Month: April 2010

At long last, the entirety of the original DC “Fallen Angel” run is coming out in a single volume next month, courtesy of IDW. Here is the brand new cover as rendered by Dave Lopez.

Cowboy Pete will be waiting until the conclusion of the current “River Song” episode before discussing the new incarnation of “Doctor Who,” but in the meantime, here’s a brilliant tribute to Matt Smith’s predecessor which I first saw over on Bleeding Cool. Enjoy. (Warning)–sung profanity at one point, if that makes a difference in terms of where you’re watching it

So what did Kyle actually say?

See, in watching the 201st episode of “South Park,” I just figured the over-the-top use of bleeping out dialogue, up to and including Kyle’s lengthy “I learned something today” speech, was a brilliant meta-commentary by the “South Park” creators on the nature of censorship run amok. Turns out, no, it actually WAS censorship run amok. Kyle delivered an entire summary of what he had learned regarding the nature of hatred and intolerance, and the entire thing really was censored by Comedy Central even though it made no mention of any inflammatory names.

So I’m really curious to know what he said.

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Remember the Deletionists? The ones who go around targeting random Wikipedia entries and declare that the subjects of those pages aren’t important enough to warrant inclusion in Wikipedia? They targeted actor Kristian Ayre, declaring that she wasn’t notable because she’d only been a supporting cast member of a TV series (“Space Cases”) that had run only one season, and had no other roles of note. This despite the fact that Kristian has in fact starred in a number of films and TV shows, and “Space Cases” ran two seasons, not one, that Kristian was a co-star and not a supporting cast member, and by the way, Kristian’s a guy.

According to author Kevin J. Anderson, they’re at it again, and their accuracy rate has only gotten worse. Kevin reported:

“In my work compiling the 25-year retrospective book for Writers of the
Future, I’ve been doing spotlights on some of the past author winners who
have gone on to publish multiple novels. One of those is Rod Garcia, who
writes as R. Garcia y Robertson. Rod was a familiar figure at west coast SF
conventions in the 1990s, published several novels from Avon and Tor, but
pretty much disappeared after about 2006. He doesn’t have email, as far as
I know.

“When gathering some basic information about him, I went to his Wikipedia
entry only to find the odd notation that his entry is being considered for
deletion because someone named “Deb” says there is “No evidence of
notability. All books appear to be self-published through a variety of
companies such as Avon Books.”

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