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Jim Henson’s Final Unproduced Screenplay Turned... →
spytap:
Is this what days being made sounds like?
Jim Henson’s only unproduced screenplay is being adapted into a comic courtesy of Archaia — the same group behind the awesome Fraggle Rock comics. It’s called A Tale of Sand and is due out November 16th
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An Update on the Aurora, CO Thing:
So my best friend who, unlike me, actually is a lawyer emailed me to say:
FYI, that Libertarian Party of Colorado thing is kinda bullshit. The ordinance in question gives corporations the right to vote in a special election to create an “Enhanced Taxing Area” if the corporation in question owns land in the area to be affected. The same ordinance also only allows natural persons to...
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Wow. Is Aurora, Colorado About To Give A...
That’s what a press release from the Colorado Libertarian Party— as shared by the non-profit Move To Amend— says is going on. Move To Amend is dedicated to the passage of a constitutional amendment that would undo Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission and end the practice of defining corporations as legal, if fictive, people.
If Aurora, CO is looking to give a duly...
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World of Class Warfare - The Poor’s Free Ride Is Over - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 08/18/11
This is simply The Daily Show at its best. Amazing. Dylan said, “The truth is just…a collage of pictures.” In the Daily Show’s case, The truth is just a collage of video…with commentary.
Cory Doctorow: “I swear, I don’t know why they air The Daily Show at night: I love it first thing...
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CONTENT ADVISORY
Fuck it.
I’m gonna start blogging about comic books and geek shit up in this mug.
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Watchjonahray:
ALL NEW G4 TV SHOW PROMOS!
AMERICAN HOBO WARRIOR
and an all new CLIP SHOW “Watchin’ TV”
presented to you by The Boys of G4’s PRIZANK’D
(not set to private anymore)
I would watch American Hobo Warrior, if only for the fact that the subtitled hobo speak makes me feel like I’m on drugs.
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HBO Shows Now Available in HD on iTunes →
parislemon:
This is great news. I was always a bit hesitant to buy HBO content on iTunes due to this.
Now if only I could upgrade my SD shows to HD for a small fee… Come on iCloud, you can do it!
It also seems to me that Apple is putting more emphasis on HD content in both the movie and television stores. Perhaps this will be part of a bigger push in the fall… It really is kind of silly that...
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“I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone — not...”
– — Warren E. Buffett, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich”, NYTimes Here’s the thing: when you’re a working class Joe, or even a creative/media class shlub like me, and your taxes get raised you have few options—- heck you have no options. You tighten...
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Public School: Story of Us →
publicschoolshow:
Story of Us
*900 dollars won’t buy you poetry.
*When a white girl runs out of a San Jose flop den with her tah-tahs-a-blazin’, stage 5 drug lord shit is going down.
*When strangling your nemesis, do it in blue body paint
*Some people aren’t even worth the spit on the stamp you intend to put on the creepy international postcard depicting a fatal drowning!
*They call it a...
“Our brains evolved to “expect” stories with a particular structure, with...”
– Drew Westen on the importance of storytelling, in “What Happened to Obama’s Passion?” (Westen wrote a great book I recommend, The Political Brain. See also Charles Baxter’s essay, “Mistakes Were Made,” on politicians and passive voice.)
Elegant and damning. In my mind the question becomes: what...
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“I suggested that Miranda July’s characters are avatars, projections she invites...”
– The Future :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews
Yeah, my interest in her isn’t going away.
(via meganwest)
I realized the secret to July’s films the other day: while her leads may be her avatars, as Ebert notes, she embeds the sum total of who she is in the other characters of her stories....
Meet Miles Morales: Your New Spider-Man →
It’s not the first time someone other than Peter Parker has donned the mantle of Spider-Man, but in this week’s Ultimate Fallout #4 fans of Marvel’s Ultimate Comics universe will be introduced to a brand new web-head. His name is Miles Morales, and he’s bi-racial.
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“The US budget is like a 1st grader playing Oregon Trail. Spend all the money on...”
– Malhavoc430 // Reddit (via mattchew03) 