Probably the best way to describe this is: “If Jersey Shore was transplanted to Ireland and then mocked by two Irish dudes. Oh and this is real.” Hilarious; don’t miss this.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
“Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius commits suicide
“Soul Train” creator Don Cornelius commits suicide
Sad news from Lauren Keiper, Jill Serjeant, and Piya Sinha-Roy of Reuters:
Don Cornelius, creator of the iconic TV music and dance show “Soul Train” that helped introduce Americans to black pop culture, died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head, Los Angeles officials said.
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Cornelius was born in 1936 in Chicago and as an adult, became a journalist who was active in the civil rights movement. For a time, he worked at local radio station WVON, and by the late 1960s he had dreamed up the idea of a TV show dedicated to the soulful sounds of African-American music.
“Soul Train” was born with the deep-voiced Cornelius as the host who gave hip kids of the ’70s what “American Bandstand” creator Dick Clark offered TV viewers in the early days of rock ‘n’ roll — a show mixing youth, music, fashion and pop culture.
Soul Train was an amazingly important show in the ’70s and ’80s. Did you know it ran until 2006? It did!
Is there life on Venus? Not in reprocessed Venera-13 images
Is there life on Venus? Not in reprocessed Venera-13 images
Emily Lakdawalla writes on The Planetary Society’s blog about the possibility of life on Venus. You know shit is getting real when the second paragraph begins with this sentence: “The story is so obviously ridiculous that I would ordinarily not give it a second thought.”
Tommy Westphall – A Multiverse Explored
Tommy Westphall – A Multiverse Explored
Westphallian and CrossoverMan:
Who is Tommy Westphall?
Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on the TV series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show.
What’s this about his Mind?
St Elsewhere has direct connections to twelve other television series – many of them direct crossovers of character to and from the series. Others make mention of specific parts of the St Elsewhere fictional universe, placing them within the same fictional sphere.
So?
If St Elsewhere exists only within Tommy Westphall’s mind, then so does every other series set within the same fictional sphere.
So begins a horrifying waste of time where two hundred and eighty-two TV shows are connected to one another through a web of references and crossovers.
Wait, two hundred and eighty-two?
Yes. Two hundred and eighty-two.
Sleeping Florida man arrested in drive-thru, offers cops taco as I.D. from inside burning car
Sleeping Florida man arrested in drive-thru, offers cops taco as I.D. from inside burning car
In a world… where flaming tacos are government I.D.…
Black Flag’s Damaged album came out January 23, 1982. Here’s a live performance of “Six Pack” from that era.
Goddamn. And if you aren’t following New Wave Time Warp what the hell are you doing?
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t34KBrek2_U
Here’s a commercial for Discover Card that I’ve been seeing a lot lately.
Is it possible to have product placement in something that’s already an advertisement? Is that a thing that we do now?
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Review: Drive (2011)
Saw Drive a while back. It’s a tough film to process after only one viewing. The film’s sparse dialogue is unusual for a what is, plot-wise, a cookie-cutter heist movie; though that’s not to say Drive will bore you. If anything, it’s a film that demands your attention — it certainly commanded mine.
Here’s a fine example of how Drive pulls this off: During an early conversation between Carey Mulligan’s and Ryan Gosling’s characters, we’re shown with a reverse shot of Mulligan looking at Gosling. In the frame with her is a mirror which shows a silhouetted Gosling. Tucked into the mirror is a photo of her absentee (incarcerated) husband. This is the language of Drive: not dialogue, not really even acting (which is quite good but understated) but photography.
There’s a lot more to say about the movie — including heaping praise on the fantastic soundtrack — but the above should constitute something resembling a recommendation. The film comes out on DVD and Blu-ray today — I recommend giving it a spin.
Lost Charles Darwin fossils rediscovered in cabinet
Lost Charles Darwin fossils rediscovered in cabinet
BBC News:
Dr [Howard] Falcon-Lang, who is based in the department of earth sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London, spotted some drawers in a cabinet marked “unregistered fossil plants”.
“Inside the drawer were hundreds of beautiful glass slides made by polishing fossil plants into thin translucent sheets,” Dr Falcon-Lang explained.
“This process allows them to be studied under the microscope. Almost the first slide I picked up was labelled ‘C. Darwin Esq’.”
The item turned out to be a piece of fossil wood collected by Darwin during his famous Voyage of the Beagle in 1834. This was the expedition on which he first started to develop his theory of evolution.
Totally crazy, but at the same time, not really that crazy at all. Universities and museums have huge collections of stuff that are often poorly sorted and catalogued, if at all.