UKLeG on Earthsea, Found Santa, and a sad story

[skreidle]

It would seem Ursula K. LeGuin is none too pleased about the direction that was taken with the movie adaptation of her story, what with the themes they fabricated and injected and the words they put into her mouth...

The US Dept. of Justice released posters aimed at assisting authorities with properly identifying and searching Muslims and Sikhs; BoingBoing.net created one to offer to South Asian shopkeepers in rural areas: Common Redneck Head Coverings. (via bluekitsune)

Santa Claws Lobster and his flying crawfish! (via xviragox)

Worst human interest story I've heard recently, relayed by liandriel:

There's been a small drama over on Xanga this week -- a wonderful woman has been illegally evicted from her home with nine days' notice and put up a Paypal link for donations, so her kids won't be homeless for Christmas (long story short). Some random girl surfed by and made a snotty comment that this woman should get a job, rather than begging for money online. Drama ensued, and one of the things this girl said was, "Seriously though why give money to someone you dont even know?"

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[reverend-dave.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of the story of a reporter's conversation with Ray Bradbury (possibly right after the dud of a Martian Chronicles TV mini-series). Supposedly, the reporter asked Bradbury what he thought about poor screen adaptations ruining his books, and the author gestured at his bookshelf and said "They're not ruined! They're right there!"

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Ha! I've heard about that. :)