January 2009
“If someone decided to re-make “Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang”, (a movie I...”
– David Cross, putting things in perspective
“Monty Python started a YouTube channel with tons of their sketches streaming for...”
– Gizmodo
“Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in...”
– Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
“Die Hard will look like this: John McClane, NYC cop, arrives in LA to reconcile...”
– Scott Brown on Why Hollywood Needs a New Model for Storytelling (via somethingchanged)
Must admit I was a sucker for the Donnie Darko ARG back in high school. Dude, it’s like, the future of narrative.
“Sometimes girls will pretend they care about “guy stuff” like video...”
– Sorry I Missed Your Party: Girls
Right before Obama puts his hand on the Bible, I...
(via sharingtime)
You just been Obama’d
Because I am now actively looking for a job, I had to abridge my URL. Carry on.
Why is everyone bitching about the cost of the... →
spiegelman:
That’s a lot of money injected into the economy. If anything, we should have more expensive hootenanies financed by donations from rich people that provide work to thousands of union printers, construction workers, caterers, janitors, and security personnel.
Economic fallacy alert! Weee-ooo-weee-ooo! Doesn’t understand opportunity costs!
Also, the pomp and circumstance stands...
“wow, that is unfortunate on many, many levels. ry guy, a true aribter. at least...”
– gorillavsbear.net: schreiber vs. gibson
“Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the...”
– Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches - Times Online
That’s it. We’re doomed.
“The current model, a cosmology widely accepted by our people, is one that...”
– Penny Arcade
“Parents are busy, kids are overscheduled, many eat what they want, go to bed...”
– Straight Talk: Reinstate the draft for today’s lazy youth
CURMUDGEON FAIL
Uncanny Valley →
onionvolcano:
tinyunicorn:
fascinating.
I make video game art. The uncanny valley is the scourge of game characters or CG characters in general. Think of the movie Polar Express, for example.
The only thing more troublesome than the uncanny valley is an art director or executive who has no idea what the uncanny valley actually is. “Make the people more realistic,” they say, over and over,...
“In the book’s future, advertising’s relentless search for new...”
– Infinite Jest - Wikipedia
Soooo, yeah. Something to look forward to?
Resisting Nonresistance
Mills’s post on morality got me thinking about Christian nonresistance. I helped my mom make spaghetti today, and we discussed it. She brought up a story from my childhood about which I had forgotten.
When I was seven, my mom made me go sledding with a bullying boy from my church. He was a troubled jerk with a violent temper. I guess my mom thought that I could reach out to him. I remember...
“the ark of the covenant is in Iran right now. this was revealed to me in my...”
– Roseanne Barr - It’s tough to pick out the best line, but I think the term, “muthafuckin poned dude!” is what finally made me snort.
“Production Company that operates the comedic website Ms. Ann Thropic’s...”
– Comedy Site Seeks Top Notch Humor/Pop Culture Writers
Right now my mom is listening to Jim Quinn on the treadmill. She likes Jim Quinn because he talks about issues that other media figures are afraid to discuss. She’ll do some cleaning during Glenn Beck. She needs Glenn because he provides some contrasting comic relief to the day’s nonstop stream of vitriol.
Rush comes on at noon. Rush is the best because he’s the smartest. He can...
This is what comes out when I put off working on...
I was too young to be left alone in 1988. My mother took me with her to the corner drug store in order to get a prescription filled. I walked through the broken up asphalt and overgrown weeds of Pittsburgh’s North Side, ensuring that I stepped no more or less than twice on each concrete slab of the sidewalk. We walked down two sets of municipal staircases and I peeled back the bright blue...
JEWS DID 9/11 MOVIE →
nickdouglas:
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
(via Cole)
Weinstein once said it’s because Jews have a “rich narrative tradition”, but that can’t be the whole story. Can anyone tell me if there is some economic phenomenon responsible for the preponderance of Jews in Hollywood so I don’t have to buy this?
Can someone explain this to me? →
superdoofus-stratodrive:
henryeatspeople:
I thought it was kinda twisted. But there are sooooo many people who submitted their pictures. The whole thing confuses me?
use this for reference. people have been doing it for some time.
Liebot, what is the saddest thing?
