YAY and BOO!

YAY: I has finished my fic for 7thnight_smut. It's at this moment being cleared of plotholes and egregious grammatical errors by my beta, sharpeslass. I shall not divulge the final word-count but I'll say it's the longest thing I've written in the Saiyuki fandom. I sure hope my recipient doesn't hate it-- one never knows. Still, I'm just glad it's done. ::phew::

BOO: Apparently Jamba Juice's ad agency has totally ripped off artist/cartoonist David Rees with their latest ad campaign. (Found on urbaniak's journal-- http://urbaniak.livejournal.com/208277.html; warning on that link for language.) I guess some young ad executive was dying for ideas and decided that this Internet cartoonist would be obscure enough to rip off completely. It really ticks me off that this happens so often in our money-and-fame-driven society, though I am shocked it happens in our instantaneous-blogging Internet culture. I mean, maybe there's not much new under the sun. And the original cartoonist was using art from the public domain. But copying someone's stuff exactly? Slimy, I says. (Says the once-hopeful-ad-exec and writer. I changed my mind on careers but I still respect good advertising.)