Whatever happened to Cheri Oteri, anyway?
14
Aug
Whatever happened to Cheri Oteri, anyway?
14
Aug
(NOTE: This was the very last post to appear on my Livejournal before it got nuked – it was up for a grand total of perhaps four hours, so I feel perfectly justified in reproducing it here.)
I’m not planning to do another thirty days of I Should Write The Legion any time soon, but I had this idea last week and it is simply too good not to add to the list, so:
I’m not talking about the Sorcerer’s World – that’s something else entirely, and the sorcerers there probably have no problem with spaceships and coffeemakers and the like, because hey, space travel and coffee. I’m talking a dictatorial world ruled by alchemically-inspired fear of the unknown. Somewhere Brainiac Five would be less welcome than anywhere else. (Which of course means when a Legion cruiser crash-lands there, he will be on it.)
It’s good for two or three issues of story. And come on – it really is a fantastic title, you have to admit…
14
Aug
…I give you sexual harassment happening on-air.
Disgusting, yes, but all the moreso for the sheer nerve.
13
Aug
13
Aug
If more history books were like Warren Ellis’ and Raulo Caceres’ Crêcy, this would not be a problem. At all.
10
Aug
Chocolate rain
No verse, no bridge, always the refrain
Chocolate rain
Musical hooks bring you net dot fame
Chocolate rain
Irritating like a mustard stain
Chocolate rain
Repetition seals it in your brain
Chocolate rain
Every line, it has to rhyme with “rain”
Chocolate rain
Narrative build? That’s just kind of lame
Chocolate rain
Kimmel airs him, that makes me profane
Chocolate rain
Fifteen minutes is his public reign
Chocolate rain
14:59 – oh what a shame
Chocolate rain
Hyperlinking is his chosen game
Chocolate rain
Western civ’lization’s newest bane
(In all seriousness, why Tay Zonday isn’t looking into voice acting is beyond me. Phil LaMarr has to force his voice downwards to do what Tay Zonday can do naturally.)
10
Aug
First tunesblogging on mightygodking.com, so it only seems fair to bring out a big gun: the first hit single by the Tragically Hip, “Blow At High Dough.” Ignore (or be enthralled by, depending on your sense of esthetics) the profoundly low production values and concentrate on the sheer awesomeness of the song, which contains some of the simplest and purest power chords in the history of mankind.
9
Aug
I don’t know what country this is from, although by the sound of it I would say somewhere in Eastern Europeastan. But regardless, I love it wholly and unconditionally.
(Note that some things, like the tendency for filmmakers to believe that it’s okay for the guys to be schlubbos so long as the girls are sexy, are universal.)
9
Aug
Saw it pimped a few places, but David Rees’ magnificent smackdown of Michael Ignatieff’s ludicrously pompous and self-important op-ed in the New York Times Magazine simply cannot be pimped enough.
Money shot:
I was excited when I first saw this new essay: At last, Ignatieff was going to come clean about his super-duper-double-dipper errors. I expected a no-holds barred, personal excoriation. In fact, I assumed the first, last, and only sentence of the essay would be: “Please, for the love of God, don’t ever listen to me again.”
9
Aug
No, seriously. I’m horribly impressed that Offended Fandom ™ has managed to get some attention in their newly adopted crusade against a pro-anorexia community (which apparently only managed to start offending them in the last two weeks – funny, how that goes).
But stop. I’m serious.
This is not me particularly giving a damn about a pro-anorexia community, because they are creepy as hell. But.
continue reading "Oh God Just Stop Already"
9
Aug
China’s starting to publicly threaten the dumping of its American dollar reserves.
(In other bad news from China, the Yangtze river dolphin is extinct.)
8
Aug
A while back, Marvel printed Civil War #2, wherein Spider-Man revealed to the general public that he was Peter Parker.
Almost exactly two years prior to this, in Daredevil #60:
Therefore, whenever Marvel tells you “we planned this out years in advance” – by “years,” they mean “two.”
8
Aug
I keep getting email about my banning and the subsequent fandom issues on Livejournal, so I figured I should probably address it all in one fell swoop.
continue reading "On Livejournal and SixApart And All That, For Once And For All"
7
Aug
A Stanford University study shows that children are more likely to prefer the taste of a given food when it is packaged in a McDonald’s container – it didn’t matter if the food is McDonald’s food or not, as the kids universally said any food they were given with a golden-arches symbol on the package tasted better than any food given to them in plain packaging.
This confirms what many people have suspected all along: namely, that children are stupid.
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