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Here's a permissions thingy:
Blanket permission to podfic as desired. I would be incredibly flattered. Just link back.
Conditional permission to remix fic: Please no remixes into non-canonical kidfic or mpreg.
Regina Keim took many screen shots of Paul Gross (and the star and play's author, George Clooney, lol) in the CNN broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck on Broadway, and she shared them on the Due South! Facebook group, if you want to go have a look. Enjoy!
Originally reblogged by me on Tumblr but worth reposting here because YES, PREACH!, and WTF.
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I don't love Robert Reich but I sure like him A LOT 1) because abso-fucking-lutely to the above, and B. many other concise brilliant analyses he's posted.
These fuckers are 100% hypocrites. It's all bullshit to push through an authoritarian system designed to promote and enhance kleptocracy. That is the ultimate goal: kleptocracy. Look it up. You will see that I am right.
Also I am increasingly disheartened that, yet again, William Gibson's scifi
and speculative fiction has predicted the course of Western society.
Goddamnit. I appreciate his intelligence and creativity but. Why does he
have to be right so often. Dogdamnit.
The Internet Archive has made available the George Clooney Broadway HD broadcast on CNN of Clooney's play Good Night, and Good Luck, which was broadcast last Saturday, June 7. Paul Gross has a supporting role.
Their mp4 of the event is 2 Gigs and 1080p. I'll work on converting it to 720p (and 480p) if I can, which should lower the size... But wanted to share the link.
There's a Torrent link as well, for those using torrent apps. Follow the above link, which is to the directory.
I'll update this post when I have completed conversion and uploaded the lower res versions to share.
ETA: Whoops... Initially included the wrong link. Fixed now.
This helpful warning of a comment scam being perpetrated by bots in fic comments on AO3 was originally posted on tumblr by allthingswhumpyandangsty.
I'm copying/pasting it here verbatim; original post linked above.
" just a heads up to my fellow writers out there that AO3 is currently fighting off bots commenting on people’s works to tell them that AO3 will delete their fics “due to the works being deprecated”, and the deletion will affect their accounts unless the authors delete the fics themselves first. IT IS A SCAM. AO3 will NOT delete your works. please do NOT fall for these bots! ( rest of the post behind the cut )
AO3 IS NOT DELETING WORKS. DO NOT DELETE YOUR WORKS JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE CLAIMS THEY KNOW SOMETHING. "I am not sure why allthingswhumpyandangsty mentions 'copyright infringement issue' - maybe they meant IP infringement? "Copyright infringement" is something fandom and fic are often accused of - despite falling under Fair Use.
AIs trying to vacuum up fanfic in order to "train" AIs, along with tricking the authors into deleting the fics, only to later plagiarize them... I'm not sure what that is called, other than plagiarizing and scamming. Is that copyright infringement, or intellectual property theft, or both? I'm not familiar with the legal aspects, other than what I've read in fandom spaces re: Fair Use.
First, I love that he posted this. Love, love, love it. Also: so snarky! ("Enlighten me.") Way to go with the snarking, heh! Sounds like Ray Vecchio, if you ask me!
And, Yes. The heads of Conservative Evangelicals and members of the Party of "Family Values" apparently do not explode, when faced with what the rest of us would consider overwhelming cognitive dissonance.
I was already a fan, but I'm even more of a DM fan, now!
This gorgeous photo of prosciutto and melon posted by David Marciano on IG is both beautiful and tasty looking!
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It's almost but not quite making me drool. :-D
Diane
Gross (admin and expert) posted in the Due South! Facebook group
, that CNN
will livestream "Good Night, and Good Luck" from Broadway. It stars
George Clooney (who co-wrote the play based on the film), with Paul Gross
in the supporting role of William S. Paley, CBS exec.
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Joanne Currie shared Happy Victoria Day greetings on the Due South!
Facebook page - and also shared a full 50
minute, old interview with Paul Gross and David Keeley.
So the Callum Keith Rennie Official Instagram posted video from an old interview with CKR. Good lord is he attractive and charismatic in it!
ETA: I can't for the life of me figure out how to embed this damn Instagram vid so it plays... so I just have a screen shot of it.
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Tina Carter posted this Scientific American article, about "lexical elaboration" and the number of Inuktitut words for snow, to the Fraser/Kowalski Facebook group with a link. Turns out, while there may not be 100, or 40, words for snow in Inuktitut - there are still a lot!
The original post may be to a private group so I've linked to each item separately.
Anyway, "lexical elaboration" is fascinating... And also totally makes sense. Plus, the Inuit aren't the only ones to have multiple words for snow in their language... We (in American English) have a few, too, which I've certainly heard not just from weather forecasters on local Chicago news, but also among just regular people (and I use many of them myself): snow, sleet/"freezing rain", flurries, snowflake, snowsquall, blizzard, etc.
Like, if it's snowing but only slowly, lightly, and almost lazily (whether big fluffy flakes, or wispy, tiny flakes), the word we (and TV meteorologists) use is "flurries."
Example:
Person 1 [looking out window at work]: Hey, it's snowing out!
Person 2: Oh no! Rush hour traffic will be horrible!
Person 1: Nah, it's just flurries - they don't stick; it'll be okay.
People shared birthday greetings for Paul Gross and Daniel Kash over the past several days, over on the Due South! Facebook group... I'm only a day late for PG's birthday 🙂
Someone also wondered what PG's been up to because they thought they saw him in Toronto:
Here's the Finch app finch as Fraser shared on the Due South! Facebook
group... albeit by one Erin Galbraith, not Katy Penland. Maybe the latter
shared it with the group after the former shared it with latter...?
On April 18, on the Facebook Due South! group, Thomas Becket posted a link to a 2001 Youtube video about the declining populations of far northern sharks - titled Sharks of the Great White North - which Paul Gross narrated (he is credited at the end).
I haven't watched it yet but it looks pretty cool.
On April 15, Jackson Yee reposted (a post by Silver Screen Hub) about Leslie Nielsen in the Due South! Facebook group, with a really nice "then and now" stitched-together duo of photos of Leslie Nielsen.
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The Silver Screen Hub post had a lot of text about Nielsen I won't
reproduce here. He sure was a handsome man, though. Dramatic while young,
comedic when older, and of course, beloved as Sgt. Frobisher on due South!
Katy Penland posted her Finch app finch dressed as Fraser (with Dief) in the Due South! Facebook group, also here:
Finch dressed as Fraser (with Dief)
Finch dressed as Fraser (with Dief)
Claire Wickes Saunders posted this in the Due South! Facebook group:
The Guardian review of Good Night, and Good Luck
PG is not mentioned except in passing, though.
People on the Due South Facebook group posted birthday greetings for Martha Burns! Aww. See:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2213712434/?multi_permalinks=10162105544927435
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2213712434/?multi_permalinks=10162105544927435
Thanks to a post by Susan Momot on the Due South! Facebook group, happy to report that due South is now available on Disney+ in Canada.
Based on multiple comments to the post... it is NOT available on Disney+ in the US. Don't know about other countries either.
Based on multiple comments to the post... it is NOT available on Disney+ in the US. Don't know about other countries either.
Sorry this is late... Joannie Currie posted this (link to original post) on the Due South! Facebook group Feb 23, when the Toronto Maple Leafs played the Chicago Blackhawks, with the following text:
"That magical juncture where due SOUTH meets reality Today, the Leafs play the Hawks, in the city they call Chicago The first hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens was Nov 12, 1931 between the Leafs and the Hawks (2-1, Hawks) The last game at MLG was Feb 13, 1999, Leafs vs Hawks (6-2, Hawks) The Leafs have not been sucking this season and this is the year they will win the Stanley (Raymond Kowalski) Cup Leafs rule!! Sorry, I"m sure the Hawks are a perfectly lovely team too 💖 (photo has Maple Leaf Gardesn in the background, Toronto)
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as a reminder of that hilarious scene where Ray and a Leafs fan have the following exchange:
Kowalski: "Leafs suck."
Ticket seller: "Leafs rule."
Kowalski: "Hawks rule."
Ticket seller: "Hawks suck."
Kowalski: "You suck."
Fraser: "You are bilingual, Ray."
celebrating Ray Vecchio's Riv (FF #10)
Mar. 6th, 2025 11:13 amSaw this on Facebook. Original link is
here at
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16By5MvzNN/
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