dogpoet

No, I've never seen Tetsuo II. Isn't it pretty much the same plot but longer and with skinhead body builders?

 

I wish that dude would make some more films instead of just acting in Miike's movies.

 

No, well, it's similar but more bizarre. I don't know how to describe it. PM me your address and I'll send it to you.

I dunno if that's true about it being more bizarre: it's a lot more plot driven than the first one was.

Actually, as far as anime goes, does anybody know if an uncut version of Battle Of The Planets/Ninja Team Gatchaman has ever been translated into English? Every English version of it seems to be based on the original Sandy Frank translation and so dumps most of the violence, all of the bodycount and Zoltar being a hermaphrodite...

I see. I think they're being given a television programme to distibute this, aren't they?

If Channel 4 are hellbent on showing footage of a post millenial Monkees, Super Furry Animals would probably be a lot more fun.

Bit surprised nobody can see the hilarity born of pathos in this one:

I'm not sure how Grinning Fellow's parents will react to a strange thirtysomething bloke from England turning up on their doorstep to see their son though. They'd probably think I was some kind of pervert who had been grooming him via the internet.

Also to consider, a new trend happening with heterosexual males is this "metrosexual" look.

I attribute that to guys nowadays trying to attune themselves more to what women want, so they can up their chances of being in a relatiionship or getting laid. The wome like how gay guys look, so they pressure their straight boyfriends to look like that. :cool:

Sounds plausible, but given that it's a tendency that appears to have started in media circles, it could also have to do with the higher than average proportion of "out" gay men in that particular industry.

So does that mean Telos doesn't distribute to regular bookstores?

I'm unsure how much bookstore distribution they have: As a small press doing genre stuff the fiction tends mostly to be targetted at specialist shops (there was, apparently a listing in the UK version of Previews). I don't think I've seen any of their stuff in Waterstones or Borders, put it that way. There's also the fact that the book hasn't made it into any bookshops as far as I'm aware just yet, so is only available through Amazon and Telos' website, and with Amazon making it inconvenient to purchase, that's most of the sales gone. Hopefully, as you say, the situation will improve once bookshop copies start leaking out.

Just started the last book in the Accomplice series.

:o

 

But that would be illegal!

 

Actually I wouldn't be supplementing his income as I don't pay to see movies ever anyway being as my other job is in a cinema.

Probably just as well under the circumstances.

To be honest, Ade, having read that is the main reason I'm staying out of the forum in question.

I am saying you should try and understand what you are reading before being all indignant about it.

Fair point.

How very kind of you.

 

Perhaps you should be aware that anyone who does not join in the fun when required to do so may find themselves banned. Wise people have kept quiet about any complaints they might have.

So you're saying that the complaint I have now withdrawn was correct and I should have stood by it?

Why can't I be free to hate him and not have to supplement his income by watching his movies?

There's that torrentserver thing...

Those therein will be banned from posting elsewhere in the forums while this is going on?

I'm not taken with that: all the opportunities for Gaiman dissing are in "Comics" and "Comics In Other media"

No.

 

Those that discuss the matters therein outside of in there will be banned.

 

Anyone that breaks the rules in the eyes of the judges will be banned.

Fine.

I'll stay outside of the novelty forum for the duration, then, and apologise for telling you to fuck off therein.

(Not that I did, of course: as I'm avoiding the novelty forum now that it has been cleared up that the miserable business is not being imposed upon the whole of the forum save a smug triumverate by divine fiat.)

 

Yawn.

I lost my temper because I feared that you were imposing this stupid farce upon every bastard else in the forum. As you're not all is well in the world.

I'm a trifle miffed myself, to be honest.

I was a little shocked by that when I read it Dogpoet.

 

I thought to myself, it is just a little bit of stupid fun that's not going to affect the rest of the forum, is he joking or has he lost his mind? There's no call for that sort of fucking language. ;)

If it is just a bit of stupid fun that isn't going to affect the rest of the forum, then there is (as you say) no call for that kind of language. If, however, it is something that is being imposed on everybody who uses the forum apart from Ade, John and Emma then they deserve a rather more pointed cussing out than I could hope to muster.

Still, as Adrian has explained that it's actually the former, I was in the wrong there. Which is why I have deleted it.

I don't know what power you as an author might have to influence your publisher but it might be an idea for them to do the same.

Precisely buggerall. The thing I find worrying, though is that I don't believe Amazon have done this with any of said publisher's other publications, so it looks like they're picking on me specifically and as this appears to be the main channel for any retail of the book besides my publisher's website, that means I'm completely and utterly fucked as far as selling any books goes.

Those therein will be banned from posting elsewhere in the forums while this is going on?

I'm not taken with that: all the opportunities for Gaiman dissing are in "Comics" and "Comics In Other media"

No.

 

Those that discuss the matters therein outside of in there will be banned.

 

Anyone that breaks the rules in the eyes of the judges will be banned.

Fine.

I'll stay outside of the novelty forum for the duration, then, and apologise for telling you to fuck off therein.

(Not that I did, of course: as I'm avoiding the novelty forum now that it has been cleared up that the miserable business is not being imposed upon the whole of the forum save a smug triumverate by divine fiat.)

Sorry to ask as you've probably posted this elsewhere Dogpoet but is there some problem with your publisher and /amazon concerning the stocking of your book?

No problem, Inca.

For some reason Amazon have decided to treat the book like a print to order exercise: ie an overly long delivery period, a sourcing fee and the rest of it. I have no idea why they're pulling this, they haven't informed telos of any reason why they're doing it (my editor found it was news when I mentioned that they were charging an extra couple of quid above the cover price of the book as a sourcing fee) so the whole thing doesn't really bode well.

I have just placed an order there for a book I may have mentioned in passing to see how long it takes them to scrounge up a copy and get it into the post.

 

they always have an estimate of how long it'll take to ship a book. if it says anything more than 3-6 weeks, you're fucked.

It's claiming 4-6 weeks which (as you say) isn't a good sign. I'm curious as to whether they actually can rustle up a copy or are merely pissing all over my publishers, at this point. Mind you, as a copy is probably unlikely to materialise before Friday, the matter is likely to remain unresolved for the forseeable future.

I have just placed an order there for a book I may have mentioned in passing to see how long it takes them to scrounge up a copy and get it into the post.

she is just another victim of the change in trends in recent years. Shame on artists who change style just to suit the thirst of the blood thirsty consumer.

If it's that or taking a job at MacDonald's, which would you rather?

(That's assuming that you don't owe your record company a small fortune already, of course, which is by no means a sure thing.)

Is it really open yet though because there doesn't seem to be a full house of contestants yet. I think any posts there are just auditions so posting outside of that forum is allowed for a while longer.

 

Or fuck you all I'm posting wherever the fuck I like. ;) :D

Hang on: the whole damn board is shutting down apart from whoever there is in that forum at the time?

Is this that daft "Fight A Chav" video?

That Bloke Constantine

Somewhere in Glasgow within walking distance of a tobbaconists

Lanarkshire

Scotland

The UK

But I just posted in it...ignorance of the law IS my only excuse!

Nip back and delete it before anybody notices.