Speak, Nerd, and Enter!
Move on over from the last Speak, Nerd, and Enter! and drop your burning thoughts and feelings here!
How’s the weather by you? Hot and humid here in New York City…
Move on over from the last Speak, Nerd, and Enter! and drop your burning thoughts and feelings here!
How’s the weather by you? Hot and humid here in New York City…
I found this really fun web comic today but its on hiatus :< i want more http://totalpartykiss.tumblr.com/post/119301844337/prologue-1-see-early-pages-on-patreon
Watched Penny Dreadful. I wasn’t too crazy about that last episode – it was a total info dump.
Larry’s backstory? Yeah, and sadly it didn’t have the acting prowess required (as it was when we had the brothers’ fallen angel’s backstory).
And with a deficit of Ms. Ives, my interest was less than sustained. Prior eps without Vanessa worked fine last year but not this one.
custom ML Jubilee (scroll 3/4 down):
https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/x-men-apocalypse-has-a-shallow-gene-pool/
So I’ve posted this video elsewhere But I think its useful to note this because of the upcoming movie adaptation of The Division. In particular I kind of wish this aspect of the game had been mentioned in the TMS article on the adaptation.
The Division – Problematic Meaning in Mechanics – Extra Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?…
Its possible the movie will examine this more closely but I think its worth being at least concerned about this particular game being adapted.
Soup and I were having conversations about a Parks and Rec reunion on Supergirl as the team for the Daily Planet. I came up with a cast list:
Rashida Jones as Lois Lane
Nick Offerman as Perry White
Aziz Ansari as Steve Lombard
Amy Poehler as Lana Lang (she’d need to dye her hair or wear a wig)
Retta as a genderbent Ron Troupe
And Adam Scott as Morgan Edge
Still have my heart set on Brandon Routh as Superman, though, considering CW already has him working there. I also don’t have a spot for Aubrey Plaza or Chris Pratt, but they’re probably too big for this (Amy Poehler probably is too, but hey, we’re just dreaming here.)
Aziz Ansari should be Jimmy Olsen!
I’m operating off of this as a guest spot on Supergirl, so Jimmy and Cat Grant are already taken, I’m afraid. But c’mon, Tom’s self-confidence is perfect for Steve Lombard’s blistering ego.
Chris Pratt for Booster Gold, anyone?
http://animals-riding-animals.tumblr.com/
guys
Oh, I think I’ll just follow this link, how long could this remain interest– What, how have two hours gone by?
Apparently this has been categorized as pornography by my work’s internet filter.
why?
Shrug emoji.
My chum Risa Pappas has being getting press for starting #TweetYourPeriod! http://www.bustle.com/articles/163946-the-tweet-your-period-red-summer-twitter-hashtags-are-destigmatizing-menstruation-and-its-a-much-needed
what do you want my dear
yes
Yo
has anyone watched Cleverman yet?
I just watched it, it’s really fun.
It’s like, urban-fantasy? maybe sci fi?
Set today in a slightly more fascist australia, with lots of refugee and racism social commentary
where a supernatural
species of humans also exist
I think maybe one from aboriginal folklore?
It seems like its going to be great
I started it last night but my roku/Plex was being crappy. I’ll try to watch it today.
So it turns out that that Me Before You movie, which sets itself up as “manic pixie dream girl saves disabled man,” is *actually* about how even though you can be rich and live in a castle and look like Sam Claflin instead of ’00s-era Christopher Reeve and be in love with Emilia-freaking-Clarke, being disabled is so awful that it’s better to kill yourself so you won’t be a burden to your loved ones and they can “live boldly” instead of having to settle for you. NONE of which you would suspect from watching the trailers. So basically it’s another Million Dollar Baby–you go into the theater thinking you’re going to see a certain type of movie only to be hit with a surprise “death is better than disability” message at the very end.
what.the.f.???
And I was excited to see that movie, damn it!!!
Thanks for the heads up. Good to know I don’t need to waste my money nor my time with this.
There is not enough yikes in the world.
UGGGGGGGGGGH
Oh come on, Jill. Don’t you know our lives are nothing but misery? I myself spend 80% of my time weeping over my poor crippled legs. If only I could do the things real boys and girls get to do, like skiing! Oh, wait. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaXoh0Zgdp4
I don’t know if you listen to podcasts much, but the BBC’s disability talk show Ouch had an excellent 15 minute episode about how toxic this movie’s message is. It’s really great, going over everything from depression and quality of life to how we’re (mis)represented by the able-bodied media: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wbvtf
Addendum: Last Friday I sent a bunch of people I know a message about this movie, and today a co-worker came up and thanked me. She’d been planning to see it but didn’t after I shared what the true message was. We talked for a minute about how Hollywood always shows disabled lives as awful, and she–this woman who as far as I know I’m the only “professional” crip she’s ever know–*she* said that was stupid because I can do stuff like sail and ski. After she left I was grinning at my cubicle for a minute, thinking “Im actually doing it! I’m changing how people think about disability!”
My book, THE DOLOROUS ADVENTURE OF BROTHER BANENOSE, is officially out of print!
Embarrassing activity time:
Tell us a song you can’t get out of your head and regularly bastardize or otherwise make up lyrics to that you only sing to yourself or a significant other.
Mine is To Shave the Face from Sweeney Todd. Within weeks, that devolved into an ongoing lyric-off between my wife and I with the chief brilliance being:
To poop in da pants, to punch uh da face. You’re welcome.