Things you'll like. :)

[elisi]

Some of these via my flist.

Why Marketers Fear The Female Geek.

I liked this review from Digital Spy: Sherlock series 3: 'The Sign of Three' recap - The end of an era?

From Den of Geek: Sherlock: The Empty Hearse Q&A with Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman & more... (Here's what the cast and creators said after December's preview screening of The Empty Hearse.)

I found this interesting: Speaking for All Christians Exactly Like Me: The Hobbit and the Watchful Dragons of Our Hearts..

Doctor Who - Eleventh Doctor Q&A: Writer/producer Steven Moffat, writer Mark Gatiss, director Saul Metzstein and actor Dan Starkey discuss the era of the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith), focusing on the episodes 'The Eleventh Hour' and 'The Name of the Doctor':

Watch on YouTube

And finally, this... THING which is indescribable but the funniest thing I have read in AGES (Miss M says to describe it as 'crazy, but highly accurate'):

FUNNY THING YOU MUST READ! (Governments, fandom... explained with 2 cows.)

Comments

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that marketing article looks interesting!

[elisi]

It's very good!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Whedon: You have two cows. One of them is cursed, kills the other cow, and feels sorry for itself.

[elisi]

*dies*

Very, very accurate.

RTD: You have two cows. One of them dies in horrifically tragic circumstances due to a man-made catastrophe. The other spends the rest of its life being a broken, brittle shell of a cow, possibly suicidal or murderous.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Tolkien: You have two bulls. They sit around a campfire singing songs about mythical cows.

[mrs-underhill.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha, you nailed it! :D

[elisi]

This... is perfection.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Whedon: You have two cows. One is a Super-cow, the other is just a regular cow representing the cow-viewers. They will never find happiness. Anyway Cow Land is probably doomed. And there is no Cow God!

[elisi]

This is clearly the gift that keeps giving... :D

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Minear: You have two cows. One of them dies tragically, the other is cancelled.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

*thumb up*

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

...which leads them on a redemption arc involving a calf, some witches, and a hell dimension.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Vampirism: You have two cows. They drink each other's milk.

(Which, oddly enough, is also the cow definition of slash.)

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I loved the cow stuff! It was often accurate.

[elisi]

Some of them were just too brilliant for words! <3

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! I needed this in my life!!!

*SQUISHES*

May pimp it later...

[elisi]

I think everyone needs it! :D

[lynnenne]

As a marketer AND a female geek, I feel that article misses a key point, which is that the majority of executives in gaming and media companies are men, and most men are OBLIVIOUS to sexism even when it's staring them in the face. I work for a high-tech company. Our buyers are mostly male, but we have a female chief marketing officer and a mostly-female marketing team. Our marketing is deliberately gender-neutral, because every single one of us knows a woman VP or COO or CIO who is part of our key audience. She may not be the majority of our audience, but we sure don't want to piss her off, either. We would have burnedthat Texas Instruments ad, even in 1977.

If gaming and geek-media companies want to double their audience and revenue, all they need to do is hire more women and promote them into positions of authority. I am convinced this will happen eventually. Sadly, geek-related industries have been slower than most.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Great caveat to the article.

[elisi]

Thank you for your comment, and yes, it'll take time (sadly).

(Sorry for such a brief answer, it's been a long week, and I don't feel I can talk intelligently about this topic, except as a customer...)

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Emailed the female geek article to my advisor, the Hobbit article to my dad, laughed my ass off at the cow post. Very good link spam, all together.

[elisi]

Yay! \o/ Glad to have been the cause of more spamming! :)

[lyricwrites.livejournal.com]

The Moffat one is incomplete. The cows fall off the building, but they don't hit the ground. One of them comes back to life because it wasn't actually a cow but rather a cow imposter recreated from the memories of how much you loved the cow, which will cause it to be resurrected and never have fallen in the first place. The other cow offers five different, reasonably plausible explanations for how she survived, but you're not whether to take them seriously or not because she also claims to be a psychopath.

[elisi]

it wasn't actually a cow but rather a cow imposter recreated from the memories of how much you loved the cow, which will cause it to be resurrected and never have fallen in the first place.
This is genius.

[lyricwrites.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying these as much as I am.

[elisi]

It's the perfect format. <3

[lyricwrites.livejournal.com]

Pratchett: You actually don't have any cows. You have a large number of characters who take things very literally. Any fairy tale which involves two cows will be permanently and amusingly derailed by the question of where the manure goes.

George R.R. Martin: You had two cows. They were siblings.

Merlin: You have two cows, which appear to be modern Holsteins despite the fact that that breed is anachronistic in the setting. They are quite clearly attracted to each other and insult one another continually.

Drunk!Sherlock: big black & white
moo-thingy
milk?? hamburger????
NOT for tipping!!!
sleeeeeeeeeeep

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Excellent! :- )

[elisi]

The drunk!Sherlock almost killed me...

[mrs-underhill.livejournal.com]

Cows were great, but actually Bureaucratism should be swapped for Communism: I lived there and that's exactly how it worked, especially throwing the milk away part. :)

Great Sherlock review on Digital Spy, could have been mine word for word. :)

And very astute about The Hobbit.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Well since communism was never actually applied anywhere, if you lived in USSR or in one of its satellite countries you lived in a bureaucratic system!

[elisi]

Glad you enjoyed the links, and I think the cows are... very much shorthand. ;)

[eaweek.livejournal.com]

I loved the Hobbit one. I love the point he makes between the way the stories are written and the movies are produced (story/ character vs. spectacle). I love McSweeney's and used to surf there a lot back when I first had internet access.

I've been meaning to ask you if you'd seen the Person of the Year feature that Time did on the pope. Send me a PM if you'd like me to scan and email the article to you.

[elisi]

I've yet to see the second Hobbit movie, but the article rang true. Mind you, I liked the first movie well enough, but then I never expected the book...

I've been meaning to ask you if you'd seen the Person of the Year feature that Time did on the pope.
I knew he was their person of the year, but have not read the article.