Paul Raven

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• Commented on Amy Crehore's hand painted ukuleles
  Look at 'em all laying there unstrung. The intonation will be borked if they go through too many temperature changes... ...though they do look purdy....
• Commented on Atheist sign at nativity scene
  Religion and atheism are not the problems. Evangelism is the problem - whoever deploys it....
• Commented on Japanese man lives in Mexico City airport
  Mayagrafix - I remember by time in Mexico with great fondness, it's a beautiful country filled with amazing people. That said, the one part of it I really wouldn't want to see again is the airport of El D.F... that...
• Commented on Vatican comes up with a new list of Seven Sins
  Sanctimonious bastards. They've got the last three of the list pretty much sewn up on their own in some parts of the world ... largely through enforcing the first. Sh1th34ds*. *IMHO, of course. Other opinions are available ... including ones...
• Commented on Futurismic to publish original sf again
  Wow - I log in to Futurismic to do some back-end fiddling, and what's at the top of the incoming links list? :) Thanks for the mention, Cory; I'll be at Picocon on Saturday, so if some scruffy guy keeps...
• Commented on Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery
  That is definitely a CON piece, not an AREK. I wonder if the mislabelling occurred at curatorial level, or in the journey from there to here? I quite like the idea of serious art historians beard-stroking and pontificating over this...
• Commented on Wiener poopie ransom note for Jesus
  Good headline, though. Hunter Thompson would be proud....
• Commented on Steampunk Nerf guns
  ... foamy blunderbuss. i can haz yoofemizm?...
• Commented on Coffee and cigarettes, sold together at last (in Japan)
  @Georgia: "You can buy packs everywhere, you just can't buy a single cigarette." A lot of places in Mexico and Guatemala, especially the more off-the-beaten-path places, do exactly that. Means they can still supply the poor and under-age without losing...
• Commented on Coffee and cigarettes, sold together at last (in Japan)
  Ah, man. I quit smoking at new year's. That's the last thing I need to see now. Caffeine and nicotine, together at last as they were always meant to be ... ... man, I'm tearing up, here....
• Commented on Splayed angelic pigeon wings
  I can haz unicorn chaser?...
• Commented on Canadian mint: We own the words "one cent" and Toronto can't use them
  Good grief - either this is a spoof, or the lawyers really *are* running the asylum....
• Commented on Futurismic's weekly catalog of free sf
  Thanks for the plug, Cory -- but I should reiterate here that I rely heavily on the regular posts at SFSignal for much of the links I put in our Friday Fiction posts. And as an extra, I'd like to...