“Don’t ask, don’t tell” — the comic book
Posted on July 13, 2010
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From Comics with Problems, “Dignity and Respect: A Training Guide on Homosexual Conduct Policy”. The nitty gritty of the awkward protocols dictated by a bizarre policy told in comic book form — it ain’t exactly Sgt. Rock. Actually, it may be Sgt. Rock — we’re didn’t inquire re: Sgt.’s hardness and if we knew we wouldn’t tell.
Oops I’ve ripped a hole in the internet. Sorry
Posted on July 8, 2010
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Google Chrome can’t find google.com but suggests I might find google.com by simply Googling google.com.
I’m not feeling lucky.
What the frick?
Posted on July 8, 2010
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What are the last words a redneck says before he dies? “Watch this…”
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Dad, do you ever get that … itchy feeling?
Posted on June 10, 2010
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When it comes to TV commercials for products you apply to your intimate areas, nothing can top the ’80s spots that began “Mom, do you ever get that … not-so-fresh feeling?” I wonder whether I would still be so sure of myself if I spoke Japanese. This is potentially just as good.
Amazing Feats of Yo-yo
Posted on May 31, 2010
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…or not.
Boom boom pow
Posted on April 26, 2010
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Why do I keep posting soccer videos? Must be the slow creep, creep, creep of World Cup Fever. Here’s an outstanding celebration from the Danish Superliga. Love the Superliga.
Farewell Mark Linkous
Posted on March 10, 2010
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I can’t say Sparklehorse was the most consistent group/guy in music, but when it/he was good he was very good. Mark Linkous killed himself Sunday — very sad.
Nice to visit but you wouldn’t want to Dwell there
Posted on February 15, 2010
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“Daddy was making them watch yet another documentary on the impact of Bauhaus on American architecture.” –from Unhappy Hipsters, a deconstruction of the photography in Dwell magazine.
Kseniya Simonova
Posted on January 31, 2010
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Now playing
Posted on December 30, 2009
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The pre-Avatar media blitz was something else, wasn’t it? Seemed you couldn’t pick up a magazine or turn on the telly without seeing a profile of James Cameron. When I read the New Yorker’s take on him, I got hung up on this:
“Creating a universe is daunting,” George Lucas said. “I’m glad Jim is doing it—there are only a few people in the world who are nuts enough to. I did it with ‘Star Wars,’ and now he’s trying to challenge that. It’s a lot of work. I do believe Jim will take this further out than anyone’s ever conceived of.”
That’s pretty heavy — Lucas has spent his whole life creating his universe; Cameron’s film is (far as I know) a one-off. In fact I never would have wondered whether Avatar would be the “next” Star Wars if I hadn’t read this — so perhaps that was a little gamesmanship by Lucas, perhaps he was intentionally setting the bar too high. Because Avatar is not the next Star Wars. It’s a good movie, certainly a quantum advance in digital effects, but it doesn’t come close to Star Wars in terms of complexity. Does it create a universe? Sure, or at least a planet. But the nagging question I had for George Lucas is this: Is creating a universe really so hard or rare? Films don’t do it too often — look back through the top-grossing films of the last few years and Avatar is, indeed, the first blockbuster sci-fi/fantasy since Revenge of the Sith in 2005. But that doesn’t mean there’s a dearth of universe-creating. It’s just happening in video games.
As I watched the opening scenes of Avatar, I felt like I’d been through this before — this was Halo, or Doom, or Bioshock. The intro was uncannily like a video-game setup. I couldn’t shake that feeling throughout — that Avatar was a good film that might ought to have been a video game. There’s no way to check this, but I wonder whether the critics and viewers who are so nutso about Avatar happen to be a bit ignorant about the state of console gaming.
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