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Dec 26, 20114 notes

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2,545 actresses are listed, and I know what you’re asking: Meryl Streep is at 259. Bette Midler is at 25, and 13 year old Elle Fanning is at 59 (“some of them are minors but if I became an actor I would do this stuff then they were in a proper age. I’m not that old”).

Dec 26, 20112 notes

#Civilization is Doomed.

“A Northern California family victimized in a burglary a few days before Christmas is hoping to at least get their dog back. The Lancers lost all of the presents under the tree along with their dog when their home in Morgan Hill, southeast of San Jose, was broken into last week, authorities said Sunday. “Bring the dog back, please,” Chris Lancer said. “It’s my daughter’s dog. I won’t say nothing if you just bring the dog back.” —LA Times. Who steals the family dog??

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Dec 25, 20113 notes

#Youtube Gives Me Feelings. #Comedy-Nerdery-Is-a-Go.

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Dec 25, 20112 notes

Can You Get to That Funkadelic

funkadelic — can you get to that

Dec 24, 201152 notes

#Songs.

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Dec 23, 20111 note

#Youtube Gives Me Feelings.

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Dec 23, 2011

#Youtube Gives Me Feelings.

Red Letter Media reviewed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! This is the most I could have asked for from Santa. God bless us everyone! Let’s never enjoy everything, you and I, internet— let’s never enjoy anything at all! YAY!

Dec 23, 2011

#excitement!

areasofmyexpertise:

”This portfolio is a half-step away from a cellar-full of canned goods and nine-millimeter rounds,” he says. Link courtesy DKos. That is all.

“At our request, William Bernstein, an investment manager at Efficient Portfolio Advisors in Eastford, Conn., reviewed Rep. Paul’s portfolio as set out in the annual disclosure statement. Mr. Bernstein says he has never seen such an extreme bet on economic catastrophe.”

Dec 23, 201123 notes

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USA Today actually published the perfect summation of what comics looked like in my head in 2011. It is … perfect in ways I could never hope to achieve. I could never come close to this. I’m… I’m envious of this.

It’s a list of “36 of the best things that happened in comics” — 36! sure, why not?— punctuated with cliches like “epic epicness” and “nuff said”, repeating marketing hype over and over and over, interjected with random nonsense about who had the best twitter feed.

NAILED IT! Fucking nailed it!

He starts with the fact that Scott Snyder is “the nicest guy.” The winner for Best Villain gets an “A+ in Evil”. He gives out awards like “Best Event”, “Best Writer When Animals are Involved”, and “Who Can Best Rock Out Future Events“— rock it out, rockers!

Every reason to avoid comics in 2011, to dismiss the “creative” people who make them, and to think less of their audience— it’s like he squeezed out that rag into a perfect Chalice of Failure.

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Dec 23, 2011

#I Love Ranting About Things No-one Normal Cares About... :(

The name of one of Pixar’s next movies is Frozen 3D. Which: why does every 3D movie need to have 3D in the title? It’s purely a technical feature. Why are titles featuring technical features? Do I have to start calling movies “My favorite Deniro movie is GOODFELLAS 2D?” ”SCHINDLER’S LIST STEREO SOUND is one of the best movies about the Holocaust.” ”The vampires were really sexy in BREAKING DAWN DIALOGUE LOOPING.” ”Nicolas Cage was awesome in KNOWING WIGS.”

I get that 3-d’s a selling point. But lots of things are selling points and they all don’t make it into titles. The name of the movie wasn’t “THE GIFT OF DOWNLOADING CLIPS OF KATIE HOLMES’S BOSUM.” That movie had no other selling point, but her tits are still not in the title. Marketing’s great— go ahead and put Ryan Reynolds in whatever, marketing departments— most people gave up on movies years ago; Netflix has TV— I just caught up on The League. But can’t they at least stop with the “___ 3D,” all the time? It’s bothering me while I surf the internet! (Dating myself with the Katie Holmes? I don’t know; I’m not up on my celebrity skin).

Dec 22, 2011

Holiday Road (National Lampoon Vacation) Lindsey Buckingham

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Holiday Road - Lindsey Buckingham

This is Christmas music, because I say so.

Dec 22, 2011119 notes

#Songs.

Oh man, I love the holiday interviews! I hate the holidays for all other reasons, except interviews relating to comic books! Also, unrelated: I saw some reviews Tom had done that I hadn’t read the other day— the last paragraph of these Kirby Captain America reviews is really great.

Dec 22, 20113 notes

#Girls! Girls! Girls! #Visual-feed.

Dec 22, 201130 notes

“Would you have sex with Ryan Gosling if he was your mom on the inside?” —(via molls)

Dec 21, 2011162 notes

“The other reason why I’m feeling so much anxiety is that I’ve had to turn down a ton of good work in order to do PRJ. Here’s a quick list of what I’ve turned down:

-another Grant Morrison book
-a Mark Millar book
-a James Robinson book
-Batman and Detective Comics (about 7 times)
-Swamp Thing
-Hellboy
-a Dr. Strange mini series
-a Spider Man 2099 one shot
-work with Todd McFarlane
-an “Assassins Creed” redesign with Ubisoft
-3 European publishers

For months I’ve shied away from posting such a list because I was afraid people would think it was arrogant. But what good is the sacrifice if no one knows about it? When I wrote/drew Off Road it was because I had no choice. This time my OGN means avoiding money and easy success working with known titles. And it means a pay cut.”

— Sean Murphy, on gearing up to do his own project.

Dec 21, 20117 notes

#Doogie Did This Before the Internet.

“I have a lived a phantom of a life all year.” —Reading best-of-2011 lists while I eat my lunch. I suppose I should be happy that I have ALL THIS COOL STUFF ahead of me, but I’m too petty and Scrooged-out for that kind of goodwill-towards-man good tidings non-petty attitude. Mostly, I’m just sitting here thinking, “What was I doing all year? Living less-than!” Why? Because I didn’t watch Cougar Town or some movie from Bahrain about starvation?? What? (Year end comic lists are the worst— it’s always a comic about a sad antelope learning the biography of Sinclair Lewis, that was sold out of the back of some guy’s car in Brooklyn somewhere— something like that’s always on the list, inbetween pablum and pablum, and it’s, like, feeling bad that I didn’t do homework for some college class I was taking pass-fail anyways…) There’s still 10 days— I could go on a year-end culture binge; I feel like that’s what I do most years, but I’m working through the holiday this year, so I’ve got no plans to get out of my culture rut anytime soon. Basically, Mission Impossible 4 had better be the best movie the year, or else I pretty much blew it in 2011. (I think it might turn out that way though; I hear that Tom Cruise totally mission-impossibles some guys’ faces in that movie).

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Dec 21, 2011981 notes

jessethorn:

A+ work from one of the literary world’s brightest lights. Burn on, sweet Pollack. Burn on.

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Dec 21, 2011

#Youtube Gives Me Feelings.

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Dec 20, 2011

“What can be done? Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can’t help but be that. But more importantly, if you’re honest about who you are, you’ll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope. It’s done so for me and I have to keep rediscovering it. It has profound importance in my life. Give that to the world, rather than selling something to the world. Don’t allow yourself to be tricked into thinking that the way things are is the way the world must work and that in the end selling is what everyone must do. Try not to.” —Charlie Kaufman.

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#I want to remember this for later.

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#Visual-feed.

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Dec 19, 2011

mills:

Though he started as a playwright and rebellious intellectual and became, after decades of uncertainty, the president of a reborn Czechoslovakia, his was not a transformation in the traditional sense; he never stopped being an Enlightenment thinker, an artist, an heir to what his friend Milan Kundera called the culture of the novel: that world which sees the highest morality in resisting reductive moral judgment in favor of comprehension.

Dec 19, 2011273 notes

#I want to remember this for later.

Dec 19, 2011

#All I Ever Write About on this blog is Television...

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