Happy Morning, LJ!

For those who don't already know, Brad is leaving LJ. Frank the Goat is missing him already. While at brad's journal, noticed this link: LiveJournal Monopoly. You can go to get printable PDFs here if you want to play at home on those horrible summer nights when the power's out (either at home or where LJ's servers are) and you can't play directly on the site.

While this window's open: There's a rumor going 'round that burr86, the poor guy who has allowed himself to become the face of LiveJournal to so many people nowadays, went into the efw community (who had supposedly never heard of him before) for the sole purpose of mocking Harry Potter fans and cackling with evil glee as he typed his wicked, wicked comments. Well, last night while it was too hot to sleep and I was too bored to do anything remotely useful, I went back into the community archives and discovered that he'd posted there way back in October 2006 and that his post had nothing directly to do with any fandom at all. Not being a member of the community, I can't say if he'd posted any f-locked entries earlier than that; and not being that bored, I didn't bother to look for older comments from him. But one hopes that fandom comes to terms with the fact that sometimes it isn't All About Them. One also hopes that the many new members of the community realize that EFW stands for Existential Flame War and not Eternal Fan Wank, though one realizes that one's hopes may possibly be in vain.

Here's hoping that my next post has nothing to do with any LJ drama anywhere. Maybe I'll go out into the wide world and get something done in today's beautiful... 99 degree weather with heat indices of 105 and unhealthy levels of ozone? Yeah, maybe not.

( How will I be suspended from LJ? )