Hello, friends old and new. Perhaps you saw my profile over on
Made of Fail. If not, go ahead and take a look. (I'm really proud of our little growing website. There's so much there there now.) If you saw it and followed the link expecting lots of posts here, well, not so much. I'm on Twitter a bunch and here and there Facebook too, but I don't write full blog posts as much as I use too. I have ideas and things to write about, but I just don't get to them as much as I would like.
Oh great. I'm doing that annoying "here's why I don't write" whine. Sorry. Point is, there is a there here, but not a lot.
Speaking of Made of Fail the next episode is scheduled to record tomorrow. I don't think I'm spoiling anything to say that it will be about the latest Twilight movie, rather, mocking it gleefully. From the pre-game chatter on Twitter and over email everyone seems wicked excited and there's going to be a lot to goggle at. Apparently there's an inadvertent breast expansion fetish scene. Breast expansion or BE is a kink which is exactly what it sounds like. Just look at
this and the related videos (not at work though). The things you learn listening to Savage Love.
I hope to knock out the editing over this weekend, but we'll see. It will definitely be up by the 30th.
Two interesting takes on pop culture criticism which might tie into the next episode. From Linda Holmes: why talking about
Kim Kardashian isn't the end of Western Civilization. From the AV Club:
getting upset at Twilight is kinda silly. My thoughts on the latter-I'm not upset at Twilight or its fans. I mock it with a little bit of love. That said, if you think any of the principles are good role models in terms of love, seek help.
I might have plugged this before, but whatever. Greg Rucka does a webcomic. He writes, Rick Burnett draws, and magic happens (as of the latest update, maybe literally). The first chapter was a bit slow as each creator is more used to working on comic books. If you read it in one go, the way you would a comic, it's fine. The second chapter was a huge improvement in terms of reading like a webcomic. It's also a master class in how to write badasses. Don't have people around talking up the badass. Just let the
badass work.
Badass.
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I want to hang out with this
Blue Beetle and She-Hulk.
This picture
frightens me. It's not that Archie Panjabi has a bad smile, quite the contrary. I just know if her character, Kalinda, ever smiled like that at anyone it would be the last thing they saw.