"A variety of calculations have been performed to determine if cow tipping is physically possible."
Cool calculations! I'm sure next on their chopping block was carbon-dating the age of the mooniverse.
Steve Winwood does have a point in that we can find the images aesthetically pleasing (Cf. va-va-va-voom), but also find the implications of these images as problematic as they are AWOOGA AWOOGA.
I place a lot of the blame on the primaries system. People who vote in political parties' primaries tend to be the most dedicated followers of that particular platform, and so candidates need to cater to those voters. In the general election, however, candidates then need to backpedal and present themselves as blandly and middle-of-the-road to cater to most of the American electorate, who are usually pretty apathetic.
I read an interview with one of the writers for Community in which she stated that the third season is going to explore more of the back stories of the characters and their motivations for being at Greendale. I'm hopeful that this means the show hasn't totally abandoned character-based episodes in favour of the high-concept stuff.
Years ago, when Family Guy's first season came out on DVD, I was listening to the commentary (in between all my dates with ALL the ladies in my high school, no duh) and Seth McFarlane talked about a joke featuring a future where George W. Bush was president. The premise being that the idea of Bush actually being president was so far-out and ridiculous, that it was comedic gold. Am I saying that Seth McFarlane got George W. Bush elected? Yes. Absolutely.
Am I also saying that Carlos Mencia's act and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris's stand-up routines are suspiciously similar? Also yes.
I agree wholeheartedly, Max the King of All Wild Things! The main reason that I was never particularly fond of The Office is because I felt like the show itself disliked (or, at the very least, looked down upon) the characters and their situation. Therefore, one of the reasons that I so like Parks & Rec is because of the obvious love that the show has for Leslie, Ron, Andy, etc. I find it much more engaging when shows make an effort to have characters that are often ridiculous and petty, but still likable and human.
FURTHERMORE, I find that is also a particular strength of Party Down, which I just started watching and no duh it's the best.
AND EVEN FURTHERMORE, I find that Community, while it is definitely one of the funniest shows, is actually a bit less engaging to me this season because Dan Harmon and the writing staff have made such a conscious decision to move away from character-based stories and focus more on the boundary-pushing stuff.
and i yours, southernbitch! bacon is one of my favorite foods/painters. i stole my avatar from the front of a "bloom county" compendium, and was titled "gesundheit!"
That's doubly interesting because the idea of leisure time is a relatively new concept, and didn't really take root until after the industrial revolution. Therefore, we've cycled from having zero leisure time and working in a steel mill 94 hours a day, to having a home/life balance, to back to working in an Blackberry mill for all the hours a day.
"And to think i was saving my vacation hours for the future!" --Steel Mill Worker Orphans
I think she represents a really pernicious influence on political and social discourse in America, plain and simple. The things she says need to be challenged, otherwise it's no better than tacit approval.
I agree with R2D2, Esq. So long as she seeks out ways to make statements on public policy and have a role in political discourse, she should be discussed. I, for one (SCHMARTMANN V. ALL, BASICALLY), vehemently oppose the very foundation of her political views, and feel that everything she represents so well needs to be challenged as often and thoroughly as possible.
Oh man! That movie was so confusingly awful. I didn't think it would be that bad, but with every inane plot twist, it became clearer that it must have been some Mad Film Scientist's idea of the least tolerable action movie for the new millennium.
So I know that making fun of ill-informed YouTube comments is pretty low-hanging fruit, but this one on the trailer for Spread, oh boy this one:
"One of the best movies ever made! I agree with you all! Give it 30 years! Oh, this movie at filmsi.co.cc is gonna be huge one day. Mark my words, people, in 30 years, this is gonna be considered the big misunderstood work of this director."
Oh man! "GIve it 30 years!"
My favorite part of the CP24 ticker is when they run the "Today in history" bit, as though it is super meaningful that, 40 years ago today, John Lennon first farted on stage or whatever.
#canadagum
I'm not sure that's really what Sofia Coppola was going for, to be fair. This is pure speculation (until DARPA grants me the funding I need to complete my Sofia Coppola Mind Reader app), but I think that she was more trying to make the movie a character study about how Marie Antoinette was really just a teenager who was pretty much thrust into a narcissistic, navel-gazing system like Versailles. I'm not saying it's poetry on celluloid, and is often pretty boring, but I can't bring myself to really hate it.
Just take one of the super Concords I assume every Albertan got from the Devil in exchange for getting Stephen Harper out of his tentacle-hair for a few years.
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