Books

[Mongrel]

Boyne himself replies later, he seems to be just as amused by it and is owning it.

[Blossom]

Or, in short

[Mongrel]

Or, in short

I was going to ask (100% unsarcastically and honestly!) how on earth you're able to keep up with the moral stances or failing of random-ass fifth string creators, but apparently there's trans content in his novel (which is presumably just as idiotic), so, okay, makes sense he'd be on the radar.

Apparently there's more:



The Liam Neeson thing is fucking killing me.

[Büge]

O to have the confidence, and bulletproof credibility, of a mediocre white man.

[Brantly B.]

Apropos of nothing, it's not even a valid dye recipe in Breath of the Wild.

[Mongrel]

Apparently the Berenstain bears have pivoted to right-wing christian stuff.



Uh.

EDIT: OMG



This is poison.

[Büge]

Meanwhile, in the Berenstein Bears universe, the series includes titles such as The Berenstein Bears Defund The Police, The Berenstein Bears: My Gender, My Business (with guest author Kate Bornstein), and The Berenstein Bears: Showdown at Standing Rock.

[Mongrel]

Meanwhile, in the Berenstein Bears universe, the series includes titles such as The Berenstein Bears Defund The Police, The Berenstein Bears: My Gender, My Business (with guest author Kate Bornstein), and The Berenstein Bears: Showdown at Standing Rock.

I dunno, they can still get religious, though I think "The Berenstein Bears Celebrate Yeshiva" was pretty harmless.

[Mongrel]

Jokes aside, what happened was Mike Berenstein took over the books from his parents - Stan was Jewish and Jan was Episcopalian but they were basically both ordinary non-practising types - and became an evangelist nutcase. So, fuck evengelicals, as usual.

But anyway, in discovering that, I also found this bit

In a 1989 editorial titled "Drown the Berenstain Bears", The Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer lamented the popularity of the books, writing that "it is not just the smugness and complacency of the stories that is so irritating," but the bears themselves, particularly "the post-feminist Papa Bear, the Alan Alda of grizzlies, a wimp so passive and fumbling he makes Dagwood Bumstead look like Batman." He described Mama Bear as "the final flowering of the grade-school prissy, the one with perfect posture and impeccable handwriting...and now you have to visit her every night. The reason is, of course, that kids love them. My boy, 4, cannot get enough of these bears."[22]

Imagine hating some girl you went to school with that much.

[Thad]

Imagine hating some girl you went to school with that much.

It's been clear to me for decades that Scott Adams never got over being picked on by mean girls in school.

[Mongrel]

If you want a little comedic relief, someone dug up Isaac Asimov's sneering early-eighties review of Orwell's 1984.

He also turned left wing and became a socialist, fighting with the loyalists in Spain in the 1930s. There he found himself caught up in the sectarian struggles between the various left-wing factions, and since he believed in a gentlemanly English form of socialism, he was inevitably on the losing side. Opposed to him were passionate Spanish anarchists, syndicalists, and communists, who bitterly resented the fact that the necessities of fighting the Franco fascists got in the way of their fighting each other.

This bit is amazing on so many levels.

Orwell was unable to conceive of computers or robots, or he would have
placed everyone under non-human surveillance. Our own computers to some
extent do this in the IRS, in credit files, and so on, but that does not
take us towards 1984, except in fevered imaginations. Computers and tyranny
do not necessarily go hand in hand. Tyrannies have worked very well without
computers (consider the Nazis) and the most computerised nations in today's
world are also the least tyrannical.

Tyrannies have worked very well without
computers (consider the Nazis)

Oh Isaac, you sweet summer child.

[Thad]

Weis and Hickman are suing Wizards of the Coast over a canceled contract for a new Dragonlance trilogy. They allege that Wizards never gave a justification for canceling the project but that it's because the company is trying to keep a low profile after allegations of racism and misogyny (unrelated to the Dragonlance sub-franchise, again per the suit).

I don't know if the suit has any merit, W&H kinda lost me about the time they went all Libertarians in Space, and I haven't read a good Dragonlance book since 1998, so who knows. But I never find it difficult to believe a publisher has screwed over creators due to unrelated company politics.

[Blossom]

[Büge]

Every day I wake up hoping that WOTC kicks that pederast Nic Kelman to the curb.

Every day I go to bed disappointed.

[Yoji]

I still need to look in earnest, but there's no harm in asking among friends: Does anyone happen to know a source for scans of "Need A House? Call Ms. Mouse!"?

We're thinking about Christmas gifts, and for my brother-in-law's family we're thinking of that book. The problem is it's been out of print for a long time and copies go for hundreds of dollars. Still, it looks like a cute book and it's got a large place in my wife and BIL's childhood, and my wife is prepared to just make a print herself. I'm on board with that idea, but I need scans first.

[nosimpleway]

I've been asked to read a book. Namely, to record myself reading a book so someone can use the recording for sleepy ASMR.

I'm as surprised as anybody.

Taking recommendations for books without a lot of action sequences, I guess.

[Mongrel]

It's got a few action sequences, but you should totally do The Hobbit.

Unless you just want something boring enough to put people to sleep and the content doesn't matter, then just read [ed: don't forget to insert the joke answer before publication].

[nosimpleway]

You should do the Hobbit, unless you need something boring enough to put people to sleep and content doesn't matter, then just do Lord of the Rings

[Mongrel]

You should do the Hobbit, unless you need something boring enough to put people to sleep and content doesn't matter, then just do The Book(s) of Lost Tales

;___;

[Grath]

You should do the Hobbit, unless you need something boring enough to put people to sleep and content doesn't matter, then just do Lord of the Rings

If your goal is to bore people to sleep, isn't that the Silmarillion?