I have a love for Gamera, and this toy made me smile.
May302012
May82012
Tabletop | 1.03 Tsuro, Zombie Dice, and Get Bit!
Oh man, I am so saving this .gif for posting on Reddit, when necessary.
Super-handy in general, but very applicable to today’s vote in North Carolina for kicking a lot of people who want to love, y’know, the person they love, in the face.
April252012
what the “little league” is reading! COOL! via littleleaguecomic:
Little League #15 by Yale Stewart
Characters © DC Comics. Creative content © Yale Stewart.
Reblogs are always appreciated!
(via niwandajones)
April222012
Word For Word: On The Thesaurus
I love the thesaurus; I appreciate all that it does and cannot do. Its origins are unsurprising, but its possible applications can be useful and pleasurable. You just need to not use it like Roget did.
12PM
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The real issue, it seems to me, is not whether Facebook makes us lonely, but whether Facebook is reconfiguring our notions of loneliness, sociability, and relationships. These are after all not exactly static concepts. Here is where I think Marche raises some substantial concerns that are unfortunately lost when the debate goes down the path of determining causality.
What Facebook offers is the dream of managing the social and curating the self, and we seem to obsessively take to the task. The asynchronicity of Facebook is rather safe, after all, when compared to the messy and risky dynamics of face-to-face interactions and we naturally gravitate toward this sort of safety. I suspect this is in part also why we would sometimes rather text than call and, if we do call, why we hope to get sent to voicemail. It seems reasonable to ask whether we will be tempted to take the efficiency and smoothness of our social media interactions as the norm for all forms of social interaction.
” Facebook and Loneliness: The Better Question « The Frailest Thing (via ayjay)(via ayjay)
January282012
Admit it, you want to read this, right?
Our Lady, a Parable for Moderns (1938). Mary, the mother of Jesus, travels to the modern world with the help of a demon and a sorceress. Priests find her and imprison her in a convent so that the real facts of her life and her first born son will never become known. Satire to that point, but then the the priests exorcise her, and the whole thing becomes Catholic horror.
The author?
Upton Sinclair.
Yes, yes I do.
July242011
Elements (A Few Images and Weirdness From China Mieville)
The earth elemental manifested in a form combining indolence & destruction. Even its evicted victim had to say well played.
Static, or what scientists term ‘poised’, fire.
In the pugilist science created to beat up the air, kerchiefs loosely tied serve roughly the same purpose as boxing gloves. Injuries to the fists are, nonetheless, common.
June242011
Blogspot for author, Eric J. Guignard.: NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS! New Anthology, "DARK TALES OF LOST CIVILIZATIONS"
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS SHIT?
“What is the real reason for the MOAI statues standing on Easter Island? Is it a landing strip for invading aliens, or perhaps each statue is really a living creature simply in slumber?”
Hey assface? The rise and fall of indigenous civilization on Rapa Nui hasn’t been a mystery for quite a fucking while now.
“Some of the most fanciful stories I have ever read involved stalwart English professors in the 1930’s engaging in scientific archaeological excavations, that unearthed horrible curses rather than the prizes they sought.”
Adventures in Unfortunate Implications! Let us recall the carefree days of literature where heroes were the manliest of men and whitest of white, and nobody dared to criticize you for trivial details like ‘really insipid racism’ and ‘basic lack of recognition of the humanity of other people’!
From the ‘additional inspirations’ section:
“Aztec and Mayan fortresses hidden under wet jungle foliage (such as the movie “The Ruins”).”
The fall of great Mesoamerican civilizations: NOT A FUCKING MYSTERY. ALSO NOT FUCKING ROMANTIC.
“Cook Islands where ancestors of Captain Bligh’s men founded their own society amongst the natives.”
Hmm. Needs moar Mighty Whitey.“Ghost towns in American old west genre and Indian tribes.”
Presented without fucking comment.
“King Solomon’s mines and voodoo in Africa (such as Allan Quatermain series, penned by H. Rider Haggard and many others).”
No. Just fucking no.
“A plane crash survivor that stumbles upon a warrior tribe hunting in the Amazon.”This is the really quite boring story of how some indigenous folks directed some lost tourists back to the nearest major city.
“Forgotten tales of men and curses in mighty Athens or haughty Jerusalem or wild Sri Lanka.”
Wild Sri Lanka, people:
“Was Stonehenge built as protective runes against marauding demons?”
No. It’s a (sacred and hugely socially important) clock.
“What is the origin of the mystical healing practices at Anuradhapura?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuradhapura (TL;DR -Buddhism)
“Where lies the famed city of El Dorado, sought by Spanish conquistadors?”
In the minds of said mass murderers.
“What happened to the Colony at Roanoke?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony (TL;DR - the surviving settlers successfully assimilated into surrounding Algonquin settlements.)
Trinker sums up the whole fucking mess pretty succinctly: “What this world needs is an anthology about the colonial mindset!”
Because, yanno, ten thousand existent pot-boiling novels aren’t enough. We really need some modern fiction written in the style of Racist Exoticism of Yore.
-Drops mic, walks away-
Because the world needs yet another Magical Honky anthology!
What on the face of Demeter’s green Earth is this horseshit??
Really nothing to add here. Holy carp.
June122011
Jo Walton on Terry Bisson's Talking Man
I was reading Jo Walton’s 1987 awards roundup at Tor.com and saw the link to this. It sounds like a great book. I have very little Bisson but it seems like a good time to correct that.
June92011
Damien Walters on Respecting Fantastika's Best. . . For Real
A no-nonsense call for genre readers to think about the effect of their reading choices on the perception of fantastic literature. I agree with the main point of the argument, but I think we also need to consider other factors as well, such as how the marketplace works and ideas of what makes for a pleasurable read.
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