The Daily Sheet
September 20, 2006
Welcome to New Staff at the Daily Sheetby PeteinportlandI am pleased to announce that
today's edition of The Daily Sheet was produced by our new Assistant Editor, elle_ann. Elle has been a valuable volunteer for our forum, and has already put in many dedicated hours on the book project. She is creative and energetic, and we look forward to working with her on future Wednesday editions, (and more whenever she is ready.)
We also are happy to announce that
Kmich will also be joining The Daily Sheet as an Assistant Editor. Kathy has served as the Editorial Advisor on the book project, and she has proved indispensable to book's leadership team with her years of publishing and editing experience. TDS team is excited she has agreed to put her expereince to use in helping to produce TDS.
We also want to welcome our two new proofreaders and formatters,
gnash and
Sparky. Many of you already know Gnash for his amazing graphics, poems, fanart and photo manipulation. He is also famous for his recipes, some of which he prepared at Auntie's BBQ. His piece de resistance (to date) was the production of the cans of Bettermost Beans he fashioned for us as party favors at the BBQ.
Besides helping with the proofreading and editing, Sparky will also be writing a new column for TDS entitled "The Misadventures of Sparky." Sparky has been a member of the forum since the inception, and we are sure that TDS readers will love the humor and fun that are part of his writing.
Gnash and Sparky joined our staff just in time to give
twistedboy a much needed break. Gonzo (twistedboy) has been formatting TDS for nearly two months, seven days a week, and he has been doing a stellar job.
Also, have no fear as
Ellen and
Jan will continue in their roles as Editors and will be responsible for overseeing all editions of The Daily Sheet. The addition of new volunteer staff will help them create the best and most informative daily read for our forum members. Producing TDS is a huge task each day, and Jan and Ellen have been exceptionally dedicated in the months that TDS has been a feature on our forum. We are all lucky to have them.
Watch for more exciting announcements of staff additions at TDS. We are pleased to have such talented staff joining us to produce The Daily Sheet, and we will always strive to provide the most interesting, enlightening and entertaining news available about our forum community and the continuing saga of
Brokeback Mountain.
Watch for Another Profile in our Meet the Creators Series On Friday this week we are pleased to bring you the profile of Academy Award winner (Best Screenplay)
Diana Ossana, who partnered with Larry McMurtry to adapt Annie Proulx story into the movie we love today. Keep an eye on the Daily Sheet, and don't miss our special edition Friday.
New Larry McMurtry Thread We have a new thread in our Books section for discussing the work of Larry McMurtry. Moderator
michaelflanagansf noticed a healthy interest in discussing McMurtry's works (besides
The Last Picture Show, which the book club is currently finishing up). Click here to
join the discussion about Larry McMurtry. Post of the Day Yesterday, Sept 19th, was
International Talk Like A Pirate Day and once again, the
Slash thread were inspired to reach new heights!
Cynical21: Avast there, me hearties (Betcha didn't know it was "Talk like a Pirate Day" didja?)
lizardog: Arrrh, avast, me proud beauty, a mate sent me the link to the website last night. Keelhaul me for a Jonah if it didn't tickle me weasely black guts. Did you know:
mateloge: the practice of two men marrying aboard ship for the duration of a cruise, or for life, in some cases ...For more information go to
Talk Like a Pirate. Brokeback Mountain Triggers War at Prestigious Private School in Austin, Texas Excerpts from an article written by Barbara Minze for
Mexia Daily News“In 1999, an new English teacher joins the staff on the campus of this expensive private school. As she moves up to senior instruction in the next couple of years, she approaches her superiors with the recommendation of a new book. She wants to add
Brokeback Mountain to the reading assignment for seniors, and explains that it will be taught during the third trimester, as the students are then doing college work and preparing for the outside world - for college life in most cases.
Within the next couple of years,
adding this one book to the curriculum would cost the school a few million dollars in pledges from conservative parents, who were very critical about the addition of the book to the reading assignment for their seniors.”
The author of the article explains how the principal handled the anger and threats made by many of the parents.
To read the entire article,
go here.If you are a subscriber of Texas Monthly, you can read John Spong’s very good related article ‘
The Good Book and the Bad Book’ online
here. If you aren’t a subscriber to Texas Monthly, you can find a partial synopsis (with commentary) of the Spong article at
this blog. Sister Anne?Anne Hathaway dreamed of becoming a Catholic nun when she was a child, but says now that she couldn't devote her life to a religion that doesn't permit homosexual acts. Although she had her heart set on joining a convent until age 15,
when she discovered her brother was gay, Hathaway decided to give up on her dream.
The 23-year-old says, "I felt like I got a calling from God. "But when I realised my older brother was gay, I couldn't support a religion that didn't support my brother."
Despite shunning religion, kind-hearted Hathaway helps her philanthropist boyfriend Raffaello Follieri in Cambodian health centres. She adds, "I'm in love with the founder (of the Follieri Foundation), so I'd be going anyway."
Source:
http://www.contactmusic.com"The Joker" hates Comic Book MoviesHeath Ledger in CandyIn an exclusive interview with
Dark Horizons, Heath Ledger talks about his roles in
Candy and the next Batman film. He acknowledges that his decision to play
The Joker in the
The Dark Knight has caused much interest in the industry. He says that ordinarily doing something like that would not be of interest to him. "I actually hate comic book movies, like fucking hate them, they just bore me shitless and they're just dumb. But I thought what Chris Nolan did with Batman was actually really good, really well directed, and Christian Bale was really great in it."
Ledger says he's looking forward to playing a truly evil character. "He's going to be really sinister and it's going to be less about his laugh and his pranks and more about just him being a just a sinister guy." Asked if he decides to do a big movie like this, because of agent pressure, Ledger pauses then laughs. "I'm sure they're super happy that I'm doing this, because this is the first time I've really kind of taken something like that, so they're over the moon. But I think it's just going to be a really fun experience, and I love to dress up and wear a mask." No costumes have been designed, but the actor says that "I've seen a few interesting designs on the look and I think that it's going to look pretty cool."
The article was written by Paul Fisher and posted to
Dark Horizons on Sept 11 2006: to read it in full,
go here:
New Jake PollWanna play matchmaker? Hop on over to
Jake’s Eyelashes! Say the moderators: “There has always been speculation about who Gylly has been with and who he hasn't. If you had the choice to choose his perfect partner, who would it be?” There’s an interesting variety of people to choose from!
Forum Tutorial: How to Quote like an Expert and Not like a Beginner! by LoveEmBoysQuick Question: How many times have you seen a post that looks like this??
Quoting another post inside one of your own can be a powerful mechanism to keep a conversation alive amidst other conversations on the forum. Quoting is easy! But it can be confusing if you aren’t familiar with the codes necessary to
make it work to your best advantage .
Quoting starts with finding the post that you’d like to quote, and clicking the “Quote” button in the top right of that entry. Doing so opens the Post Reply window, and copies in the text of the message you requested to quote.
The critical elements, here, are the commands that look like [quote…] and [/quote ]. Similar to HTML tags, these commands all have a begin command ([quote... ]) and an end command that starts with a forward slash ([/quote ]). These commands MUST occur in pairs, or the system will not know how to interpret them.
In the case of the quote commands, the begin and end commands must surround all of the text that you want to be quoted -- that which you want to appear in the yellow box.
If you change something in the begin command, or delete it altogether, the system likely will recognzise the end quote that is missing a begin quote -- so it very helpfully inserts a new begining quote command directly preceeding the end command ([quote ][/quote ])
In this case I edited the begin command and changed the "author" tag to "auor". Because the system no longer recognized that as a begin quote command -- it just ignores it.
Notice, by the way, that text of the incomplete begin quote command now displays in the posted message. That is a dead give away that there is something wrong in the begin command and the computer can't interpret it.
If you find yourself in this situation, you need to restore the original begin quote command and delete the one that was inserted by the system. If you no longer have the original begin quote command, that includes the users name, and message id and timestamp of their post -- your best bet may be to copy any text you have added to the message, quit out of that message and start again with a new quote.
Regardless, you can usually find these quote errors very simply by just Previewing your post before posting it. Preview is your friend --- for oh so many reasons.
To read further on this and several other common quoting frustrations, check out the
FAQ Thread and / or this document:
Quoting_Examples.pdf** Many thanks to Sheera and Bigheart who agreed to let me use their posts as examples for this topicPossible Get-together in ArizonaArizona folk, say hello! If you live in Arizona and are interested in a get-together this coming Saturday 23rd September, go to
this thread and let them know that you'll be there!
Photo Caption of the DayPosted by JannisAlien 1: "This is a one shot thing we got goin on here."
Alien 2: "It's nobody's business but ours."
Alien 1: "You know I ain't no humanphile."
Alien 2: "Me neither."
Both to Ennis: "It's alright, it's alright..."
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Editors: Ellen (tellyouwhat) and Jan (CactusGal)
Assistant editors: elle_ann and kmich
Columnists: PeteinPortland, , cynical21, Jim Bond, michaelflanagansf
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Contributors: michaelflanagansf, LoveEmBoys, Bobby19in1963, karind1, TwistandShout, cynical21, lizardog
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