i’m in a bad mood and i don’t know why
Maybe I just don’t like daylight?
As a proud high school dropout who got a master’s degree without a high school diploma, I’m always happy when dropping out of high school is portrayed in a positive light. Everyone should try it.
a guess about avengers 2
Based on the following:
- Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch are expected to be in it.
- Robert Downey Jr.s involvement is questionable.
- It’s a reasonable guess that if he does work out an agreement with Marvel, it might be for a smallish role, since he will likely ask for a huge sum of money.
- The Avengers are known for frequent lineup shifts.
- Lineup shifts also make sense for the future of the franchise due to real-world logistics (i.e. actors not returning).
- One of the most iconic moments in the Avengers’ early history was its first major lineup change in Avengers #16, when most of the original team quit and left Captain America with a small team of replacements (including Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch).
- Joss Whedon has seemed especially interested in the interpersonal group dynamics of the Avengers.
- He said somewhere that he had something in mind for Avengers 2 even before he had written the first one.
I am guessing that in Avengers 2, some members of the Avengers will end up unwilling or unable to help, leaving a depleted team of mostly new recruits to step in and try to live up to the expectations of being an Avenger.
This would be a very Joss Whedony story to tell, and could also solve logistical problems going forward, leaving characters like Iron Man and Thor as possibilities, but not necessities.
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I coach a lot of young teams/new folks in the improv scene. I think some follow me. Go to this.
What Chris said!
things that will probably happen to tumblr now that yahoo owns it
- yahoo will change tumblr
- everything will change
- bad things will happen that we do not like
- yahoo will make tumblr different
- tumblr will be more like yahoo
- tumblr will be uncool like yahoo instead of cool like tumblr
- the boss of yahoo will be like “i’m changing tumblr”
- tumblr will not work the same due to being owned by yahoo
- several things about tumblr will be replaced by things about yahoo
- all the tumblr yahoos will get tumblrd into yahootumblrs in the specific way we fear most
- all of the tumblr employees who wear cool sunglasses and backwards baseball caps and love listening to death cab for cutie on their imacs will be replaced by boring old yahoo employees who wear suits and ties and spend all their free time reading magazines with jay leno
- barack obama will be sad
- tumblr will add simple and widely-demanded functionality like timestamps and the ability to reblog yourself and become better at responding to feedback and complaints from users
My favorite moment in Sandman, from the finale by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess.
The first time you read Sandman, you realize early on that while Morpheus is ostensibly the lead character, he’s seldom the most interesting. You don’t dislike him, but he doesn’t stand out. Several of the best stories barely even involve him.
Then you get to the ending, and you see how the entirety of Sandman ties together into one big thing— a story about stories. You understand Morpheus’s role. You get what’s really going on. You catch how borderline meta the whole thing has been, with Morpheus representing Neil Gaiman more than might have been obvious. You figure out how central of a character Morpheus was, even when he was nowhere to be seen.
“I am prince of stories… but I have no story of my own. Nor shall I ever.”
And then, when you go back and read Sandman again with this in mind, it’s different. Better. Sadder, but happier. And that’s when Morpheus becomes your favorite character.
“Like many comedians, Henny Youngman treated his profession as a working job, one where it is difficult to make a living, and getting paid for the work is all-important. In numerous interviews, Youngman’s advice to other entertainers was to “nem di gelt” (Yiddish for “take the money”)… Roger Ebert described a similar episode in a 2011 movie review: ‘I once observed Henny Youngman taping a TV show in the old NBC studios at the Merchandise Mart. We got into an elevator together. It stopped at the second floor, a private club. A wedding was under way. Youngman got off the elevator, asked to meet the father of the bride and said, “I’m Henny Youngman. I’ll do 10 minutes for $100.”’”
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From the Wikipedia article for Henny Youngman.
I never knew how much of a hustler Henny Youngman was. I’m going to start saying “nem di gelt” all the time.
This picture of me was taken a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been using it as my profile picture because, despite the face paint, it’s the only good picture I have of what I look like now (i.e. current hair/beard status quo).
It has been brought to my attention that in this picture, I look like I have been possessed by Bob from Twin Peaks. The person who said this didn’t even know it was taken in a cabin in the woods.
I’m scared of me.
locas: jerusalem crickets (j.hernandez)
one of the greatest panels ever
- plot twist: yahoo buys tumblr and we get proper blocking features, lockable posts, a sent folder in messages/fanmail with a better interface, ability to search multiple tags, removal of the post and message limits, proper search engines for likes/archives and removing that bloody "reblog as a link" option.
