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"This past weekend I landed, quite by accident, in the middle of Anthrocon 2010 -- the annual conference at which the whole Furry Fandom convenes. It was a happy accident: I happened to be at a wedding in Pittsburgh, and our flagging after-party sure roared to life when a half-dozen costume-clad furries lumbered in. I took a Little Red Riding Hood-esque picture with a big, bad wolf -- who, underneath all that plush, is a vet. My friends mugged with a ... black sheep. And, on the drive home, I couldn't help telling my sister all about the rather surreal scene -- half the lobby was wea

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The Last Airbender (2010)
Written and directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Jackson Rathbone

The Last Airbender is a pointless movie. Who remakes a TV series into a film? Plenty of people have used film to extend the stories of canceled shows. And other people use movies to adapt written word to a visual medium. But Avatar: The Last Airbender is already a visual medium, with a finished story that doesn’t benefit from a white kid with leukemia and that Indian guy from The Daily Show.

The Last Airbender is the story of a boy named Aang, who is the fabled Avatar, a reincarnated entity that can control all four elements. He’s also the last of the Airbending Nomads, after the Fire Nation killed them all in an attempt to destroy him. So Aang, with the help of his new friends has to learn the other three elements and use them to bring peace to the world. The film attempts to take the entire first season of the TV show and compress it into an hour and a half. “But that sounds impossible!” you say? That’s because it is impossible. The result is an incomprehensible mess that plays like a bad YouTube montage of the story.

Actually montages would have really helped this stupid movie because at least then there would be some semblance of time passing. The editing in this film is so bad that the multiple weeks of journeying and training look like it happens in three days. One of the characters has to awkwardly jam in a line about “these past few weeks” otherwise you’d have no way of knowing.

Seriously, I’ve seen the fucking show and I had no idea what was going on.

It’s hard to say which is worse: the writing or the acting. They crash against each other, building in power until it’s a perfect storm of shitty movie. Exposition is forced and unnatural, all of the humor falls flat, and the serious moments end up unintentionally funny. People in the theater actually laughed during a scene where someone sacrifices their life to save the kingdom. Every actor is completely wrong for the film. Dev Patel screams and broods a lot. And Aasif Mandvi is supposed to be believable as a god-killing warlord? Even the extras are so mismatched that they stick out like sore thumbs. It literally looks like they hired the background warriors from the attendees at Comic-Con. The only redeeming factor about the casting is that amazingly, M Night Shyamalan didn’t force himself into the movie.

It’s also very apparent that the 3D was tacked on last minute, as nearly ever special effect shot of fireballs and water jets is directed away from the camera.

You want to know the worst part of this stupid movie? It’s the fact that if it does well, there will be two more of them to suffer through.

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FFC Sermon from Anthrocon 2010 from Wolfin on Vimeo.

Each year at Anthrocon; the Christian furries gather together and have a service; this is the recording of the message portion of that service for 2010. Enjoy!

Presenter: Firekeeper, FFC

We talk about more editing, we catch up with Pyro, and read an intriguing offer from our friend Kandrel, who sets his nationality straight for us. Unsheathed #44 - More editing questions! An update from Pyro and an offer from Kandrel.

http://www.actfuronair.com/s2_ep9.html

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Doctor Who Finale time, and TK gets a little tounge-tied trying to heap praise on BBC3's new show Mongrels.

Post E3, and the staff are happy now. Kurushi is TK's pick for Done and Dusted, while Xavier gets some Doctor Who off his chest.

Below is the interview between Talon and 2 (The re-uploaded one that is properly cut >v>)

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Take a listen and enjoy

UnFurled Interviews: 2 the Ranting Gryphon - Below is the interview between Talon and 2 (The re-uploaded one that is properly cut >v>) Take a listen and enjoy

Episode 11 is ready to go!

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Big fun in this episode, as well as we had our interview with 2 the Ranting gryphon! Take a listen and enjoy.

Questions, comment and so on go to Us@unfurled.net

Episode 11 – Stuffers - Episode 11 is ready to go! Big fun in this episode, as well as we had our interview with 2 the Ranting gryphon! Take a listen and enjoy. Questions, comment and so on go to Us@unfurled.net

ONE HUNDRED? Oh my god! This is the 100th regular episode of KnotCast! Savrin, Fuzz, Shiva, and Isty are all in house to listen to the wonderful messages we got from our friends. With a cast of voices including Bucktown Tiger, Sub Level 03, Woyro, K.M. Hirosaki, Kyell Gold, Rifka, Teal, Teiran, Andrew Rabbit, Cyberman Zapnut, and Alex Fucking Vance! And then theres more, as we include the voicemails we recieved from our Google Voice number. It's a fun, drunken show with warm fuzzies all around here on episode ONE HUNDRED of KnotCast! (And don't forget our coupon code "Knot" at AdamEve.com, woo!) Episode 100 - A Knotty Centennial

The cast rant about E3 2010 - and this year there is RAGE!

http://www.actfuronair.com/s2_ep8.html

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Do you edit as you go along? How do you stop from obsessively editing your own work? How do you get someone else to edit it for you? Kyell and K.M. tackle thorny editing questions. Unsheathed #43 - First drafts, self-editing, other editing issues, and writing humor.

Episode 10 is up, only a day late! Scheduling issues woo!

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Another guest this time! A foxy friend of ours joins us, too bad he’s not a real person. >v>

Big issue in this one as well, one we all know well! INKBUNNY *DUN DUN DUUUUNNNNNNNNNN*

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Episode 10 – Octogon - Episode 10 is up, only a day late! Scheduling issues woo! Another guest this time! A foxy friend of ours joins us, too bad he’s not a real person. >v> Big issue in this one as well, one we all know well! INKBUNNY *DUN DUN [...]

This is a re-release of Live From the Hop Inn 203 from FA United–we got permission to release it ahead of time, and among the featured players in this little adventure is our very own Fuzzwolf. :3 Tonight from Live at the Hop Inn, we're at FurAffinity: United 2010! All our seven listeners join us for the convention, so why are you downloading this? We only have seven listeners, after all. Special guest stars are GreyBunny, Skip Ruddertail, FuzzWolf, and our extra special guest star 2 the Ranting Gryphon. For the first time ever, we're performing a live reading of Spooo Presents Issue #3: Service with a Smile by Kaput. Episode 99.5 - Fuzz's FA:United Adventure

The ranting show, with Microsoft's E3 press conference, Super Street Fighter 4, 2011, and boss characters in fighting games all taking a beating.

Woyro catches up on what he's been up to. He talks about Morphicon and the upcoming Anthrocon and Monsterbash. Episode 103---Morphicon, Anthrocon and Monsterbash - Woyro catches up on what he's been up to. He talks about Morphicon and the upcoming Anthrocon and Monsterbash.

In Tanuke's longest review yet, TZ takes on the 2006 remake of everyone's favorite movie about a sheepdog transformation. Housebroken - The Shaggy Dog

A listener likes a story despite its obvious flaws. Kyell and K.M. discuss with Not Tube our expectations around furry fiction and its potential. Unsheathed #42 - Not Tube joins Kyell and K.M. to discuss whether it's okay to like flawed furry fiction.