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Posted on 09.30.05 by Dindrane @ 5:31 pm
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Written by Charlaine Harris Sookie Stackhouse is just your typical poor Louisiana girl...she works as a waitress in a diner, has to get her tomcat brother out of trouble a lot, her ex-boyfriend is a vampire, and she can read minds. Oh, wait a minute. Ok, so she's not completely typical. Having broken up with Sookie, Bill is off to Peru, leaving Sookie to deal with her life alone. Witches have erased Eric's memory, leaving Sookie to babysit and hide him, while she also tries to get over Bill and find her brother Jason, who has gone missing under some very disturbing circumstances. War is brewing, with good witches, shapeshifters, and vampires on one side, and very powerful shapeshifting bad witches who drink vampire blood on the other. Sookie's survival has never been more in doubt. One of the best things about Harris' Southern Vampire series is the tight characterization. Sookie has a unique and distinct voice; her humanity causes what could be a mediocre or even pedestrian series to life and makes readers genuinely care about what happens to her and those she loves. Even the secondary characters have personalities and lives of their own: Sam the were-collie, Eric Northman the Viking vampire, and the rest all have solid identities and definite roles to play in the novel. The only character who doesn't seem to fit at all is the faery, who is frankly annoying, and completely out of place, though perhaps that will become the point somehow. There are some unanswered questions about why things happen the way they do, but the book is so well-written that these minor quibbles are just that--minor. Categorized as: Reviews
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Posted on 09.30.05 by Widge @ 3:38 pm
Comments on this: 3 so far. Add your own.  Okay, this is really getting out of hand. First we have a black iPod. Then we have a black Sidekick. Now...black toilet paper? For God's sake, stop making everything black just because you think that folks like me will buy it. Because...you're...you're right. And it's exploitative. And I'm weak. Because I want to try this stuff. You big bullies. *sniff* God forgive me. Categorized as: Gear
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Posted on 09.30.05 by Widge @ 3:01 pm
Comments on this: 5 so far. Add your own.  Apparently, the Coca-Cola Company is reintroducing Tab. This time it's morphed into an energy drink with extra caffeine than it had before, and is aimed at young women. But was it really its popularity and cult status that brought it back? Or was it the love of a single winged attorney? Categorized as: Stimuli
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Posted on 09.30.05 by Widge @ 4:55 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Every 30 Seconds, somebody watches something online and they think, "I really shouldn't be laughing at this." Or they would think that, if they weren't so damn busy laughing. Found via Screenhead. Categorized as: Stimuli
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Posted on 09.30.05 by Widge @ 2:31 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Yes, it's Highlander in 30 Seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies). A lapine Kurgan. Genius. Alerted to this via Screenhead. Categorized as: Stimuli
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Posted on 09.30.05 by Widge @ 2:21 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Cassini has sent back pictures of the surface of Saturn's moon, Tethys. Note the spear-shaped bit in the lower left there (the link has a larger version of the pic). Can't wait to hear what Coast to Coast makes of that. Found via Warren Ellis. Categorized as: Stimuli
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Posted on 09.30.05 by Widge @ 1:49 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own. In a film destined to strike fear in the heart of any man, Kate Ashfield (Shaun of the Dead) is the girlfriend David Tennant (the latest Dr. Who) wants to break up with. And then things go wrong. Incredibly, terrifyingly wrong. Guys, just keep telling yourself it's only a short film. It's only a short film. Direct link for the feedreaders. Found via Screenhead. Categorized as: Stimuli
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Posted on 09.30.05 by Widge @ 12:56 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own.  Fark has a nice Photoshop thread of ads and such for the new War on Porn that the government is going to be wasting our American tax dollars on while the rest of the world laughs their balls off at us. This is just one of the good ones. Also very impressive is the porn-sniffing ocelot. Yes, you read that right. Found via Boortz. Categorized as: Stimuli
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Posted on 09.30.05 by Widge @ 12:03 am
Comments on this: just one. Add your own.  D.C. Douglas' music video for "Eighties Man" is a visual feast of everything we children of the 80s have spent untold millions of dollars trying to get over with therapy. I post it here primarily because I want to traumatize all of you as I have been re-injured by this. But it's the Robert Palmer parody part that really finished me off. You've been duly warned. Found via Screenhead. Categorized as: Stimuli
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Posted on 09.29.05 by Widge @ 7:41 pm
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Carla Speed McNeil's Finder, published by her own Lightspeed Press, is the best comic book you're probably not reading. I've said this before, but it bears repeating. The Talisman collected trade is probably my favorite graphic novel/collection behind only From Hell. And only just behind it. Previously, I would simply say that you could look forward to burning in hell for not giving McNeil your trade, but she's decided to take away your excuses. She announced at SPX that she's taking the comic online as a free webcomic. She'll then be taking those and collecting them into trades, since those sell nicely enough, apparently. And rightly so. And best of all, she'll have RSS feeds. And when she does, I'll post them here. And you'll know what to do. In the meantime, go here and give her love. At the very least, read the first Talisman issue here. Then give her love. However you can make it work for you. Categorized as: Headsup
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