Comments on: Things We Saw Today: This Star Wars Wedding Cake Is Most Impressive

By: Laura Truxillo

Laura Truxillo — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:29:00 +0000

To be fair, ours kinda helped kill the local video stores. But there’s a big difference in the mentality that says “I want my ten free movies a week” and the one that says “I need a buncha free books right now.” If they’re reading for pleasure, odds are good they’ll buy books as well (or else why do my housemate and I, both of us library workers, have a house full of books that we OWN), and if they’re doing research, well, that’s part of the whole purpose of a library.

It’s such a silly argument. If anything, amazon is “killing” bookstores, just as sure as Netflix killed Blockbuster. (I say we helped because hey, you can pay ten bucks a month or you can get movies for free, and most of our patrons don’t use Netflix.)

By: Laura Truxillo

Laura Truxillo — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:25:00 +0000

Eh. I work at a library aaaaaannd…

It’s half-true. Not quite as dire as that, and not for the same reason. But our library is a kinda depressing place to work, because TPTB decided that if people like movies, then by golly, we should have ALL THE MOVIES. Not just Criterion stuff or what-have-you. If it made it to theatres, it makes it to our shelves, usually with about 20-30 copies so no one has to wait “too long” to get their free movies. And they pick up almost as many of obscure-but-crappy things like the Disney knock-offs too.

One of the first questions we usually hear after signing someone up for a library card is “where’re the movies at?”

Books still move, sure, but our library decided that adapting with the times means catering to people who want movies, and the older folks who come in wanting romance, gardening, or cookbooks (or racist political books,but the election’s over so not as much).

DC’s response doesn’t sit right. I understand their trying to be diplomatic, but there’s a big difference between personal views (I know at least a few writers/artists I quite like who I do not share personal or political views with), but personal ACTIONS are something else entirely. Meh, it’s a mess.

By: Magic Xylophone

Magic Xylophone — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:45:00 +0000

So, three or four times?

By: Betty Windsor

Betty Windsor — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:26:00 +0000

Did i just read….scyfy and mini-series!? FINALLY

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:26:00 +0000

Are those action figures on the cakes?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:43:00 +0000

That Oscar poster is so awesome, I don’t even care that there are some undeserved movies on it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 06:38:00 +0000

If an anti-cupcake bigot smashes my delicious cupcake before I can eat it, and I say hey, go be anti-cupcake at your own table and stop smashing my food, I am not an anti-anti-cupcake bigot.

Card has the right to his personal beliefs. DC has the right to hire him, though they should know that hiring a content creator known for getting more than a little didactic with his personal beliefs in his work has the potential to alienate their fans. Fans have the right to their feelings about Card and DC hiring him.

By: TKS

TKS — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:46:00 +0000

Dang it, Syfy, stop making things that sound great “in theory.” If I had a nickle for every time I was disapointed by a Syfy original, I could fund the SFX of the next “Crocosarus” movie.

By: Julie Allen

Julie Allen — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:38:00 +0000

I love that Deary cites Dahl’s “Matilda” in his argument. The library wasn’t irrelevant to her, certainly; in fact, it because her escape from the horrible home in which she lived. As if I needed even more proof that he has no idea about which he speaks.

By: Calum Syers

Calum Syers — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:12:00 +0000

I must say, even before reading the Jezebel article, I’ve been a fan of Eden Sher for a little while. “The Middle” is generic as sin, and the casting of sitcom-friendly actors as the parents (Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn) keeps the show itself from ever being anything other than middle of the road sitcom fare. But, the performances from the two teens, Sher and Charlie McDermott are really, really good. They really lift the show out of the duldrums of bottom of the barrel. So, I’m glad to hear her speaking up on behalf of more female filmmakers and show runners.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:31:00 +0000

Here’s The Gutters’s take on the Card issue: http://www.the-gutters.com/comic/378-ben-bates

By: Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:14:00 +0000

I wonder if Card were advocating against interracial marriage, would DC hire him and then defend his personal beliefs (and actions, because c’mon).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:00:00 +0000

The only reason I started reading some of the Horrible Histories books as a kid was because I borrowed one of them from my local library.

That means that Terry Deary is quite possibly the wrongest person in the entire world.

By: Rebecca Pahle

Rebecca Pahle — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:54:00 +0000

It’s such a random argument! You’re just ticked off that you get less money from a library than from a bookstore, admit it. And then deal with it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:22:00 +0000

The argument that it’s libraries that are killing bookstores is insane. He even says it in the article: libraries have existed for 150 years… if they’re killing bookstores now, that’s a really slow-growing problem. You might say it’s not even a problem at all.

By: Ryan Colson

Ryan Colson — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:13:00 +0000

-Didn’t think the Padmanakin wedding place was real since the films are so CGIfull.. ZING!
-Anti Gay Biggots 1, Anti Anti Gay Biggots 0 on that one!