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Okay, so, Fred Phelps and his family of hateful bigots are getting a lot of press for their planned appearance at (or near?) the San Diego Comic Con. The man lives for attention and confrontation. If you see him there, don’t sneer, don’t scream, don’t confront, don’t point and laugh–DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE. Ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore, ignore…

EXCEPT! We need some help in the form of a time-keeper or two, letting us know exactly how long the patron saint of backwards thinking and his family manage to stand and scream in the California sun. Then, by all means, do stare–at your watch! Make a note of what time it is and alert the internet that they’re there/still there. (But do it quietly and from a polite distance, will you?) Go get yourself a cold drink and check back every now and then until we have an approximate time count. Like… here would be good. Or on Twitter, with the hashtag #godlovesbatman

Why? Because in the spirit of love, we are pledging to donate $50 to amfAR if Phelps and his crew actually show up (often they don’t) and $10 an hour additional to amfAR for every hour they stay. And we’ll make our donation in Fred’s name.

We’d love you to join us.

(And we’d really love to be able to post a tally of how much we’ve raised.)

Repost far and wide, my pretties.

EDITED TO ADD:

We’ll be donating to amfAR, but Sam and Ginny have both suggested the Human Rights Campaign. Either seems appropriate.
Looks like the WBC is only scheduled for 45 minutes. (Lightweights!) If that’s the case, we’ll round up to $100–but times are tough and you shouldn’t feel like you have to do the same or not participate. $7.50 is better than nothing. $57.50 is peachy and cute.
There seems to be some confusion–you don’t need to be at SDCC to pledge. We’re doing an online donation via this link.

[From Warren Ellis » God Loves Batman]

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Every time I see an email with one or more of these little buggers the hackles on the back of my neck go up and I want to scream.

In fact just one of them makes my skin crawl, but if someone repeats that key stroke then I’m nearly fit to burst. I just don’t get it. One exclamation mark does the job. It shows me that there is energy in the sentence and that I should give it more emphasis when reading. However, when someone responds to an email (and I get this a lot at work) with a “Thanks!!!” what in Odin’s beard am I supposed to do with that? Is this person really so animated with gratitude that they are dancing around the room in yellow dungarees like some demented kids TV show host?

It is up there with people SHOUTING IN EMAILS. I hate that too. Those people are all bastards.

Furthermore, (wow this is something of a rant now) I can’t abide messages that I get from people written in TXT-speak. I can barely understand those messages, is it really so much effort to write a whole word. What the fuck do you people have against vowels anyway?

I’ll go back in my box now. Clearly something has upset me. Cant imagine what.

Thanks for listening!!!!!!!!!

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Yep, that’s it I’m lazy. I was reading James Moran’s blog the other day (well this day in fact if you must know) and he pointed me to the rather wonderful http://phillbarron.wordpress.com/.  Never heard of Phill Barron, I guess he is a writer of some kind but he does hit several nails on the head with a very large hammer. In a very entertaining and sweary way.

Most often potential writers do not become fully fledged writing writers because they are a) mediocre or b) lazy or c) both. That was the edited highlights, he also emntioned something about whining and bitching and, oh go and read it yourself.

Writing, like any other profession is hard work. I have a day job, that is hard work… why would any other job that people pay you for be any easier. I mean that is why they pay you for work. If it were easy you would probably do it for free… and then starve.

So what does this mean for me? Nothing much I guess because I’m far too lazy to work at something for some potential pay-off that I might get at some point in some possible future. Perhaps I should rant and swear more in my blog posts? Or even posting somthing would be good. I guess there is always Twitter.  Although sometimes 140 characters can be a little difficult to fill…

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