March 2012
2012 GOP Presidential Race as Fiction
Will Truman imagines the Republican race as fiction:
If someone had written a TV show and the plot followed the current Republican primary, I would have some serious problems with it. Namely, I would pan the show as unrealistic. A joke. Liberal Hollywood’s parody of what the Republican Party is.
It could use a Jack Bauer character torturing one of them until they cry like a baby and tell the...
Albert Pujols and the Angels
As baseball pre-season starts, I thought I’d post a piece I wrote for my family and friends.
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Greed wins again.
I hope Albert is happy in the American League, but my outside looking in gut feeling says he just made the worst decision of his life. He’ll be miserable. He’ll be rich beyond his wildest dreams, but miserable.
I’m sure, fans will vent their anger at DeWitt or the Angels or...
“When you watch Torchwood there is a warning at the very beginning that some...”
– John Barrowman
“The untimely death of Davy Jones raises the question of why The Monkees were and...”
– Paul Levinson
“So, if Mitt Romney gets a larger share of the popular vote in Michigan’s...”
– John Scalzi
February 2012
Republican Anti-Science
Phil Plait explains the politics of Republican Anti-Science:
To say you think evolution might be true is political suicide if you’re a Republican candidate right now. It’s that simple, and that bad. I think that, like on the left, the majority of voters on the right are not antiscience, but if you look to the leaders in Congress, in State legislatures, and at the Presidential candidates, that’s...
James Cameron’s Cameos
From FILMdetail:
Director James Cameron has made voice cameos in several of his movies including The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009).
Unlike Alfred Hitchcock, he is never seen, always choosing to appear as an off-screen voice.
“We didn’t really know who was going to show up for the occupation. It was all a...”
– David Graeber, “What We Owe to Each Other”
“It’s crazy how little we’re funding energy.”
– Bill Gates: The lack of energy funding is crazy — Cleantech News and Analysis
“I’m not going to settle for a country where a few people do really well, and...”
– President Obama speaking to UAW
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
– HIMYM Set builders (and art dept) after reading this week’s script.
Batman and Robin Reworked
Some impressive artwork from Dresden Codak:
If DC ever paid me to do a Batman story it would look like this, and it would probably be about how Batman is pretty insane and can only convince teenagers to team up with him.
Publish
Via Seth Godin:
The internet is an engine of connection. It has been from the start (email, chat, forums, blogs, social media…)
One reason that so many of the most popular sites online are those that permit people to express and expose their ideas is that those are the pages we care most about. We go back to see how people responded, how the traffic is, what we can do to improve the page.
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“It’s a serial medium, they’re not all going to be diamonds. You do the best you...”
– – writer Jason Aaron, on Scalped, which comes to an end in June with Issue 60
“There are many people who dislike the prequel trilogy so much that they...”
– Rod Hilton’s Star Wars Suggested Viewing Order.