6/6/06

[sabotabby]

Things that are apparently happening today:

• The release of Slayer's new album
• The release of Ann Coulter's new book
• International Emo Kid Beatdown Day
• International Beat Down and/or Slay Ann Coulter Day

Am I missing anything?

Oh, this:

6/6/6 Readings For The End Of The World Readings by Brian Keene, Gemma Files, Moe Berg, Liisa Ladouceur, apocalypse theory panel w/ Nalo Hopkinson, Chris Alexander and John Huculiak. 7 pm. $6.66. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811.

I hope to see a few of you there. When Moe Berg gets on, we can all start humming "I'm an Adult Now." I bet he hates that.

On a non-666-related note, Garfield is depressing. From this post on scans_daily, which also talks about how awesome the strips are when you remove Garfield's thought bubbles.

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Say hi to Brian from me!

[sabotabby]

Will do, if I get to talk to him.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

oh, you'll get to talk to him.
just tell him that i sent you.

[sabotabby]

...everyone knows him but me?

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

basically.

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

They're releasing the remake of the original 'Omen' today. Can you have an Omen/Damien without Sam Neil? We'll see...

[sabotabby]

Right! I'd forgotten about that, because the idea of an Omen remake is just too evil to contemplate.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

'Can you have an Omen/Damien without Sam Neil?'
he wasn't in the original.

[gabski.livejournal.com]

ann coulter is the devil... she proves it by not needing food to survive.

[sabotabby]

Haha. I'm very excited about how bad her book is going to be.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

So. HOW'S WORK? ;P

[sabotabby]

IM me. This is an unlocked post.

[seaya.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew what your im was, so we could talk. Basically I booked my Toronto dates without having gotten availability times from you. So, I'm hoping they are ok. (Long story)

So, post your im name and which service it's in to a locked post of mine or something.

[sabotabby]

Done! It should be fine, though; I'm pretty much around all summer.

in which i amuse myself with a marlowe reference, i think

[mistersmearcase.livejournal.com]

omg.

I had a history with Garfield once upon a time. But that was another country, and besides, the cat is dead.

Seriously, though, that existentialist Garfield strip messes with my head. It's sort of a nice counterpoint to the horribly banal strip as it exists in the papers. Was Garfield funny once upon a time or was it just that I was seven years old? I have long imagined the Garfield movie(s!) which I haven't seen to be the endpoint of human culture.

Re: in which i amuse myself with a marlowe reference, i think

[sabotabby]

Apparently, it was always sort of innocuous, but some people remember funnier, edgier storylines. Somewhere in that thread, someone mentions a storyline where Jon goes on a date with a woman who was raised by wolves.

Re: in which i amuse myself with a marlowe reference, i think

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

my family used to love garfield and I have the same questions as you! and if it was only funny because I was 7, what does that say about my aprents???

[sonicage.livejournal.com]

Very sadly, the new Slayer has been pushed back until July.

[sabotabby]

What? NO!

[sonicage.livejournal.com]

"The band is currently working on a long-awaited new album (due out July 25) that was to be released on June 6, 2006, evoking the Number of the Beast. However, due to recording difficulties, Kerry has changed the date and used June 6 as the launch date of his personal website. This album will be the first with original drummer Dave Lombardo since Seasons in the Abyss. A small snippet of their song "Cult" from the new album is available at www.slayer.net. "Cult" will also be listenable at 6:06 AM, 06/06/06 from their website.
Prior to releasing the new album, Slayer plan to release Eternal Pyre (due out June 6 2006), a limited-edition EP that will preview a new song "Cult". This EP is exclusive to Hot Topic and will not be available anywhere else."

The "Clut" single is also available on iTunes today.

[sabotabby]

Exclusive to Hot Topic?

Now that's just sad.

[locustinferno.livejournal.com]

Say it ain't so!

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

That avatar is absolutely fucking hilarious! That's Immortal if I'm not mistaken!

[locustinferno.livejournal.com]

You are correct and I agree. I found a larger version of that pic off of someone's Myspace and made it into an icon.

[realcdaae.livejournal.com]

You forgot the great LJ deletion protest!

I'm favouring Slay Ann Coulter day, personally.

[sabotabby]

Delete Ann Coulter!

I didn't know about the deletion protest until I scanned over my friends list today. I'd be afraid my journal would get purged. And while I think that LJ/Six Apart are being morons about the boob issue, I don't actually care enough to get up in arms about it.

[realcdaae.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

Yeah, it's not worth the risk of them purging. It also won't do anything, because the people who hate the boob nazis are all planning on making additional journals and posting endless amounts of spam to "counteract" it. Oy vey drama.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

also! gemma files is absolutley wonderful.

[sabotabby]

Yes! I'm mostly going for her and Nalo Hopkinson.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

her two collections from prime are simply astounding, and i rec them to just aobut everyone.
hopkinson is great, from what i've read.
sadly, i don't think it's nearly enough.

[sabotabby]

Oooh, read So Long Been Dreaming, which she edited. The quality of the stories is hit and miss, but the very fact that such a book exists gives me great hope for the genre.

[lokilokust.livejournal.com]

pages and bakka-phoenix had copies, and probably still do.
one of the absolute best horror writers around, and it's a damn shame that she's so overlooked.

[locustinferno.livejournal.com]

Beating down emo kids is too easy. Now Ann Coulter, who drinks gallons of the rarest virgin blood to keep her human disguise looking decent (hiding one's true demonic form from the world is a trying endeavor!) and devours cobras for brunch, now that is a worthy opponent!

[sabotabby]

We'd have to tag-team. She's too dangerous to fight one-on-one.

[herkyjerkydance.livejournal.com]

http://www.nationaldayofslayer.org

Don't look at it at work or anything, it automatically starts playing "Raining Blood".

[sabotabby]

\M/

[frippy.livejournal.com]

Damn, I was really hoping for Rapture today! Not because I'd ascend bodily into heaven myself, but I was looking forward to shorter lines and more parking spaces. Maybe it'll happen at 6:06 pm (what time zone is God on?) but I think the Almighty uses a 24 hour clock, so the prime hour for snatching the virtuous has passed.

[sabotabby]

Oh, I missed 6:06 in the morning on account of being asleep. DAMMIT.

[shoocu-shoocu.livejournal.com]

Thank you for using this icon. It makes my day.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

I was awake.

The birds sang.

There were bagpipes.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, left behind!

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

apparently Greg Palast's new book comes out today as well, don't remember the title though.

[sabotabby]

Did he do that on purpose?

[sadie-sabot.livejournal.com]

according to an interview I heard with him, Yes.

[roter-terror.livejournal.com]

What a strange comic.

[sabotabby]

Existentialist Garfield, huzzah!

[pluvka.livejournal.com]

you forgot about paris hilton's debut music video.

oh, i wish i had known about the readings. i was in toronto all day yesterday.

[sabotabby]

:(

You'd have had fun!