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Ken over at Popehat gives us a review of Charles Carreon's complaint in his lawsuit against The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, the NWF, and the American Cancer Society.

http://www.popehat.com/2012/06/19/the-oatmeal-v-funnyjunk-part-v-a-brief-review-of-charles-carreons-complaint/

I think the opening paragraphs will give you a pretty effective idea of his opinion:

A few days ago I discussed a report — which proved true — that FunnyJunk's attorney Charles Carreon had sued Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, IndieGoGo, and two charities in a fit of what can only be described as unbalanced, from-Hell's-heart-I-stab-at-thee pique.

Today, as promised, I'm going to talk a bit about the merits of — no, the substance of — you know, scratch that. I'm going to talk about the butthurt that Charles Carreon angrily crayoned down and chucked at a federal judge.

Reading these posts and skimming the rest of the blog, I had developed a bit of a fangirl crush. And then I read this incredible cease and desist that he penned. *swoon* Stalking a former Assistant US Attorney is a bad idea, right?

What I did with my weekend:

Flew to Phoenix for roughly 48 hours so I could attend the book release party for Kevin Hearne's Tricked. I first heard of Kevin and his Iron Druid Chronicles via his post in the wallet-emptying "The Big Idea" feature at Scalzi's. By the time I'd gotten no more than halfway through that post, I was all "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" (which is frankly not that uncommon a reaction when I read that particular feature). Then I started getting other people to read them. I got

chadu hooked, and I even got

brian1789 to get over his distaste for fantasy and read them. And then I apparently turned into the kind of fangirl who will buy tickets to a party called "Atticus and Oberon's Sausage Fest" more than halfway across the country where she can eat bangers and mash and drink beer and hang out with an author at an Irish pub that figures prominently in his books.

Sausage Fest
Originally uploaded by catherine_s

Kevin made it a point to come around and talk to everyone, and he is as entertaining and as nice a guy in person as you might think based on that Whatever post, and his mother (who monitors his Google mentions) is utterly charming. (Hi Mrs. Hearne! ;) )

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YouTube is almost as bad as Wikipedia as far as the "oooh, clicky!" factor goes.

I know several of you on my f-list are already quite aware of Happy Rhodes. Those of you who aren't should take a peek at these (or at least turn them on and listen to them in the background as you do other stuff). The sound on the "Mercy Street" cover is better since it was apparently a soundboard feed.

Happy and Bon Lozaga cover Peter Gabriel's "Mercy Street":

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( Happy performs Feed the Fire )

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