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Archive for May, 2009
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Marina Lemar is a lovely lady I was fortunate to meet many years ago at a convention. She impressed me with her kindness and warmth.
A while ago, I was able to use donations to this website to sponsor a modest arts grant, and Marina was one of the winners for her hand made majolica pottery.
Marina wrote to let us know that she had won yet another prize for her pottery. This charming mug was the winnah!
Marina also creates handsome plates.
You can see more pics of Marina’s work here.
I had some nice articles and interviews with Marina and the other winners of the grant which seem to have gotten corrupted in the blog migration. If you notice, earlier posts reloaded to this new blog have formatting problems. I sincerely apologize for that!
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Thank you to the anonymous A Distant Soil patrons who dropped by the SHOP and ordered 9 books!
Our shop button is on the upper bar to the left.
Merely stopping by the website and reading the comic online also makes you a patron. Thank you for supporting my advertisers and for not pirating my work.
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Classic actress Claire Bloom will have a role in an upcoming episode of Doctor Who. Spoilers and gossip abound, click at your own risk.
I can’t wait for the first Klingon language Opera.
For Klingons, there’s Kahless, who dices 500 warriors with a sword forged from his own hair and some help from the Lady Lukara. To celebrate their victory, they make love in the ankle-deep blood.
A history of the Klingon language at Slate. This was pretty interesting.
Knowing that fans would be watching closely, Okrand worked out a full grammar. He cribbed from natural languages, borrowing sounds and sentence-building rules, switching sources whenever Klingon started operating too much like any one language in particular. He ended up with something that sounds like an ungodly combination of Hindi, Arabic, Tlingit, and Yiddish and works like a mix of Japanese, Turkish, and Mohawk. The linguistic features of Klingon are not especially unusual (at least to a linguist) when considered independently, but put together, they make for one hell of an alien language.
France passes new net piracy bill. Much rejoicing by some, hand wringing by others. You be the judge.
The new legislation operates under a three-stage system. A new state agency would first send illegal file-sharers a warning e-mail, then a letter, and finally cut off their connection for a year if they were caught a third time.
In Egypt, porn sites are banned from the web.
“Freedoms of expression and public rights should be restricted by maintaining the fundamentals of religion, morality and patriotism.”
I bet he doesn’t donate to the CBLDF.
South Park bad boys are presented with an autographed pic of Saddam Hussein. Hey, I loved Team America: World Police.
During his captivity, US marines forced Saddam, who was executed in 2006, to repeatedly watch the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut, which shows him as gay, as well as the boyfriend of Satan. He was also regularly depicted in a similar manner during the TV series.
A short piece on Kenneth Brannagh, director of the upcoming Thor film.
At Playbill, the Addams Family Musical (not based on TV show), starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth:
Here’s how the producers characterize the story: “Storm clouds are gathering over the Addams Family manse. Daughter Wednesday, now 18, is experiencing a sensation that surprises and disgusts her — caring about another person. Young Pugsley, jealous of his sister’s attention, begs her to keep torturing him, severely, while mother Morticia, conflicted over her daughter’s lurch into womanhood, fears being upstaged and discarded…like yesterday’s road kill. All the while, father Gomez — master of the revels, mischievous and oblivious as ever — would prefer everything and everyone remain as it is. But when outsiders come to dinner, the events of one night will change forever this famously macabre family — a family so very different from your own…or maybe not.”
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