I like that one of their complaints about the government is that "Whenever they give us something they expect something in return," because yep! That is actually how government and functioning society works! Welcome to Civics 101, lesson 1: The Social Contract.
Every day when I come into work I pass the theatre with the HUGE sign out in front for it, and some days there will be a gigantic line of people camping outside in the cold (I guess they're still giving sneak previews of the whole disaster in progress?).
It gives me a certain level of comfort to know that I will continue to see that huge sign and the sad people for eternity...or until the producers finally decide to cut their losses and shut the whole thing down.
Certainly sounds like something a Jerseyite would say...
If I was a little kid and my dad told me all of the world's clouds were made just off the Turnpike I probably would've believed him.
4chan is a set of boards in which everyone can post anonymously (thus the origin of Anonymous). Some of the boards are more topic-specific (/v/ = video, etc.) and some are just completely random (/b/). 4chan is often regarded as the birthplace of many famous memes, as well as the locus of a lot of horrible, disgusting, oftentimes racist and bigoted behavior (though they will say they are not actually any of those things and are doing it for the sake of trolling or whatever).
Boxxy is just some girl who talks fast and is super excited about everything that 4chan locked onto and help bring into widespread recognition. I find her personally insufferable, but she's just doing her thing I guess.
Favorite part of the video: Ke$ha haphazardly flinging herself off of a very tall building into silent freefall.
Least favorite part of the video: Ke$ha taking a shit on the laws of physics and surviving said freefall by being caught by a mass of garbage and tequila-scented meat sacs.
Aww, sorry if I came off as a defensive ass to you. For the record, I did not downvote you despite my disagreeing with you. No hard feelings?
Also, once again, let me say you guys are the best, and even though I am generally a professional lurker on this site and this sudden explosion of not-entirely positive attention was a bit nerve-wracking, this site and the community means a whole lot to me. I've stuck around since the beginning largely because the articles have always been great, but just as much because the people who comment and add to the site in so many other ways push it above and beyond almost any other blog out there.
yay everyone!
holy moly late to the party here (hooray work with no chance to check internet)
I really did not expect this detailed a response (or an actual reset button post), but I really do appreciate the thought and effort. And I definitely see where you're coming from on all of the points made here. I would like to state again that I was not completely up in arms about the article, but that it just made me feel kinda gross after having read it.
As for the things I said, you're right about the "otherwise" word, which I did not think about at the time but understand how it could be interpreted that way. Bad word choice on my part. The reason I brought the whole thing up though is because as someone who has experienced and seen others be discriminated and looked down upon for their lack of religious belief but also lives with and interacts with a large percentage of people who share those similar beliefs (or lack thereof), I sometimes feel like I have to catch myself from doing and thinking the same kinds of things towards those of religious bent that I abhorred being done to myself and the people I agree with (if that run-on sentence makes any sense). So when I saw those couple of sentences yesterday, those self-conscious thoughts rose up again, and I felt the need to just kinda remind everyone to maybe relax a bit and take a step back from the whole thing.
So that's obviously MY prerogative, which anyone is free to disagree with. I've come in contact with a lot of arrogant anti-theist types who make it more difficult for more reasonable and less militant non-believers to get the kind of widespread acceptance and respect any person should. That does not make it anyone else's responsibility to make up for it, as Gabe correctly pointed out, but I just feel the need to point out things like that once in a while for my own sake.
Anyway, I think everyone can agree it's largely a non-issue in this case and that we all generally respect each others' opinions and beliefs because we're ADULTS (even the baby monsters), and I just want to say I love you guys, and I will not prevent you from being great. Everyone have an awesome weekend.
<3 Brosworth
Cool opinions, guy. Very critical.
I don't dig echo chambers of any kind, sorry. Just not my style. I don't give a rat's ass about what Gretchen Carlson might think about his article, but I just happen to think it reflects poorly on this site and the people who post here when this kind of stuff is written because they are intelligent and funny. I'm not offended or outraged about this article. I just think the way it was written was in poor taste.
As for C, if you don't understand the reference that's not my problem.
Just to clarify, I'm an atheist, and I think the whole thing with the kid and his parents using his drug-addled hallucinations, lies, or whatever bullshit his parents decided to feed him is disgusting, and the way it was "reported" equally as disgusting.
But writing in detail about anyone hanging him/herself I think crosses the line, even if that is secretly what some of us might desire. And then the diatribe in the epilogue, while in line with what I believe, is insensitive to what some otherwise perfectly rational and fine people (some of whom might actually download this blog) believe. While we might disagree with them, callously putting down their beliefs like that is the kind of thing that gives atheists in general a bad name. I think we're better than that.
Basically what I'm saying is you might want to pull out that reset button again, Gabe.
As much as I agree with the views against the pure idiocy and exploitation surrounding this story, this YCMIU just seems a bit mean-spirited in several ways. :|
#justsayingum
Technically can't nominate this for real yet because it's still in theaters, but FUTURE NOMINATION: Hereafter
Holy mother of god, what a bad movie. It had potential to be something actually interesting and engaging about how we as people deal with death and the concept of the afterlife, and it missed it by the length of Russia. The pacing was atrocious, it fell into the worst cliches of using multiple protagonists, it was contrived beyond belief, and to top it all off, Jay Mohr.
I rest my case.
I'm with Rachel Maddow on this one. Paladino's campaign HAS to be an elaborate piece of performance art. I can't explain the garbage-scented mailers otherwise.
Definitely a bit disappointed by the lack of horns and the removal of the jazz fusion feel to it. The live version definitely felt like it had a lot more energy and just breathed more musically. I second the "sterile" comment. I wonder how he's going to perform these live and if he'll open it up a bit more like before.
Was about to say something similar. I'm re-listening to the live tracks s-gum posted from youtube last fall, and god damn I am so excited for this. I really love the whole electro-fusion jazz feel to a lot of it, and I'm glad to see Sufjan continue to reach out and expand his musical palette.
gif request of Peggy driving the motorcycle around in the empty set
Also, I'm very afraid of where all of this is leading with Sally. If they bring professional creep boy wonder Glenn back into the picture, I foresee very bad things happening.
Oh god, I forgot about the "man in a room with a check" line. Even I could feel the knife in my side from that.
Don's ability to compartmentalize everything is one of the more interesting aspects of his character, and the show, to me, and it makes visible cracks in the armor like that scene last night even more powerful.
Okay, last week's was funny on a novelty basis.
This week, not so much. Please don't make this a permanent fixture. This show's too good to warrant that.
On that note, last night's episode was a fucking emotional rollercoaster. The whole Don/Anna thing completely broke my heart. That time lapse shot of him sitting on the couch was brilliant (if anyone can cook up a gif of that I would greatly appreciate it). But the last 10-15 minutes of it with the whole Don/Price bromancing it up was hilarious and made me feel not quite as depressed by the end.
Is anyone else hoping that this whole apparent arc of Don being off-the-rails and sexing anything that moves (provided he's had enough to drink) doesn't go on for too much longer? I don't know if I'm such a fan of it.
Also, how has nobody brought up the return of Freddie Rumsen (other than in passing as the guy who didn't want juice)?
I'm just gonna put this out there. I am in love with The Asylum. They're pretty much the last bastion of relatively big production B-movies out there, and they rarely miss the mark in producing amazingly hilarious and awful films to get drunk to and yell at. You just can't argue with Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus. And the original Transmorphers? Dumb brilliance.
So needless to say, I'm Fandango'ing this in my mind right now.
also, I'm pretty sure the "cliche" wasn't so much any particular action as it was the action chase scene, which starts out with people running and ends in a Bayplosion
You guys, I'm pretty sure I can't actually participate in this community for a while. New internship presents me with zero opportunity to check in and post without feeling 10 million years behind.
Makes me a sad panda. :(
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