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Tweets from Twitter -- mostly links and random stuff I've said. Or that other folks said that I thought was cool. Or random.

• 00:54 RT @io9 12-year-old uses World of Warcraft skills to save his sister from moose attack bit.ly/b7UMKN #
• 22:39 RT @io9 Totally amazing: a statue of legendary Chinese general Guan Yu as a Transformer bit.ly/aBXByr -- Awesome! #
• 00:08 www.esquire.com/print-this/todd-marinovich-0509 -- Todd Marinovich: The Man Who Never Was #

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Signal Boost: An auction to help fire_and_a_rose

Heard about this from my f-list on LJ and am helping to boost the signal. fire_and_a_rose and her family are in debt due to medical costs; some of her friends are helping her to try and raise some money to help them out. The full details can be found here: Request for help for those looking to bid and/or to offer things for bidding.

Weirdest crossover ever...

Watching a PBS special about Jamestown, Virginia. It features Tony Robinson (aka Baldrick from Black Adder) as the narrator. I made an attempt at a Baldrick impression: "It really is a cracker, Mr. B!" and Amy mentions that when she thinks of Mr. B these days, she thinks of the Little Sisters and Big Daddies in Bioshock.

Which led to us picturing the weirdest crossover EVER.

Picture it: Rapture, 1960 -- Edmund Blackadder is a passenger on a plane that goes down in the Atlantic. He sinks and awakens in the doomed city of Rapture and meets Atlas, played by Stephen Fry (the various Melchitts), who wants Edmund to help him rescue his wife and child from Andrew Ryan, played by BRIAN BLESSED!! (Edmund's father in Black Adder 1). Of course, Edmund doesn't want to have bugger all to do with this but then Atlas tells him about ADAM and Edmund has a cunning plan to take over Rapture and declare himself king.

On the way, he meets a ragtag group of amusing characters including a Big Daddy named Baldrick, a Little Sister played by Gabrielle Glaister (aka "Bob"/Kate in Blackadder II and IV) and a variety of Splicers played by Hugh Laurie, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson and all the other Blackadder regulars.

Hilarity ensues.

Found on Fandom Wank

On The Sanctity of Marriage by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The main body of the article is a reprint of a letter written by a man to his wife, Laura Spicer. She and her husband were both slaves who'd been separated by their owner. After emancipation, the two of them considered reconciling but the husband had remarried. The letter was her husband more or less begging Laura to remarry herself. The whole letter is gut-wrenching but this paragraph gave me a particular twist:

Laura I do not think I have change any at all since I saw you last.-I think of you and my children every day of my life. Laura I do love you the same. My love to you never have failed. Laura, truly, I have got another wife, and I am very sorry, that I am. You feels and seems to me as much like my dear loving wife, as you ever did Laura. You know my treatment to a wife and you know how I am about my children. You know I am one man that do love my children....

Another link from Coates:

Honoring CHM: One Drop. Features a picture of emancipated slaves and descriptions of their circumstances written by Colonel George Hanks who'd commanded black troops during the war and who was trying to raise money to help educate these slaves.

Mary Johnson was cook in her master's family in New Orleans. On her left arm are scars of three cuts given to her by her mistress with a rawhide. On her back are scars of more than fifty cuts given by her master. The occasion was that one morning she was half an hour behind time in bringing up his five o'clock cup of coffee. As the Union army approached she ran away from her master, and has since been employed by Colonel Hanks as cook.

Signal Boost:

gulf_aid_now is a fannish auction to help aid a variety of charities seeking to help those affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil well disaster.

From the site: The anger the world feels at BP is justifiable, but anger doesn't put fish in nets or food on tables. It doesn't take oil off innocent wings and gills. The only thing that can make those things possible is action. For those near the Gulf, this may mean going to the source with dish soap and a pair of waders. For those of us farther away, it may mean supplying the funds to buy supplies and help those whose paychecks are currently on indefinite hold.

On a semi-related note: Ifitwasmyhome.com allows you to see the extent of the spill within the Gulf and to compare the spill against your home location.