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Aug. 1st, 2011 08:44 amIn weird news, I think I want John Scalzi for a dad.
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Yoda and Kermit, together again?
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OH yes. It's *Totally* the queer people getting married that's screwing the country up. How could we ever think otherwise. They look incredibly happy and in love. How *dare* they!.
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Wow. This embroidery, a confession by a young English woman, is unique in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection in its austerity and poignancy. We describe it as a sampler, which was usually a decorative schoolroom exercise in this period of the 19th century, but the laboriousness of Elizabeth Parker’s sampler reveals much more than just her skill in stitching.
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Some people are just assholes. Wil Wheaton is not one of them.
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*This* woman's story, THIS is why people who tell lies about late-term abortion and work hard to get it banned infuriate me more than the rest of the assholes put together. Carrying a pregnancy you don't want is terrible. Carrying a pregnancy you do want but have to give up is, in many ways, even worse. Having to carry it for weeks after knowing the fetus won't survive or have a short, brutal life? I can't even imagine.
There's so much more I could say, because so much of this makes me furious and leads to other things that also make me furious, but I'm preaching to the choir and I'm sure you know.
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Neon posters for classic movies.
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Portraits of dogs shaking off water.
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Little baby David Tennant! In a pretty terrible anti-smoking PSA. At least, I *think* it's anti-smoking. It's so looooooooooong that I didn't get more than three minutes into it. What I learned was that David Tennant has beautiful legs and the matches are rubbish.
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I Love this guy!.
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DUDE! The Chicken Heart, from Bill Cosby's stand-up? Not only was the show Lights Out real, the chicken heart episode actually happened!
[...]perhaps most memorably in his legendary "Chicken Heart," a script that debuted in 1937 and was rebroadcast in 1938 and 1942. It features the simple but effective "thump-thump" of an ever-growing, ever-beating chicken heart which, thanks to a scientific experiment gone wrong, threatens to engulf the entire world. Although the story bears similarities to an earlier Cooper episode (about an ever-growing amoeba that makes an ominous "slurp! slurp!" sound), Oboler's unique choice of monster was inspired by a Chicago Tribune article announcing that scientists had succeeded in keeping a chicken heart alive for a considerable period of time after its having been removed from the chicken. Whatever the inspiration, the script's climax is pure Oboler, and it was fortunate that he recreated it for a 1962 record album because recordings of the original radio broadcasts are lost or unavailable. [...]
Now I wanna hear the giant amoeba story. Slurp, slurp!
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Great. Now I have an unidentified song in my head. That's kind of worse than having "Summer Lovin'" stuck there over the weekend.
~~~
Yoda and Kermit, together again?
~~~
OH yes. It's *Totally* the queer people getting married that's screwing the country up. How could we ever think otherwise. They look incredibly happy and in love. How *dare* they!.
~~~
Wow. This embroidery, a confession by a young English woman, is unique in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s collection in its austerity and poignancy. We describe it as a sampler, which was usually a decorative schoolroom exercise in this period of the 19th century, but the laboriousness of Elizabeth Parker’s sampler reveals much more than just her skill in stitching.
~~~
Some people are just assholes. Wil Wheaton is not one of them.
~~~
*This* woman's story, THIS is why people who tell lies about late-term abortion and work hard to get it banned infuriate me more than the rest of the assholes put together. Carrying a pregnancy you don't want is terrible. Carrying a pregnancy you do want but have to give up is, in many ways, even worse. Having to carry it for weeks after knowing the fetus won't survive or have a short, brutal life? I can't even imagine.
There's so much more I could say, because so much of this makes me furious and leads to other things that also make me furious, but I'm preaching to the choir and I'm sure you know.
~~~
Neon posters for classic movies.
~~~
Portraits of dogs shaking off water.
~~~
Little baby David Tennant! In a pretty terrible anti-smoking PSA. At least, I *think* it's anti-smoking. It's so looooooooooong that I didn't get more than three minutes into it. What I learned was that David Tennant has beautiful legs and the matches are rubbish.
~~~
I Love this guy!.
~~~
DUDE! The Chicken Heart, from Bill Cosby's stand-up? Not only was the show Lights Out real, the chicken heart episode actually happened!
[...]perhaps most memorably in his legendary "Chicken Heart," a script that debuted in 1937 and was rebroadcast in 1938 and 1942. It features the simple but effective "thump-thump" of an ever-growing, ever-beating chicken heart which, thanks to a scientific experiment gone wrong, threatens to engulf the entire world. Although the story bears similarities to an earlier Cooper episode (about an ever-growing amoeba that makes an ominous "slurp! slurp!" sound), Oboler's unique choice of monster was inspired by a Chicago Tribune article announcing that scientists had succeeded in keeping a chicken heart alive for a considerable period of time after its having been removed from the chicken. Whatever the inspiration, the script's climax is pure Oboler, and it was fortunate that he recreated it for a 1962 record album because recordings of the original radio broadcasts are lost or unavailable. [...]
Now I wanna hear the giant amoeba story. Slurp, slurp!
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Great. Now I have an unidentified song in my head. That's kind of worse than having "Summer Lovin'" stuck there over the weekend.
