Okay, so I've seen this for years now, down the street from where I live, and every time I thought "damn I wish I had a camera"

Today I was futzing around with google and found the image that looked like what I'd seen all those times. And then I got my camera out.

I blacked out the guy's phone number but otherwise the images are unadulterated.


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Please to boost signal. The fail is strong in this one. Stolen shamelessly, as would befit this type of story, from the headlines Wank Report.

some moron with the handle Canacreations lifts a pic from Rich Morris's Ten Doctors Dr. Who fan comic and makes a t-shirt out of it. Is outed as an art thief.

Thief then goes on the defensive to mansplain ( Read more... )

*plus one more: despite the fact I didn't want to revisit this article, please see this link for further info on censorship, racefail, and general suckitude. Thank you.

*ETA 0: I am reliably informed that the message boards over at Masque are being erased and censored. I mention this for anyone with the inclination to screencap the thing. I refuse ( Read more... )

This article kills me ( Read more... )

Original article here:

German teen writes book made of other people's work, calls it  "mixing"

the apparently former agent has the best observation:

In the beginning, her agent, Petra Eggers, said that the critics could not distinguish between the novel’s 16-year-old protagonist and the author. “It’s the other way around now, there’s nothing left,” Ms ( Read more... )

I'm a big fan of creators rights over copyright infringers. This is obvious if you read much I write. On the other hand....

You remember the song "Land Down Under" by Men At Work? That came out in 1983, for all the youngsters out there. My senior year of high school. It was a huge hit. Love it. Still sing along to it. Even tried Vegemite once ( Read more... )