Dragon*Con 2007, Day 4 (concluding)

Well, the last of the Dragon*Con 2007 music programming has ended finally, and though there is other programming scheduled through the 4:00-5:30 block, people are wending their way home and the crowds are decidedly thinning out.

( Cut to save your friends page (and possibly more). )

The annual appeal for my longtime favorite charity

I am disabling all comments on this post because I do not want yet another argument erupting about all the reasons some feel they have to ignore this plea; I concede the valid arguments of those who object to the personal attitudes and comments of the messenger and to the way in which the message is framed. But I don't think that those in need who depend on this effort should be penalized by attempting to devalue the message. If you truly feel a need to refute, rebuke me or otherwise comment, please take it to my e-mail.

( Please at least read...even if you don't give. )

Something else I'm surely gonna burn in hell for liking

Just when you thought Eric Schwartz's "Charliesomething" was the most brain-hurting, offensive desecration of a certain group of beloved childhood icons yet conceived, along comes a young comic-book artist named Jason Yungbluth with this, which I condemned myself to eternal damnation by purchasing in author-signed dead-tree form at Dragon*Con yesterday:

Weapon Brown

Out in Sebastopol, CA, poor old Sparky Schulz is doing 500 RPMs in his grave about now... (And how incredible a coincidence is it that the Drifters appeared on the webcast of the Jerry Lewis Telethon to sing "Charlie Brown" at the very instant I began posting this?)

Today's meme: Fours

Elegantly extracted from evawhitley:

( Who says three is the magic number? )

Today's meme #2: My Battle Cry

Ferociously filched from debgeisler:

( Works for me...! )

Today's meme #3: I'm "Über-Cool"! Who knew?

Naughtily nabbed from ailsaek:
( What Kind of Nerd Am I? )

A plain white rapper

And you thought "Weird Al" Yankovic and lukeski had the white-rap market cornered:
Schaffer the Darklord's "The Rappist"