Phligm Phlagm

[philmophlegm]

Diana Wynne Jones is dead (and yes, even in an obituary of a much-loved fantasy author, the Guardian can't resist snide remarks about the genre)

"You play video games? So are you fat, ugly or slutty?" - Real male reactions to female online gamers

Oh, how I wish everyone online would read this and live by it...

A-hah. We have a new definition of "irony".

Why Was I Banned? The Hilarious, The Sad and the Downright Stupid of Xbox Live.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with avoiding paying tax you aren't legally obliged to pay. The Guardian's accountants know this. Shame their journalists don't.

Why 'The Hobbit' wasn't illustrated by Maurice 'Where the Wild Things Are' Sendak

Sci-Fi Airshow

Much respect. And for the French police too.

Comments

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Just read the DWJ obit and didn't notice the snide remarks...

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I thought this: "...the numerous cliches that riddle those hordes of three-volume sagas about elves and quests."

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

Well, that WAS in the sentence about the Tough Guide to Fantasyland!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Well..yes...

I'm probably being oversensitive based on previous experience from the Guardian, BBC and other media outlets of that ilk. I've read TTGTFL (only DW-J) book I've read and like it, but I thought that the spoofing was a) rather fond and b) referring to a very specific type of fantasy setting rather than all fantasy literature.

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure you have the right to be sensitive about language after using the word "retard" (twice!) in your previous post! -N

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Oh, he deserved it...

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

It wasn't him that I was :-O about.