Furry Times

The Nerdist is reporting that both the BBC and Netflix are producing a CGI series based upon Watership Down.

Although I am happy that a series is being made, my main concern that this series will be toned down for children. It is the life and death issues that drove the original 1978 classic.

The original trailer

I actually saw this film as a child and it made me realize even to the squirrels and rabbits we might see on any given day in our own neighborhoods. They face life and death every single day, but what do humans know.

More details and more photos can be found here

by Rodney Ho on AJC.com This is Life with Lisa Ling will be taking on Furries in this upcoming season. According to the article.

This is Life with Lisa Ling, the CNN hour-long weekly series returns for a fifth season of eight episodes Sunday. Ling’s style of reporting is earnest and straightforward, with nary a trace of partisanship.

But not every episode she does is that dark. She also delves into the world of “furries,” a group of people who like to dress up in full-body animal costumes.

Ling said fans over the years had suggested she do an episode on them but “discounted them at first. It sounded silly. Some on my team thought they were a bunch of sexual deviants. But when we started asking around, it’s actually a massive community of people for whom sex is not the reason they do it. The majority of people who profess to be ‘furries” suffer from extreme social anxiety.”

Ling interviewed one “furry” out of costume and “she could not stop shaking.” But once in her outfit, “she became an entirely different person who wasn’t afraid of anyone.”

The episode is called “Furry Nation” and will air on Nov 18, check your schedule for exact times

We will have to see if the coverage will be fair and accurate

Vice.com takes another look at the chlorine at MFF 2014 that put 19 people in the hospital.

Without copying and pasting the entire article. I find that did a really great job of investigating the details of this mystery, within a mystery that caused the Hyatt Regency O’Hare to more than 4X the number of security cameras.

LINK

LINK To quote the site

This document is an attempt to catalog the slang and terminology used within the Furry fandom. The Furry community is a particularly loose association and informally organized collection of adherents sharing an interest in anthropomorphic characters in art, literature, cinema, theatre, and TV shows. There is no “Furry, Inc.” to collect references and resumes from applicants to whom it issues memberships, and to which dues are paid. There is no “Central Committee” that sits in judgement of what “is-Furry” and what is “not-Furry”; who’s “in” and who’s “out”. Nor would such a thing even be possible. Even pinning down an exact definition would be difficult. Ask twelve different Furries what “Furry” means to them, and you’re likely to get a dozen definitions. Being more a meta-genre than a distinct genre, there is considerable overlap between genres and fandoms. The story that features characters exhibiting human/animal combinations or animal heroes may easily also be classed as sci-fi, sword-and-sorcerer fantasy, a who-done-it — anything other than a biography or history, since such characters are, as of now, purely fictional. We also see this in the form of Anime “cat-girls”. Indeed, this is the stuff of recriminations, inter-fandom rivalries, on-line flame wars, and some quite nasty name-calling.

But it does have some interesting words some I never heard of before and it’s worth checking out

as posted on fox5vegas.com are all the sweet and romantic wedding of Puppy Dawg and Bunny Wyld AKA Steve and Leslie

I don’t know them but I do wish both of them the very best.