Friday, July 22, 2005
“It's me, Obi-Wan ... Dar”
At PPMB ...
~ Martin Pollard announced a planned Outpost Daria update, this Monday evening, 25 July. He asked for any current fan-works submissions by Monday "at the very latest."
~ An essay by DJW on "Daria and the Marvel Universe" expands upon her appearances in the Beavis & Butthead comic books (published by Marvel) and suggests crossovers, parallels, and all sorts of cosmic and publishing karma.
~ Richard Lobinske's "John Lane 8" is listed as being finished.
~ TAG's "Darkness" post-apocalypse serial is up to Part 10.
~ Yet another "Scenes No Daria Fic Should Ever Have" thread is about to close after 300 posts. (Kem, by the way, is archiving these at her Glitter Berries site.)
~ Mike Xeno has a new Iron Chef based on a British series that he says is akin to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in irreverence. "Red Dwarf" uses a "Better Than Life" story device that
doesn't give you what you say you want, or even what you think you want - it gives you what you really want, dredging the depths of your subconscious for your innermost desires, both subtle and gross.
At SFMB ...
~ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has no fewer than three discussion threads going in The Written Word. ... Would Daria have ever fit in at Hogwarts, I wonder?
~ Fan art from "SRA," who's asking for viewers to identify this setting from the "Star Wars" milieu:
(By the way, right-click and choose "View Image" or the equivalent to see the full-size graphic.)
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# posted by Greybird @ 2:35 AM 
