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Lots of light news this week. Between the Chinese New Year (year of the Dragon, which is cool Dragons are cool) to Robbie Burns day for the Scots, and a new Republican debate every night apparently, it's hard to winnow out anything interesting.

Well of course there is Lindsay Lohan news, but it's kinda old. She's getting sued for nearly running over a toddler a year or so back. She's been behaving herself lately, doing her probation stuff so I hope this is a good sign for her. And of course, she still looks terrific for a 45 year old Palm Beach socialite. It's a shame she's only 25...

SOPA/PIPA has been momentarily shelved in the USA, while ACTA, a bigger badder global version got passed by several European countries. However this didn't stop the FBI from exploring the possibility of 'scraping' information on citizens from social media. I don't honestly know why they'd bother as it seems that unless terrorists start a meme, the smart ones don't use social media and the stupid ones aren't bright enough to use the Internet. Overall though, it wouldn't be a bad time to re-evaluate your personal security settings on Facebook, Twitter etc.

And yes, I got to meet Harley and the crew from EpicMealTime but if you want to hear that story you'll have to tune into the ustream tonight.

HA! Not a segue but a damn fine lead in!



Yes, I got to hang out with Harley and his crew along with the members of the band Down With Webster Sunday night. If you don't know what EpicMealTime is there's still time to go check them out on YouTube before I go live at 8pm EST. Along with fresh stories of a night of fezzes, beards and cheese, the mods will be keeping the banhammer ready in the chatroom so all may have fun without fear of capslock or spammers. I'll be doodling and babbling until midnight so I hope you'll find time to drop by for bit this evening.

See you at 8pm!
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In addition to being a fantastic fantasy author, having a beard that (almost) rivals that of our own Lar (but doesn’t. No worries there), my buddy Pat Roothfus does a great amount of work with his Wordbuilders foundation, which was created to support Heifer International.

In Pat’s own words:
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What’s that you say? You want to make the world a better place while simultaneously winning fabulous prizes?

Well today is your lucky day.

Heifer International is my favorite charity. It helps people raise themselves up out of poverty and starvation. All over the world Heifer promotes education, sustainable agriculture, and local industry.They don’t just keep kids from starving, they make it so families can take care of themselves. They give goats, sheep, and chickens to families so their children have milk to drink, warm clothes to wear, and eggs to eat.[/i]

To that end, we’ve decided to pitch in this year by donating some books to their giant prize pack.

And, what I think is even more exciting, we are auctioning off the opportunity for you to be in a page (possibly more) of LFG.

This is something worth supporting, and something fun. It’s a win-win.

Check out the auction here for more details, and over to the Wordbuilders site for the full scoop.



Thanks to everyone who takes part!

-Because I Can.

Not be confused with World Penguin Day.

Which is April 25th.

Seriously. Why would I make that up?

The close of another week and here in Southern Ontario winter has finally noticed that it hadn't visited properly yet. While there's not a lot of snow in my neck of the woods, the temperatures have dropped and the wind has risen making it pretty darn chilly out there. I think I speak for a lot of people when I say 'I GET THE IDEA! I CAN HAZ SPRING NAO?'

Even though spring and summer are far off, it's been a fairly busy week in terms of convention planning already. You may not have thought of these things before but to make it to a show there is a lot more logistics to shipping and travel plans than just buying a ticket. Sohmer, Becker and the rest of the Blind Ferret Family have been running full steam. It's one of the few times I'm glad to be the odd man out, geographically, so I'm not underfoot. It's a little lonely but they're only an email away after all.

In other 'odd man out' news (segue! drink!) it came to light this week that *gasp* Khloe Kardashian is not a fully blooded officer of the first family of fame-mongering!

Hm... tiny sister, tiny sister... GINORMOUS MAN-HANDS WOMAN SISTAH! Who could have foreseen it?

But the best rumor so far, and the only complete article I have read to date that was about the Kardashians, is that OJ Simpson may be the father! Whoo hoo!! This is more hilarious than him losing his house since he's locked in jail on break and enter charges. Oh I'm a terrible person.

Oh stop it. I posted an article on 'merkins' to my twitter feed earlier this week. Trust me. I'm terrible. (Google that at your own risk).

And a last bit of school news. A high school in Utah recently had their student body vote on a new mascot. The popular vote was for the Cougars, since the school is close to Brigham Young University and their team is the cougars. However, the one woman on the seven seat school board felt that the modern interpretation of 'cougar' as a sex hungry middle aged lady was 'inappropriate' and forced the school to change the mascot to 'charger'. Way to rock the vote ma'am.

I admit I have a soft spot for the charger (usually depicted as a stallion, not a muscle car) as my own high school used that clip art. However, given the board's concern with modern definitions I'm more than a little shocked they didn't double check if 'charger' now carries any connotations. You see, according to the Urban dictionary, not only can a charger be:
"A small cylindrical object that can be filled with money or drugs and inserted into the anus to conceal their whereabouts from the police/prison guards etc. As described in the classic French book ''Papillon''."

but is also synonymous with:
"an early morning blow job to start your day."

Now that you're planning your morning, why don't I make a suggestion for your night? Tonight is Friday so that means I'm ustreaming! The mods will be pouring drinks, spreading laughs and banning the overuse of capslock so why not drop by and make some new friends as I draw the night away and do my best to keep up with your conversations, questions and occasional entendres.

See you at 8pm! Go chargers!
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