S&L Podcast - #480 - What You Can Do With Mickey Mouse

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Alternatives to Goodreads, and one of them is Amazon. Which owns Goodreads. What you can and can't do with Mickey Mouse. The "Who should play Murderbot" discussion continues. Typical human and augmented human stuff! Plus why Veronica should read this month's book pick.

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WHAT ARE WE NOMMING?

Tom: Shrimp Tacos
Veronica: Mac and Cheese Burger

QUICK BURNS

Dwango —
Not sure what this means for Goodreads, but Amazon, it's owner, appears to be making a competitor to Goodreads based on its Amazon reviews.

Mark was inspired to mention Hardcover "Like Goodreads, you can keep track of, and review what you read. I imported my books from Goodreads without any issues.”

The Hardcover developers compare themselves to Goodreads.

Tamahome: Disney's Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy enter the public domain making one version of Mickey Mouse copyright free

Jan: In totally shocking news, fan fiction author Demetrious Polychron lost against the Tolkien estate and Amazon after he failed in his copyright lawsuit against the "Rings of Power" and now has to destroy all copes of his own "The Fellowships of the King" and pay USD 134,000 in lawyer's fees...

Jan: John (Taloni)
Not to worry! LOTR becomes public domain in 2044. So in 20 years he can recoup his costs.


BARE YOUR SWORD

Feedback from the audienceIain: I am pretty sure the discussion on Murderbot casting was not complaining about having a good looking actor. Rather the choice of which good looking actor. Could have cast Elliot Page and still have unreasonably attractive with a very different effective

John (Taloni) The discussion of Clay as the center of the band despite being an unspectacular if solid fighter - the "rhythm guitarist" of the group - reminded me of Gail Carriger's latest, the Tinkered Starsong trilogy. It's about band formation and growth among a group of aliens with a few humans. The group gravitates around one member as its "Sun," without which they can't function. He's otherwise a Low Cantor, essentially the rhythm guitarist of such a band.

Tassie Dave: Nicholas Eames has already answered the question of which part of a band they represent.
The main five who make up Saga are loosely based on the players in a 'classic' rock band. Gabe is the charismatic lead singer, Ganelon the highly-skilled 'axe-man' (lead guitar), Matrick as the drummer (he wields a pair of knives, after all) and Moog as the zany keyboard player. Which leaves, of course, Clay Cooper, as the quiet, often-overlooked bass player without whom the whole band would fall apart

Regarding your last episode, my friend Melissa found Veronica saying "Alexander Skarsgard" near the end (around 1:13:00) of episode 9 of Vaginal Fantasy.
According to her, that's the earliest mention of him on VF by Veronica. It's dated September 2012.
Yeah, my two friends and I have way too much time on our hands. (LOL)
-Drake Tungston

2023 5-star reads

3 Random (Calvey)
Former president Obama always releases his books of the year. Totally bummed there is no Fourth Wing. It may be the only list w/o it!

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

January Book Pick
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
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January Book Pick

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