Top News This Hour: I Kissed Your Boyfriend. Film at 11.

The other day I found a nice little Daria logo that I've replicated in numerous different colors for update posts like this. It saves the character pix for better topics.

Before we begin, I must say I'm surprised there aren't more Daria blogs around after all this time. Yes, I know about the ones where some teen or whoever is pretending to be Daria or Quinn, right, and I'm ignoring the blogs on actual real live famous people named Daria, like models and porn stars and so on. It's just weird that there aren't more blogs about Our Heroine. Oh, well. A number of fanfic writers and fans have created their own personal blogs, but most are just about life in general. I've linked to those with strong Daria content. Anne D. Bernstein's blog was added at left with her permission because, hey, it's just like having a blog from Daria and Jane both! Seriously, you ought to read the Buzzdome blog now and then. It's hilarious, but what else could it be?

And on with the news. . . .

PPMB
The Misery Chicks, by NightGoblyn (Part 6) *
Stacy Rowe, Seeker (Part II), by jtranser (continued) * (UPDATE)
Surprises, by legendeld (Part 7)
Turnabout Confusion Part II: All The King's Horses, by Dennis (continued)

SFMB
One Year Later, by NightGoblyn (continued)

FF.Net
Sarcasm, by Khelan (complete!)

* Contains mature content. Brace yourself.

In the realm of total strangeness, there is the "Scenes No Daria Fanfic Should Have: What Have We Created?" thread on PPMB, with more fruitcake versions of "I kissed your boyfriend." Feel free to join in the chaos.

MartinUK has posted a genuine news story you won't believe about Scottish attack squirrels, which will one day find their way into fanfic, I am so sure.

In the realm of more serious actual news, a request for beta-readers has been posted by JPAGC on PPMB. Check it out; you might find it interesting. I sure did.

Finally, if you are like really really really bored, then you must go at once to the MTV website and take the "Sick, Sad World Trivia Contest" even if you have already done so, just for no reason.

And that's the way it is, January somethingorother, 2008. Good night.

It's Saturday Night!

Ahem.

By kind permission of Daria writer Anne D. Bernstein, a link to her Buzzdome Blog ("Things that fascinate me that might interest you") has been added to the list at left. Thanks to Scissors MacGillicutty for bringing this to our attention, and of course thanks to Ms. Bernstein.

Also added at left is a link to Richard Lobinske's 2008 Visual FanWorks Listing, to get the New Year on the right foot. Thank you!

A rather long list of new fanfic is being compiled this evening. It will be posted as soon as possible.

Meet Samir. Or Sameer. Or Zamir. Or . . .

Remember this guy from "Sappy Anniversary"?

Given the uncertainty over the exact spelling of this gentleman's name, we'll just call him Samir. He could have family origins in India, Pakistan, Iraq, Egypt, or anywhere else across the Arabic world and South Asia, including Israel. He could be Muslim, Hindu, Christian, or even Jewish.

In any event, he is an affable fellow, one of the nouveau riche of Buzzdome.com, and his boss describes him as "kind of a one-man, pinch-hitting brain trust." Samir later privately admits to Jake Morgendorffer that he gets paid "big money to sit around and daydream," and he is "not about to rock the boat." He could easily be a millionaire, but remember that this was before the popping of the dot-com bubble. If he and the other Buzzdome.com staff had most of their money tied up in stock options or the like, the crash could have wiped them out. Did it? What did he do after the bubble burst? And what the heck did Samir really do at Buzzdome?

All I can say is, any guy who has a giant inflatable palm tree by his desk has to have a cool side.