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From the Political Department:

There's an interesting article in Telepolis about the perspectives arising from the elections in the USA:
http://www.telepolis.de/deutsch/inhalt/mein/18755/1.html

And because it's an article written by an American living in Germany, there is actually an English language version online as well, so everybody who's interested can partake of the intellectual challenge and diversity that is Telepolis, for once:
http://www.telepolis.de/english/inhalt/co/18754/1.html

And the title page of the current SPIEGEL:

From the Department for Systematic Madness:

There is a web site that lists conspiracy theories, all and any conpiracy theories, and allows them to make their cases. The PHP system doesn't quite run ideally, yet, but the content is fun:
http://www.weltverschwoerung.de

(in German only, sorry!)

From the Department for Weather Madness:

Our RL weather seems inspired by the early winter we've been having in Bonk in the

discworld_rpg. Today, when I rode the train to work, the weather was fine here in Haidhausen, started to drizzle in Berg-am-Laim; there was a hailstorm in Trudering, a snowstorm in Gronsdorf, falling snow in Haar and nothing again in Vaterstetten where I had to get off. My bike's saddle was a bit wet, that was all. But for tonight, frost is predicted, and snow might actually stay on the ground. And it's only November 9th! That's what I get for going on and on about the snowfalls in Bonk.

fabulous_papaya, please let's go on about the thaw that follows soon, as soon as Otto is through with his werewolves!

From the Department for Creative Redirect:

I can still draw, I find! I have done the drawing of young!Sam I wanted to do for

dreamkin, and then I've drawn a new little vampire about whom I totally don't know who he could be; suggestions are welcome!

The usual: the iconses are free for gackage if I get credited, and link to a large version of the drawings while a small version is behind the cut that follows:

"Little Sam Vimes", from this log for the Discworld RPG, for Dreamkin, whose birthday was more than a month ago but who was still owed something!

"The Little Monster"

From the Department for Standing Offers:

I've got a few requests for Hogswatch fics yet, but if anybody would like to have something written, the offer is still open! You tell me the particulars, and I'll do it, as long as it's a fandom I know.

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i told you it will stay over winter! don't you know any biology?!
if it weren't so high up i would swat it and mail it to you *grump*

Hmm, very odd. I think it will sleep, or die, or something.

And thank for the offer, but I'm sure I'm happier without a squashed Viennese mosquito in the mail.

it won't! it is warm in here, they can überwintern for ages, and it can suckle me.

ps: they are not actually mosquitos. we call them "gelsen" anyway, which is why your town of gelsenkirchen is hilarious!

That town is notoriously ridiculous even without odd Austrian not-quite-mosquitoes.

hey, is if mücken were less odd! pah. moskitos are simply a different kind of animal i was told. i could not believe you don't know gelsen - i guess you don't know bremsen either?

I know Bremsen. Horseflies. Look like flies, suck with a kind of snout. Relatively rare in urban areas.

good girl. see, same word there.
and now imagine this: as a child i had to spend every holiday in an area full of horse flies. and they fed on me. i could not even smite them, it was so awful and disgusting and painful wah.

They used to eat me as well, at our "Ferien auf dem Bauernhof" when I was small. I always waited until they had settled down and started suckling, and then I swatted them - splosh!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! yuck! graus. und juck.

Heh! Wuss!

Baiting them with one's own blood is eminently fair, I find.

baiting them with somebody else's blood is more appealing. i don't want smeared corpes bathed in blood sticking on my skin.

There weren't that many at once, Just the occasional horsefly. I can do that.

you made me remember a cloud of them i had to walk through on a path when i was on kur - there was no way around. nightmare in bright sunny daylight.

Varia

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