The Missneg Report

[sabotabby]

If I did my own fair and balanced news hour, today's show would feature the following stories:

First up, and bloody hell, Paul Martin and his Liberal wankers do something right for a change. That's right, you warmongering bastards, we here in the Great White (but multicultural, yo!) North want fuck-all to do with your little war toys. We will not be mindlessly going along with Star Wars, thank-you-very-much, and what's more, we're taking your draft dodgers.

We may consider a trade, however, and swap you Ralph Klein and Stephen Harper for Jeremy Hinzman. We are nothing if not fair.

The Awesome Individual of the Moment is Sheila Watt-Cloutier, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, and the reason for her awesomeness is that her organization is launching a human rights case against the Bush administration over global warming. Despite the assertion by some well-funded morons that climate change is a collective hallucination on the part of that wacky liberal scientific community, apparently the folks at Ground Zero of the impending environmental catastrophe actually consider it to be a human rights issue.

As in: it's a human right to not have your home submerged underneath several meters of water and to not have your primary food sources die off. Who'd have thought?

In entertainment news, here's the story that's all over my friends list this evening. I'm not sure whether this is more or less disgusting than the trailer I saw for Constantine. Okay, it's worse, but you have to admit that the latter is also a case of atrociously incorrect casting.

Finally, if anyone in the Hogtown area is looking for a place to live or knows someone who is, pleasepleaseplease get in touch with me. I need a new next door neighbour.

Oh yeah, and he's just announced it on Elljay, so I can repeat it here: congratulations to sphinctourist on the engagement. I bet it'll be a better wedding than the last one I attended.

And that's the kind of day it's been. So it goes.

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised Canada didn't want a piece of Strategic Defense. I mean, it's like fucking free money. The goddamn thing will never work, so whatever money sluices into the Canadian economy while those idiots are spinning their wheels is bonus. It'd be as effective for us just to leave a huge brick of $20 bills somewhere in the Yukon.

[sabotabby]

Haha.

But you'd probably want to fly nukes over Inuit land again, and that would suck some ass.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

So it goes.

I just finished reading Slaughter House Five for the first time the other night.

[sabotabby]

Kickass book. We'll take Vonnegut too.

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

shf = one of my all-time faves.

[rote.livejournal.com]

"My color scheme was conscious and deliberate from the start. I didn't see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill."

awesome.

[sabotabby]

Your baby scares me.

[accusehistory.livejournal.com]

First up, and bloody hell, Paul Martin and his Liberal wankers do something right for a change.

Re: the story linked. Fucking A!

[sabotabby]

::waves little Canadian flag, except without the white part::

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

We could have a red and black canadian flag. Canadian, but with an edge!

[sabotabby]

Ugh, no. I hate the maple leaf thing worst of all.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

No white, no maple leaf, that doesn't leave much left now does it? :P

[sabotabby]

My point exactly.

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

you guys are so much better than we are. shit. but i'm glad to hear you'll be taking our commies draft-dodgers. i'll be sure to let my 20-year-old cousin know over xmas, provided he doesn't take his upcoming semester in costa rica and just stay there.

[sabotabby]

I'd choose Costa Rica over Canada, though. Much better climate.

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

i totally agree. if it weren't for the weather, i'd be up there right now.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Earthsea was one of the first fantasies I read. Just been rereading them (partly interest rekindled by hearing something about a film in the offing). The copies of the books I had cost 50 of our English pence each new, which gives you some idea of how long ago that was! LeGuin's always been one of my favourite Sci-Fi/Fantasy authors.

Extremely disheartening what it sounds like they've done to it. And not just the colour-scheme. Though that in itself is pretty unspeakable.

Or to sum up, GAAAAHH!

[sabotabby]

I like her sci-fi writing much better; they're blatantly political and less spiritual. But I don't like to think of any of her work getting mutilated.

Seems to be the theme for the season, though, between that and His Dark Materials.

::pouts::

[ex-melimeli728.livejournal.com]

hah! the hellblazer casting is hilarious. Poor... everyone that's written the damn thing. i remember reading a few years ago that he was going to play the lead character in a Preacher movie, too. what's with k.r. and bad comic book casting?
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you know who i'd love to see playing the hero in some adaptation movie? Alan moore hinself. he is the scariest looking man. and i mean that in the best way.

[sabotabby]

I think casting directors get the wrong idea when someone tells them that comic books are a two-dimensional medium.

Seriously, though:


And Alan Moore looks like a crazed cult leader. Yow. I think he's pretty hot.

[sphinctourist.livejournal.com]

shit rachel, thanx for the plug.

[sabotabby]

It's good to see you happy.

[icevein.livejournal.com]

Oh lordy, I like you already. Please add me?

[sabotabby]

Sure! You're the other half of the roadkilled-beaver, I presume?

(That came out kind of strange.)

[icevein.livejournal.com]

I sure am! His head is sitting on the living room table. The beaver's, not the other half's.