RE: #6: At least the new AC/DC album will surely be available at your local Piracy Store.

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

number 6 scares me.

granted, the only ACDC i know of is the older stuff, along with Back in Black and Razor's Edge, but....um....isnt the whole point of the music about the great sex and drugs theyve had recently? so....by releasing it at walmart, do i have to hear songs about wanting a fine upstanding girl for christmas, or asking a girl what her job is, or about some less than reputable lines of work done for very little profit, or am i going to hear something to make Bill Hicks proud?

and im off my soapbox now.