We’ve all got them, right? – those relatives you’d rather not acknowledge – that uncle who embarrasses you at every birthday party – those cousins you don’t invite to the family reunions (but who show up anyway)? And even if we did want to ignore their existence, film-makers all around the world have spent decades making certain that we can’t. So join us as we call a truce on the Darwinian name-calling, and give our big hairy brothers a hug.
It’s Foot Notes – all throughout the month of May at the B-Masters’ Blog!
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#1 by blake on May 1, 2010 - 8:05 am
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Question: How do you decide on which themes you’ll deal on your roundtables?
#2 by Braineater on May 1, 2010 - 8:32 am
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Well, there are competing theories as to where our topics come from:
1. They are formed naturally, by erosion;
2. They seem to be our choices, but they are in fact dream-messages from the Elder Gods;
3. They appear magically in the hand of a statue of the Buddha at the top of a temple in Lhasa, whereupon they are fetched by specially trained gibbons and delivered to us;
4. We have enough interests and obsessions between us that we always have plenty of options, so we just go with a show of virtual hands.
Theory Number 4 falls into the category of “herding cats”, and is obviously nonsense.
#3 by blake on May 1, 2010 - 10:31 am
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I truly hope it’s the third option. I’d like to imagine all of you gathered at one of your respective homes waiting reverently for the gibbon to show up.
#4 by Braineater on May 1, 2010 - 5:20 pm
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It was a bit larger than a gibbon this time, I’ll tell you.
#5 by Baron Scarpia on May 2, 2010 - 2:49 am
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You should have done this last year, which was the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth.
#6 by Ken Shinn on May 13, 2010 - 5:21 am
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Halfway through the month, and not one review in this Roundtable! Are you co-ordinating them all for a mass release on the 31st? Not meaning to be rude, but I’m looking forward to this one…
#7 by El Santo on May 13, 2010 - 7:51 am
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Heh. Somebody thinks we coordinate things around here…
#8 by Greywizard on May 13, 2010 - 12:35 pm
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My Roundtable review is ready, and will be posted on the 27th. The reason why I didn’t put it up today is that I don’t want to post too many negative reviews in a row on my web site.
Gee, I guess the above reveals what I thought of my roundtable pick. Oh well. Anyway, I’m pretty sure the other B masters will make it before the deadline.
#9 by Blake on May 13, 2010 - 2:04 pm
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For some reason, I’m under the impression that Lyz always picks the subject for the Roundtables, considering it’s almost always her who announces them.
#10 by El Santo on May 14, 2010 - 7:09 am
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She doesn’t pick them, but we did put her sort of administratively in charge a few years back, after Nathan got too busy to handle it anymore. And before Nathan, the sorely missed Dr. Freex was our primus inter pares.
#11 by Blake on May 14, 2010 - 11:27 am
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Suggestion: Maybe someone can go to the About the Cabal page and classify Stomp Tokyo as emeritus members, as they’re now retired.