Friday, 23 December 2016

Pistachios from ABCC. Totes adorbz young customer in tracksuit pants (6181, 8447–51).

Walked to Astoria. Wanted to give a small group of black men on the way the benefit of the doubt, but they were talking about violence wherein they had participated at just the moment I passed them.

GA DA by Lee, pt. 1. Many more attendees than the host had anticipated, one of whom got a bit too intoxicated. Couldn’t bring myself to take any photos despite its being the official GA winter holiday party. Potato soup, quiche etc.

“Those names were created by L. Frank Baum so shouldn’t be in an infobox listing a different creator.” But the remaining names in the info‐box (i.e, Dancer, Prancer, Q＊bert etc.) were created by Clement Clarke Moore and not by the creator listed, the author of the poem in which the reindeer first appeared. Shouldn’t those then be removed as well? And the Martian Messenger, for example, was given a real name by the screenwriters of the 1913 movie that did not appear in the original play. You seem to be changing a longstanding PDSH policy that a character’s real name in a later appearance is appropriate for the info‐box. (00:27)

I’m not sure why you mentioned an actor and a director, but you may have misunderstood me: Just like the Little Mermaid did not have the name Swanhild until the play came out, the Messenger from Mars did not have the name Ramiel until it was introduced in the 1913 movie based on the original play. (10:53)

I added the names to the info‐box because of the tradition, because I felt that character names introduced in one public‐domain work should not be more important or have more authority than those introduced in another public‐domain work. (10:53)