QB Chameleon

I'm not sure Kevin even knows who Boy George is, but he sure seems happy as his alter ego on the singer's 57th birthday. Don't get me wrong: I doubt Kevin has anything in particular against new wave, but his musical tastes run more along the lines of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall."

Fanfic Update!

• bones cast in a little low, by ashleykay (part 4): "The rain stopped suddenly late on a Wednesday afternoon. As if the sky had choked and stuttered. And the weeks of wet flooded earth was a mirage."


• Burned Out, by Wrabbit7 (part 11): "Daria flipped on the TV, and was treated to a whole twelve seconds of Alanis Morissette's Ironic video before the signal was lost, to be replaced with static."


• Coffee, by Zetor (part 2f): "Taking Stacy's lighthearted response as a cue, Daria kept up the shift in mood and dryly joked, 'So, do we have time for another movie, or did revealing our deepest secrets take up too much time?'"


• Daria Ravenclaw: The Highland Years, by Meester_Lee (part 41): "The Morgendorffers pulled away from the curb, turned left, then right, then turned left again and onto the main highway leading out of town. There was a sort of finality to this visit, and Daria wondered if she'd ever see Coalton again."


• Unnamed story (LLH Short Entries #2), by Roentgen (parts 126 and 127): "Brittany Taylor dropped by the office of Magnolia 'Mags' Regmond, formerly of USAES, the Air Force, and the Pentagon (MAJ, Ret.) Mags was now the public relations officer for the National Legion Chapter One." (Part 127)


• Unnamed story (Scenes No Daria fanfic should have: The Saga Goes On), by Szcz (COMPLETE!): "Helen Morgendorffer disliked to go to an office, so she has chosen the work at home. It could be described as living in an office through, because her home was the Lawndale Social Re-adaptation Centre."

Culture Clubbed

Happy Flag Day to everyone out there in the USA and everywhere else. This is also Boy George's birthday, and wouldn't you know, there's an alter ego of Kevin as Boy George. If I ever hear "Karma Chameleon" again, it will be too soon. Someone on the MTV staff must have liked the song or whatever.

Ah, just found a much better image of Kevin as Boy George, courtesy of Pinhead. Thanks, man!

I started this entry a bit late in the day, but better late than never. I'm going to save this as I create it, so keep checking back in this evening and watch the blog entry grow. Sorry for the delay, too much Real Life.

Need to list the new fanfics and news. That will take a while. Stay tooned.

NO0oZ!

• PPMB is getting software upgrades soon. Look for the changes at an unpredictable date not far away.
• The DariaWiki cleanup is ongoing (hate that word). Keep up with the updates.
• Current series discussion: Why didn't Jodie Landon end up at Grove Hills, in "Gifted"? (Topic related to this thread on "Gifted.")
• Everyone still arguing over why nerds are unpopular.
• The Daria Geek Movie Consensus is consentuating along quite well. Much food for thought and argument.
• People still talking about which writers focus on certain Daria characters, and why.
• Some issues with writers' block and burnout being addressed.
  
• The etiquette of commenting on (and correcting or critiquing) someone's fanfiction is a good thread.

Will have to stop here for a while. Will return later.

Boy, George. . . .

In addition to this being (hurrah, hurrah) Flag Day, today is also the 47th birthday of Boy George, the lead singer for the 1980s group Culture Club, which produced many songs I am still trying very hard to forget. Funny that MTV's artists would draw Kevin as Boy George, which is so appropriate I cannot think of anything else to add.

Oh, almost forgot: It was about five years ago today, believe it or not, that the whole penguin thing started. You can thank Kristen Bealer for that. Seriously. Thanks, Kristen! And Tux thanks you, too!

PPMB

• Falling Into College 63: Broken Star, by Richard Lobinske (Part 1): No good deed ever goes unpunished.
• Stacy Rowe, Seeker (Part II), by jtranser (continued): Poetic justice to the Nth degree. Words fail me. I am not worthy.
• Swan Song, by NightGoblyn (Part 4): Jane stood on her toes, trying very hard to ignore the fact that her big brother was holding a gun to her head.

Today's best bad joke involving a Daria fanfic is here. Ipswichfan, you rule.