Daily Archives: October 16, 2008
Archives Imported
Posted on October 16, 2008 15 Comments
With the invaluable assistance of Ryan Boren and the folks at WordPress, I am tickled pink to be able to announce that the full archives of my Whatever Movable Type install, going back to March, 2002, have now been imported and are fully readable and searchable. The only things missing are the only things that […]
When Quoting
Posted on October 16, 2008 8 Comments
This has come up a couple of times in the last couple of days, so a quick comment on quoting articles, etc in comments: Generally speaking, it’s not kosher to cut and paste an entire article from somewhere else and put it into your comment here, and also generally speaking, if you do it and […]
Ghlaghghee Tires of the Fame
Posted on October 16, 2008 21 Comments
As you can see, Ghlaghghee is less than entirely impressed that she was within the hour the subject of discussion on nationwide radio (that nation being Canada). It’s all become so tiresome to her. Yes, she is famous, and what of it? What has fame ever done for her? Seriously, what has fame ever done […]
Final (Thank God) Debate Comment Thread
Posted on October 16, 2008 142 Comments
Presidential historians like to note that people who listened to the 1960 Nixon-Kennedy presidential debate on the radio thought Nixon had won it, but the rest of America, who saw it on TV, took a look at the pale and sweaty Nixon next to the handsome and collected Kennedy, and gave it to the Massachusetts […]
Pick Your Favorite SF B-Movie
Posted on October 16, 2008
I’m doing an audience participation post over at AMC today, asking people to nominate their favorite science fiction B-movies for inclusion into an upcoming “Science Fiction B-Movie Hall of Fame.” I also explain why B-movies are so much fun, even when we know going in they’re probably gonna suck. You know you want to nominate […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying