May. 14th, 2004

eruthros: Delenn from Babylon 5 with a startled expression and the text "omg!" (Default)
For those of you who don't read [livejournal.com profile] officialgaiman or Neil Gaiman's blog at neilgaiman.com (and there are probably all of three of you), this is a very very important link:

A Study in Emerald.

Yup, that's his story from Shadows Over Baker Street, a book of short story Lovecraft-Holmes crossovers. (Discussion of that book inspired [livejournal.com profile] mlechan to begin to write her first fanfiction ever -- Holmes/Cthulhu eldritch tentacle pr0n.) And the story's been nominated for a Hugo -- that's why it's online, along with all the other nominated short stories, novellas, and novellettes. A really, really powerful story, and I think my favorite of the selections, although of course I read the book in the bookstore and that was a while ago so I might have forgotten something.

If you've got a moment, you should go read it. Even if you don't know anything about the Lovecraft universe.

(ETA the total random note that it's 55 degrees outside and foggy and overcast -- the exact same weather as in the East Bay right now. It'll get horrible by mid-day, of course, but right now it looks and feels like the Bay Area. When I walked down the hill this morning, the sun was muted and the trees across the way were obscured by the mist over the river. *happy sigh*)

(Edited again to add: there are a few characters in Gaiman's story who are never identified by name, just by obscure reference to canon. You can certainly read the story and still not care who they are -- I mean, it's no big deal. But if you do care, leave me a comment and I'll tell you who they are and how we're supposed to know. In nice white text, even, so's not to spoil it for anyone else. Although I can't imagine it being a spoiler. But some people are really anti-spoiler.)
eruthros: Ivanova from B5 saying "boom boom boom boom" to Londo -- angry icon!! (B5 - Ivanova boom)
And once again, word to David Brock. (The man's everywhere these days.)

Media Matters for America has produced a commercial inside of a week and already have it on the major cable news channels -- including Fox News -- in Washington D.C.

The commercial compares Donald Rumsfield on the torture of Iraqis to Rush Limbaugh on the torture of Iraqis. I'm not saying the ad's necessarily a good idea -- while it definitely says "Rush Limbaugh is really offensive," it also kinda paints Rumsfield as a moderate in comparison, which maybe is not what we want to be doing now. But regardless of overall strategy and all that, word up to David Brock for calling Limbaugh on his offensive language.

Also, some more from the right wing behind this cut )

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