February 2012
16 posts
“The best part of Ghost Rider as a property is that asking, “What if the...”
– I love Threat Quality Press
“I think that’s the worst thing about Pitchfork; how boring and drab it makes...”
– from Protagonist Complex
“I would say the thing that annoys me about Android is I don’t think it has...”
– Sam Moreau, Director of User Experience for Windows (from Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion)
“This Townhall column by Laurita Doan is the fucking shit. I mean, holy FUCK is...”
– Properly used, profanity can be near-poetry. (from What’s Worse, They Curse by Whiskey Fire)
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“Even after losing part of his tongue, even after hip replacement surgery, even...”
– Van Halen: A Different Kind Of Truth | Music | Music Review | The A.V. Club
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and...”
– Orson Welles (via missfolly)
Which is why you don’t let actors talk about physics. Clearly Welles had never heard of the Bernoulli family or Leonhard Euler. Bernoulli’s Principle explains air flow inside carburetors and over wings, and Euler’s calculations led to accurate longitude tables. Without...
January 2012
18 posts
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“Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous...”
– From Gawker
Damn you, Fringe
For finally being moving again:
“I just spent the last several days with the other Walter…and I was very surprised to find that he was not the man that I thought he was. But I am not at all surprised that to find that you are.”
“Is at a good thing?”
“Yes, Walter, that is a very good thing.”
“What gets me about the survivalists is the idiocy they display in choosing what...”
– Violent Class War Coming Soon: How to Prepare Yourself
“One of the few highlights of the Republican Presidential primary is the...”
– German Joys: Rick Perry: Turkey is Being Run by “Islamic Terrorists”
Also notable for using the newly-minted adjective “Breivikian” - oh, how proud a Norwegian feels to see a new word added to international parlance. After all, it’s been 60-odd years since...
“Print pundits have spent decades ascribing declining circulations to inroads...”
– Et tu, Mr. Destructo?: Shantytown on the Fourth Estate
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“As Dave Sim decisively proved, women are inherently angry creatures; petulant...”
– The Factual Opinion on Azzarello’s Wonder Woman #4
(To clarify: it’s sarcasm)
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December 2011
20 posts
“However, LaMorte had become a born-again Christian after a highway encounter...”
– I hate how that always happens. (From Wikipedia’s entry on Robia LaMorte, who played Jenny Callendar on Buffy.)
“Martin Amis, a collection of psychiatric literature on malignant narcissism and...”
– My dislike of Amis expressed succinctly in a Chris Hitchens takedown.
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Hitch
The rather wonderful writer Christoper Hitchens has died as 62, just one day after some of the last US troops were welcomed home from a disastrous war based on total fiction that Hitchens very vocally supported. Perhaps, in the end, he died simply of a broken heart?* Anyway, I’m sure he’s with the angels now. Wait, what?
*(Nah)
“There’s a cold war of attrition being fought for the right to own the Internet,...”
– from Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog! Go!
I keep wondering if this stuff will have an impact on the rest of us, or rather how. I assume the effects will be severe. Will the EU follow suit, for example? Will there be smaller, localized/regional “Internets”? Or will some bright kid...