Greg Morrow, a/k/a USENET'S Dr. Elmo, now has his own blog. You might remember him from the Elmo Brand Pseudoscience™ featured in several Priest comics over the years. Or not. Your loss.
He also did not appear in a paycheck comic, more or less, as Mike the Parademon. That was Mike Chary. Confusing the two indicates how long it's been since I hung out on the newsgroups, and that I cannot tell that "Greg" and "Mike" are two different words.
Good thing I checked that. Either of those two could flame me into oblivion. Combined? It'd be ritual seppuku rather than face the battle.
For similar reasons, although I may not agree with everything he says, he's way smarter than me, so I shut the fuck up. You might want to keep this in mind if he turns on comments at some point.
And apropos of nothing (no, really, I just didn't feel like making two entries), we have Big Fun with Dayton-Hudson:
Thanks to Target, the nationwide department-store chain, students across the country may be heading back to school in hip-looking white supremacist regalia. The retail giant is selling shorts and baseball caps splashed with “EIGHT EIGHT” and “88” – white-power code for “Heil Hitler,” because “h” is the eighth letter of the alphabet.
Know I read this somewhere. . . in Woody Allen's pre-stepdaughter-marriage-and-therefore-acceptable film Sleeper, folks in the 22nd century are walking around wearing Swastikas, because they have no clue what significance the symbol held in the distant past.
I had no idea 88 meant that today. Learn something new and stupid every day. . .
Where are my manners? Found Greg's blog through What She Really Thinks. And, keeping with the rare outburst of manners, that's all I'll say about that.
Update 8/29: VASpider is really entirely too sensible to hang out here, but does not seem to have realized this yet. Nobody tell her.
Target finally pulled that line of merch. The Tolerance.org announcement has more detail. I'm kinda bummed cause Yoon and I were all over getting some fly crypto-Nazi gear on the cheap.
Did I mention that I used to public relations for DH? Further into the 'mire doth I wunder.
Ok, you're the second Big Daddy Dayton-Hudson (current or former) employee I've heard of/from in the last 24 hours. This must be Kuan Yin fucking with me.
I'll just ask. How were they to work for?
And following the A&F Azian stuff, I'm sure the 88 material will end up on eBay for tall Yanqui dollars within the hour. . .
shame on you for trying to steal my "c@nopener" superhero costume. it probably even looks better on you.
sigh. i have been bested.
on a related subject, has anyone else felt pangs of paranoid discomfort at the upsurge in popularity of helly hanson (HH) brand skiwear?
i gather there is actually a famous skier named helly hanson. i hope so. (how would i know? i don't do sports, i'm an overweight guy who reads too much science fiction.) otherwise i'm going to start feeling like mel gibson does in "conspiracy theory" when all of his wacky paranoid fantasies become true.