silveradept | Another day in the set

Rained out again. Somehow, that seems to be the luck of the draw this season. Lots of rainouts.

Something many people knew... in my opinion, it only makes it ironic that he was cast for Sephiroth's voice. Lance Bass likes boys. And it's all over the newsspace. Probably a distracting thing to keep people away from bigger issues.

Altercation with Scientology adherent leads to "Warning" posters appearing. Very suspicious. If they are, indeed misdemeanors, then it's not something to be overly worried about, and certainly not worth the expense of flyers. Makes me wonder just who's trying to put on who.

The Journal of 9/11 Studies is on-line. Even through threats, apparently, some have decided to publish. Go have a look and see if it's conspiracy-theory nonsense or solid science.

A xombie pub crawl ends up in arrests for suspected WMDs. So the shuffling, and calling out "Braaaaains" somehow didn't work? Getting tough these days to do anything that's creative or outside-the-box without someone trying to arrest or censor you for it.

An era is finishing - namely, Monopoly is switching over to a plastic card system and abandoning the cash. This probably won't make Monopoly a better game to play, or any shorter, but what it will do is add more calculators, batteries, and other such to the game. More parts to break, and less math to be done in the head.

Additional stuff and trying-to-make-sense: Today, although the source material has since vanish't into the ether (well, not the original source, which I suspect still exists, but the source that brought it to my attention), I got to thinking about malicious usage of characters and the expanses to which some people may go to make attacks. It's sort of the "Calvin pissing on X" situation. Watterson would definitely not approve of anything like that, yet it's ubiquitous enough that I'm sure most people recognize the image I'm talking about. How much of an image like that is created in "good fun" or parody sorts of material and how much of it is malice, taking the beautiful art and spraying it with graffiti, to attack the person, and how much of it is pure fuckery, defacing it because it's there and people will get a rise out of it. It happened to someone who could pass as this generation's Watterson, taking a relatively recently formed avatar and placing it in a very NC-17 rated scene. It felt like an attack, although there were some dinks who said it was "just Internet, stop paying attention and it'll go away" and others who said "these people will do these things, deal with it." Insensitive remarks, both of them, and their utterers received a just and fitting reward for them. Someone else attempted to post the image in question. Said posts were removed. Admittedly, the person who was affected by all this didn't really want to have such things brought to their attention, but once done, it had an effect on them.

So does pr0nifying a charcter count as a parody/fair use thing? Is it always intentionally malicious (discarding the cases where the original author welcomes pr0nification) toward the creator, or is it more of the second sort that's just lashing out for attention? What to do about such things? Do we just chalk it up to Internet-Beta and try not to let it affect us? Or something else?

I guess what I don't really understand the most is why such an idea would come to someone's mind, and then, secondly, why it would be acted upon, and finally, posted for the world and the original author to see, likely with the "See what I did!" sort of pride.

Anyway, g'night. There will likely be something else to talk about tomorrow.