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I'd swear that about 90% of Toxie's appeal is that whole mid-80s 'Murica thing. Like, someone at Troma just went, "You want mid-eighties Ugly American? Oh boy" and cracks their knuckles. [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 hours ago

Courtesy of Molly White's Web3 Is Going Just Great, the crypto-watch site, this is not long after an executive of The Epoch Times, associated with Falun Gong, was indicted for a crypto money laundering scam. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by Neronomius, star gentle uterus, The Ardship of Cambry, May Kasahara, box, rrrrrrrrrt, chavenet
MeFi comment - 17 hours ago

I'd like to have Hypercard again, but what I really want is for it to be 35 years ago and for me to be 35 years younger--and, given that 1989 really kind of sucked for me, that's saying something. [more]
favorited 7 times, recently by TangoCharlie, Ansible, snuffleupagus, Reverend John, JHarris, otherchaz, Vetinari
MeFi comment - 19 hours ago

The premise of this book seems dubious. Lumping in Fonda with Trump--son of a racist slumlord who was kind of a dick from the word go--just seems like trying to gin up controversy for the sake of book sales. The rise of the young urban professional… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by nofundy, Nec_variat_lux_fracta_colorem, DSime, Pedantzilla
MeFi comment - 19 hours ago

A couple of things from the article stood out for me. One is that the author is uniquely qualified to address something like this: I grew up in a home where my father—a caring physician and active church member—abused his family and often flew… [more]
favorited 11 times, recently by swerve, thetarium, chavenet, Callisto Prime, 41swans, adrienneleigh, teleri025, BlahLaLa, hydra77, aiglet, hydropsyche
MeFi comment - 21 hours ago

There are seemingly no foods that make you a lesbian. [slaps roof of Subaru] This baby can fit so many Indigo Girls in it [more]
favorited 23 times, recently by a non mouse, a cow herd, SeedStitch, Jesse the K, infinitewindow, dr_dank, fridgebuzz, whuppy, msali, eustatic, birdsongster, Neronomius, chavenet, caviar2d2, mollweide, GenjiandProust, smartyboots, sacrifix, Countess Elena, seanmpuckett, AzraelBrown, The Ardship of Cambry, Faint of Butt, Kitteh
MeFi comment - 21 hours ago

I think that maybe we might consider going a bit beyond "I can't do this/you must do this" and go back to TFA and contemplate what it might signify when taken as a whole, and what it means to me is this: It's less about recognizing the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 22 hours ago

Oof, meant "manipulative" instead of "manipulated" above. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 days ago

We stigmatize male-only environments because in certain spaces, they have acted as creators and replicators of privilege and ostracism. But we are doing so before we have eliminated the toxic masculinity that necessitates them as a safety valve,… [more]
favorited 12 times, recently by neitherly, FallibleHuman, mostlymartha, lesbiassparrow, naoko, Barbara Spitzer, cendawanita, knotty knots, Mr.Know-it-some, sohalt, whm, AzraelBrown
MeFi comment - 2 days ago

For every right-wing tough guy urging his crying son to “man up,” there’s a voice from the left telling him that to express his concerns is to take airtime away from a woman or someone more marginalized. Really? There's an exact 1:1… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 days ago

Loved the song and the article. The reghettoization of black American pop in the late seventies, with the mentioned "permitted" exceptions (e.g. Michael Jackson), especially by MTV, remains one of American culture's unprosecuted crimes. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

Sorely tempted to say "I was sober before it was cool," but honestly, keeping out of jail was my main motivation. (Since then, I've reaped any number of personal benefits from sobriety, though.) It's nice to have more NA options, although,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 days ago

Do they go above or below the house flag? Depends, are they a top or a bottom? (Not sure what to do about switches, maybe some kind of spinning thing.) [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 days ago

Grace Cummings
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MeFi post - 5 days ago

I wonder if it doesn't mean that there'll be a flashback at some point or she's not as dead as a knife to the heart will do to a person. My theory for how a certain character thought dead came back in the last season of The Bad… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 days ago

I'm glad that the actors are getting other work. And I think that one of the side effects of streaming TV having basically obliterated the old very regular broadcast TV schedule--everything built around every show having 26 episodes that started… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 days ago

Just rewatched "Calypso" and S1E3 "Context is for Kings." My opinion of the former is as I stated above; rewatching S1E3 was extraordinary--it's a remarkable episode, not only where the story really seems to begin but just with… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 days ago

Well, it's a better finale than "These Are the Voyages...", so there's that. But I agree with the "too many cooks" diagnosis of the series overall. I mean, all of the executive producers that the show had starting out... did… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 days ago

I liked it; I LOLed when they made a date for the sarkaress, complete with "oil bath." (Cue the porn-movie funk soundtrack as the sarkmates prepare to get oily.) Also fun to see Burnham get in the Breens' faces, a la Sisko getting into… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 days ago

Homer: professional assassin. "Nobody suspects the blind man. Plenty of downtime for writing." [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 days ago

I liked it a lot, especially as my favorite toy when I was a kid was the G.I. Joe Astronaut figure, which came with a proportionally-sized Mercury capsule that was surprisingly accurate (albeit with a big sliding clear plastic door instead of the… [more]
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FanFare comment - 8 days ago

Monotropism Score: 195 / 235 Your Average: 4.15 When/where do we order jackets? [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by vim876, ob1quixote, wanderingmind, dum spiro spero, eirias, Faintdreams
MeFi comment - 9 days ago

Damn. What happens now when I go into pon farr? There's always pon farr night at the Vulcan nightclub. [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 days ago

This isn't even the first time there's been an FPP on Nicholson doing a four-hour video on an immersive theme park experience and its problems. (Speaking of which, Evermore officially closed a couple of months ago.) [more]
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MeFi comment - 11 days ago

merriment cites my two favorite parts of the film. Patrick Doyle's "Non nobis, Domine" was the perfect way to end the Agincourt scene, and has been performed many times in public beyond the film. And the great thing about casting BRIAN… [more]
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FanFare comment - 11 days ago

MetaFilter: semi-erect and bleeding slightly [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Already seeing a lot of commentary online about how this will just encourage TFG's followers to start using the N-word in public. That's sadly plausible. [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

Fascinating. [more]
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MeFi comment - 12 days ago

This was very much a TOS episode with the ancient alien tech being deified by the natives who don't understand it and the Starfleet types coming in to fix it and/or free the natives from their superstitions so that they can worship at the… [more]
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FanFare comment - 13 days ago

- My guess is that they were saving the 32C Klingons for Something Really Special that won't happen now (AFAWK). Oh, well. - That library is where I hope to go when I die. Too bad they couldn't have slipped an orangutan in there somewhere. -… [more]
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FanFare comment - 13 days ago

The Breen are really kind of dumb; it's like the Klingons with the different houses jousting for the Big Chair only without all the stuff that make the Klingons cool and fun. And the Progenitor tech is supposed to bring L'ak back? In what way? Unless… [more]
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FanFare comment - 13 days ago

My favorite trick-taking game is Hearts, not because I play it but because it was the subject of the Stephen King novella "Hearts in Atlantis", which was about a bunch of guys in a college dorm who become so obsessed by the game that they… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by HearHere, GenjiandProust, chavenet
MeFi comment - 13 days ago

What's the connection between natalism and autism? If that's rephrased to "what's the connection between autism and any philosophy or worldview that is arguably fascist, proto-fascist, or crypto-fascist", then I think that an… [more]
favorited 9 times, recently by Lexica, Bella Donna, The Outsider, queensissy, nanny's striped stocking, BungaDunga
MeFi comment - 14 days ago

I'm with you, theora55; after all, it's not as if there isn't something known as "pepper sauce in a bottle" that people can use to adjust the heat upwards to their taste, without any such corresponding thing (AFAIK) that will neutralize… [more]
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MeFi comment - 14 days ago

If you like these stories, or even a good chunk of them, then it's worth looking up some of King's notes about them, mostly sandwiched in some brief autobiographical writing, which are scattered between some of the collections, his book On… [more]
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MeFi comment - 14 days ago

I think that I'd had the same general impression of the film, which I've never seen, and kind of conflated it with the Fast Food Nation book (which got its own fictionalized movie adaptation, a couple of years after this film). I generally… [more]
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FanFare comment - 14 days ago

A few thoughts: - Back when "All Summer Long" was basically inescapable, I used to think, "I'm pretty sure that Warren Zevon would hate this because he wrote this; it's catchy as hell, but why would John Mellencamp put this out?… [more]
favorited 13 times, recently by KGMoney, mannequito, Phlegmco(tm), busted_crayons, ovvl, lord_wolf, caviar2d2, ASCII Costanza head, nofundy, Faint of Butt, supermedusa, torokunai, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 14 days ago

Elvis Has Not Left The Building
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MeFi post - 2 weeks ago

I loved it, and the thing that I loved most about it was how Villeneuve manipulates the sheer scale and scope of what happens in the movie, and addresses the central conceit of the space opera: that human beings can and should affect matters not only… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

I mean, sure, we're all sophistos and in on the joke. But Chariots of the Gods? was a massively popular book, despite its author, Erich von Däniken, having multiple convictions for fraud and embezzlement, and its editor, Wilhelm Utermann,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I'm a smidge over halfway through, and I'm impressed both with Nicholson being willing to point out the parts that worked for her, and for her thorough analysis of the parts that didn't. In particular, the part where she goes over the failure of the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I wouldn't compare this piece to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, despite the similarity of people experiencing a convention while high. Some of that is just due to the immense cultural baggage that FALILV has; it's probably HST's biggest hit,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

But from a technical point of view, if he was already an alcoholic before the project,and he remained an alcoholic after, how would that change the results of the month of eating fast food? To expand on what Gygesringtone said, his… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

They'd probably give up on the uniforms after a week; fuzzy slippers and nice robes will do just fine. This reminds me of how I thought that VOY should have gone if they'd had anything remotely resembling the barest outline of a series… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

I think Abraham Lincoln said “we’re better than that” in one of his last postings on the internet. Or maybe it was Martin Luther King. Pretty sure it was Albert Einstein, quoting Mark Twain (or maybe Nietszche; I often get them mixed up… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Not sure why this one has made the news. Do they usually get to the point of announcing a foreclosure sale? [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Kind of side-eyeing that Screenrant article. Admits that she didn't learn about the closure until just before it was announced, but insists that, even though she allows that "It doesn't mean these reviews shouldn't exist nor be shared",… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

Finished it, and as with the Evermore video, totally worth the time invested for a deep dive into something that I probably wouldn't have done even when it was doable. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

One thing that stands out almost immediately is that they figured out how to include Victor von Doom's original origin story (former college roommate/research associate of Reed's who had his accident while still in school); both of the more recent FF… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

I'm curious, how much is publicly known about Tatsuya Ishida these days? Back in the day he was kind of a mystery, I remember, no photos of him or anything. Pretty little. The subreddit noted that he went to UCLA in the early nineties… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

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