May 2012
14 posts
WatchOh shit! It’s the Avatar-Mobile!
Mako IS Batman!
tally-art:
So much yes.
-Bolin+Mako+Korra+Asami as Team Avatar -Saying ‘Team Avatar’ again -Using Equalist weapons and not refraining for some confused morality reason -ASAMI BEING A FLUFFER MUCKING BADASS DRIVER -Asami and Korra possibly being (BADASS) friends now
the-amateur-detective:
The Legend of Korra: “When Extremes Meet”:...
Surprisingly, not about Hentai
Wikipedia quote of the day:
Its concrete underbelly conceals tentacles of the University’s steam, electrical, and communications networks.
The Villanelle Will Not Be Televised
Wikipedia quote of the day:
Because of its non-linear structure, the villanelle resists narrative development. Villanelles do not tell a story or establish a conversational tone.
Nobody puts villanelle in the corner!
Kickstarter - Tapestry: A Community Story Game →
This is a fantastic, live, pervasive game that will be a Figment this year, and it needs and deserves your support!
“Leonardo da Vinci’s 1489 Treatise on Human Anatomy outlines his intention to...”
– This was a spam comment on Actually Happening, but given what the podcast is actually about, there was a chance it was real. (via kevinclarkcomposer)
Oh wow, I thought that was something Dennis had said!
Phineas and Ferb is the Best Science Fiction on... →
And if you like this piece, let me know. I’ve got four others waiting to go.
1 tag
Flip-Flops and Hobgoblins
Two news stories from last week, one big one small. First, Obama changed his position on marriage equality, from support of civil unions instead of full marriages, to full on support of the right of two people of the same sex getting married. Second, Romney claimed that, despite opposing the bailout of the auto industry, he’ll take a lot of credit for the recovery of Detroit.
As you might...
Book Deal of the Day:
rachelfershleiser:
“NO FLOWERS REQUIRED, in which a down-on-her-luck flower shop owner succumbs to a night of passion with a stranger, not realizing he’s the reluctant heir to the company about to destroy her business”
I trust that the subtitle is YOU’VE GOT MAIL 2?
Or the Shop Around the Corner, like 5?
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to...”
– BREAKING: Obama Embraces Marriage Equality | ThinkProgress
Welcome, Mr. President. The mini-quiches have gone cold and the ice is all melted, but we’re glad you’re finally at the party.
April 2012
7 posts
1 tag
This Close
Last night I dreamed I was in the realm of the dead, a vast underworld filled with souls in torment. In the center of the underground kingdom was a clearing, a place of honor.
On the right of the clearing was a small pool, with an arbor built over it. In the pool stood a man, with an iron collar around his neck that allowed him neither to rise nor to fall. Grapes dangled from the arbor inches...
The Avengers, the Argonauts, and the History of... →
The Avengers, opening May 4th, represents something rather historic for movies, a crossover team-up. While fairly common in television and comics, crossovers, characters from two or more series meeting, rarely happen in films. I can think of only a few examples, and they all involve horror movie villains meeting and fighting (and two of them have “Vs.” in the title).
March 2012
13 posts
A sumbission experiment....
rachelfershleiser:
This is what madness looks like
“Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude,...”
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My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!
(via Letters of Note)
We like words too.
(via good)
Nobody Knows How Smart They Are
Nobody.
I’ve seen my friends, smart people, link to this article with the provocative headline “Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It”. The point of the article is that research by David Dunning of Cornell proves that across all domains of knowledge, “To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it.”
Except that’s not what the research says. At...
Not Actually Happening Ep. 3 — Piltdown Man |... →
kevinefclark:
More web content… more! This time it’s a podcast for your trip home, or your lunch hour, or while you’re sitting at your desk with headphones trying not to explain to your boss why you just snorted.
The conversation map of this one travels to some weird places, including some literary steps through le Carré and García Márquez.
The Cyclical Defense of Offense
I see this all the time. Someone does or says something offensive. Indefensible. Horrible, reductive, hateful, mean. Defenders pop up anyway, and take one of two tactics.
Tactic 1, for first time offenses, “it was only one instant, it didn’t represent a larger pattern, it’s an unfortunate choice, no offense intended, so sorry you were offended.”
Tactic 2, for second...
"Should Batman Kill the Joker?" is a Stupid...
Okay, so one of the core elements of Batman is that he does not kill. He uses non-lethal tactics to take out some of the worst murderers and terrorists in the world, but he will not kill. Having lost his parents to gunfire, he knows the pain losing someone can cause, and he refuses to kill.
And yet, there’s always someone arguing that Batman should kill the Joker. And the argument always...
February 2012
9 posts
Gaming The Hunger Games
Okay, a little background. In Suzanne Collins’s bestseller The Hunger Games, the Capitol of post collapse America keeps the 12 Districts under its control by staging humiliating “Hunger Games” every year, where two randomly selected kids from each district are thrown into an arena every year and forced to fight to the death.
The lottery, or “reaping” is set up so...
The Anti-Sex Movement
I often see the argument that the pro-life movement should support safer sex, as contraception and comprehensive sex education have been empirically proven to reduce the rate of unwanted pregnancies. This argument will not work, because the “pro-life” movement is disingenuous. It is not the abortions that they object to, it’s the safe sex itself.
The Right focuses on abortion as...
January 2012
4 posts
December 2011
8 posts
“The gay and lesbian community of Minnesota has issued a letter of apology to...”
– Gay community apologizes to Amy Koch for ruining her marriage - Minneapolis News
This is so fucking fabulous. (via rachelfershleiser)
It’s a [insert Holiday of your choice] miracle!