Mid-week linkdump

[yendi]

1. Ia Humbug. Heh.

2. SNL will be airing A Very Gilly Christmas later this month.

3. (Link ganked from the daughter) Here's a webcomic featuring updated versions of the Powerpuff girls and assorted other Cartoon Cartoon characters.

4. There's a booming gray market in imported copies of the latest Stieg Larson book. (Related question: When will US publishers figure out the same thing that US broadcasters are finally starting to realize, that if it's available overseas and popular here, folks aren't going wait months for it.

5. nihilistic_kid on the market for short stories.

6. Some texts from early modern philosophy translated into English made more accessible.

7. In case you think reality TV can't continue to get dumber, ABC is bringing us Conveyer Belt of Love. It's not quite as bad as having potential dates on those little sushi boats, but it's close.

8. MST3K is now out on Hulu!

9. The label-supported music video site Vevo has launched.

10. Finally, here's Warren Ellis discussing the upcoming film adaptation of Red, and some of the problems involving in adapting a graphic novel for the big screen.

Comments

[wednesday]

Holy cow, they're still doing Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi?

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Bleedman of PPGD and similar comics had some skeevy loli issues that led to me giving up on following his comics. On the other hand the original comic has Dexter using MegasXLR to fight an evil alliance that included Mandark and Invader Zim...

[pnh.livejournal.com]

"Related question: When will US publishers figure out the same thing that US broadcasters are finally starting to realize, that if it's"

I believe when a sentence trails off like this it's supposed to end in "IT'S, IT'S, AAAAAAAAAAAARGH". Optionally, also "gurgle."

[enderfem.livejournal.com]

Stieg Larson! Stieg Larson! I thought the US release was supposed to be this month? I'm so sad that there won't be any more. And that he is dead, of course.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

4. I bought the UK version of Life, The Universe, and Everything before it was released in the USA. This is an old issue that predates Amazon.com, and yet publishers remain clueless (and they can't even try to lock up books with region codes and DRM like they can with digital media!)

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Now I want to see that, just for the use of the word "fuck." "Most Gratuitous Use of the Word 'Fuck' In a Serious Screenplay" is a useful concept. I used it in a film review once (complaining that the writer seemed just to want to make his film More Serious by having the characters swear).

[yendi]

I'd been planning on adding those lines, but my animator suffered a fatal heart attack.

(Sadly, since LJ comment notifications are still not being sent out, I didn't even realize I'd messed up until I went to my post to see if there were any comments.)

[yendi]

I'm insanely behind and out of touch when it comes to webcomics (caught up on XKCD and Wondermark, about a year behind on OotS, and about five years behind on the other ones I used to read, including Sluggy), so I wasn't even aware of it.

[yendi]

I've only read about two strips so far, and suspect I won't have the time to follow it, but I was intrigued by the concept.

[yendi]

Well, death never stopped V.C. Andrews.

[yendi]

The thing is, before Amazon (and amazon.co.uk), it was a tiny enough issue to probably not impact things too much; I noticed that the Pratchett releases started syncing up after the mid/late '90s. And for small authors, I can see this continuing, but for someone with Larson's sales and large rabid fanbase, the retailers know that they can order the book now, or lose the sale forever.

[yendi]

(Also, I wasn't even aware of Doug Adams until well after Life was released in the US.)

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

Confused the heck out of me when I got the US release later and they'd changed it to "Belgium". I think that was my first experience with US and UK releases being different despite the fact that they're allegedly in the same language.

But now, I own Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ... both books, both DVDs.

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

The thing is, before Amazon (and amazon.co.uk), it was a tiny enough issue to probably not impact things too much;

Yep, most bootlegging like that occurred at conventions, outside the mainstream. IIRC, I picked that book up at the first convention I ever went to: a Doctor Who convention in Boston in the 80s (the GOH was Tom Baker). Obviously, the place was full of British sci-fi merchandise.

[skitty.livejournal.com]

I am apparently the only person in America who fails to understand why Gilly is funny, but even if I found her antics side-splitting, I think I would still be baffled as to how she'll manage to stretch her bit into hosting an entire Xmas special.