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[meganbmoore]

[Poll #1115911][Poll #1115911] ETA: And before everyone instinctively answers, I would just like to ask: How many fandoms like to write about teenaged boys getting it on with 30 foot tall robots? Don't answer, just ponder before clicking.

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[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

I remain inordinantly proud, in a shamefully geeky way, of the time I got the author of that piece to facepalm by answering a "so how do you pronounce 'drow'?" poll with "Moriquendi"...

Political forums do bring a particularly vitriolic flavor of batshit, but really I don't think there's any subject that can't degenerate into wank and insanity once it reaches a critical mass; it can just take one gadfly or unmedicated nutter to touch off a chain reaction, especially in a group that was previously sufficiently warm-and-fuzzy that the denizens have not learned to refrain from feeding trolls. I used to work for an ISP, dealing with complaints about spammers and online harassment and other general Customer Naughtiness, and one particularly groaner-worthy case had much of the readership of a figure-skating fan newsgroup reduced to shrieking bloodthirsty harpies because one of our users was SAYING MEAN, INSENSITIVE THINGS about a skater. THE HORROR!

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

Facepalming is never so much fun than when you make someone do it in real life, though. I managed to scare a friendly and good-natured bloke who's main vice was a liking for old-school punk rock by playing him a lounge singer version of a Dead Kennedys song. The reaction was the sort of priceless that belongs in a credit card advertisement.

I'm not really all that surprised that it was figure skating, of all the possible sports, that went that way, though: isn't that the sport that Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding were involved with?

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Lounge-singer DK cover? Oh, please tell me I can find a sample of that somewhere online; that sounds like the sort of Deep Wrongness that I live for!

And yes, after the endless drama of the Whiny Ice Bitches, I would cheerfully have taken a club to ALL of them. If only the run-of-the-mill wank and drama could have taken a page from the time we dealt with an out-of-control dispute between rival factions of U.S. Civil War reenactors -- those dear gentlemen managed to stay in character throughout the entire flamefest, and seeing such scathing insults exchanged in proper 1860s language brought a delighted tear to my eye, it was such a change of pace from the usual godawful prose...

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

A bit of quick googling has picked up a couple of possible links: this one, which looks rather dubious - I haven't been able to check due to having a very poor quality internet connection (http://richard-cheese-holiday-in-cambodia-dead--mp3-download.kohit.net/_/339559) - and this listing at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Nightclub-Richard-Against-Machine/dp/B000IOM49I) which doesn't, unfortunately, seem to have any way of actually listening to the songs concerned other than actually buying the disk itself.

I first found out about Richard Cheese and his Lounge Against the Machine two years ago on the regular summer bizarre-music-on-radio show I've mentioned elsewhere; they played his version of "Hey Ya". I was fairly much hooked at that point (I have been an aficionado of thoroughly inappropriate cover versions ever since hearing the Flying Lizards' version of "Money").

This idea of a civil war between rival groups of Civil War re-enactors appeals to my sense of irony; that they would carry out the flamewar in character is just the icing on the cake. People just don't seem to know how to really insult people any more. Nowadays it's all eff this and eff that and no originality at all.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

First link was fine, and oh, I think I love you now! THE JINGLE BELLS! This is quite possibly the most awesome thing since Pat Boone's heavy metal album, or the bluegrass cover of Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice", or the sensitive-70s-acoustic-folk-rock take on "Baby Got Back"...

I wish I'd had that song a week ago; must save a local copy so I can use it to traumatize folks next Christmastime...

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

The show I've been hearing that stuff on is "Matinee Idle (http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/matineeidle)", and has been accused by at least one emailer-to-the-presenters as only having seven CDs, six of which are "The Very Best of Doctor Demento".

That bluegrass cover... wouldn't have been by Hayseed Dixie, would it? I've heard a couple of their songs before (I think they visited the country a couple of years ago and therefore got a fair bit of radio yackety yak time).

I managed to traumatise my sister-in-law just before Christmas dinner by playing her this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfoccRna6I). Last week's was probably the best behaved Christmas the extended family has had since my niece and nephew figured out how to be naughty...

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's by The Gourds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8njCwGwGwI)...although in the course of looking for that on YouTube I see there's a Richard Cheese lounge version now as well, sweetness!

And Beatles meets Led Zep? Nice. Now I have the urge to haul out the Rutles and Dread Zeppelin...