2008-08-22

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2008-08-22 08:24 pm

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The trouble with most Snape fics is that they are not about Snape, but about Alan Rickman. And they are all by straight women.
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2008-08-22 09:57 pm

Just so we can avoid painful misunderstandings in the light of the coming media blitz...

...I was there when Watchmen first came out. I regard it as one of the biggest disappointments of my entire life and probably the worst thing Alan Moore ever did. Yes, so in real life people who went out in funny costumes with the idea of fighting crime would probably turn out to be brutes, rapists or inadequates. So what? Thirty years after we all agreed that superheroes were modern mythology, we really have to be so surprised by the fact that they are not realistic? Why, Stan Lee was smarter than this!
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2008-08-22 10:22 pm

This is my evening for short notes

If McCain has really selected Romney as running mate, he deserves anything that could happen to him. He has the opportunity of winning against the odds, and he has thrown it away.