(1) WHEN LAST HEARD FROM. Rachael Acks, your life is calling. Confessions of a Pokémon Go player.
I wasn’t going to play Pokémon Go. Seriously. I’ve never played Pokémon in my entire life. I still have zero desire to pick up any of the other games, because I am not interested in that kind of grind.
But then my friend Corina wanted to go for a long walk and catch all the local Poké Stops. Which are in the same location as Ingress portals, so I thought what the hell, I might as well get back into playing Ingress. I haven’t done that since getting back to Colorado. Oh and fine, I’ll download Pokémon Go while I’m at it and try, since I’ll be out there anyway. It’s probably dumb and I won’t like it.
And now I find myself out there, sitting on a picnic table in a park at midnight, farming Pokémon, and once a day reminding myself to log on to Ingress and keep my hacking streak going. What the hell happened? I don’t even go here.
(2) GHASTLY NEWS. The trolls and haters have driven Leslie Jones off Twitter with their racist abuse. 🙁
I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today…wrong
— Leslie Jones ???? (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016
According to Salon, Twitter administrators are working to deal with the problem.
It all seemed to be going well for a while. Over the weekend, the actress and comic was tweeting out photos sent by happy fans attending screenings of her film, and praise for colleagues. Then on Monday, she issued a warning, saying, “Some people on here are f__king disgusting. I’m blocking your filthy ass if retweet that perverted s__t. Just know that now bitches!!” And then she proceeded to demonstrate just how bad it really is to be a woman of color — even more gallingly for the ignorant trolls, a successful woman of color — on Twitter. She shared tweets from a variety of low-functioning cretins, too many to list here but several with the theme of comparing Jones to a gorilla.
…But as fans and supporters have come forward to report the abuse, either Twitter administration actually has done something or the trolls themselves haven’t been able to stand the attention. By Tuesday morning, at least some of the more revolting posters seem to have disappeared — gee, was the reference to the KKK in your user name, bro? At least one racist troll has been suspended. Fun fact: You will not find too many on Twitter who think it’s funny to call a stranger a racial slur who use their own name or image on their account….
(3) INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST. Alexandra Erin reports: “Ghostbusters Enjoys $46m Opening Weekend Entirely On Strength of Guys From The Internet Sitting Alone In Empty Theaters With Their Phone Cameras”.
As reported on breitbart.com, Sony’s Ghostbusters opened this weekend to a slew of empty seats in empty theaters, taking in an impressive $46 million dollars from the men of various Gamergate-affiliated internet forums, who all bought tickets for the sole purpose of taking pictures of otherwise empty auditoriums to post on Twitter in order to prove that the movie really was a bomb, no matter what the feminist conspiracy is making the biased left-wing media say about it.
The journalistic zeal of these amateur photographers was enough to bump the reboot into second place for the weekend, finishing just behind the family entertainment powerhouse The Secret Life of Pets (first, at $50 million). The multitudes of men sitting alone in empty theaters gave seasoned director Paul Feig and hit comic actor Melissa McCarthy their biggest openings yet, as well as making Ghostbusters the most successful debut for a live-action comedy all year….
(4) CRITICAL CAT. At Camestros Felapton’s blog, Timothy the Talking Cat weighs in on the day’s most important cultural issue: “Review: Ghostbusters Versus Timothy”.
CF: So Ghostbusters, what did you think?
Timothy: Overall I felt the duffel bag could have been larger.
CF: Seriously, it was the only way to get you into the cinema.
Timothy: Ah, the ‘No Cats’ rule again.
CF: Specifically the ‘No cats called Timothy because he keeps shouting at the characters in the movie’ rule again.
Timothy: I believe my fellow patrons enjoy my ad-hoc commentary.….
(5) CHAT WITH A DOCTOR EMERITUS. The Guardian hosted the “Matt Smith webchat – fear, football and a female Doctor Who”. Highlights:
- “I think a Lady Doctor could be close”
How does my daughter become the Doctor? She wants to know. Thanks!
“Well, she has a chance. I think a Lady Doctor could be close. And would be fun. So practise, practise, practise. And talk really fast. And think really fast. And be really brave. And mad. And silly. And good luck maybe it will be you!”
- “I miss time travelling. But it’s Peter’s Tardis now”
There were rumours that you would return for the 10th season. Is this true?
“No it’s not true…. I miss everything. I miss Steven, I miss Karen, I miss Arthur, I miss Jenna. I miss time travelling. And I miss my friends in Cardiff. BUT onward goes the march. It’s Peter’s Tardis now. And I love what he does. So I watch as a fan.”
(6) SNEAK PEEKS. Cnet invites you to “Check out these two set photos from ‘Star Wars: Episode VIII’”.
Director Rian Johnson posted some set photos from his upcoming movie. Maybe you’ve heard of it….
All the photos really tell us is that the upcoming Star Wars film has both spaceships and oddly shaped black helmets, which I think most of us would have put money on already.
(7) STEPHANIE CLARKSON (1971-2016). Laurie Beth Brunner reported on Facebook that Boston area fan Stephanie Clarkson passed away today.
Stephanie died peacefully this morning at 5:30 a.m., with her mother keeping her company and holding her.
I like to think that her body was simply inadequate to the task of containing her spirit, and so it let her go free. 🙁
Thank you all so much for all the love and support you have shown to Stephanie, to her family, and to me as well. I know that she loved you all and was so grateful for everything everyone did for her, even when she was sometimes unable to express it.
Good night, Stephanie, and flights of Muppets sing thee to thy rest.
(8) MISSION OVERACCOMPLISHED. There’s a Kickstarter raising funds to reproduce NASA’s manual for the 1969 Moon landing — “Apollo 11 Flight Plan Re-Issue”.
We are starting from the beginning and reproducing every single page, using accurate fonts, colors, spacing and paper, as well as reproducing all vector graphics based on very high resolution scans of the original Apollo 11 Final Flight Plan.
A lot of people think this is a good idea. So many, that it’s raised $59,369, far in excess of its original goal of $11,274. And there are still 26 days left to go.
(9) NEIL CLARKE, IMPOSTOR? That’s the title of his post – “Impostor”. Fortunately, he sounds like he’s on his way to recovery.
It’s easy to start something when people have little or no expectations from you. I can’t tell you how many people told us Clarkesworld would be “dead within a year.” Somewhere around the third year, that changed. Being taken seriously was intimidating. Success felt great, but I was always ready for the rug to be pulled out from under us.
And then, four years ago, I had a near-fatal heart attack. It’s the sort of thing that reshapes your priorities and forces you to examine what you’ve been doing. I think that might have been the first time I honestly admitted to myself that I was a professional editor and deserved to be paid for my work, no matter how much I enjoyed it. That said, I’m still very good at ignoring the voice that says “you earned this.” That list of accomplishments… that’s what my childhood heroes did. In that light, it’s often a case of “I’m not worthy.”
That brings us to today. I can’t quite say that I’m a recovered impostor, but that I can blog about it is a promising sign. I can see why hiding behind the magazine has worked for me and I also understand why others feel I should “own my brand.” Perhaps I can step out periodically and see what happens. As I said, frightening, but maybe I’m ready.
(10) KEEP ON TRUCKING. Gareth D. Jones reviews “The End Of The World Running Club by Adrian J Walker” for SFCrowsnest.
This sounds good, I thought. A post-apocalyptic tale about a man who has to run the length of Britain to find his family. The cover does not look like a Science Fiction book, though, it looks like a ‘literary’ book. More worryingly, when it arrived, it had a sticker on the front cover advertising the ‘BBC Radio 2 Book Club’. My dad used to listen to Radio 2. Technically, I am now in the right age bracket to listen to Radio 2 myself, but do I really want to put myself in that bracket and read that kind of book? Too late. The book was in my possession and I was committed to reading it.
Within a few pages I was hooked….
(11) LOVE THE HEADLINE. At SF Site News, Steven H Silver showed some flair in his title: “Muppets” Take Ankh-Morpork:
The Jim Henson Company has announced they are developing a film based on Sir Terry Pratchetts Wee Free Men, with a script to be written by Pratchett’s daughter, Rhianna Pratchett. The project is a collaboration between the Jim Henson Company and Narrativia, a company set up to promote Pratchett’s works. Rhianna Pratchett and Sir Terry’s assistant, Rob Wilkins, will serve as Executive Producers on the project. For more information…
(12) OPEN MOOSE SURGERY. I missed this at the time in 2015 – a thorough restoration of the iconic Rocky and Bullwinkle statue that used to be in front of the Jay Ward Studios.
In a post on Vintage Los Angeles on Saturday, Martino recalled meeting Ricardo Scozzari, who restored the sculpture. “I tracked down the brilliant restoration genius who put our friends back together and lovingly restored them,” she said. “THEY ARE BASICALLY BULLET PROOF NOW! And it wasn’t easy! The statue was falling apart when it was removed from its iconic location on the morning of July 22, 2013. Meet the man who rescued our local landmark! Ricardo Scozzari!”
“I restored the statue twice,” said Scozzari. “Once on the Sunset Strip and the final time as you see it now. It was a fun project. Bullwinkle had ‘open heart surgery’ — literally. I had to open his chest to strengthen his internal structure. Oh the pictures I have. He looks just like he did back in 1961. Same number of strips on his bathing suit and everything.”
(13) WAILING AWAY. Plonk your magic twanger, Marty — “Michael J. Fox and Coldplay Recreate ‘Back to the Future’ at NJ Concert”.
On Saturday night (July 16), Coldplay kicked off the North American leg of its Head Full of Dreams tour just outside New York in East Rutherford, NJ’s MetLife Stadium. They were back in the same venue the following night, so what did they do to break the mold? Stage an iconic scene from American cinema. Did you ever doubt Chris Martin’s dramatic flair?
During the show’s final encore, Coldplay brought out Michael J. Fox, Gibson Les Paul in hand. Together, they transported the crowd to Back to the Future‘s Enchantment Under the Sea dance, with a couple of ‘50s classics. First, they played a little of the Penguins’ “Earth Angel” and after that — of course — Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.” The homage came as a request from Martin’s son, Moses, who was hoping to get a real life taste of his favorite movie.
Fox (who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991) has been known to reprise the famous scene at the annual benefit for his Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. For the 2013 benefit, he performed alongside Chris Martin in New York City.
(14) ROAD WARRIOR. Pornokitsch presents “Gail Carriger on ‘The Traveling Writer: A Tip Sheet’”.
I started attending conventions as a fangirl long before I was a professional writer. I knew what to expect and when I got my first Guest of Honor invitation I was over the moon. I still get a little thrill at the very idea that someone wants me to attend a convention… as a guest!
But it’s not the same thing. Whether heading out on a book tour or invited as a guest to a small local sci-fi convention, attending programming at a larger conference, or visiting one of those monster book festivals or comicons there are some things I think a professional writer should always keep in mind.
So here, for your amusement (and perhaps education) are my highly subjective… Tips for the Traveling Writer
- Thou shalt follow the 6, 2, 1 rule
What’s that? At least six hours sleep, two full meals, and one bath.
Actually, I usually try for 8, 3, 2. I recommend a morning swim (at most cons I get an AM pool to myself) plus a hot tub mini soak and shower. People often forget about the hotel pool when there is a major event, so if you like to swim don’t forget the bathing suit and goggles.
(15) SUFFERING FROM THRONE WITHDRAWAL? ScreenRant recommends 15 Fantasy Worlds to Explore While You Wait for the Next Season of Game of Thrones.
1. The Kingkiller Chronicles, Patrick Rothfuss 2. The Gentlemen Bastard Cycle, Scott Lynch 3. The Dark Tower, Stephen King 4. Saga, by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples 5. The Passage Trilogy, Justin Cronin 6. Bone, by Jeff Smith 7. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman 8. Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson 9. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke 10. The Stormlight Archives, by Brandon Sanderson 11. Paper Girls, by Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang 12. The Magicians, by Lev Grossman 13. Rat Queens, by Kurtis J. Wiebe and Various Artists 14. The Wheel Of Time, by Robert Jordan 15. The First Law Universe, by Joe Abercrombie
(16) WE HAVE A WINNER. You never know where the next title is coming from…
File 770: Dropkick Me, Pixel, Through the Scrollposts of Life.
— Sciphideas (@sciphideas) July 19, 2016
(17) BACK IN TIME. The New Yorker presents an interesting video – “A Split-Screen Tour of Los Angeles, Seventy Years Ago and Today”.
Bunker Hill, an area of roughly five square blocks in downtown Los Angeles, holds a place in city lore similar to that of the water wars or the construction of Dodger Stadium: beginning in 1959, it was the subject of a massive urban-renewal project, in which “improvement” was generally defined by the people who stood to profit from it, as well as their backers at City Hall, at the expense of anyone standing in their way. In the early part of the twentieth century, the neighborhood had been home to some of the city’s most elegant mansions and hotels; by the nineteen-fifties, these had mostly been subdivided into low-income housing, and the area was populated by a mix of pensioners, immigrants, workers, and people looking to get lost—a period memorialized in several noir films and the realist gem “The Exiles.” The Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project was adopted in 1959 and somehow lasted an astonishing fifty-three years. The result, and what it means, are the subject of this short film by Keven McAlester, which compares what the same streets in downtown Los Angeles looked like in the nineteen-forties and today.
[Thanks to Bartimaeus, Dawn Incognito, JJ, James Davis Nicoll, Carl Slaughter, John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Sciphideas.]
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I made a detour to run to Twitter and tell my pal Harry about the Bullwinkle statue. That’s presuming he wasn’t already there, taking pictures.
Good job on the title, too. I meant to compliment another one of the recent ones—not mine, surprisingly—and now all I can think about is going to bed. And tickybox. (edited to add: I’ll bet it was “Snort, Harlequin!” Good luck me explaining why I’m chuckling over that thirty years from now.)
Noticed sheet music for “Hey, Look Me Over” sitting out today and read through all the words. Jeez, how fifties can you get? I’ve been singing an unintentionally loopy mondegreen version of it to myself for years, which wasn’t even complete, and that’s why I was looking at it, and now you know. The rest.
Of the story.
Good Day!
Let me be someone’s second stepping stone…
ETA: and, of course, by being specific, I was wrong. 🙂
…and a final stepping stone then
[Ticky]
2. According to Twitter, the instigator of the racist assault, Milo Yiannopoulos has been permanently banned. Given that it took years of his racism and sexism to actually get something done, this isn’t really speaking well of Twitter. And of course, he still has his own site.
Give me your CHORFs, your files, your hoopy pixels,
Yearning to scroll free.
Clicky.
Do you people realize it’s nearly 1am? Do I?
If there’s something foul,
In your twitter feed,
who you gonna ban?
Good riddance. Milo’s trade is inflicting misery on others – nobody is under any moral obligation to enable that.
…also, to continue on the Ghostbuster’s theme. Puppies of both stripes should like it over the original:
1. Less romance
2. Heroic engineer character (yes Egon built all that stuff in the original but Holtzmann is overtly an engineer rather than an academic)
3. More shooting at things
….aaaaaand he’s already off whining about his free speech being infringed, which just adds English to the loooooong list of things that Mr Yiannopoulos does not get.
Scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll pixels scroll scroll scroll and scroll!
Lovely scroll! Wonderful scroll!
Milo is British right? Now his legal basis for complaining against violation of his basic human rights would be via European Convention on Human Rights – a thing that more right-leaning British conservatives hate with a deep and abiding passion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_10_of_the_European_Convention_on_Human_Rights
(Imagining M. Yiann etc dressed like Miley Cyrus)… “He went out like a Pixel Scroll…”
(1) WHEN LAST HEARD FROM.
Started playing it last Thursday. It’s fun & I’ve been walking more than before.
Gotta ::ticky:: them all!
Since the Brits have no right of free speech AT ALL save that given by the dreaded commies and other foreign johnnies in the EU who’ve been jolly well Brexited, and people in the US have no right to free speech supported by private companies (only the government isn’t allowed to infringe), poor widdle Milo should buck up and take pride in not being cursed with those liberal cooties any more. He’s pure!
I hope Leslie Jones comes back. She’s actually funny.
(3) I think I see their problem. Most of the photos of empty cinemas show the screen. None of the screens are actually showing the film. No wonder the places are empty – everyone is in the places that are actually screening something.
Why the manbabies are sitting in empty rooms in the dark where nothing is being screened is a mystery.
(2) I, too, hope Leslie will come back, and I hope to see more of her work; she’s great!
Love the scroll title.
Okay, kicking Yiannopoulos off Twitter is a nice start, but how many tens of thousands of his jackbooted followers did they permaban? And will Twitter respond so swiftly and harshly when somebody who isn’t a movie star get harassed?
Well I saw photos of the Republican convention with lots of empty seats, so maybe that’s where they were. Easy mistake to make as the convention seems to be following the plot of Ghostbusters 2…
Milo has no more of a “right” to a platform on Twitter than I have a “right” to a free column on Breitbart.
As best I can tell, it took thousands of people complaining direct to Twitter’s CEO for anything to be done here, so It doesn’t look so good for everyone who’s not a movie star.
Excellent title. Scrolldos.
Over dinner with my work colleagues the other day, I tried to explain to them the idea of Pokemon Go.
This did not go well. (disclaimer: I am not a player, but I know enough players (like Rachael) to understand how it works). There are plenty of engineers where I work, but they are relatively mundane mechanical ones for the most part. You’d think statistically there’d be more SF fans than there are…
the cinema where I saw Ghostbusters was mostly empty…
…but it was a 12.45 showing on a hot weekend day, and we don’t get so many of those that people go to the cinema to escape…
…and we laughed a lot anyway
Today’s read —
Ara’s Field, by Laurie J. Marks.
Fantasy, third in a series. A diverse group of beings uncover a plot to plunge the world back into inter-species war. Fans of Martha Wells’ Raksura books will find some aspects of this pleasantly familiar, and I wondered a little if Marks was an influence on Wells (it could easily be a coincidence, though.)
This series was written well before Marks’ epic, astonishingly good Elemental Logic series, and it’s possible to trace her growth as a writer across these early books. By the third one, her prose is clear, her characterization sharp, her world-building strong, and the themes of reconciliation after violence that infuse her later work are present throughout. Nonetheless, it still doesn’t compare to her later books (which isn’t really a strong criticism, considering how good those later books are.) This one was well worth reading, but I’d probably only recommend the full series to Marks completionists. Like, apparently, me.
(8) While I still prefer the meatball to the worm logo, this does look good.
(brag)Of course, I already have a copy due to a friend that works at NASA. (/brag)
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Big news: Robert Kirkman, who is behind the Walking Dead TV show, wants to bring the Amber books to the small screen:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-chronicles-of-amber-tv-series-could-be-the-next-gam-1783945517
Is there a chronicle of Amber where everyone gets stuck on a farm for a season?
@oneiros. No, but there may be a RPG scenario or campaign where that has happened…
I could never really enjoy The Walking Dead; the characters always seemed just too damn stupid to survive.
Milo was invited by our conservative party to participate in Pride. They had more or less only published the invitation on Facebook when they had to remove it and apologize because they really wanted nothing to do with him.
Thanks for the link, JJ; SJW credential photo sent
Ghostbuster haters who panned the film before it was ever released are the kind of fanboys whose personalities are an effective form of birth control.
It is not the EU which enforces human rights in Europe. We may yet pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights, but we aren’t doing so simply in virtue of Brexit.
I think I missed a thing–are we sending Mike photos of our cats?
Hope everyone is keeping well. I’m up stupidly early (for me) to meet the guy who’s taking out saplings in the front pasturelet, so I can’t leave the house, but the only available coffee is some leftover year-old Tim Horton’s K-cups.
The garden this year is a bit of a wreck, but one thing I did right was to plant an enormous multi headed orange sunflower outside the kitchen window, so I can sit in the nook and watch hummingbirds dog-fight over access to the flowers. If I can find or save seeds for this variety, definitely planting it again next year. That is some quality entertainment in the morning. Hummingbirds are jerks.
The possibility of someone doing right by Zelazny’s stories are remote. I recall the Earthsea movie and that Riverworld movie. We already have the god DAMNATION ALLEY….
…I woke up today jaded.
@2: the gamer twits made the news across the pond:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36832275/ghostbusters-star-leslie-jones-hits-back-at-crazy-and-sick-racist-abuse
followed by
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36842710 (Yiannopoulos getting banned)
@3: lovely snark; the Gater approach doesn’t even rise to How to Lie with Statistics.
@15: That’s a fascinatingly eclectic list. It seems more like something-for-everyone rather than if-you-liked-that-you’ll-like-this; I’m especially struck by putting Strange & Norrell (a very subtle and indirect work) next to Mistborn (which struck me as being too much about the exposed mechanics — not quite a D&D run or strategic game turned into a novel, but getting there).
@17: It’s hard to tell given the speed at which the film moves and the focus on streets, but neither Then nor Now looks like a prize; replacing run-down buildings with vaguely Brutalist architecture is like a choice of deaths, but displacing people generally doesn’t win.
At least they could find the same streets. I grew up near Rockville MD, whose downtown was cored and replaced with a blank-walled mall shortly before I moved away; that was such a resounding success (especially since the seedy commercial around the mall weren’t touched) that the mall was torn down and new streets put in its place (not IIRC where they had been) ~25 years later. In Boston we can look at the posh apartment buildings and walks that replaced the community Leonard Nimoy grew up in; people remembered that mistake when discussing “renewal” near where I live. I don’t know why anybody still thinks that breaking living networks is a win; 50 years ago in NYC I visited a rehab-in-place project that was specifically designed to let people reoccupy overhauled spaces rather than moving them away.
@Kyra: I remember being unimpressed by Watcher’s Mask (just after the trilogy) but blown away by Dancing Jack. Those were only a year apart; I didn’t think to ask Marks when I met her whether there was some life or learning change that would have made a difference.
OBTW: Mike? You still haven’t fixed yesterday’s date typo (1979 s/b 1986)….
Bleeding Cool are saying there’s a Lovecraft-based TV series in the works.
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/07/20/scoop-lovecraft-series-in-the-works-at-legendary-tv/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
An HPL series could be more redundant than the author’s own words.
Just when you don’t think right-wing use of My Little Pony can get any weirder than the Rabid Puppies Hugo nom, the Republicans trot it out (see what I did there) to justify Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech! Extra obSF bonus–I recognized the quote as coming from an episode titled Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep.
There was mention of a Bronycon somewhere in yesterday’ s news…forgot where…probably The Washington Post, with pictures…
Speaking of Zelazny — I reread Jack of Shadows over the weekend; still one of my favorites. And I’m skeptical about a TV series, but I do think Amber has a lot of potential; and if results in more of Zelazny’s back catalog hitting Kindle, then I’ll be happy even if the show turns out to be a hot mess.
@Robert Whitaker Sirignano
I panned the new Ghostbuster movie before it can out the same way I pan all the stupid reboots and remakes that Hollywood loves to pump out. I consider them awful until proven otherwise.
I have not seen it yet myself because I usually try to wait for the new to wear off before I go to any popular movies. However reports from my friends who have is mixed. A couple like it a lot, a few more did not like it at all, most say parts of it are funny but large parts are not and the story does not bear much thinking about. But comedy is very subjective and the same thing can be said of the story in the original. Most did agree that it was better then II at least.
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12) I’m so happy to see that the Bullwinkle statue has been renovated and will be back on display along Sunset again.
I was in Anaheim for a user conference in 2002 and while everyone else spent a half-day using their free tickets to Disneyland, I rented a car to drive up to see the statue and shop at the nearby Dudley Do-Right Emporium.
@Darren Garrison: Just when you don’t think right-wing use of My Little Pony can get any weirder than the Rabid Puppies Hugo nom, the Republicans trot it out (see what I did there) to justify Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech!
And stole a paragraph from Michelle Obama. They sure want that off the front page.
@Darren Garrison: Just when you don’t think right-wing use of My Little Pony can get any weirder than the Rabid Puppies Hugo nom, the Republicans trot it out (see what I did there) to justify Melania Trump’s plagiarized speech!
And stole a paragraph from Michelle Obama. They sure want that off the front page.
AND threw in a Rickroll for good measure.