Capitalist Running Dog

It must be official. Last night, I registered and paid for the thing. Most important, I have a receipt.

It's still a little screwy. I thought I had registered through the race site, and thought it odd that it didn't give any confirmation or ask for payment. It did ask for an email, and last night, one came through, offering the actual registration through active.com, who I gather has the monopoly on these things (since they'd saved all my information from the ill-fated effort to crash the Turkey Trot last November).

So it's done. And with a lot less annoyance than, say, trying to register a domain name.

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That was the good online experience of the day. Here's the damn weird one:

As you've probably heard, Nora Ephron died yesterday. This was my heartfelt tribute on the Face:

Ray

12 hours ago

RIP, Nora. Wishing you many orgies and not a single wallflower present....

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(Wow, Zuck, that's a buttload'o'code....)

The reference was to Wallflower at the Orgy, which I wouldn't argue as her best ever, but is the only Ephron I own. Still, I did want to be 100% sure it was her book (at this age you can never be too sure), so I googled the title.... and got 10 confirming results from various seller and review sites, but also, strangely, this:

In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 2 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.

Huh? Did her publisher do a takedown on an unauthorized e-copy? Did Google Books get slapped for digitizing it? No, but there quite possibly was a whole lotta slappin' goin' on.

The takedown came from an outfit called kink dot com, which I am not going to dignify with a link. It would appear that "wallflower at the orgy" brought up some of the contents of their, um, extensive library which they did not appreciate being linked to a curmudgeonly old Jewish woman.  Unless, I suppose, you're in to that kind of thing....

Allegedly infringing URLs:
something.org/everything-butt-kristina-rose-amy-brooke/
something.org/public-disgrace-chastity-lynn/
something.org/sex-and-submission-denice-k
something.org/wired-pussy-caught-smoking-while-working/

(That's as far as I got. I can't stand the idea of a cat dying of emphysema.)

My final response to all that TMI?  In her own weird way, I suspect Nora would be pleased:)

Tough choices

I am giving somebody exactly one day to do the right thing before I rain holy hell on them. And this has nothing to do with church.

On a lighter note: I was recently added to a film-and-quality-TV discussion page on LJ called cinematixyz; it's a joint effort by four anonymous fans, who review films of all vintages, comment on assorted stuffs, and do a fair number of polls.  This one was as short and sweet as they get, and asks, simply, the following:


Which is superior OVERALL. Star Wars, Doctor Who, or Star Trek?

Here's my choice and how I defended it:

I gave this one a lot of thought, but I think it has to come down to Trek. Not in terms of the work itself standing on its own; DW beats it in writing, casting, lack of really bad baggage (which is why meesa takes Star Wars out of the conversation) and, yes, even credibility.

Trek wins, for me, because of the doors it opened for so much that followed. The fan support of the original series during its run and after its cancellation, the life they breathed into it for the lost decade, and their virtual creation of the genre of fanfic, are all debts that the Rebel Alliance and the Time Lords owe back to the series. Might Lucas have renewed the interest all by his efforts? Maybe. Would the Doctor have catapulted into worldwide consciousness with something resembling the 2005 revival? I never rule the Doctor out of ANYTHING. But I do know that without Roddenberry's contribution, and the resulting fan interest that it cemented, those roads would have been a lot harder for them.


And so I present the same question here, with your comments on the reasons why, or nits to pick with mine, all welcome in comments:

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