Spent 20 minutes last night trying to remember Libby Hoeler’s name. Getting old?

I was just thinking about Orwell’s image of the future as a boot stomping on a human face, forever.

You know, that only sucks if you identify with the face. They’re both equally metonyms for people, and if you’re the boot, it’s pretty awesome!

thebraniganproject:

EVERYTHING IS FUN! :D

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I need to see a collection of yacht rock/smooth music covered by power metal bands

mostly because it should be called

“Shredded Oates”

gender gonna gend; tumblr gonna tumbl

barthel:

CSI Miami has been canceled.

sawmuchded:

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Only 35 made!

amazeballs.

fuckyeahspaceexploration:

Drool.

Space shuttle Atlantis, 1991.

video of space launches makes me cry; photo just makes me smile

I had a dream last night that I was taking some sort of LSAT/GRE/GMAT-style grad school entrance (or maybe exit?) exam

and one section of it was all samples drawn from memes and webcomics, to test like meta-pattern analysis and -reading comprehension?

Like, I remember there was definitely a question illustrated with Sweetie Belle in her Cutie Mark Crusaders cloak

but the question I remember best started “XXXX [I forget the name - ed] is a turtle stripmining pregnant buffalo [like, the fetuses - ed] to provide for him and his human friends”

and the answers

A)
B)
C)
D)

Saw The Cabin In The Woods today. All the reviews I read were all “I can’t think of anything at all to say about this plot without running afoul of my weird and pathetic 2000s spoilerphobia.”

Which is odd - to the extent it’s different from any other horror film, the novelty is deliberately put in front of your eyes from the very first scene.

But if they were going to be like that anyway, here’s what they should have said - you know how all horror movies are all basically the same story, only with different, colorful antagonists? Cabin is a horror movie where the antagonist is “horror movies”.

I dunno, Joss’ writing has always been aware, but between this and Dollhouse, he’s lately been hella meta. (Scream was aware horror.)

More meta, in fact, than anything I can recall since Sandman, where storyteller Neil Gaiman used the story of Storytelling incarnate as a frame story for stories about storytellers from famous stories. They should have a meta-off.

Actually, people’ve been trying to put a Sandman movie together since forever, I wouldn’t be surprised if Joss ends up doing it. Maybe that would be the meta-off.

With a script co-written by Charlie Kaufman.

Bam.

(And then the making of the film would be included as an episode in both of two parallel series from Alan Moore and Grant Morrison about the British Invasion authors, which would eventually conclude with each telling the story of the other telling the story of itself.)

BAM.

In I think 2009, I said that this recession would end with borders and flags changing. I was, of course, right; I usually am about these things, it just took a while to drain down charismatic and financial reserves. When Greece collapses we should start getting to the meaty part, though.

As I see it, this’ll probably end with liquidation and reconsolidation, with mortality of at least 9 figures in excess of peacetime projections. The amusing thing is that both of the most obvious possibilities for how this’ll play out are comically retro.

I) Another World War, along classic lines, beginning in Europe with Germany as a pivot, with major cities leveled but NOT global thermonuclear annihilation. The major difference here being that America is no longer peripheral enough to sit out the opening and then waltz in as kingmaker. Interestingly, Russia might be, perhaps in alliance with India?

II) Another Crusade, with the EU papering over and externalizing its divisions (both intra- and inter-state) by banding together in an exterminationist campaign against Islam. Serving on the ideological side to establish a cohesive pan-European identity, and on the material side to plant extractive colonies in the economically vital Middle East.

I suppose there are other possibilities. Worldwide proletarian revolution’s probably got as good a shot as it’s ever had, though I wouldn’t bet on it. China’s a wild card, I see it probably distracted in a civil war that doesn’t spill far beyond its borders, though it could try to colonize Africa, in which case it might have to go through India. Brazil might take the opportunity to absorb some of its neighbors. And then we’ll see if the earth starts melting in a few decades.

I just realized – with logographic characters, you can stuff a good paragraph worth of words into a Chinese tweet, whereas you can barely get a decent sentence in an English one. It’ll be interesting to see how that distinction plays out.

barthel:

Turning round and round an idea about Instagram/minimalist design/et al as “virtual Ikea” - replicating in an affordable form the style of a decade the rising generation grew up seeing as cool but unavailable because it was so recent. Not just nostalgia, in other words, but aspirational nostalgia: desiring the things our imagined best selves would have wanted if they were alive 40 years ago.

Mark Zuckerberg, living in a community property state, gets married just after the Facebook IPO? Huh, funny that.

Will Smith, in front of the press, violently rejects homoerotic contact? Huh, funny that.

sailorswayze:

example of why i dont make comics very often

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