I turned 28. i'm officially going to have to start scaling back the aging process for my career's sake. I've been advised to back it up to at least 25. See, i'm over the prodigy hill. way over. i'm no longer precocious and ambitious and impressive. with every passing month, i feel like more of a disappointment to my childhood self, who already felt ( Read more... )

3 important examples of this principle:

1)The pants game.
In the van, after countless hours of boredom, but usually before reverting to "who would you rather do?" we often play the pants game. The pants game consists of singing a popular song, and replacing a word or two with "pants." As there are no points awarded, and no clear rules, all band ( Read more... )

SNEEZE-SCREAM: there is a man at my office, somewhere down the hall, who SNEEZE-SCREAMS on a daily basis. whenever it happens, my work ceases for at least 10 or 15 minutes while i laugh uncontrollably.

han people vs. luke people: so there have been some conversations of late about gendered icons from childhood. my primary icon of masculinity was ( Read more... )

This contains major spoilers so don't read the whole thing unless you've already seen this gem of a film. I am definitely gonig next time the sunshine runs it for the midnight movie.

Idolater recap of The Apple's lost footage

dear friends who aren't awake ( Read more... )

I don't want to go upsetting anyone here, but I have a few things to say about everyone's favorite poli-dystopia. Let me start by saying that, honestly, I really enjoyed it. It was *very* well-made and completely swept me up, emotionally. It had a lot of chutzpah (in the best way) for creating a dystopia in the very-near future that any wanker ( Read more... )

Alarmist subject line notwithstanding, WTF is SAVING DARFUR really about? And why is no one talking about it???!!! Am I an idiot and there's actually been a huge outpouring of radical critique of the phenom ( Read more... )

thing i hate right now ( Read more... )

Louisa's Villainy Meme. Consider yourself tagged.

What 5 villains are most terrifying to you? Please include brief rationales and pictures.

Warren, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, because he really exists.

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bklyndispatch tagged me about 10 years ago. let's see.

Write 20 random facts about yourself then tag the same amount of people as minutes it takes you to write the facts. If you're tagged its your turn.1)I am wearing fabulous lace boy-shorts underwear ( Read more... )