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neadodsI've barely started reading through today's LJ & FB and I see that the Phil Shreffler v Baker Street Babes thing has flamed back into life... flame being the operative word. Apparently, he and his supporters thought the BSB were doing something shady by releasing only one badly OCR-scanned page of his two page rant. So today they released page 2. Retyped.
Second verse, same as the first.
With the minor change that it becomes even clearer that PS's P.S. is that he's just as mad at the current people running the BSI for letting in the riffraff as he is for the riffraff being taken seriously without paying the dues HE was man enough to pay! Plus, the BSI is doing too many things and has too many scions when everyone knows that the true heart of the fandom was in exclusive dinners for a handful of carefully picked people -- back in the day when the BSI was so important that the NY Times covered the dinner.
Out in the real world, the Babes have gained 500 new followers on Facebook alone; Lyndsay Faye has taken great delight in engaging in the battle of wits Mr. Shiffler is nowhere near equipped to fight; the Babes' event was a recognized part of the BSI Weekend; the BSJ hasn't retracted the editorial welcoming Ritchie and BBC fans *and* has been printing articles and art from said fand; I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere has just advertised both 221BCon; and a founding member of ASH was showing off her BBC Sherlock locket at the Mycroft.
His whole attitude hasn't been refuted so much as run over.
Still, just because this nonsense keeps continuing, here. Have a gratuitous picture of Sherlock the cat.
Second verse, same as the first.
With the minor change that it becomes even clearer that PS's P.S. is that he's just as mad at the current people running the BSI for letting in the riffraff as he is for the riffraff being taken seriously without paying the dues HE was man enough to pay! Plus, the BSI is doing too many things and has too many scions when everyone knows that the true heart of the fandom was in exclusive dinners for a handful of carefully picked people -- back in the day when the BSI was so important that the NY Times covered the dinner.
Out in the real world, the Babes have gained 500 new followers on Facebook alone; Lyndsay Faye has taken great delight in engaging in the battle of wits Mr. Shiffler is nowhere near equipped to fight; the Babes' event was a recognized part of the BSI Weekend; the BSJ hasn't retracted the editorial welcoming Ritchie and BBC fans *and* has been printing articles and art from said fand; I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere has just advertised both 221BCon; and a founding member of ASH was showing off her BBC Sherlock locket at the Mycroft.
His whole attitude hasn't been refuted so much as run over.
Still, just because this nonsense keeps continuing, here. Have a gratuitous picture of Sherlock the cat.
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Date: 2013-01-31 01:35 am (UTC)*glomps*
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Date: 2013-01-31 01:37 am (UTC)But wow, she takes a great picture!
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Date: 2013-01-31 01:19 am (UTC)Hope your hand is getting better!
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Date: 2013-01-31 01:38 am (UTC)Two out of three fingers are already fading back to their proper color. The one in the middle is alarming me a bit...
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Date: 2013-01-31 02:19 am (UTC)Why is anybody still bothering to pay attention? When someone says that women shouldn't be allowed to vote, the proper response is a brief derisive laugh and turning away to speak with someone rational.
Give Sherlock a skritch for me, and the rest of the crew. With that name, you asked for constant misunderstandings....
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Date: 2013-01-31 02:56 am (UTC)I get the impression he considered that a feature, not a bug.
I think at this point the reason the Babes keep bringing it up is that he makes a useful pinata. Although I'm about to do another post that lets Brad - yeah, that Brad - have the last word, because he's funny.
The oddest thing about naming Sherlock and Watson? The woman who rescued them, who was raising them... flipped gender when discussing them!
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Date: 2013-01-31 11:35 am (UTC)Why do all fandoms dissolve into this bitchy stuff? I'm so glad I'm not in a fandom right now!!
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Date: 2013-02-01 06:26 pm (UTC)I can't help picturing him working himself into such a lather about all these terrible proletarian besmirchments that he stomps himself through a floor like Rumpelstiltskin.