Thursday Stuff

I surrender!  Yesterday I wrote, “Does anyone even use Courier anymore, or is it hanging out with other forgotten fonts, drinking and talking about the good old days?”

Judging from your responses, I greatly underestimated the Courier love.  It sounds like a good number of people and places still use it.  Please consider me properly font-shamed.

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I don’t link to every interview I do, but I wanted to point out this one over on the Booklifenow site.  This is my favorite interview of 2010, purely for the throwaway line about Talia kicking Fred Phelps in the nuts.

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As most people know, California’s ban on gay marriage was overturned.  To celebrate, I’m tempted to write an alt-universe story where Snow and Talia get married, share a passionate smooch, and then join Smudge the gay fire-spider in kicking Fred Phelps in the nuts.

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Finally, and most importantly: who would win in a no-holds-barred death match between Optimus Prime, Wolverine, and Papa Smurf?