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Off James & the Blue Cat, an amusingly self-deprecating British scriptwriter's blog, a glancing reference to the Terrifying Carnivorous Seagulls of St. Ives:
In D&D terms, a monster with a Challenge Rating of 4, Attacks: beak +6, flappy feet +3 and a ranged area effect weapon you really don't want to be on the wrong end of, even if it is supposed to be lucky. Also has skills: Sense Pasty and, Mob Tourist. Varient 5 hit dice Dire Seagull with Carry Off Small Child rumoured to exist, as yet only a rumour.
Time magazine interviewed Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman together, causing mass outbreaks of helpless fan squeeing and fainting. My favourite Gaiman quote, on the general all-round coolness of fandom at a con signing:
...we're ready to leave the stage. I look up and they have a bodyguard line of 30 Klingons. They're six-foot six and four-feet wide and they have the foreheads and they had linked arms. We were being lead off behind a human wall —a Klingon wall—of Klingon warriors. And I thought, how good does it get?.
And Joss on the Big Damn Movie: "This will be the greatest film since whatever film comes out right before it. And I'm not backing down from that."
Prophetic, given that it hasn't done as well at the box office as everyone hoped, although the reviews are generally good. Sigh. Cinema audiences. Like herding brain-dulled media zombies.
Excuse me, I have to go and discuss Terry Pratchett with a lively third-year class now. Academic life, such hell.
Off James & the Blue Cat, an amusingly self-deprecating British scriptwriter's blog, a glancing reference to the Terrifying Carnivorous Seagulls of St. Ives:
In D&D terms, a monster with a Challenge Rating of 4, Attacks: beak +6, flappy feet +3 and a ranged area effect weapon you really don't want to be on the wrong end of, even if it is supposed to be lucky. Also has skills: Sense Pasty and, Mob Tourist. Varient 5 hit dice Dire Seagull with Carry Off Small Child rumoured to exist, as yet only a rumour.
Time magazine interviewed Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman together, causing mass outbreaks of helpless fan squeeing and fainting. My favourite Gaiman quote, on the general all-round coolness of fandom at a con signing:
...we're ready to leave the stage. I look up and they have a bodyguard line of 30 Klingons. They're six-foot six and four-feet wide and they have the foreheads and they had linked arms. We were being lead off behind a human wall —a Klingon wall—of Klingon warriors. And I thought, how good does it get?.
And Joss on the Big Damn Movie: "This will be the greatest film since whatever film comes out right before it. And I'm not backing down from that."
Prophetic, given that it hasn't done as well at the box office as everyone hoped, although the reviews are generally good. Sigh. Cinema audiences. Like herding brain-dulled media zombies.
Excuse me, I have to go and discuss Terry Pratchett with a lively third-year class now. Academic life, such hell.
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Seagulls of St. Ives
Date: Monday, 3 October 2005 01:19 pm (UTC)