FW has the full summary, but in short:
1) Idiot drunk fangirls post that other fangirl has died in a tragic accident.
2) Other fangirls believe them, because despite the fact that the whole thing sounds ridiculous, stranger things have been known to happen.
3) People call hoax.
4) Drunk fangirls explain that it can't possibly be a hoax, because they never thought anyone would be gullible enough to believe it in the first place. (Note: This is the wrong way to apologize.)
5) Hurt feelings all around!
6) Fandom wank.
...well, all righty, then.
Who Needs The Kwik-E-Mart
Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts, the fictional convenience stores of "The Simpsons" fame, in the latest example of marketers making life imitate art.
Those stores and most of the 6,000-plus other 7-Elevens in North America will sell items that until now existed only on television: Buzz Cola, KrustyO's cereal and Squishees, the slushy drink knockoff of Slurpees.
It's all part of a campaign to hype the July 27 opening of "The Simpsons Movie," the big-screen debut for the long-running television cartoon, which loves to lampoon 7-Eleven as a store that sells all kinds of unhealthy snacks and is run by a man with a thick Indian accent.
Is anyone else freaked out by the ads for the Washlet on Salon? All those smiling asses are too much without benefit of coffee.
Yoko Ono should sue the heck out of them.
Maybe its a Japanes thing?
Over the weekend, 7-Eleven Inc. turned a dozen stores into Kwik-E-Marts
I saw one over the weekend when I was driving home from Burbank. It took me a minute to realize what it was but then I was all, "Kwik-E-Mart!"
We finally saw an R2-D2 post office box.
Wow, Supernatural fandom is having the stupidest wank I've seen in a long time.
The sheer DEPTH of stupidity is just boggling!
Although last night, vaguely entertaining. (And, hey, FW set me on a path to look at gorgeous draft-cross warmbreds that I could never afford, even if I were tall enough to need 17 hands of hunter/jumper! So it got bonus points!)
Anyhow, it kept me from beating my head against something when people in fandom were pulling the "And here's why this thing going on it the real world can be mapped to how all the fangirls oppress me!" BS again.
I really need a Shit I Didn't Say fandom filter.
That Kwik-E-Mart thing cracks me up! But not enough to actually go to one, since the NYC one is Times Square.
