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For one LA bid for the worldcon, artists were asked to submit promotional cartoons based around rats. I forget why rats. I did a couple, including this one that was a pun on Wizard of Oz.
Some wag on the bid committee pointed out that "Taral" backward was "LA Rat", therefore I *must* contribute. I suppose with an irrefutable reason like that, I couldn't refuse.
Some wag on the bid committee pointed out that "Taral" backward was "LA Rat", therefore I *must* contribute. I suppose with an irrefutable reason like that, I couldn't refuse.
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Arrrrgh! Say it ain't so, Taral!! It's _RODENTS_ of Oz! Apostrophes denote possession, not plurals!!
Sorry to bust your balls on this, but I'm committed to stamp this out before it infects the whole world. I've vowed to mention it every time I see it, from now on, no matter who commits the deed.
That said, tin-rat and scarecrow-tat are REALLY cute!! (Well, they're all cute, but those two especially so.)
Sorry to bust your balls on this, but I'm committed to stamp this out before it infects the whole world. I've vowed to mention it every time I see it, from now on, no matter who commits the deed.
That said, tin-rat and scarecrow-tat are REALLY cute!! (Well, they're all cute, but those two especially so.)
Please, please, pretty please change the submission title! If not for me, do it for the children. I'm serious; this is just one of many grammar/spelling mistakes I see so often, and see them getting *worse* as time goes by, that I am honestly worried whether this generation's grandchildren will be able to use the English language at all. Ever seen the movie Idiocracy? It'll be like that in fifty years, tops, I say.
Of course, people have been saying that for at least 50 years. TV was going to spoil literacy at one time. I watched 96 hours of TV a week but I'm reasonably literate, so it seems that the tocsin was rung a little early on that one.
Then video games were going to spoil literacy by reducing attention spans to 15 sedconds.
Now "texting" is the fashionable villain. How can a statement like "lol, >3 pron" auger anything but a total collapse of the English language?
But I have been considering how to change the submission file name without orphaning all the comments to date. I think it can be done by changing the whole file.
Then video games were going to spoil literacy by reducing attention spans to 15 sedconds.
Now "texting" is the fashionable villain. How can a statement like "lol, >3 pron" auger anything but a total collapse of the English language?
But I have been considering how to change the submission file name without orphaning all the comments to date. I think it can be done by changing the whole file.
Just click [edit] on this page, then go to "submission information", and there ya go. Comments intact. (At least, I am relatively certain.)
I agree with you that the English language itself isn't going anywhere, and in fact *needs* to change and grow and evolve. I'm just talking about little, specific things I'm trying to combat; like apostrophe abuse, people who spell 'lose' as 'loose' and the word 'rediculous'.
Actually, you know what the #1 biggest threat to our language is? TV newscasters. NO ONE can mangle phrases and overuse words to the point of meaninglessness than these suit-and-tie Down's Syndrome rejects. <facepalm>
I agree with you that the English language itself isn't going anywhere, and in fact *needs* to change and grow and evolve. I'm just talking about little, specific things I'm trying to combat; like apostrophe abuse, people who spell 'lose' as 'loose' and the word 'rediculous'.
Actually, you know what the #1 biggest threat to our language is? TV newscasters. NO ONE can mangle phrases and overuse words to the point of meaninglessness than these suit-and-tie Down's Syndrome rejects. <facepalm>
Strangely, I find even the announcers on the BBC -- once a bastion of correct English -- are mispronouncing things like "orientate" instead of "orient", "CONtribute" instead of "conTRIBute", and "AdminiSTRAtors" rather than "AdMINistrators". What the heck is going on?
One of my my favourite malapropisms is a coffee shop up the street called "Alternative Grounds".
I'm sure you can see why that *should* be "Alternate Grounds".
I also once saw a kung-fu studio that advertised "marital arts", and a TV shop called "Pavlov's Reconditioned TV's" but those are different stories.
I'm sure you can see why that *should* be "Alternate Grounds".
I also once saw a kung-fu studio that advertised "marital arts", and a TV shop called "Pavlov's Reconditioned TV's" but those are different stories.
It won't play God? Maybe they were mass produced for schools, but certain states refused to buy them, so God free players ended up dumped on the market cheap?
Speaking of the godless, have you seen the new circulation dollars with Washington, Adams, etc? They have the usual "In Cthulhu We Trust" incised in the rim, unusual for U.S. coins. But apparently some have been accidently released to circulation without the moto, and are called "Godless" dollars.
Of course, it is a violation of the constitution for the government to mint coins endorsing the Christian religion, but it does so in defiance of the separation of church and state, and does it with Supreme Court connivance. Evidently, when religion has a strong enough hand, it doesn't have to obey laws or constitutions. Most people probably think US money has included the moto "In God We Trust" from the beginning, but in fact it only dates from the Civil War. During the bloody fratricide that lasted from 1861 to 1865, congress piously enacted a law to place a religious moto on all federal issues, hoping thereby God would be moved to help the feds against the rebels, I guess. In any case, in spite of several court cases by atheists to force the mint to remove the partisan moto, the courts have always found in favour of God. Perhaps the judges were afraid they'd go to hell if they placed the law of the land ahead of the law of God. Good reason to impeach them as incompetent, to my mind. Who wants people to run the country who place the laws of the land second to some private beliefes of their own?
Speaking of the godless, have you seen the new circulation dollars with Washington, Adams, etc? They have the usual "In Cthulhu We Trust" incised in the rim, unusual for U.S. coins. But apparently some have been accidently released to circulation without the moto, and are called "Godless" dollars.
Of course, it is a violation of the constitution for the government to mint coins endorsing the Christian religion, but it does so in defiance of the separation of church and state, and does it with Supreme Court connivance. Evidently, when religion has a strong enough hand, it doesn't have to obey laws or constitutions. Most people probably think US money has included the moto "In God We Trust" from the beginning, but in fact it only dates from the Civil War. During the bloody fratricide that lasted from 1861 to 1865, congress piously enacted a law to place a religious moto on all federal issues, hoping thereby God would be moved to help the feds against the rebels, I guess. In any case, in spite of several court cases by atheists to force the mint to remove the partisan moto, the courts have always found in favour of God. Perhaps the judges were afraid they'd go to hell if they placed the law of the land ahead of the law of God. Good reason to impeach them as incompetent, to my mind. Who wants people to run the country who place the laws of the land second to some private beliefes of their own?
I wanna get me some Godless dollars now. just to say I have 'em.
And, dude, that so VERY doesn't surprise me. You know, it reminds me of little girls afraid to say 'bloody mary' in the bathroom mirror. Their rational minds tell them it's bullshit, and yet they listen to that little voice that says, 'Ooooh, but if it's TRUE, you're gonna regret it!'. I dearly wish people would wake up. I was just seeing an interview the other day of this author who wrote a book about the link between faith and violence, and how predominantly atheist countries are the best places in the world to live in almost any category you can think of. If it wasn't so fecking cold there, I'd get my ass to norway in a heartbeat. (Of course, living in America does give me plenty to complain about...)
And, dude, that so VERY doesn't surprise me. You know, it reminds me of little girls afraid to say 'bloody mary' in the bathroom mirror. Their rational minds tell them it's bullshit, and yet they listen to that little voice that says, 'Ooooh, but if it's TRUE, you're gonna regret it!'. I dearly wish people would wake up. I was just seeing an interview the other day of this author who wrote a book about the link between faith and violence, and how predominantly atheist countries are the best places in the world to live in almost any category you can think of. If it wasn't so fecking cold there, I'd get my ass to norway in a heartbeat. (Of course, living in America does give me plenty to complain about...)
I particulary enjoyed "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason" by Sam Harris, "God is Not Great: How Religoin Poisons Everything" by Christopher Hitchens, and the book by Richard Dworkin whose name I can't remember at the moment. Irsahd Manji's "The Trouble With Islam" is pretty good too, but focused only her culture's irrational impulses. Good rollicking religon bashing combined with thoughtful examination of the issues.
Those Godless dollars will set you back some. I've seen mail order catalogs that aks $275 for them -- of course, that in a fancy velvetine lined box and everything. You might find them a little cheaper than that at a coin shop or a dealer's convention. Not $250 cheaper though.
Those Godless dollars will set you back some. I've seen mail order catalogs that aks $275 for them -- of course, that in a fancy velvetine lined box and everything. You might find them a little cheaper than that at a coin shop or a dealer's convention. Not $250 cheaper though.
$275!? BALLS! I guess I'll just have to settle for my godless-everything-else.
Hey, Sam Harris was the author they were interviewing! I saw another clip of him where he said something I've long wanted some atheist to finally bring up. That there's nothing preventing an atheist from feeling transcendance or eletaion, from having a spiritual experience or accepting that there's things in this life that we can't yet explain. I was like, "Right on!" Just because I think all organized religion is bullshit, doesn't mean I can't be open to the idea that maybe souls really exist, maybe there is an afterlife, and other things like that. The difference is, I accept that I may be wrong, so I'm not out there forcing people at the point of a sword to believe the same things I do. ;)
Hey, Sam Harris was the author they were interviewing! I saw another clip of him where he said something I've long wanted some atheist to finally bring up. That there's nothing preventing an atheist from feeling transcendance or eletaion, from having a spiritual experience or accepting that there's things in this life that we can't yet explain. I was like, "Right on!" Just because I think all organized religion is bullshit, doesn't mean I can't be open to the idea that maybe souls really exist, maybe there is an afterlife, and other things like that. The difference is, I accept that I may be wrong, so I'm not out there forcing people at the point of a sword to believe the same things I do. ;)
You called me insane, and ,at the risk of being called insaneR, I'll say this much.
Somebody said that there is an Oz story in every normal person. whether or no, that's true, I've done MINE. "Casper & Co. in Oz". You'll find frags of it in DevArt and in InkBunny, but not here. Something went wrong everytime I TRIED to put a pic here, so I won't try anymore.
I made a few retcons and variants, but the story can be seen as canon.
The Tin Man was never human: Nick's memories were dubbed, downloaded into a tin head and his real self was reassembled. This was hinted at -tho in a confused way- in the book "THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ" by Baum. Baum garbled things by adding a 2nd tin character.
The Scarecrow was created by the Good Witch of the North and she used one of her minions to animate the scarecrow.
The yellow part, derscribed as "The Winkie Wonderland" most shows the traces of the all-out thermonuclear war that ended the Rivin Empire and started many of the phenomena of Oz. The Deadly Desert was once a radiation hell, but when the gamma energy faded, the desert was enchanted to keep it deadly -and to keep people away from the Weapons that still lay there.
Oz and neighboring nations was once part of the supercontinent YsmaYamaLand in the remote geological past. It broke up into the various islands,etc., in the Nonestic Ocean.
The Oz novel and the next book, TWICE UNTOLD TALES, were at the peak of my writing phase. They were books 7 & 8. By book 11, it became a struggle just to go on, but I had ideas that wanted to be born, and finally an 11th book, DIVERGENCE was born, tho inferior to the Oz one.
Somebody said that there is an Oz story in every normal person. whether or no, that's true, I've done MINE. "Casper & Co. in Oz". You'll find frags of it in DevArt and in InkBunny, but not here. Something went wrong everytime I TRIED to put a pic here, so I won't try anymore.
I made a few retcons and variants, but the story can be seen as canon.
The Tin Man was never human: Nick's memories were dubbed, downloaded into a tin head and his real self was reassembled. This was hinted at -tho in a confused way- in the book "THE TIN WOODMAN OF OZ" by Baum. Baum garbled things by adding a 2nd tin character.
The Scarecrow was created by the Good Witch of the North and she used one of her minions to animate the scarecrow.
The yellow part, derscribed as "The Winkie Wonderland" most shows the traces of the all-out thermonuclear war that ended the Rivin Empire and started many of the phenomena of Oz. The Deadly Desert was once a radiation hell, but when the gamma energy faded, the desert was enchanted to keep it deadly -and to keep people away from the Weapons that still lay there.
Oz and neighboring nations was once part of the supercontinent YsmaYamaLand in the remote geological past. It broke up into the various islands,etc., in the Nonestic Ocean.
The Oz novel and the next book, TWICE UNTOLD TALES, were at the peak of my writing phase. They were books 7 & 8. By book 11, it became a struggle just to go on, but I had ideas that wanted to be born, and finally an 11th book, DIVERGENCE was born, tho inferior to the Oz one.
The Marsh family, in my earlier anthro cartoons, are rats, but they say they are MICE to avoid bad press and prejudice. They and a few others are the only ones that don't live in the MileDeep Empire under New York City.
If you go westward on 42nd street past 10th avenue, you'll espy the doors to their ramps and entrances/exits to their dominions. Such can also be found in the city subways,
They are on better terms with the Ruvians, a kangaroo people, than they are with -humans. Some are disgusted by humans. The Ruvians -I don't know where they live, and after 16 1/2 yaers of not doing any stories of them, I could care less.
If you go westward on 42nd street past 10th avenue, you'll espy the doors to their ramps and entrances/exits to their dominions. Such can also be found in the city subways,
They are on better terms with the Ruvians, a kangaroo people, than they are with -humans. Some are disgusted by humans. The Ruvians -I don't know where they live, and after 16 1/2 yaers of not doing any stories of them, I could care less.
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