So, this Doctorow bloke?

[matgb]

Right, last Thursday, on the way home, I went into the Wimbledon branch of Lush to buy some shaving cream. Shaving cream, deodorant and a bath bomb later, I left, wondering if the manageress was really flirting that blatently happy.

Now, having had a whole weekend bimbling around the house, I finally remembered it was there, and am having one of those bath type things. And we all know how well they usually go. Given LJ seems to be not sending me emails, it doesn't look like I'm missing much. In the meantime, given that a chunk of people are complaining about some crappy new fanfic site this evening, how about Cory Doctorow: In Praise of Fanfic? Yeah, thought you'd like that one. Cory gets ever hgher on my 'list of authors I ought to be reading' every time I see an article he's written. Some people, it seems, are less impresses. Mr Yngve? Asked, and answered, they do that as well. Silly fule. (both via

Bonus! Extra! Cory! How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community. Because I just discovered he doesn't just blog at boingboing, but his own site is craphound_rss.

Ah, stuff it, spurious_logic gives us picspam:


The rest are amusing as well.

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[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* eyes pic *

Hmmm. Least said about that the better, I think. ;)

I love this comment on the anti-fanficcer's blog: "It doesn't sound so much about concern about backseat drivers as taking umbrage that someone else has the audacity to have the same make, model and colour of car you have combined with the personal insult that they're on the same road as you."

[matgb]

From what I can see, he's partially being hyperbolic for the sake of it, it's definitely got him a few readers. But somehow I doubt many will convert into book buyers, unlike Cory, who 'gets' using the web to build a name as well as Scalzi does.