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"Holly" by Louis Smith?

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Bad	1 vote - 20 %
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"Super 8" had a better period feel	0 votes - 0 %
"Hobo With a Shotgun" had a better period feel	1 vote - 20 %

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Answer to Dresden question by toxicfur (4.00 / 1) #1 Mon Aug 08, 2011 at 02:08:08 PM EST

When Luccio was transferred into the other body, the other body had only minimal capacity for doing magic. Luccio can still do magic, just not as well or as powerfully as she could before (like she can't make the swords anymore), but she's still the Captain of the Wardens, so she's clearly doing pretty well for herself. In Ghost Story, Dresden was inhabiting the bodies of people with already very strong magical abilities - both Morty and Molly were near-White Council strength wizards in their own rights.

At least, that's my theory on the issue. Like you, I've been impressed at how Butcher manages to keep things fresh while following story arcs, having old villains/friends show up later, etc. He said at the talk I went to that he actually planned the entire series out in advance, and he is sticking pretty close to what he'd set out to do originally (as he said, he knows that "the rock hits the window, but not how all the pieces will fall out."
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Could be by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #2 Mon Aug 08, 2011 at 02:26:22 PM EST

Though I thought the thing about Molly was that she was too weak to throw fire around, which is why she had to become the Ragged Lady. Maybe she just never got the hang of fire though.
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Right by toxicfur (4.00 / 1) #3 Mon Aug 08, 2011 at 02:45:31 PM EST

She was really good at veils and illusions, for instance, which Dresden wasn't good at really at all. And she was scary good at mind magic - also something that wasn't one of Dresden's strengths - but she wasn't good at offensive magic, like the fire and whatnot. It wasn't that she wasn't as strong as Dresden, but that her talents were in different areas.
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The amount of suck that you can put up with can be mind-boggling, but it only really hits you when it then ceases to suck. -- Kellnerin

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: Possibly by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #4 Mon Aug 08, 2011 at 03:33:31 PM EST

But Molly did have a line which went something like 'You had a firehose of power and I had a squirt gun', though maybe she was exaggerating.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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Dresden files by ucblockhead (4.00 / 1) #5 Mon Aug 08, 2011 at 04:46:57 PM EST

How does the book compare with the TV show and comic? I've watched a few episodes and found it mildly interesting. I read a comic, and thought it was pretty good, but not enough to drive me to get more. Are the novels better or the same?
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: I prefer the books by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #6 Mon Aug 08, 2011 at 04:57:13 PM EST

I watched some of the TV show, it seemed pretty decent, but it was lighter than the books, and the plots seemed a bit rushed when they try to get a whole book into one episode. I think it would have helped to have a continuously-building plot rather than have it so episode-based.
I read one of the Jim Butcher scripted comics, again thought it was pretty decent, but I prefer the novels.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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Lev Grossman on Harry Potter by wiredog (4.00 / 1) #7 Tue Aug 09, 2011 at 09:10:37 AM EST

Here.

Earth First!
_{(We can strip mine the rest later.)}

Top Gear electric cars. by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #8 Tue Aug 09, 2011 at 09:17:55 AM EST

I suspect there's quite a bit behind it, but I'd have thought it's mainly pandering. Easier to tell people what they want to hear than to tell them they need to decide whether a compromise is worth it.

Also, when electric cars become mainstream, it will remove a lot of the mystique of the car and reveal them for the appliances with a side helping of status symbol that they are. That's not in Top Gear's interests.

Top Gear wankers by Herring (4.00 / 1) #9 Tue Aug 09, 2011 at 12:32:56 PM EST

They also costed a recharge on the basis of something like 35p/kWh - rather than the night time rate of around 5-6p.

I used to watch it but it's just immature libertarian posturing. And I don't particularly care for sharing a road with Clarkson's knuckle-dragging acolytes when I'm out on the bike.

Anyway, I'll leave it to Stewart Lee

You can't inspire people with facts
- Small Gods

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: Stewart Lee, by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #10 Tue Aug 09, 2011 at 01:28:01 PM EST

but, but, but he said nasty things about nice Mr McIntyre.
I think you'll find it's the average cyclist who's a knuckle dragger. Well, that was the impression I got from the terrified look on the face of the man whose car I was walking back to to ask him not to beep his horn at me. Just because I cycled round him at over 2 metres distant while he was leaving a parking place after inadequately looking in his mirrors.<sigh>

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BP portraits by Tonatiuh (4.00 / 1) #11 Tue Aug 09, 2011 at 07:27:08 PM EST

I like the reviews in the Evening Standard:

"Holly by Louis Smith is a huge vulgar pastiche of a Salon nude" and goes on "... set in the fake glistering gilt of a hideous tabernacle frame - so far from portraiture that it has no business in this exhibition or anywhere in the NPG"

As for the one of the artist painting herself nude: "... Wendy Elia's 'I could have been a Contender' [is] an unfunny and appallingly ill-proportioned nude beavering away in her studio on a painting so bad that nothing kind can be said of it"

And as for the exhibition in general : "... I treasure the response of a judge a year or two ago .... there is here nothing worth 25000" (the total amount of the prizes).

This same reviewer panned, rightly, Tracy Emin's egocentric and talentless retrospective in the South Bank.

: Oh yes, that was the name by TheophileEscargot (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Aug 10, 2011 at 02:10:12 AM EST

I Could Have Been a Contender by Wendy Elia was the other one I liked. Also Ohh! by Cayetano de Arquer Buigas.
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It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?
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Electric cars are not shitty. by Tonatiuh (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Aug 09, 2011 at 07:36:22 PM EST

They just have to fight for a reputation and infrastructure against the bad press brought to you by parties interested in seeing the electric car fail.

A former colleague of mine used one to commute everyday and it served its purpose fine: charge it at night, drive to work, charge it a bit more in the office, drive back home: no problems at all.

The problem with Top Gear and their ilk (and as a Mexican I have lost patience with them for obvious reasons) is that the oil will be finished at some point (anybody not understanding this can't be helped) and we need alternatives that they are not offering on their monotone message of a show.

Ha. by ammoniacal (4.00 / 1) #14 Wed Aug 10, 2011 at 09:58:52 AM EST

My craptacular phone browser renders that as "clich*eacute"

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: Typo, should be fixed [nt] by TheophileEscargot (4.00 / 1) #15 Thu Aug 11, 2011 at 01:01:41 PM EST

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