Weddings, Unitarians, Work and Study, Aboriginal Camp, V for Vendetta, Memage

[tcpip]

thorfin's and seedy_girl's wedding at the Fairfield ampitheatre yesterday was a delight. Attended with caseopaya and her friend Karin who was engaging in a three-day holiday from Perth. Chatted with a bundle of old friends and then went out to a local with trayce, Nick, bar_bar_ella, kits_the_dm, and proceeded to drink an excessive amount.

Following morning I was most unwell to put it mildly. I missed the bus to the Church literally by 60 seconds, so I had to take a taxi. Despite looking and feeling like death warmed up, I conducted the service and, upon discovering half way through that Andrew Chalmers was unable to make it (struck down with the 'flu) I had to improvise, repeating a prior presentation on The Future of the Human Species. However it turns out that despite the fact that presentation was given some eighteen months ago, our radio producer had used it recently. What to do? An impromptu interview on the life of famous Unitarian-Universalist and inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee. Immediately after that I was slotted in to lead the discussion at the Church philosophy group on the economic virtues of land-tax under the title of "Common Wealth or Stolen Wealth?". Just to continue the roller-coaster day, we also had a session of GURPS Australian Noir, which involved brain sucking aliens from beyond the stars.

Work was tiring this week. Have delved far too deeply into the innards of MS-SQL server, learning about things I never thought I would have to worry about. Spent far too much time trying to work out how to do animated GIFs with The Gimp. I'm really not a graphics-orientated person in case no-one's noticed. Oh, and I've enrolled for semester 3 for CCNA and for a Microsoft Certified Professional course at NMIT.

Wrote to the City of Melbourne this week urging them not to forcible disband the aboriginal camp in King's Domain. Prime Minister Howard is worried it will end up like the Canberra Aboriginal embassy. An hour after sending the letter out organisers of the Black GST circulated it to their members are a pro-forma example.

Saw V for Vendetta on Wednesday with caseopaya, kremmen and dukeofmelbourne. Thought very highly of it and quite liked the inclusion of contemporary themes. Alan Moore's criticisms are, in my opinion, overly harsh.

Oh, and apparently I'm in the top 0.12% of livejournal users which is quite a surprise. I feel very honoured. After all, gentle readers, I wouldn't be able to do it without you.

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[drjon.livejournal.com]

"I explained to [Larry Wachowski] that I'd had some bad experiences in Hollywood," Mr. Moore said. "I didn't want any input in it, didn't want to see it and didn't want to meet him to have coffee and talk about ideas for the film."

But at a press conference on March 4, 2005, to announce the start of production on the "V for Vendetta" film, the producer Joel Silver said Mr. Moore was "very excited about what Larry had to say and Larry sent the script, so we hope to see him sometime before we're in the U.K." This, Mr. Moore said, "was a flat lie."

"Given that I'd already published statements saying I wasn't interested in the film, it actually made me look duplicitous," he said.

Through his editors at DC Comics (like Warner Brothers, a subsidiary of Time Warner), Mr. Moore insisted that the studio publicly retract Mr. Silver's remarks. When no retraction was made, Mr. Moore once again quit his association with DC (and Wildstorm along with it), and demanded that his name be removed from the "V for Vendetta" film, as well as from any of his work that DC might reprint in the future.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

"Given that I'd already published statements saying I wasn't interested in the film, it actually made me look duplicitous," he said.

Published statements?

Well if they were published that would be the end of the debate.

Although Moore's reaction is still a bit over the top. Very much once bitten, twice shy.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

True. Except he'd been bitten lots, not just once.