Historical debates
Tiger cub found in luggage
Posted by Rakuen Growlithe on Fri 27 Aug 2010 - 01:15When airport officials in Bangkok decided to X-ray a woman's luggage they were surprised to see a beating heart. It looked like the woman had a cat in her bag but in truth it was an endangered baby tiger. The 2-month-old cub had been drugged and put in her luggage with a number of toy tigers in an attempt to disguise it.
The cub is now in care of the department of national parks, wildlife and plant conservation. The woman, who was bound for Iran, is being interrogated to discover their final destination.
See more: Pictures of the rescued cub at National Geographic
"Teen werewolves" in San Antonio schools
Posted by GreenReaper on Thu 20 May 2010 - 21:40A slow news day in San Antonio leads to coverage of teenage therians in Texas high schools.
Featured is the John Marshal "wolfpack" containing Wolfie Blackheart, previously covered after her experiments in taxidermy went public.
Fursuiters on TV (again)
Posted by Digger on Sat 25 Oct 2003 - 21:03Oh no.
'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' will be running an episode on October 30, 8pm est (CBS) titles (get ready...)
"Fur and Loathing"
Evidently it takes place at a furry con. The preview I saw last night included quite a few fursuiting actors.
I'm hoping against all hope there is a gilmmer of the positive in this, but you and I both know how well popular media has treated us in the past....
mwalimu remarks: Although the episode in question had not aired yet, this is old news to many of us by now, and has been the subject of a thread or two already here on flayrah.
Further Confusion Makes the Paper
Posted by Aureth on Mon 27 Jan 2003 - 00:20The TriValley Herald interviewed several Further Confusion staff members, including chairman Lee Strom, for an article
in their Thursday edition. A nice piece, compared to past writeups fandom conventions have gotten.
So You Want To Be a Real-Life Furry
Posted by Anon on Fri 13 Dec 2002 - 16:13It's @ Fur Thing, a non-profit pending registration, has started up a webpage featuring a fund that will go towards forming a think-tank and a research council that hopes to develop procedures and technology that will someday produce real-life furries. The homepage of the fund is http://www.clasheerian.com/furthing/.
Furnpike shuts down
Posted by Giza on Thu 20 Sep 2001 - 06:01Going to furnpike.com now treats the user to this message:
The Furnpike, as well as FurComics.com will be closing Friday, September 14, 2001, permanently. This is due to an extreme lack of support and appreciation of the very communities which use this network daily. It is a shame that more Furs and Werefans can't give $1 or a thanks to help out their favourite sites, and expect someone else to front the bills to keep their appreciations going.
It's a pity that Furnpike is going down, I found the site fairly useful, even if some categories on it were a bit sparse...
FurBuy Ceases Operations, blames FurBid
Posted by Anon on Sat 15 Sep 2001 - 09:08Owner of FurBuy states, "We are baffled and amazed, even schocked, that the continued support of the fandom goes to a piece-mail auction system hacked together by an underage individual using a bug-ridden, featureless auction script freely available from the internet. "
World Trade Center Hit by Two Planes
Posted by Micah on Tue 11 Sep 2001 - 08:46This site is good for getting information on the survivors, and how you can help: wtc.toto.com. Also, you can donate money to the Red Cross through Amazon; they keep no part of the proceeds: ttp://www.amazon.com/paypage/PKAXFNQH7EKCX.
There's no definite person to pin the terrorist attacks on. The twin towers of the World Trade Center and a nearby building have collapsed. The Pentagon is damaged. A fourth hijacked plane crashed near Pittsburg. The Pittsburg crash is thought to have been related to a possible attempt on Camp David. Five warships have been deployed to guard the east coast of America, and two aircraft carriers have been dispatched to New York. All air-traffic is grounded
There is much call for both blood donations and monetary. Phone numbers to call for information about giving either:
1-800-HELP-NOW (money)
1-800-GIV-LIFE (blood)
OR 1-888-BLOOD-88
Review: 'The Lion King' 2019
Posted by 2cross2affliction on Sun 28 Jul 2019 - 07:38
"Be prepared!"
- Boy Scout motto
"No, hold on. Sorry, that's The Lion King."
- Doctor Who, "The Christmas Invasion"
The Lion King is a 2019 movie directed by Jon Favreau. It is a faithful adaptation of the 1994 animated movie of the same name, using cutting edge, realistic CGI animation to create it's cast consisting entirely of talking animals.
The original version is considered a classic of animation; this movie follows the original closely enough that most of its positive attributes are contained. There is enough deviation from the original that those familiar may get something new from the experience. Like most adaptations, most viewers will find the "original" is preferable, however.
So, that's the review, okay, bye!
Stealth vs blatant and the "Mouse Problem"; furry coverage in fictional media
Posted by JoeStrike on Thu 2 Aug 2018 - 17:28As repeated media victims we furs are always on the lookout for furry references— good, bad or indifferent— on TV and elsewhere. There are two distinct styles in which our fandom is covered: bluntly by name, and more subtly. It’s easy to identify the former, but sometimes it’s more fun when they don’t use the 'F-word' to describe the group in which they are referencing in their content. In those instances, it seems more a stealthy shout-out for our animal-ears only, designed to fly over the head of anyone who doesn’t get it.
Today I wish to go over some of those moments in furry media that seem to hold general fandom idioms and how fun 'situational nuance' can be.
