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Angela Watercutter for Wired’s Underwire blog:
The premise of Safety Not Guaranteed, directed by Colin Trevorrow, comes from an internet meme: a wanted ad seeking a partner for time travel that found its way onto You’re the Man Now Dog. In the film, a group of magazine staffers try to track down the author of the classified ad, Kenneth (played by Mark Duplass). To get to him, they send their female colleague Darius ([Aubrey] Plaza), who ends up being charmed by Kenneth’s oddball ways.
- ‘Ili:
- WHY IS THIS REAL
- Colin:
- Personally, I think this looks dope. Aubrey Plaza absolutely kills it on Parks & Recreation — I’ll go see anything with her in it.
- ‘Ili:
- THAT DOESN’T EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS REAL
- Colin:
- I blame the Duplass Bros and mumblecore in general.
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Neidenburg Church
People and buildings
seek carnal knowledge.[six word caption courtesy of Bri Hand, http://sixwordglory.tumblr.com/ ]
Kevin Weir takes old photos and then makes creepy GIFs with them. Wired ran a short piece on him and his work, and his Tumblr has a lot more.
Photo by Arnd Wiegmann for Reuters of:
Wood burns in a stove as Pascal Prokop drives his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon during cold winter weather on a road near the town of Mettmenstetten, south of Zurich
Yes, this man installed a wood-burning stove in his car. He even has a permit!
(Photo via MSNBC’s PhotoBlog, but I recommend you not click through as the piece is just an excuse for terrible puns.)
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.
Here’s video of a guy who made a bitcoin costume. As in, a costume of a bitcoin. To wear.
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GOP presidential candidates join Twitter debate
GOP presidential candidates join Twitter debate
Hilarious piece by The Onion:
Six Republican presidential hopefuls traded tweets in the first presidential debate conducted through Twitter on Wednesday, outlining their agendas across the popular social media service.
In brief responses that buzzed across cyberspace, the GOP field challenged President Barack Obama’s approaches to the ongoing debate over the debt ceiling, job creation and the U.S. involvement in Libya. Republican candidates criticized Obama’s handling of the economy and efforts to reform health care, while using the medium to share links to introductory videos and websites.
“Obama failed. With ur help we can return the people’s voice to the WH, restore fiscal sanity & make Obama a 1 term president,” said Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, reflecting the clipped jargon commonly found on Twitter.
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While televised debates can lead to longwinded answers, the Twitter forum places a premium on being terse. Asked whether a president can create jobs without expanding the role of the federal government, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum tweeted: “The federal govt kills jobs!” Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, responding to a question on whether the U.S. should have gone into Libya, tweeted: “Absolutely not” and then followed up: “Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya – Get out now!”
Addressing the economy, Georgia businessman Herman Cain told followers: “Government doesn’t create jobs. Businesses create jobs. Government needs to get out the way.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., offered a punchy economic plan: “Control spending. Put Americans back to work. Get back to a balanced budget as we did when I was Speaker.” Gingrich was one of several candidates to post a link to his introductory video and later invited followers with more questions to go to his Google+ Hangout on Wednesday evening.
No wait, I’m being told that this is was written by Ken Thomas for the Associated Press, and as such is a real piece by a real news agency covering a real thing that really happened.
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Phoenix Police Arrest Woman for ‘Squeezing and Twisting’ TSA Officer’s Breast
Phoenix Police Arrest Woman for ‘Squeezing and Twisting’ TSA Officer’s Breast
Olivia Katrandjian for ABC News:
Phoenix police arrested a 61-year-old Colorado woman for allegedly grabbing the left breast of a Transportation Security Administration officer with both hands and “squeezing and twisting” it at Sky Harbor Airport.
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Police say Yukari Mihamae refused to go through the TSA screening Thursday and began arguing with officers, which led to the alleged grope.
According to the police report, Mihamae is accused of grabbing TSA agent Barbara O’Toole’s “left breast through her clothing and squeezing and twisting it with both hands without the victim’s permission,” the New York Post reported.
I guess this is where you make a joke about how turnabout is fair play, but really, what the fuck is this.
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