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“Yes, the Bechdel Test. It’s named for Alison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes. I have one called the Sexy Lamp Test, which is, if you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you’re a hack.”

- Comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel, Avengers Assemble)

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The “Escalation Die”

Where we found it: This is a mechanic that exists in a few other RPGs, but most notably 13th Age which is an RPG developed by a few of the lead designers on D&D 3rd and 4th editions.

What is it: A mechanic aimed at speeding up combat by giving ever increasing bonuses to attack rolls as combat rounds progress. Enemies become easier to attack, meaning characters get “stronger” the longer a fight goes on. It starts at 1 and increases each round toward a max of 6.

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- D&D Home Brew: The Escalation Die | Castles & Cooks

“Adam wasn’t offered anything other than Before Watchmen. You can’t just call up DC and say “I’m Adam Hughes! I want to work on Catwoman with Mr. Everyone’s Favorite Writer — make it happen!" I wish that’s how it worked, but it really, really doesn’t. Adam’s been asking to be put back on Catwoman covers ever since he was taken off them, and it’s not happened yet. Adam asked to be given a shot on Fables covers back when James Jean made it known he was going to leave, and we were told “no". Adam’s been promised gigs many times, only to find out later that they gave it to someone else. Being Adam Hughes actually holds little to no clout in comics- So why would they give him an interior job just because he asked for it?”

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Hi, I’m a potential customer & I want Adam Hughes to work on Catwoman with Mr. or Ms. Everyone’s Favorite Writer.  Make it happen.

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This past Friday I published this post which featured a photo of a monitor showing Katara and Aang’s grown-up children, Bumi, Kya, and Tenzin. Later that night at work I saw Colin’s answer to an anonymous “ask" (I can’t figure out how to link or reblog it properly in my browser, so the screen shot at the top will have to suffice). It is a shame the anonymous asker drew an incorrect assumption based on one image created in relatively uncontrolled conditions, and I feel that Colin’s answer hit the nail on the head.

Normally I would leave it at that. I prefer to stay out of this type of discourse on Tumblr and let the large body of work Mike and I have put out there over the years speak for itself (which obviously DOES NOT include the gross misinterpretations and misrepresentations of our work in this guy’s work). There’s nothing perfect about me or my work, but I am proud of it and the diverse, inclusive, atypical-for-American-TV world it portrays and the characters that populate it, and what it means to many people all over this globe.

But, like most people, I don’t like seeing the spreading of misinformation, nor being falsely accused of something, nor fans of Avatar and Korra believing we have let them down regarding a very sensitive issue when they are mistaken. The claim that “none of Katara and Aang’s kids share Katara’s complexion" is unequivocally false. Kya’s color model shares the exact same skin color as Katara’s; Tenzin’s skin is a touch darker and less saturated than Aang’s; and Bumi’s is just about in the middle of his siblings’. I made a color swatch chart above, with all the colors taken directly from the characters’ normal color models. I included Korra’s and her parents’ skin tones on there as well, just for reference. I also compiled screen shots of all the characters with the color picker open, sampling their skin tones. You can see for yourself that Katara and her daughter Kya share the same color code: #bd916f

Depicting diverse characters is an issue that is very important to me. But as an art director, depicting a variety of lighting situations, light temperatures, colored light sources, color atmospheres, contrast levels, dynamic ranges, tinted filters, tones, styles, moods, exposure settings, diffusion levels, etc., is all very important to me too, all in an attempt to make great, inspired, sophisticated, beautiful art that reflects something of the complex world in which we live.

Real flesh and blood skin is shiny in places, matte in others, translucent, reflective, uneven, smooth in places, textured in others. It reacts to light and color in such complex ways that while most people rarely even think about it in our normal day experiences, the properties are so intricate and subtle that mastering its accurate representation eludes students of painting such as myself for years on end. On the other hand, 2D cartoon character skin is a flat field of projected or printed color. It is an abstracted, simplified representation. If one adds lighting to a 2D animated character, that whole color field of skin tone is lightened––uniformly, unless you apply a the few limited techniques at our disposal in TV animation involving gradations. If one adds lighting to real flesh and blood skin, highlights and core shadows are formed, light models surfaces and bounces onto others, colors are reflected from surrounding objects… on and on. 3D animation certainly has many more tools at its disposal to depict skin in a realistic fashion, but even that isn’t a cakewalk and many attempts plummet into the uncanny valley.

As Colin made reference to, color theory is an incredibly fascinating, frustrating, and bewildering pursuit. I’ve been studying and trying to apply it for twenty years, and I’m still in its awe. There are so many factors to consider before trusting your own perception. For example, in the image above with the characters’ heads, Kya’s skin appears to my eye to be slightly lighter than Katara’s, despite the fact that I know they are absolutely the same color. This is most likely due to the effect of simultaneous contrast, also known as contrast effect: in simple terms, colors are pushed lighter, darker, warmer, and cooler based on what other colors are next to them. I’ve taken a sample of Korra’s normal skin tone and applied it to an illustration with a painted background and all of a sudden it looks green. On another background it might appear gray. Or bright orange. The average 2D animated show out there in the world has stock normal color models for its characters that they use for almost every scene (occasionally with a “night" version that is a bit darker and cooler). Typically the character models are presented in a vacuum, with no change in lighting, atmosphere, contrast, etc… no regard for any of the artistic properties mentioned above that I am trying to utilize in my animation art direction.

I’m not going to make that kind of show. Instead, I’m going to add lighting, change contrast levels, mix up the colors of light sources, try to inject some atmosphere into the world we’re creating. And as a result, characters’ skin tones are going to appear different depending on the context of the scene. The colors on a normal color model sheet are what’s called local color in color theory. This is the color of an object in neutral, even light. But it’s just a starting point, a flat color field in a vacuum. On Avatar we dialed every single color model from its normal model to match the lighting and color atmosphere of the background painting for each sequence in all sixty-one episodes. On Korra we do that too, and take it many steps further by adding lighting and atmosphere effects in the compositing stage, all in a pursuit of a dramatic, cinematic aesthetic. Sometimes it works out and I’m satisfied with the results. Sometimes the effects are too heavy-handed and even I’m saying, “His/her skin looks too light!" Unfortunately, this is a TV show production where we are frantically making dozens of episodes at once and we don’t get to finesse the final composites like they are able to do in feature productions. I fix what I can in retakes and color correction, but there’s only so much I can do. But I’d rather have a few fumbles in the pursuit of good art than make a flat show with no lighting or atmosphere.

And I enjoy sharing sneak peeks of the work we’re making with you guys, which often means I take a snapshot on my iPhone or DSLR of a screen and post it on Tumblr. Take a look at the last compilation of images above to see how differently colors, particularly skin tones, can vary depending on their sources. This opens up another vastly complex subject of which I am a frustrated student: photography. Take color theory and multiply it by optical engineering and then by computer science and then pull all of your hair out as you try to get your meticulously processed photo to appear the same color and contrast level on a variety of digital devices and non-color-managed web browsers and non-color-calibrated monitors. Or try the simpler task of taking a picture of something on a TV screen and see how different the photo looks than the image you saw. Everything goes out the window. While you’re at it, take digital pictures of the same red apple at different times of day, in different rooms, under different lights, outside in different weather. Then pull all of those photos into your computer and make color swatches of what you thought you knew to be “red." Then try painting a picture of that apple using just those sampled color swatches. You’ll start to see how complex this all is.

I am all for social justice and breaking down ignorance and oppressive, hurtful social constructs, particularly when the path to that is to inform, educate, open minds, and promote empathy and equality. I am not a fan of self-righteousness in any form and I struggle to keep from drifting in that direction with my own views and convictions. The internet provides a great platform to call BS on a lot of things, and I encourage people to use it for that. But now that you have the official local color swatches of these characters’ “normal" skin tones in the image above, I can assure you that using it like some Behr color chip ammunition to lambast every fanart depiction of Korra that doesn’t match #a08365 is a flawed pursuit. Ask yourself if any of the things listed above in this post might be factoring into a color variation before you shoot from the hip with your judgement. And if the depiction of Korra in some fanart is without a doubt offensive to you, consider phrasing your response in a way that could help them see it your way. Art is hard! Maybe he or she is trying to get the hang of painting and working with color (skin being one of the hardest things to master). Maybe he or she is still ignorant to the worldly views that are obvious and significant to you. You could take this opportunity to turn it into what they call in parenting “a teaching moment." You could open some eyes and educate someone who might turn around and share their enlightenment with many others.

I haven’t even scratched the surface of all there is to discuss on this topic in this overlong post. But I urge you to consider any number of the factors listed and described above before you jump to false conclusions, get your feelings hurt, or lash out with self-righteous condemnation based on a variable rather than a constant.

Love, Bryan

Post from Bryan that stands on its own. But two things to note in addition to its main content:

1) “which obviously DOES NOT include the gross misinterpretations and misrepresentations of our work in this guy’s work" 

—Mike and Bryan have never publicly critiszed M Night Shayamalan before and these are harsh words.

2) He tags the post with “kataang babies" 

Wow, make sure you guys read the whole post. That M.Night thing is pretty explosive!

It is incredibly fun to be able to like something & trust the creators.  Also signal boosting kataang babies.

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The story goes something like this: A gamer sets up a bot-vs-bot match on his Quake III Arena server and lets the match run to see how the bots will adapt over a long period of time. The bot AI (artificial intelligence) in Quake III Arena is designed to adapt to new scenarios and situations but these are usually resolved in short matches.

So he starts up the match and then promptly forgets all about it—until four years later when he decides to login and see what’s happening.

What he discovers is puzzling: the bots on both teams are simply standing still, not doing anything. The server is running and the game isn’t frozen. The bots are simply standing there, not killing one another.

So this anonymous gamer downloads the game and logs into the server to see what happens when he enters the match.

Here things just keep getting stranger. When he enters, the bots don’t fire on him—instead, they rotate to turn and look at him, and continue to look at him as he walks around the map.

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Zack sez, "Why is Jack Kirby so often called 'The King' of comics? This Flickr page, compiling dozens and dozens of his double-page splashes from the 1970s, including sequences from 2001, the New Gods books, Kamandi, the Demon and more, provide a pretty compelling argument -- pop art masterpieces, one after the other."

As you eat your sandwich, you probably never realized all the science that went into it. Because, of course, some researcher had to study exactly how the mayonnaise flows off your knife onto the bread. [wiley.com]

Scientists in Japan have cloned a mouse from a single drop of blood. (via)

Jorge Luis Borges had many fascinations—detective novels, gauchos, libraries, and labyrinths. Two prominent figures that occupied his mind, the tango and mythical monsters, appear in drawings Borges made in his manuscripts. Of the tango, Borges did much to spread the idea that the sensual Argentine dance originated in brothels. In his drawing above of a tango-ing couple, he writes at the top (in Spanish): “The tango is a brothel dance. Of this I have no doubt.”

Borges would repeat this claim on many occasions. In his 1930 biography of Evaristo Carreiego, he writes, “my informants concur on one essential fact: the tango originated in the brothels.” Why this history so intrigued Borges I do not know, but I do know that he once collaborated with Argentine composer Astor Piazzola on an album of tangos in 1965. The drawing comes from the University of Notre Dame’s special collections (you can read a Spanish transcription of the rest of the text at their site).

Above, see another of Borges’ sketches, this one from the University of Virginia’s extensive Borges collection. The drawing appears in a manuscript titled “The Old Argentine Habit,” penned in 1946 and published (as “Our Poor Individualism”) in Borges’ 1952 essay collection Other Inquisitions. According to C. Jared Lowenstein, the drawing is titled in German, “Die Hydra der Diktator” (“The Hydra of the Dictators”) and depicts Rosas, Peron, Mussolini, Hitler, and Marx and is signed “Jorge Luis Borges 46.” Lowenstein writes:

The theme of the artwork is a stunning political statement by a writer who has often been deemed apolitical. It is also a remarkably detailed drawing, especially for someone who was losing his eyesight as Borges was at this time. This marvelous depiction supplements Borges’s declaration in his text that Argentineans see themselves as individuals, not as citizens of a specific nation.

It is indeed a remarkably detailed work. I only wish Borges had supplied illustrations for his Book of Imaginary Beings.

Related Content:

Borges: Profile of a Writer Presents the Life and Writings of Argentina’s Favorite Son, Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary)

James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Draws a Sketch of Leopold Bloom (1926)

Two Childhood Drawings from Poet E.E. Cummings Show the Young Artist’s Playful Seriousness

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Zack and special guest Lowtax take a look at the artwork of an undiscovered master of the macabre.

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David Alzano interrupts his mother in rehearsals as she pauses, lights a cigarette, and listens to his complaint of playmate squabbles at Ringling Bros. Circus. Sarasota, Florida, 1949.

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Tough times have hit Barnes & Noble, which released its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter and full-year earnings on Tuesday morning.

Earnings were disappointing across the board: Fourth quarter revenues (for the period ending April 27) amounted to $1.3 billion, a 7.4% decline from the same period a year before. Net losses hit $122 million — a sharp rise from the $9.7 million in losses reported in fiscal 2012 Q4. Full-year revenues decreased 4.1% to $6.8 billion, with net losses doubling to $118.6 million.

SEE ALSO: E-books Now Make Up 1/5 of U.S. Book Sales

Those declines are all the more troubling because they are caused not only by B&N's shrinking retail business — down 10% for the quarter and 5.9% for the full year — but also by the segment that is supposed to provide a ray of hope: its tablet and e-book business, Nook. Although sales of e-books and other types of digital content increased 16.2% for the year, outpacing the U.S. e-book industry, sales in the fiscal fourth quarter fell 8.9% due to decline in sales of Nook tablet and e-readers, and the lack of blockbuster trilogies like The Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey, B&N said. Read more...

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You might as well just give up. According to the National Weather Service:

- A heat advisory is in effect in Brooklyn and the surrounding area until 6 p.m. Tuesday and then it looks like it will come back throughout the week. Probably rain tonight.

- A storm system will hit late in the week that could bring "damaging winds and hail" and probably flash flooding.

- And an air quality alert is in effect till 11 p.m. tonight (Tuesday). To stay informed of the air quality situation, call 1-800-535-1345.

By the way, yesterday a record high temperature of 96 degrees was set at LaGuardia. This breaks the old record of 95 set in 2010.

Photo by AudryJim529, Creative Commons 

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Have you ever wished that you could record something that already happened? Your kid’s first words. That perfectly timed comeback. The email address your boss told you to have those important documents sent to within the next 10 minutes. If only there was a way to record the important bits of your life, without having to record all of it.

That’s the idea behind Heard, a new app for iOS. Heard constantly records the audio around you into an ephemeral, self-destructing buffer, saving only those fleeting moments that you deem worthy.

Once you open Heard, it immediately begins recording everything within earshot of the iPhone’s microphone. Rather than dumping all of that audio into one incredibly boring and incredibly long file, though, Heard records into a constantly rotating buffer. If something happens that you just have to save, you pop into the app and tap a single button — boom, it’s recorded. Do nothing, and the buffer is erased, that audio instantly disappearing into the digital ether.

Heard will continue to record audio even when running in the background, albeit with a big ol’ red “RECORDING” banner placed up at the top of your screen.

Once recorded, clips can be named, tagged, emailed, or shared on Facebook.

Heard just launched late last week, and they’re testing a freemium model to begin with. Out of the box, the free app records up to 12 seconds of the past — not a whole lot, but enough to help you wrap your head around the concept. Pay $1.99 for the “Bigger Audio Buffer” in-app purchase, and you can bump the recording buffer up to 30 seconds, 1 minute, or 5 minutes.

Now, before you shout “OH MY GOD, SPY APP, NSA PRISM AGH!”, think about it: if someone is actively trying to record you saying something incriminating, this wouldn’t be a very good app for it. It would offer no advantage in that case over iOS’ built-in Voice Memo recorder — which, like this app, can record while running in the background — or even a cheapo tape recorder, but multiple disadvantages (the five minute limit, the need to tap the ‘save’ button without anyone noticing). Still, anyone using the app should always make sure everyone being recorded is fully aware; in some states, not doing so could get you into sticky legal situations.

You can find Heard in the app store, for free, here.

In December 2012, school district officials informed the family of Coy Mathis, a girl who was assigned male at birth, that she would no longer be allowed to use the girls' bathrooms at school. The Mathis family filed suit. Today, they won.

In a decision the New York Times calls "sharply worded," the Colorado Civil Rights Division ruled that the Fountain-Fort Carson school district's decision to bar Coy Mathis from using the girls' restrooms "creates an environment that is objectively and subjectively hostile, intimidating or offensive."

Since 2008, Colorado has extended civil rights to transgendered individuals, specifically including the right to use gender-segregated facilities such as locker rooms and bathrooms without having to prove gender identity.

The complete ruling can be read here (pdf).

TransYouth Family Allies has links to resources and FAQs on trans and gender variant children and adolescents.

Juliet Banana's useful Trans 101 links: 1 2

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This big white truck parked itself on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday sometime before 2:30 p.m. We saw it from a friend's window.

- One, trucks aren't allowed on the Brooklyn Bridge.
- Two, if you see something, say something. The Brooklyn Bridge is high on the list of potential terrorist targets in New York City.

We all got excited and our friend called 9-1-1 at 2:35 p.m. to report the truck.

9-1-1 had no idea it was there, and said they would send someone. OK, fine.

We talked about all the expensive security cameras on the bridge and the NYPD cars parked at the entrances. "That's funny," we said. "Wonder why they let that big truck up on the bridge?"

Over the next half hour we kept checking the truck, waiting to see a car from the 84th Precinct come swooping up with a half a ton of bomb-sniffing equipment and maybe a team of dogs.

Nope.

Eventually, the truck started backing up very slowly. Our friend called 9-1-1 again. "That truck? The one on the bridge? It's backing up and maybe someone should help with traffic because it's going the wrong way and all."

9-1-1 said the 84th Precinct had been notified and someone would be there soon.

Finally, about an hour after our first call, NYPD stopped traffic onto the Manhattan-bound lanes and the truck successfully backed off the Brooklyn Bridge. We we happy that it turned out the truck wasn't stuffed with 3 tons of explosives, but if it had been it would have been a bad scene.

Still wondering about the security cameras and all.

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African American fashion models circa 1970s

SKULL MEMENTO MORI LOCKET RING
England, 17th century Gold, enamel, diamonds and ruby. Solid, narrow hoop terminating in scrolled shoulders each set with a diamond. The bezel consists of a relief modeled skull and crossbones. The eye sockets are filled with rose-cut diamonds and the nose cavity is set with a triangular step-cut diamond; the mouth is engraved with clenched teeth. Each of the femurs is set with 4 diamonds at the heads, trochanters and condyls. A hinge below the skull’s chin opens a locket within which is set a small heart-shaped ruby.

For sale at the Masterpiece London 2013 show running from 27 June – 3 July (with a Preview on 26 June) on the South Grounds of The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London SW3. You will find it at stand A10, the booth of a company called Les Enluminures. The price unclear; you can find out more here.

Thanks to Constanza Isaza Martinez for the tip!

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As National Security Administration leaker Edward Snowden engages in an international game of cat-and-mouse with reporters and governments, WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange have swooped in to help. WikiLeaks' legal team is helping Snowden apply for asylum in Ecuador, WikiLeaks says it paid for his flight from Hong Kong and Assange himself took part in a Monday morning media call cementing WikiLeaks as the in-between for Snowden and the outside world.

Despite Snowden's choice to leak information to legacy media outlets instead of WikiLeaks, the organization is perfectly happy to support him. Why? WikiLeaks' mission includes protecting all whistleblowers — but under the surface is another explanation. Helping Snowden quickly brings WikiLeaks back into the headlines for something other than Assange's embarrassing year-long self-imprisonment in Ecuador's London embassy Read more...

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On East 14th, the Blarney Cove is closing this week. On their Facebook page they write, "Final count down has begun. Last day of the bar is now June 25th--Tuesday night... I better see you in person before they shutter the doors."

They've been here a long time and every trip to the Cove is like walking into a Bukowski poem. I went in recently for what is likely my last drink. Here's some of what the regulars had to say.



"This place is closing. Fucking NYU bought the whole thing, from the corner on down. All these boys here gotta find another hole."

"How'm I doin'? Could be worse. Next week I'm getting a full-body everything. They're gonna look at my brain to see if I'm crazy."



"I'm so happy! I love you!" 

"All the old bars we used to hang out at are gone. The Ukrainian Club. That's gone. Verkhovyna. That's gone. Vazac's was great, but now it's been yuppified. Yuppies? I mean the hipsters. When they changed the Christodora to condos, that's when it all changed. Giuliani kicked 'em all out. And fucking NYU. Back when Giuliani was, whattayacallit, the mayor."



"The cigarettes make you more nervous."

"Since this place is closing, I'll probably end up at O'Hanlon's."

"Every day, a person has 20 minutes when they feel so tired they could drop right off to sleep."

"I like the International Bar. They got no televisions, which I like. They got kind of a liberal, independent crowd. And cheap beer."



"I shouldn't drink so much, but I feel good. I'm working out at the gym now. I'm so happy! I can look forward now!" 

"She's more dangerous than a guy. I'm more afraid of her than a guy."



"I started drinking way too much and then I went fucking crazy. If you don't have something to occupy your brain, you go crazy. And drinking doesn't help. Now I've got crossword puzzles. I'm up to five or six puzzles a day."

"Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy."

"The Japanese and the Irish eat the most seaweed in the world."

Deen, in happier times.

Despite two YouTube apologies, it was announced this afternoon that the celebrity chef and restaurateur had been let go by the Food Network. The prospect of no more Paula Deen on television has angered more than a few fans, who've since taken to the network's Facebook page to give voice to their protest. Straight ahead, a few of the rawest and angriest reactions to the announcement.

• "just unliked your page and hope everyone else does the same!!!!!!!!!!!!1"

• "You all just made a huge mistake!!! She is the only reason I have cable!"

• "add me to the many who will no longer support your magazine or shows. People make mistakes because we're human. She apologized. When did we all become so perfect and judgmental? Please reconsider - Paula is AWESOME - she's an evolving creative lady and has made your company a LOT of $$$ - this is not how you repay her."

• "Shame on you for dropping Paula Dsan."

• "what a bunch of JERKS you all are for firing Paula Deen for something she said years ago!!! No more Food Network for me, I push for a Boycott of your network!!!!!!!"

• "Bob Tuschman is the CEO - Spinleess"

• " Yet Robert Irvine is still on, forgave him but not Paula ??"

• "If you’re interested in a legitimate work from home opportunity let me know! No prior experience or degree needed. We get paid every Friday via paper check or direct deposit. It’s a great way to create an extra stream of income. Friend request me and send a message to my inbox for more info; Opportunity available in the US and Canada. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY!" [Note: Unclear this is addressed to Deen or someone else]

• "I will NEVER EVER EFFIN' NEVER watch Food Network again."

• "I hope this move hits you hard in your pockets"

• "Ok, how about lety's ask the Nealys of they EVER said the N word. Oh, I forgot, if a person is black it's a term of endearment. BS a word is what it IS. I'll not watch another thing on the food net and I won't buy another book or magazine. Meantime I'm going to buy all of Paula's books. Shame on you."

• "Can we fire Obama for going to an Anti American and anti white church????"

• "They keep taking our comments down! BOYCOTT BOYCOTT!"

• "I love Paula Dean!! Firing her is Ridiculous!!! Guess its only ok for rappers to use this magic word!!! I wonder how many people have said things that they regret, most of the people on your network I'll bet!!"

• "I will be canceling my magazine subscription as well!"

• "Free speech you bunch of assholes. So done with your show!!"

Bonus Outrage

• "Cowards.....what happened to freedom of speech? USA is looked upon as pussies. Thanks Obama.... And she said it in 1985 dumbasses!"

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Earlier: Food Network Drops Paula Deen After She ‘Begs’ for Forgiveness in Video [Updated]

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