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i’m psyched for some of these hot new rights! i’m tired of championing the old ones. i want to have to check all-new privileges

 
I’ve never worked at a record store, but had plenty of friends who have. And this video pretty much mirrors a lot of the complaints I’d hear from my buddies. Especially the constant “Are you hiring?” question.

 
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By Amanda Mannen  Published: August 12th, 2013  On some level, we all know that almost everything we see at the movies is bullshit, from the amount of bullets a person can take without dying to what the job of pizza delivery boy actually entails. Except documentaries. Documentaries are where we tu

 
These photographs of fathers accompanying their daughters to a One Direction concert, are both funny and touching, and show exactly what some Dads will put-up with for the love of their musically-challenged kids.
 

 

 

 

 
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Christopher Hitchens was a prisoner of chemotherapy, when he gave this interview in 2011. As Hitchens explains, the worst part of his treatment for cancer of the oesophagus was the effect of “chemo brain,” where a mental fog impeded his reading and stopped him writing—which was intolerable as writing was central to his sense of self. Moreover, Hitchens adds with typical aplomb, he feared “chemo brain” made him boring.

Hitchens was rarely boring, and here, the writer, polemicist and broadcaster gives a good account of his life, career, politics and values to Laurie Taylor, for his series In Confidence. Even in the midst of his chemotherapy, Hitchens had lost none of his combativeness or desire to settle old scores.

“I hate the idea that somebody like Henry Kissinger is what, well into his 80s now, or Pope Benedict likewise, would live long enough to read my obituary when I had fully intended to be writing theirs and I make no bones about it. That’s why I don’t ask for sympathy because I’m not intending to dish it out.”

Hitchens died in December 2011, and while it is inevitable to say how much he is dearly missed, etc, I note that since his death, his writing has received a wider readership than it did during his lifetime. With this in mind, it is worth considering that rather than continuing to bewail the loss of such a great journalist and polemicist, it may be worth looking to those who are alive and writing today.
 

 

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Ferrett Steinmetz's open letter to his daughter is a heartening riposte to the "rules for dating my daughter" cliché.

"...Because consensual sex isn't something that men take from you; it's something you give. It doesn't lessen you to give someone else pleasure. It doesn't degrade you to have some of your own. And anyone who implies otherwise is a man who probably thinks very poorly of women underneath the surface."

"This [129 question] survey will determine your ability scores, fantasy race, class, alignment, and character level describing what you would be if you were transformed into a Dungeons and Dragons character."

“Podría considerarse el crimen como la broma definitiva y, a la inversa, a la broma como la forma social del asesinato.” 

Es la única cita que he subrayado durante la lectura de El percherón mortal de John Franklin Bardin. Seguramente tiene más, pero estaba yo metido dentro, hipnotizado por la trama de un libro que ha durado en mis manos lectoras menos de 24 horas. Aunque se trata de una novela de culto (hija de la literatura popular y de bolsillo norteamericana), lo cierto es que desconocía su existencia hasta que hace un par de años me topé con esta lista confeccionada por Karl Edward Wagner.



Aunque no es muy conocido por aquí, Karl Edward Wagner (1945-1994) fue además de escritor uno de los mayores expertos y estudiosos en literatura pulp, así que una lista en la que detallaba sus 13 historias preferidas en tres apartados (horror sobrenatural, ciencia-ficción terrorífica y horror no sobrenatural) tenía su interés, y más cuando se descubre que muchas de ellas, por no decir la mayoría, están inéditas en castellano (si me lee algún editor, ya sabe). En la tercera de esas listas, la de horror no sobrenatural, destacaba en primer lugar The Daedly Percheron de John Franklin Bardin, que sí tenía ediciones en castellano; de hecho, la última de éstas es reciente y la recomendaba nuestro bibliófilo preferido, Jónatan Sark; e investigando un poco se descubría como peculiar título de culto, así que enseguida la puse entre mis prioridades ¡Y qué bien que hice!


El percherón mortal es una novela tan entretenida como extraña, toda una extravagancia que añade toneladas de delirio (incómodo a ratos, divertido en otros) a un género a veces tan matemático como el whudunit, el ¿Quién lo hizo? detectivesco. Empieza con una historia sobre un millonario que confiesa a un abogado tener tratos con extraños duendes, lo cuál le acerca a terrenos frecuentados por Fredric Brown (Marciano, vete a casa); luego continúa con una pesadillesca historia sobre despertar y descubrir que no reconoces tu cuerpo, con un trato paranoico del relato ciertamente conseguido (y que pondría los pelos de punta a Philip K. Dick) y que concluye con un forzado (esto es así) e imposible giro racional. Quizá sería lo peor si no fuera de que tiene el buen gusto, y no hago spoilers, de hacer algo parecido a la escena de los espejos de La dama de Shangai de Orson Welles. Así que ya ven qué tres referencias para un relato original y muy recomendable, especialmente para una tarde de verano.

What’s cuter than a newborn baby animal?  A newborn baby animal that’s a marsupial so it hangs out in its mother’s pouch for the first months of its life.  When this Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo was born it was the size of a jelly bean.  That’s when it slowly crawled up to its mother’s pouch where it latches onto a nipple and stays for several months.

This little baby was born at Zoo Miami about five months ago.  Hairless and vulnerable, it will venture outside of its mother’s pouch, but won’t be fully weaned until it’s a year old.

Here’s the baby poking out to check on its mom:

And here it is laughing because it’s so cute.

Chatting:

Relaxing while mom eats:

And, of course, doing their best impression of that terrifying scene in Alien:

The Matschie’s tree kangaroo is native to the Huon Peninsula of Papua New Guinea and is very endangered.

All images via ZooBorns.

 

Funny videos. They say kids love ‘em. Well, not today, friend-o. Not today. You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? You ever eaten too much blotter acid? You ever fucked with a shaman’s daughter during a solar eclipse? Well, buddy, then this video is for you.

Behold Miley’s “We Can’t Stop” video without any of the music. It’s terrifying. It’s scary. But most of all, it’s a reminder that we as a human race need to expand our minds, maaaaan. Burn your draft cards! Twerk, Miley, twerk!

Thanks AH

 

Littlemissgt uploaded this adorable picture of Chewy's babies to I-Am-Bored last year, but I can't tell you which convention they were dressed up for. Personally though, I absolutely adore the fact that each one has different fur styles so they really look like wookiee brothers.

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these 2 fucked so hard they fell outta window.

Behold the sick genius of Heather Benjamin, who's "just being realistic"! 
Her zines sell out and it's no wonder why.

Here Is a 99-Page Guide to One Highly Organized Australian Man's Dick (via)

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Hace ya tres añosque publiqué por aquí el post El extraño fenómeno estival de los científicos israelíes, al final del cual hacía las consideraciones oportunas (a ellas les remito por no repetirme). Por resumir, el fenómeno ya no es del todo estival porque la necesidad de información mediática es hoy desmesurada a lo largo de todo el año, pero continúan apareciendo regularmente noticias de avances científicos israelíes donde hay un poco de todo, es decir, realidad y ficción (pasando por lo obvio). Tres años después, instalados no en un presente de mierda y crisis total sino en un futuro con generadores de electricidad ilimitados, patatas energéticas desarroladas sin agua, exoesqueletos, tratamientos de acné con luz no ultravioleta, pollos desplumados, cura contra la radioactividad, electrodos en el pene y felicidad total a través de los garbanzos (ver entrada de 2010) todo, es el momento de ver los avances de los últimos años de la asombrosa ciencia israelí.




































Nota ausente: ¿pero esto (fuente) no lo habían descubierto ya en 2009?

People have been frightened by clowns for centuries.

(Photo: Marine Traffic)

At 400 meters long, the newly-launched Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller is the largest ship in the world. It left the South Korean port of Busan, where it was built, on July 16th en route to Rotterdam. The Daily Telegraph describes this wonder of naval architecture:

No ship has ever been able to carry so many goods in one journey; the Mc-Kinney Møller has room for 18,000 containers, each of them 20ft long, 8ft wide and 8ft high. That’s enough space for 36,000 cars or 111 million pairs of trainers. But Maersk, the ship’s Danish owner, will not just benefit from the economies of scale that spring from operating such a large vessel; it will also save money on petrol.

The ship has been designed to sail at an average of only 16 knots – a system known as “super slow steaming” – which is expected to save the company around £750,000 in fuel on a typical journey between Shanghai and Rotterdam.

At the link, you can see infographics that illustrate the scale and capacity of this ship.

Link -via The Presurfer