Those of you may or not remeber that LucasArt was going to make a sequel to the old Sam & Max game. LucasArts laid off a lot of their staff and cancelled the project. Well, some of the people that where working at LucasArts have gotten together to create a new studio called TellTale Games and it looks like the first project they want to do is the Sam & Max sequel. They credit the large amount of email and the on-line petition as part of the reason they are looking at Sam & Max again.

Read more here.

Midwest Furfest's hotel, the Hyatt Regency Woodfield has just run out of double rooms and has only a pawful of rooms with King beds left. If you're planning on attending MFF and you haven't got a room lined up yet, it is now officially the last minute. You may now panic.

1. Furry Variety Show - Furry Night Live!
2. Con Book Update
3. Masquerade Entries wanted
4. Extreme Fursuiting Make Over.
5. Badge Art wanted.
6. Fursuit & Party floor requests. Hotel update.
7. Event Panel Submissions
8. Charity Items

As children, most of us were taught that we should never handle baby birds. The mother would detect human scent on the nestling and abandon or kill the clutch.

Not true! In fact, most birds can't even smell a human, and there are times when handling a nestling is absolutely the right thing to do.

Snopes has the lowdown.

This is the 2nd update of the fourth annual Recommended Anthropomorphics List. It has two purposes. Firstly, it is open for all Furry fans to recommend the best anthropomorphic movies, TV series, novels, artwork, games, etc. that they find during 2004. It is for fans who want to know what Furry movies, TV series, novels, etc. are worth looking for. The List is open to anyone to add to, and it will be updated at least three times before the end of the year. If you find any 2004 Furry movies or comic books or comic strips, etc. that are worth recommending, please send your recommendations through the end of 2004 to:

Fred Patten
11863 West Jefferson Boulevard
Culver City, California 90230-6322
fredpatten@earthlink.net

Secondly, this List is to be used as a guide for nominations to the 2004 Ursa Major Award, which will be presented at Anthrocon 2005 for the Best of the calendar year 2004 in the first ten categories. The List was actually started in 2001 as an aid to those fans who said, "The Award sounds like a good idea but I don't have the slightest idea what's eligible to be nominated." Read the List and find out what is eligible for the Best of 2004.

The people who brought you "Shrek" and "SharkTail" are at it again. Watch the trailer for their next movie "Madagascar", which stars a lion, a giraffe, a zebra and a hippo who all live in the New York Central Park zoo.

See the trailer here.

SOUTHERN TAILS
The official newsletter of Furry Weekend Atlanta (February 11-13, 2005)
October 2004

In this issue...
1. Furry Weekend Atlanta Art Contest Deadline Approaching
2. FWA Convention Book Seeking Submissions
3. Hotel Update
4. Dealer's Den Update
5. Preliminary List of Events Up!
6. Programming Spotlight: Organizing A Local Furry Group
7. Programming Spotlight: Dances!

It is coming close to the end of the year, and we're running out of space in our storage space! In order to help make more room, and also to lower those end-of-year inventory taxes, we're clearing out comics at half off!

Every Radio Comix and Sin Factory comic book that is more than a year old at the Radio Comix Webstore is 50% off (this is 50% off the cover price, and 50% off the shipping, too). Titles include Furrlough, Genus, Havoc Inc, Hit the Beach, Eureka, Bureau of Mana Investigation, Tales of the Fehnnik, Morning Glory, Monsters of Rock, True Hue, Gold Digger Edge Guard, Mangaphile, Milk, and more.

This is our biggest sale ever, and we don't expect to offer a sale like this in the forseeable future, so act soon. Sale lasts for ONE WEEK ONLY, ending October 13th.

For more info, and to visit the web store, go to http://www.radiocomix.com

Best,
- Matthew, Radio Comix

Lake County Animal Control officials are crediting a dog with warning them about dangerous smoke coming from an area that contained 10 other dogs.

April Godra, a shelter official, said she knew something wasn't right when Foxie, a normally quiet collie, would not stop barking as Godra made her rounds through the northwestern Indiana kennels two weeks ago.

[Read Article]

Animal-protection advocates filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to block Maryland's first bear hunt in 51 years, which they said was the product of flawed science.

State wildlife managers proposed the hunt in February after more than a decade of debate. They have said the two-week hunt, which would be limited to 30 bears and would begin October 25, will help contain an increasingly troublesome resident population of black bears.

[Read Article]

Here's the list of upcoming furry comics for this December from Doodles, with the addenda by Treesong: "As the year comes to a close, we look back upon the past 12 months and ask ourselves "Did I leave the oven on?""

Top paranormal scientists report that in approximately 3 weeks there will be a disturbance in the anthropomorphic world of biblical proportions. Or at least as big as a children's pop-up book. Experts predict that FurFright will come alive, drag its rotting corpse from the grave, and smell really bad. If spotted, douse it in Old Spice and give it a hug. It's lonely. *grins*

FurFright, the Northeast's very own Anthropomorphic Halloween Convention (October 23 & 24, Sheraton Hotel, Windsor Locks CT), is almost upon us, and we're hoping you all come out and join in the furry fun. Some of the most talented artists, animators, writers, and fursuiters in the fandom will be at FurFright, helping us make this young con something special.

The News Tribune has printed an article complete with a color picture from the Saturday fursuit parade. The online version can be found at here.

Christa Heidenreich and her veterinary surgeon husband Manfred have achieved with Bagheera and Bunjee something thought almost impossible -- breeding cheetahs in captivity at their first attempt.

Given two South African cubs seven years ago, the German couple retired to Spain with the hope of breeding them, despite being told they were likely to fail.

They chose Spain because it offered a climate where the cheetahs would feel at home and a place with enough land for them to enjoy hunting.

[Read Article]

In this Newsletter:
Theme News
Guest of Honor Update
Hotel News
Registration News
Dealers Den/ Art Show News