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a drummer on Whiplash
like many drummers, he has not mastered the art of the comma.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2015/03/17/whiplash_what_do_drummers_think_of_the_movie.html -
famous Coptologist called a wizard on sexist Australian reality show
that's Prof. Malcolm Choat there!
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/3794410
Incidentally, this is the first time I have seen even a smidgen of reality tv in years. It's amazing how degrading it is when you are not used to it. Smut! Filth! Where's Nicki Grant? sex, out there, flicks, copticGamergate levels up
This is the first article I have read about Gamergate. Very helpful links for the backstory, which I had tried to ignore thus far since it is like something out of the Twilight Zone ( Read more... )the secret history of John Constantine
Very cool short piece on one of the best comic characters ever. I must have read Dangerous Habits two dozen times in high school. Never saw the Constantine movie - Keanu and Shia? No, no no.Big Love
lately we have been watching "Big Love," which is your usual HBO dramedy but about Mormon fundamentalists (i.e., polygamists). I brushed off the buzz about the show when I first heard about it (it sounded "zany" and so banal), but I can't say why I chose to come back and give it a shot. It's amazing stuff. I will set aside the stellar cast and ( Read more... )the Gnosticism of Snowpiercer
http://io9.com/how-an-obscure-2nd-century-christian-heresy-influenced-1609994487
great top-rated comment: "It takes balls to believe that God exists, but He hates you."transgression and acceptance
Fascinating post at Invocatio on the Harvard Black Mass Hysteria and the dynamic between transgression and acceptance/integration ( Read more... )