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Author: AppleCider

Dear Princess Celestia,

Today, Eurobeat Brony came by and we talked a lot about music. In the process, we converted Jehovah’s Witnesses into the herd, did some impromptu age speculations, and even learned to appreciate dubstep just a little bit. And as always, our fans are super awesome and cool and should totally hang out with us more.

Sincerely,
AppleCider

PS – Show notes can be found on the following Google Doc.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FXWYMG9FGTjt2spUd3NORLR7oFWiYZkLvFZ0-Kml-r0/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=COzV97gH

PSS – Did you know little girls like My Little Pony too? What gives?

Intro – Friendship Forever Mix by ChainAlgorithm on Youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V59MgGRHvo

Outro – Super Ponybeat – Giggle at the Ghostie (Complete) – http://youtu.be/3SY9t81sVsE

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As a new feature, we’re going to start selecting a video to feature each week. This video will be the first in the series.
As a fursuiter myself, I found this video to be an excellent insight to why many fursuiters love being in suit.  Take a look, and share your own thoughts below.

The Magic of Fursuiting

This video is a celebration of the wonderful “magic” that happens when ordinary people put on animal costumes and bring happiness and joy to others, particularly children. Unlike (most) adults, kids still have the capacity to imagine that the fursuiter is not a hot, sweaty performer baking in a suit – but a cartoon character, or maybe their favorite stuffed animal, come to life.

All the quotes used in this video were obtained directly from the fursuiters themselves from our local group up here in the greater Seattle area.

Video by Kijani
Original footage shot mostly by Dolphin Echo
Still photos by Chaos Reign

[Editors note:  Normally, I toss out any user submitted trolling information as it normally involves party X trolling party Y on Youtube or some local forum, and the latest furry getting butt-hurt because someone told them to "yiff in hell" or called them a "furfag".  This is typical and in no way news worthy.  If, however, there is activity to get a group like WBC involved in trolling furries, that, I feel, at least deserves a heads up to those running and attending Furry conventions across the country.]

06/08/2011

Submitted By: Malaki

Users of the forums at Kongregate don’t like furries.  One group plans on taking the hatred and trolling to 9000.

http://www.kongregate.com/forums/2-off-topic/topics/175685-op-when-lolcows-collide

Mission: get WBC to protest outside a furry convention

What this will accomplish:
1. the furries will get butthurt
2. if the furries try to retaliate, they will lose to WBC in court.
3. due to WBC being media whores, this will throw furries into the public eye

HOW WE CAN DO THIS:
1. find out when the next furry convention is
2. Inform the WBC that there is a convention for GAY ATHEISTS who SODOMIZE ANIMALS
3. Give them the location and date
4. WATCH FOR THE LULZ

So who is Westboro Baptist Church?  Here’s Wikipedia’s info on WBC:

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an independent Baptist church known for its extreme stance against homosexuality and its protest activities, which include picketing funerals and desecrating the American flag. The church is widely described as a hate group and is monitored as such by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center. It is headed by Fred Phelps and consists mostly of members of his large family; in 2007, it had 71 members. The church is headquartered in a residential neighborhood on the west side of Topeka about three miles west of the Kansas State Capitol at 3701 West 12th Street,Topeka, Kansas, United States. Its first public service was held on the afternoon of Sunday, November 27, 1955.

The church has been actively involved in the anti-gay movement since at least 1991 when it sought a crackdown on homosexual activity at Gage Park six blocks northwest of the church. In addition to anti-gay protests at military funerals, the organization pickets other celebrity funerals that are likely to get it media attention.

The WBC is not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles, though mainstream Primitive Baptists reject the WBC and Phelps.

Wikipedia Article continues here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church

 

Hamster Rage is an interesting beast by writer and artist Brian J. Crowley. It’s a webcomic featuring an anthropomorphic super powered hamster with a penchant for trench coats and cheese. Nevertheless, the lead character isn’t what makes this an odd read. It is the feeling that so much more is going on beyond the scenes than the reader is privy to. The first introductory batch, available online or in a recently released paper issue, features Roosevelt, the titular raging hamster, alongside a boatload of supporting characters duking it out in the streets of Chicago, featuring a number of landmarks familiar to people who frequent Montrose between Ashland and Clark.

Read the rest of the review at GB Book Club: Hamster Rage

Putting out the word on the street for all artists residing in Georgia: Come show your best artistic moves at the Tree House Art Jam. Pizza, snacks, and drinks as well as a comfy place to throw down your best art abilities will be provided. If you have art supplies that you don’t mind sharing, we’d gladly appreciate those type of things as well.

So here’s the important stuff:

All artists are invited.
Pizza and snacks will be provided, as well as a bit o’ paper to help get you started.
Free to attend (but donations greatly appreciated!)
Friday, 10 June; starts at 7PM.

To get directions and RSVP, go here: Georgia Furs

Some people would have me believe that Ironclaw is more than just a gimmicky system that relies on a niche crowd to pick it up. While I've never personally met anyone who's given it a whirl, I consistently read reviews that state it has a seamless combat system. I'm hosting a session for a group of friends, all of whom are either willing to look past the fact that it's a furry role play or happen to be furries themselves. The whole idea is to see if it's a solid system, so I figured that this would be an excellent place to gather more info before I get started this week. Have any of you guys given it a shot?

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nintendo’s animal crossing is a series of games in which players settle in and inhabit videogame villages; over the course of typically years, players maintain the town, find ways to earn money, buy and sell possessions, remodel and decorate their homes, assemble and design wardrobes, and interact with a revolving cast of animal neighbors. in addition to service characters that appear in every animal crossing town, there are 210 different animal characters in animal crossing, divided across 34 different species, who can move into a town as residents – up to eight at a time. these characters will talk to, trade with, and solicit work from the player characters, who live in the animal town as humans.

rule 34 is a long-standing internet folk rule: “if it exists, there’s porn of it.” rule 34 is also a website, rule34.paheal.net (warning: it’s full of fucking porn), that collects porn of videogame characters, cartoons and etc. it contains a lot of porn of the characters from animal crossing. but which ones? who’se the most popular? which neighbors have had the most smut drawn of them? which animal leads the most active sex life? i decided to tally the animal crossing images on the site to see which animal crossing characters and species are the most desired.

Archaia Entertainment and the Jim Henson Company have recently announced that Arcaia will be releasing Fraggle Rock Classics: Volume 1 in soft-cover this August or September. This new full-color edition collects the original Fraggle Rock comic book series which began in 1985. It includes stories such as “The Magic Time Machine” and “The Doozer Who Wanted to be a Fraggle”. Jake Myler illustrated the brand-new cover.

 

image c. 2011 Archaia Entertainment

Editor's note: The best part about this is the last paragraph:

Speaking of "Panda 3," I wonder if the relationship between Po and Tigress will advance from its current status as what might be called a warm friendship. Tigress seems to occupy a favored position in Po's heart, reopening the possibility of cross-species pollination.

Dozens of swans have been slaughtered around the UK this year, a serial cat killer is on the loose in Norfolk, and over the past three decades hundreds of horses have been mutilated. But how is serial animal violence investigated, asks Tom de Castella.

After six years of loyal service, Graham Waspe was devastated when his guide dog Edward was left blind after developing cataracts.
But his devastation turned to joy when his replacement Opal turned out to be a real gem.
Mr Waspe's new dog is not just aiding his owner to carry out everyday tasks, but also helping Edward to get around.

A film team from Beyond Productions c/o National Geographic is in my town doing a segment on furries/fursuiters. We'll be airing in an episode next season alongside "real world superheroes". Our segment is driven around Nuka who is a Social Psychology doctorate student and the purveyor of this furry survey. I am going out for a few hours, but will be coming home around 3, and going out to another shoot after that. I may be able to get in some questions in between, but more than likely, it will be tonight, after we are done filming. (Today is the second of 2 days of filming)

The Germans viewed canines as being almost as intelligent as humans and attempted to build an army of fearsome 'speaking' dogs, extraordinary new research shows.
Hitler hoped the clever creatures would learn to communicate with their SS masters - and he even had a special dog school set up to teach them to talk.
The incredible findings show Nazi officials recruited so-called educated dogs from all over Germany and trained them to speak and tap out signals using their paws.
One mutt was said to have uttered the words 'Mein Fuhrer' when asked who Adolf Hitler was.
Another 'spoke' by tapping letters of the alphabet with his paws and was said to have speculated about religion and learnt poetry.

In “Zookeeper,” the animals at the zoo adore their caretaker Andrew (Kevin James), an amiable but lonely guy who’s never quite fit in. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Andrew decides he should leave the zoo and get a life. When the zoo animals discover his plan they decide to break their code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! Now they won’t shut up and they’re teaching Andrew nature’s best mating rituals. To help him win the girl of his dreams (Rosario Dawson) and save their happy family they’re willing to do – or say – anything.

Cast

• Kevin James as Griffin Keyes
• Rosario Dawson as Kate
• Leslie Bibb as Stephanie
• Ken Jeong as Venom
• Donnie Wahlberg as Shane
• Joe Rogan as Gale, an alpha male dating Stephanie
• Sylvester Stallone as the voice of Joe the Lion
• Nick Nolte as the voice of Bernie the Gorilla
• Adam Sandler as the voice of Donald the Monkey
• Don Rickles as the voice of Jim the Frog
• Judd Apatow as the voice of Barry the Elephant
• Cher as the voice of Janet the Lioness
• Jon Favreau as the voice of Jerome the Grizzly Bear
• Faizon Love as the voice of Bruce the Grizzly Bear
• Maya Rudolph as the voice of Molie the Giraffe
• Bas Rutten as the voice of Sebastian the Wolf

External links

• Official website
• Zookeeper at Allmovie
• Zookeeper at Box Office Mojo
• Zookeeper at the Internet Movie Database
• Zookeeper at Rotten Tomatoes

 

 

The Monday Night Meltdown is a Live, Hot-Talk Show hosted by Kelly “Firechild” Jones, resident furry DJ EAR, & Brother Dave Carr – Every Monday night from 7pm-10pm (PST) on OCRockRadio.com (Part of the Saddleback College CTVR Deptment). Frequent Studio Guests include The Amazing Brad-O, JayJay & Laurie Ocean. Although the show is not a furry-themed show, it is “Furry Friendly”.

Each show is recorded and uploaded to a Facebook Page where fans can stream and/or download the MP3 from an archive of past shows. (However, MP3 Versions cut out music played during breaks to save time and space.) It is also posted to DJ EAR’s Fur Affinity Page & The Furcast LiveJournal.

Regular segments on the show include the “Random Interview” & “Brother Dave Carr Music Session”. On numerous occasions EAR has furries call in to talk about themselves and other topics with Firechild. Past Guests have included fursuit builder and artist CoffeeHouseDog, Every-Bun Toast the Rabbit, & Comedian 2 The Ranting Gryphon.

OCRR Monday Night Meltdown 06-06-11 by OCRR~Meltdown

Author: Fred

Wikipedia has a new article about Nazi experiments to train dogs to talk. The trainers claimed that one dog, when asked who Adolf Hitler was, would answer, “Mein Fuhrer”.

The article is based upon a May 2011 book, Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities, by Jan Bondeson, which covers “talking dogs” back to the eighteenth century.

Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought

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Author: dronon

What do you get when you combine furry, steampunk, detective thrillers, alternative history, and a bit of Quentin Tarantino?

Bryan Talbot‘s Grandville series of graphic novels; two so far, Grandville (2009) and Grandville Mon Amour (2010). Both are about 100 pages and very sturdy hardcovers. Sounds like quite the hodge-podge of genres, no? Yet it works!

Steampunk? Wax cylinders, gears, message tubes, locomotives, automatons and airships. Detective thrillers? A Scotland Yard inspector on a difficult case. Alternative history? Grandville is Paris, and the First French Empire conquered Great Britain 200 years ago. Britain eventually regained independence after a nasty period of revolt and anarchism, but the British Empire never happened; now it’s simply one more country dwarfed by the French.

Furry? Pretty much everyone in it. Quentin Tarantino? The occasional bit of mature content, lots of high-action fights, and not shy about it. For furry fans, there’ll probably be two main factors determining whether you’ll like it.

First, if you like Tarantino-style action, you’ll like this, although it’s neither as extreme nor as gratuitous as his work.

Secondly, Talbot’s character design – it either works for you or it doesn’t. I like his coloring and how he uses shadows, and while his backgrounds really capture the feel of steampunk, some characters are drawn with rather harsh features, especially emphasizing the teeth.

Do an image search for “Grandville” and “Talbot” and you should get a feel for his artstyle. It’s extremely anthropomorphic, more so than most furry titles. Not content to use the typical slew of animals, Grandville‘s side-characters include fish, simians, birds, and even the occasional human: “They’re a hairless breed of chimpanzee that evolved in the town of Angoulême, near Bordeaux. Never been granted citizens’ rights.”

That, by the way, is a light-hearted dig at the place where the largest comic book festival in Europe is held.Grandville is full of little tributes like that, indicating Talbot’s influences and inspirations; Omaha the Cat Dancer,Rupert Bear, and many, many others. Even the title of the comic is taken from the pseudonym of a 19th century French caricaturist known for his anthropomorphic illustrations. (Yeah, I had to look that up too.)

This is my main quibble with the comic: heavy-handed tributes. For example, a character named Snowy Milou – the name of Tintin’s dog in English and French – turns out to be a fox terrier. Surprise, surprise – but do we really need two largely useless pages of obvious references to four Tintin books on top of that? No, we got the point. The trick to heartfelt tributes is being brief and subtle.

Even less subtle: the first book details a past terrorist attack against a major building, now referred to as “Ground Zero”, and the antagonists’ ultimate motivation matches certain theories about what’s recently driven U.S. foreign policy. These are major plot points; lifting them out of real life doesn’t feel like alternative history, but lazy writing. Don’t get me wrong – I really enjoyed the first book, but I wish the bad guys’ motives had been anything else. Thankfully the high-action ending prevents this disappointment from spoiling the climax.

The second book improves in terms of external references. Its main story arc doesn’t parallel real life, and so it feels like more effort was put into it. Two sub-plots are again overly-obvious nods to Jack the Ripper andSherlock Holmes; though unoriginal, they fit better with the flow of the story. Still a thumbs-up!

The main character in the series is Archibald LeBrock, a Detective Inspector for Scotland Yard. A tall, muscled badger, he has a sharp eye, good intuition and strong deductive skills. His major failing is a fierce temper, especially when anyone stands in his way. One gets the feeling his superiors must tire of cleaning up after him, but can’t deny that he gets the job done. His partner is Detective Roderick Ratzi, a smart, well-dressed, resourceful rodent who’s also very good in a fight. The two officers have a close working rapport.

In the first volume, LeBrock and Ratzi investigate the suspicious death of a British diplomat. On the surface, it looks like suicide, but on closer inspection it appears to be murder – leading the pair to the city of Grandville. They track secret agents, discover more suspicious deaths, and encounter an increasing amount of anti-British sentiment. The trail finally leads them into the upper echelons of the French government.

In Grandville Mon Amour (My Love), LeBrock is recovering emotionally from the events of the first volume. Despite resigning from the Yard in a moment of anger, he and Ratzi are determined to track down a vicious, psychopathic terrorist who’s escaped from death row. Who helped him escape, and why? What determines his choice of victims? The answers lead LeBrock back into the world of politics, and help him reconcile the death of his father.

I recommend these graphic novels most for their momentum. It’s an intense ride; the mysteries and conspiracies drive the story forward at a rapid, energetic pace. There’s tension and complexity and you want to know what happens next. Talbot plans to write more – the next book should be titled Grandville Bête Noire (Black Beast).

The Grandville series is published by Dark Horse Books, so you should be able to find it through most large libraries or bookstores. Check it out!

 

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New Line Cinema is developing a live-action family comedy by the name Furry Friday. (Umm… be careful when you google that.) The story is an animalistic twist on Freaky Friday, where a cat and a dog switch bodies. New Line took one look at the first draft and said, “No, this does not meet our standards for a cat/dog body-switching comedy.” Variety reports the studio has hired David H. Steinberg to rewrite the script. Steinberg is a co-writer on the upcoming Shrek spinoff Puss in Boots, and he’s in post-production on his feature directorial debut, Miss Dial. Cathy Schulman (The Illusionist) and Adam Stone (Limitless), the team that sold the project on spec to New Line, will produce for Mandalay Pictures.

IDW Publishing and Nickelodeon today announced that the first TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES comic series, featuring the beloved "Heroes in a Half-shell," will premiere in August 2011. The TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES will be back in action and ready to fight off evil once again, with an impressive creative team led by TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman!

Starting in August, IDW's TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES will kick off with a brand new installment of the original series, led by Eastman and co-writer Tom Waltz (Silent Hill: Past Life, Infestation: Outbreak). Phenomenal new-comer Dan Duncan will bring the Turtles to life with dynamic interior art, while Sam Kieth and Walter Simonson provide eye-catching covers for issues one and two, respectively. Eastman will also provide layouts for Duncan's art, as well as variant covers.

This first TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES series will feature new and exciting storylines that maintain the "turtle power" core beloved by millions of fans. Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael reunite to bring their ninja aptitude and teenage attitude in these all-new, action-packed adventures based on the original series. The first story arc will tell the origin story of the Turtles and introduce a new villain, the fearsome mutant alley cat, Old Hob. Featuring a cast of familiar characters, including Master Splinter, April O'Neill, Casey Jones, and true to the spirit of the original comics created by Eastman and Peter Laird, theTEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES are bigger and badder than ever, and ready to rock old and new fans alike.

IDW and Nickelodeon have a long-term partnership to offer an all-new installment of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and graphic novels. IDW's new comics are part of a larger initiative to bring Turtles to a new generation of fans, starting with these new storylines from the original series that recapture the magic of the original Turtles comics. Additionally, in fourth quarter 2012, Nickelodeon will premiere a new CG-animated version of the wildly popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.

Jason Squirrel grows tired of fetching heavy bags of nuts for food each day, and devises a plan to form a nut-collecting company that will provide more leisure time. While Jason thinks his idea is quite genius, his friends kid the squirrel for his naivety; Jason is soon denied a loan from Stan the Banking Turtle to start the business.

Jason persists with his dream and educates himself on the aspects of running a business, from finance to marketing to staffing. When he finds an investor in Grandpa Crow, the squirrel begins to overcome the obstacles that block him from achieving personal success with his nut-collecting startup.

"When I was young, I never even had the idea that I could start my own business," Steimle said. "It wasn't until I was older and in college that I realized it would be possible. Since then, I thought there should be more books for younger children that talk about building your own company."

The 30-page illustrated children's book details how Jason's business endeavor becomes successful, so much so that he hires a group of raccoons to help with his workload.

Steimle's story of Jason and his nut-collecting company shows young children that they are capable of doing anything through hard work, determination and perseverance.