Author chat with Andrew Ian Dodge
Tonight I am doing a chat over at the Carnival of Wicked Writers chat room. Needless to say we will be discussing about my Cthulhu writings as well as the Gathering Dark & other tales. I will be appearing at 7pm est. Direct Link to chat.
I might ask the gore-hounds what sort of horrid end we can think up for the spammers that are making our lives miserable of late. Mike’s readers have made a few suggestions.
8 commentsBest wishes and hugs
A dear freind of this blog has successful gone through surgery to remove cancerous tissue. I hope you will join me in wishing her the quickest and most successful recovery possible.
The Gray Monk has written a nice piece about yesterday’s events.
1 commentAnother daft quiz
Your scored -2 on the Moral Order axis and -8 on the Moral Rules axis.
Matches
The following items best match your score:
System: Liberalism
Variation: Economic Liberalism
Ideologies: Ultra Liberalism
US Parties: No match.
Presidents: Ronald Reagan (80.24%)
2004 Election Candidates: John Kerry (73.12%), George W. Bush (66.34%), Ralph Nader (56.47%)
Statistics
Of the 28148 people who took the test:
0.1% had the same score as you.
98.9% were above you on the chart.
0% were below you on the chart.
48.1% were to your right on the chart.
27% were to your left on the chart.
77.2% were to your left on the chart.
A notice to spammers
Just to remind people… wording pinched from Murray.
Currently the Dodgeblogium comments are being utilised as free advertising space by commercial organizations. Consequently, effective immediately Dodgeblogium now offers Advertising Space at the rate of $50 US/active link.
On Friday 4th January 2005 a search of the archives will be made and costs will be applied at the stated rate.
After this date all efforts will be made to identify any party standing to profit from any such advertising and steps will be taken to enforce the both the billing and any and all costs of recovery of this money.
Allowing any such advertising to remain or posting new advertising is considered to be an acceptance of these terms and conditions.
On this occasion we think it’s worth it to chase the worst offender of advertising spam in the short but volitile history of Weblog’s.
1 commentNo sex please, we’re French?!?
DT reports another sign that France has lost the plot…
Something is very, very wrong in France.Comments are off for this postIn the country whose two greatest contributions to the sum of human happiness are wine and fornication, comely winemaker Catherine Gachet, of Chateau Bastard, has been forced to reshoot an advertising photograph in which she poses with a glass of wine on the grounds that she looks “too sexy”.
Under a 1991 law, using sex to sell wine – not just in door-to-door salesmanship; even in photographs – is outlawed. Madness.
In the first place, the ruling ignores the established historical relationship between sex and wine. In the second, it introduces a ludicrous element of subjectivity into advertising standards. What’s sexy? Should the bare feet of paysan grape-treaders be banned from wine ads lest they lure foot-fetishists into alcoholism?
Let us imagine, though, consensus is reached. Only ugly, frowning old boilers may be used in the ads. How long before the first beautiful vigneronne complains of discrimination before the European Court?
Vote Roby Black
You know you want to!
Comments are off for this postOn The Road Again
goin’ places that I’ve never been
seein’ things that I may never see again
and I can’t wait to get on the road again
CBC screwed up royally on Sunday night, airing on Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye the documentary Journeys With George, Alexandra Pelosi’s low-budget videocam diary of being on the 2000 campaign trail with George W. Bush.
If that last name—Pelosi—rings a bell, it’s because she is indeed the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the Minority House Leader. She was at the time (and might still be for all I know) a reporter for NBC news, and as you would expect, a lifelong Democrat.
I suppose the producers of The Passionate Eye thought they were making some devastating point about the press coverage of the campaign; the herd mentality, etc. Truly, though, this is no great surprise to any thoughtful observer of politics and the media. They had a more sinister interpretation, too: (I paraphrase) That George Bush used his Machiavellian gift of charm to win over the press and thus the election.
Bollocks. The press was about 90% in the tank for Gore, and the overall coverage reflected that.
What you do come away from the film with is that George Bush is an immensely likeable, funny guy. As Matt Labash wrote in the Weekly Standard:
Hopelessly lowbrow, Bush is blessed with matchless comic timing. We see him posing as a chirpy male steward, welcoming reporters on the plane, then angrily snapping at them when they ask for peanuts. We see him reprising his male cheerleader days, pretzel-ing his body into letters to spell “Victory” after Super Tuesday. At one photo op, Pelosi accosts Karl Rove with her shaky hand-held camera. “Why are you lying?” she asks. “I’m not a journalist,” Rove calmly replies. “I’m not a liar.” Someone grabs the camera and turns the tables on Pelosi, prompting her to distance herself from other journalists by saying “I don’t like these guys.” “You don’t like me?” Bush asks, incredulous, his head popping into the frame like a groundhog emerging from his hole, late to the party. “You call this objective journalism?”
Not that the moonbats of the Democratic Underground would appreciate (or understand) the point, but no normal person viewing this could doubt Bush’s native canniness and people-skills. I’ve met many people who are intelligent who have the sense of humor of a turnip—however, I’ve never met someone who is humorous who isn’t also very bright.
The film has already aired on HBO in the States; if you haven’t seen it yet and you’re in Canada or on satellite or close enough to the border to pick it up, Newsworld will be rebroadcasting it on Saturday February 5 at 10pm ET.
Or you could buy it on Amazon here.
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