December 2011
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deadmentellnotales333 replied to your post: I need to stop reading reviews of 1Q84
I’ve been meaning to pick this up for a while. I’m waiting until I’ve got a good month with nothing else to read (my reading stack is something like ten deep right now) so I can give it my undivided attention.
I finally got it off my library hold list so I had to put aside The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the...
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I need to stop reading reviews of 1Q84
I’ve been a Haruki Murakami fan ever since my friend loaned me Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. I’ve likened his novels and style to a cross between Hemingway and Pynchon with a sci-fi bend, dense and distracting at times but with a simpler, straight-forward approach to story telling that makes the prose go down smoother despite the fact that the content is difficult to...
What'd you get?
The minutes and hours and days after Christmas used to be dominated by one question: What’d you get?
“What’d you get?”
“I got a Sega Genesis!”
“Coming over right now.”
Some presents, usually video game consoles, made you popular for a day.
As you get older, tho, gifts tend to be more personal and less “THE BEST THING EVER!”
For...
I Have a Clothing Problem
I was getting dressed for a party on Saturday when I realized my wardrobe became terrible at some point. The only clean coat I had was this brown valour thing that I’ve worn to death. I went through a lot of different pants but nothing matched. So…
Wife: Don’t you have plain black pants? Just black pants, like everyone else in the word has?
Me: Yeah, hold on.
I reach deep into...
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jasencomstock replied to your post: jasencomstock replied to your post: Gimme That…
I’d do some episodes showing Sarah Connor’s effed up life and men and fear and how its all not rational, except like we know it was.
The Terminator that shacks up with her/gets her addicted to heroin can be played by Nicolas Cage. So when people interact with him, he’s all roses and niceness, but when...
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jasencomstock replied to your post: Gimme That Franchise: The Terminator
Sarah Connor wouldn’t allow it really because she does her survivalist thing and unless the dude is bonen her and a Navy Seal or something she wouldn’t let him around. What do you do about her?
Another Terminator will be sent to the past to get Sarah Connor addicted to heroin.
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Gimme That Franchise: The Terminator
Every-so-often I like to think about what I’d do if I was given control of popular franchises. You may think I’m being tongue-in-cheek, but if giving studio support, $1,000,000, and 25% on the back-end, here’s what I’d do for these dead or dying franchises.
Movies, TV shows, books, video games, and theme park rides have gotten a lot of mileage out one simple concept: In the future, robots will...
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Gimme That Franchise: Hostel
Every-so-often I like to think about what I’d do if I was given control of popular franchises. You may think I’m being tongue-in-cheek, but if giving studio support, $1,000,000, and 25% on the back-end, here’s what I’d do for these dead or dying franchises.
The set-up for the Hostel franchise is basically:
1) Doodz meet Hottiez (or vice-versa)
2) Hottiez invite Doodz to...
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White Vans
I watch the ash fall from my cigarette, down to the cold pavement and onto the toe of my sneakers, and quickly look back up, because there could be a white van parked on the corner, and I need to see it before the driver sees me. I exhale the smoke and watch it mix with the steam from my breath. It obscures my vision, but I think that maybe it would ruin his shot, if he was out there. It’s like...
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“At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty-three - that’s how...”
– Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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somuchdependsupon replied to your post: Finished THE HUNGER GAMES. Loved it.
I love that you’re going from “Those books take a lot of out of you” to Murakami. Seems like a lateral move to me, ahah.
Well, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is a short memoir about…running. It’s not like I’m reading Kafka on the Shore. It’s a palette cleanser from a writer who...
Closing Lines to One-Star Reviews of MOCKINGJAY
“I really hope in the future I can reread the first books and make up an ending of my own!”
“Instead, I just want to write my own end to the story.”
“I’ve never been interested in fanfiction but I think I’m almost willing to look some up, if only to get the taste of this out of my mouth.”
“I would rather have been left hanging after...
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Finished THE HUNGER GAMES. Loved it.
No real spoilers here.
I heard a lot of people complain about the last book, because people always complain about last books, especially Young Adult books. I guess it’s hard not too, some of these series are so imaginative that the audience becomes the writer at a certain point, wanting to see something end a certain way and get upset when it ends a different way. I remember feeling let...
The Nation's list of non-profits for holiday... →
nebraska-admiral:
Relevant to my interests: National Network of Abortion Funds, Prometheus Radio Project
Good stuff on that list. For the locals, I’d also suggest two of my favorite charities: Homeward Trails Animal Rescue and the Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry. Also, it’s a good time of the year to re-up your memberships to NPR and CBLDF. CBLDF’s current big case is...
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And just because it sounds cool, last night's "set...
1 - 30 short katas
2 - Ching Kang Fu Hu Chuan (Golden Mountain Nets the Tiger)
3 - Lian Wu Chang (Five Directional Palm)
4 - Qie Chuan (Connected Fists)
5 - Hai Lung Chang (Sea Dragon Cane)
6 - Kwan Kung Dao (General Kwan’s Sword)
7 - Tei Qa Chuan (Sai Form)
8 - Luo Han Chuan (Fist of Luo Han)
9 - Bai He Chan Tsu (White Crane Jabs its Wings)
10 - Lou Tien (Bird Descends from...
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Excerpt: The Illustrated Miracle Worker, Written...
Page 761
Panel 1 - Alice pushes Helen Keller’s hand to the ground.
Helen Keller (Internal Monologue): I know this! This is…THE GROUND!
Panel 2 - Helen Keller holds her head down.
Helen Keller (Internal Monologue): The ground! So simple a concept for those who can hear…for those who can speak! But what of us? What of those born to darkness!? Both visual and aural darkness!
...
Follow-up: A List of the Best Comics That Could...
1 -The Life of Muhammad by Frank Miller and Jack Chick
2 - A Room of One’s Own by Dave Sim and Rob Liefeld
3 - The Miracle Worker written by Chris Claremont
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Here are some of the the worst comics that could ever happen:
1 -The Life of Muhammad by Frank Miller and Jack Chick
2 - A Room of One’s Own by Dave Sim and Rob Liefeld
3 - The Miracle Worker written by Chris Claremont
4 - Uncanny X-Men written by Chuck Austen
I can't believe I'm typing this sentence, but...
The whole concept of a black belt is something most people think about when they’re ten years old. I remember taking judo classes in the basement of Visitation Church, seeing this guy Boris who was a brown belt preparing for his black belt exam and thinking, “I want to be that guy.” I stopped going to judo, as most people do, before I entered my teenage years. And I never thought...
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The Foundation Trilogy is available for free on... →
This has been a public service announcement.
CORRECTION: I thought this was an audio recording read by Asimov himself. Turns out, as I’m listening to it, it’s actually the BBC Foundation radio play which is 10x more awesome, maybe, don’t know…never heard it.
I don't really have a PROBLEM with Tim Tebow, I...
…and it’s not the religious thing, per se, although it bothers me when someone really thinks that there is a benevolent God out there who will let life be miserable for 99% of the people in this world but, for some reason, really cares if your shaky legs can propel you into the end zone for this one game in this one season for this one sport that’s really only appreciated by...
We used to spend Christmas Eve at my Grandma's...
She lived in a house in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Although it was a three story house, with my Great Grandma occupying the third floor, we always congregated on the bottom floor. We’d squeeze the whole family into the kitchen, my Grandma and Grandpa, Titis Denise, Anita, Sophie, Lisa, and their husbands, boyfriends, and kids, Tios Chris, Alex, my dad, and their wives, girlfriends, and kids....
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On Kindling
On my DVR is three episodes of Up All Night, three episodes of Terra Nova, two episodes of Hell on Wheels, and one episode of Parks & Rec. Although I’ve managed to keep up with The League and American Horror Story, the rest of my shows have fallen terribly behind. However, over the past two weeks and two days since my Kindle Fire has shown up at my doorstep, I managed to read Bottom of...
