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The “Secret Histories” are a series of articles by Donald X. Vaccarino, detailing the evolution and development of a particular expansion. Previous “Secret Histories” can be found here; the forum discussion topic for this is here.

Right around when Prosperity was due, the powers-that-be decided that they wanted small expansions too. Products that seemed more expansion-like than these giant game-sized expansions I was doing. The ideal time to do one would be next, and so Prosperity got pushed back, and Alchemy came out in its stead. I got Alchemy by breaking off a thematic chunk from a large set, and eventually reshaped the remains of that large set into Cornucopia.

I had two large expansions left after Prosperity, so this left me one small expansion short. I had to make one more small expansion to go in between Hinterlands and the last large expansion. Well I didn’t have to, but you know. It was expected. So I made one. Guilds is thus the only expansion with no roots in Dominion as it existed prior to the main game being published. As it happens, the Base Cards product came out instead of Guilds, and then Dark Ages came out so we’d have a large expansion that year, so now the last expansion to be made is also the last to come out.

On my list of possible future mechanical themes, “tokens” was the easiest-sounding, so I went with that. There are a bunch of things you can do with tokens. My initial idea was to use them as money you could hang onto for later. This was simple and meant that any one card that used the tokens was useful by itself; there was no reason for anyone to insist on more than one token-involving card in the game at once, thus avoiding an issue that Alchemy had. The initial idea worked out and so there it is.

To supplement the tokens, I added the overpay cards. Overpay was a natural extension of the when-gain cards in Hinterlands, and was a good match for the tokens, since you could save up tokens for a big overpay. Two sub-themes is plenty for a small expansion, but I also flirted with a “name a card” sub-theme. In the end there’s just a hint of it.

Before picking the tokens and overpay themes, I considered revisiting duration cards. I asked Jay what he thought, and he said that something new would be better than more of an old thing. Some of you are reading this and wishing I’d gone with the duration cards, but man, I have no regrets there, I am pleased with what Guilds offers up instead.

When I first made cards for this set, I hadn’t picked out flavor for the set. So I gave some cards silly names, including Butcher, Baker, and Candlestick Maker. It turned out people really liked those names, so that ended up determining the set theme. There’s a lesson there for all of us.

On to the cards!

Advisor: Envoy was an Intrigue outtake. If it hadn’t been used as a promo, I would have eventually fixed it up. One day I decided, what’s stopping me? The key thing was to give it +1 Action, so that you didn’t just say, lol here are some actions you can’t play. I originally made Advisor for Dark Ages, but moved it here because it seemed to fit with the emphasis on decisions this set has.

Baker: Originally it didn’t have the setup part. It was just a very basic coin token card. When I thought of the setup thing, I realized that whatever card I put it on might sometimes not be bought, such that that starting coin token was all the card did. I decided that was okay though, and to just put the ability on something simple and likely to be bought.

Butcher: I wanted some other way to use coin tokens if I could get one. Butcher lets you spend them as part of a Remodel. It also gives you coin tokens, so it won’t be sad when there are no other coin tokens around. For a while I considered making a simpler version of this, but ended up going with the full-on tricky version. The wording is convuluted, and not even technically correct – it says “plus the number of coin tokens,” which never confuses anyone, but it should convert the units – “plus $1 per coin token.” It ended up with this phrasing because a phrasing that said “per coin token” got read by some people as gaining you a card per coin token spent, rather than adding them to the cost.

Candlestick Maker: For Alchemy I wanted a single $2, with a +Buy, and tried “+1 Action +1 Buy +$1.” Some people preferred this to Herbalist, but some people felt like, hey what does this have to do with Potions. And I could make that card later. So I put Herbalist in Alchemy. I next tried the card out in Hinterlands, with “when you gain this, +1 Buy.” As recounted in that secret history, some people though it was hilarious that two Highways let you just buy out the pile, but some people abhorred it. I couldn’t tell you why, I thought it was hilarious. But the card was just not sufficiently hilarious to live with the hate. I bumped the card out again. Then it seemed like a great fit for Guilds, where the +$1 could become a more exciting “take a Coin token.” And here it is.

Doctor: Again as recounted in the Hinterlands secret history, I tried several “when gain” trashers for that set, and was not happy with any of them. The main problem was that you would buy the card just for the trashing, and end up with whatever other effect in your deck randomly. The solution was to make that other effect also trashing. Doctor gives you three options per card you see on the overpay in order to make sure you’re as happy as possible with the outcome. The when-play part gets in the name-a-card thing I mentioned.

Herald: The top is an old card, a less-crazy relative of Scrying Pool that I tried out long ago. The bottom was just something else I could do with overpay that would feel different. I tried it first on Duchess’s top, then moved it to this card.

Journeyman: I took this from Dark Ages, when I thought I might push a mild “name a card” subtheme here. I didn’t end up pushing it enough to make it really visible. Journeyman and Doctor have you name a card, and then Taxman kind of does, and Advisor has you pick a card. Some playtesters called this card Bigot Parade, because you know, they don’t like some particular card. “No Estates!” they chant, marching through the streets.

Masterpiece: This was just the most basic possible overpay. Early on Ben bought one for $10 or so and said “achievement unlocked.” It turned out to be a fine play though.

Merchant Guild: This started out thinking it could cost $4, like Bridge. As it turned out, it could not.

Plaza: Originally this also let you trade a coin token for +1 Card. The card was plenty good without that, plus I wanted to cut complexity wherever I could.

Soothsayer: I had tried “gain a Gold, they gain a Curse” in Alchemy, but it was a poor fit for a card with potion in the cost. I tried it out again here with the Council Room penalty. It worked fine, but some people complained about how bad the card got when the Curses ran out. Wei-Hwa suggested having it not give them a card unless they got a Curse, and there you have it.

Stonemason: Some work went into this one. I tried the top with several Remodel-family overpay bottoms. The first one was, per $2 you overpay, Expand the top card of your deck. The most promising one was, per $2 you overpay, draw a card, then Remodel a card from your hand. In the end the crazy huge overpay turns were fun but too random. Meanwhile I tried the printed bottom with Develop on top and liked it. The bottom wanted to go on a super-cheap card, so I paired it with the printed top and moved Develop into Hinterlands.

Taxman: This started in Cornucopia, based on an idea that didn’t go far in Alchemy. For the Cornucopia version, the discarding was not limited to players with five+ cards in hand, and the treasure you gained didn’t go on your deck. It was painful and not good enough. In Hinterlands I tried a version that gained you two cards. Finally it moved here and I fixed it up. It’s a lot of words, that’s like a theme of this set. It does a fine job of feeling like a new attack though, and well that’s what that takes.

Outtakes:

I tried overpay for coin tokens, that was pretty obvious. It was predictably crazy. Another overpay card was a VP card that was a twist on Island – shuffle all but 2 cards per $1 overpaid from discard to deck. That direction hadn’t worked out in Hinterlands and still didn’t here. I had a Village for $2 with a penalty, and per $2 you overpaid, you got another one. Foosh, a pile of Villages. It sounded good but was not exciting enough. Stonemason does a better job there.

What about granting overpay to other cards, so to speak? There was a Village with, while this is in play, when you buy an action card, you may pay $2 for another copy of that card. I liked it, but there was only so much space, and again, I had Stonemason.

I tried +$1, take a coin token per card the player to your right gained on their previous turn. Then I flipped it – take a coin token, get +$1 per card they gained. Both were too random in an unfun way. I also tried +$1, take two coin tokens, everyone else gets a coin token. As is sometimes the case with such cards, people just did not want to hand out presents to the other players. And I tried +1 buy, discard cards for coin tokens.

For the name-a-card sub-theme that I didn’t so much end up with, I had a Cellar version of Journeyman, also from Dark Ages. You named two cards, discarded two cards, and drew two you didn’t name, with +1 action. It was fine, it was totally fine. A little more memory-rewarding than some players like but whatever. But again, there’s only so much space, it did not make the cut.

There is a card with a long history that had its last stand trying to get into this set. Once, the main set had a card, look at your top four, put one in your hand, discard the rest. I dropped it from the main set for being too boring. It resurfaced in Prosperity with +1 Action, and well it was crazy powerful. It cost $4 and I thought it might work out kind of like Throne Room, but it was way better. It really wanted to cost $4, so I tried several versions of it with different tweaks before giving up on it. Then I brought it back in other sets a few times and tried to get a good one. The version in Guilds was +1 action, could only get actions, but played the action it got. Anyway I did Herald instead, hooray.

For a bit I kind of wanted a new action-victory card, and tried +1 Action, reveal a card from your hand for the corresponding Ironworks bonus, 2 VP, for $4. It was fine but I mostly just liked that it was an action-victory card.

Walled Village is an outtake from this set. As a village you can keep around until you need it, it sort of fits in with the coin tokens. I couldn’t actually give you something like action tokens because that would have been another kind of token to include. I also couldn’t put coin tokens on piles, because Trade Route ate up that space.

Two cards used Spoils, which I stole briefly from Dark Ages but then gave back to it. Wandering Minstrel got worked on some here before moving to Dark Ages.

I hope this has been informative!

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Yes, you read that right. Semenology is apparently the practice and study of using semen as the special ingredient in cocktails. Semenology-The Semen Bartender’s Handbook describes itself as “the ultimate handbook for mixologists looking for ingredients that go beyond exotic fruit juices and rare spirits.” Author Paul ‘Fotie’ Photenhauer has been a semen connoisseur for some time and is no stranger to Semenology. In 2011, he released a similar book titled Natural Harvest: A Collection of Semen-Based Recipes.

Photenhauer compares the complexity of semen to that of wine and cheese and claims that the book will help other connoisseurs to “mix selected spirits to enhance the delicate flavors of semen.” He even gives tips for storage, mixing, and presentation.

Recipe from the book:

Heavenly Cognac

It is almost a shame to add anything to a good quality cognac, anything, that is, except for semen. However, my first attempts at perfecting the blending of these two heavenly fluids were disappointing. I found, as is often the case, that simplicity is best. Splashing the semen into the well-filled glass is an entertaining way to serve cognac.

2 oz of the finest cognac you can afford
1 tsp SemenI found that it is best to first allow the semen to just begin to melt, at the initial stage of melting. This takes a few minutes. If the semen is unusually thick, quickly dilute with a few drops of water. Splash the semen into the cognac and enjoy.

It is advised to get your semen from a trusted source as to avoid HIV and other STD’s. Cooking the semen to kill any living organisms is also effective.

So…yea…

One of the sharpest wits of the 1950s and ‘60s was Tom Lehrer, the mathematician-turned-satirist who sang and performed blackly comic songs lampooning social norms, musical genres and the headlines of the day. In his foreword to the CD collection The Remains of Tom Lehrer, Dr. Demento calls Lehrer “the most brilliant song satirist ever recorded,” and “Weird Al” Yankovic has referred to him as “the J.D. Salinger of demented music.” Yet for all this, Lehrer remains little-known to many contemporary comedy aficionados. This is unfortunate, because though his catalog is relatively limited — a few dozen songs — each is a gem, brimming with biting humor and genuine musical talent.

Thomas Andrew Lehrer was born to a Jewish family in Manhattan in 1928. He began taking piano lessons at age seven. After attending Horace Mann, he enrolled at Harvard and graduated at the age of 19. It was during his time there that he began writing some of the songs that we would become famous for, including the mock fight song, “Fight Fiercely, Harvard.” After graduating, and with mounting popularity, he began touring, and in the ‘60s became the resident songwriter for the satirical TV show That Was The Week That Was. He has taught mathematics, musical theatre and political science at Harvard, MIT, Wellesley and University of California Santa Cruz. He is also notable for having gone to summer camp with Stephen Sondheim, and for allegedly inventing the Jello shot. For more biographical information, why not hear it from the man himself?

Despite having been recorded over fifty years ago, Lehrer’s music is largely timeless. Admittedly, a few numbers remain mired in their time — “Whatever Became of Hubert?” and “George Murphy” may hold little appeal to modern audiences beyond a few clever rhymes and wince-inducing puns (“As someone once remarked to Schubert, ‘take me to your lieder,’”) but even many of his topical songs have stayed relevant, such as the nuclear proliferation song, “Who’s Next?” Lehrer explained his prescience with typical modesty, saying, “always predict the worst and you’ll be hailed as a prophet.”

Lehrer’s best work is characterized by an aggressive blitheness — singing about something ghastly with a joyeux de vivre about the horrors being perpetrated – as in “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park.” Perhaps his most popular song, “Poisoning Pigeons” also has the trademark Lehrer string of rhymes. Note too the spot-on, tra-la-la melody, invoking the carefree jubilance of springtime.

Tom Lehrer retired from show business in 1967 and since then has performed publicly only a handful of times. By his own estimation, he performed 109 shows over twenty years. Yet he was a formative influence for many of today’s comedians. Matt Groening wanted to get Lehrer into an episode of The Simpsons, and Ken Keeler wrote a Lehrer-esque song for “Two Bad Neighbors” (eventually cut). Greg Proops counts Lehrer as a huge influence. Randy Newman referred to him as “one of the great American songwriters without a doubt.” Even Daniel Radcliffe is a fan, having performed an acapella version of Lehrer’s song “The Elements” on British TV.

Tom Lehrer turned 85 this April and though his legacy has been far-reaching, it may be starting to wane. So, basically, go and listen to all of his songs. They’re super good.

Matt Crowley is a comic and writer living in Brooklyn. Why not follow him on Twitter here?

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Among tabletop RPG players and in particular among Call of Cthulhu players, Masks of Nyarlathotep is often held to be the gold standard for adventures. A sprawling mystery that begins with a murder in New York City and takes the investigators on a world-spanning chase to London, Cairo, the interior of Kenya, outback Australia and Shanghai, trying to prevent the opening of the Great Gate and the return of the elder gods who will end the world, it does not lack for ambition. Created by Larry DiTillio with editorial assistance from the late Lynn Willis, Masks is rated #1 by a wide margin of the 4,254 adventures reviewed on RPG.net. The Call of Cthulhu website Yog-sothoth.com, to celebrate the site's fifteenth anniversary, is making available a pdf of the Masks of Nyarlathotep Companion: 570 pages of behind-the-scenes info for running the campaign.

Masks has been called "the greatest campaign ever" and one which has campaign websites online to this day, decades after its original release, but it came about almost by accident. Larry DiTillio (these days better known as a television screenwriter) had been asked to pitch an adventure for the fledgling Call of Cthulhu game in 1981. He knew Lovecraft's New-England-centric work but felt he had little to add to its tradition of New England haunted houses. However, tantalized by the prospect of a free copy of a new rpg, he began to work on something. He had just read a biography of Jomo Kenyatta, the Kenyan statesman, and felt that a CoC adventure in Africa would be an interesting change of pace. (Kenyatta, decades later the founding father of modern Kenya, appears as an NPC in Masks). Finding a reason to launch the adventure in New York, tying in inspiration from a Lovecraft tale set in Egypt, and adding a few other items let DiTillio crank out a 400-page manuscript in eight months (and this in an age where RPG adventures were typically twenty to thirty pages long). Masks was released as a box set in 1984, and undergoing numerous edition changes since then (including regaining the "lost" Australia chapter for the 1996 publication of The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep, which won the Origins Award for Best RPG that year The adventure is still available from Chaosium. More information on the creation of Masks here.

Above The Game: A Guide to Getting Awesome with Women has raised $16,369 out of its $2,000 goal on Kickstarter. Casey Malone has called it out as "a book about how to sexually assault women" and "a rape manual", including quotes from seddit, the seduction subReddit (Google cache). A petition asking Kickstarter to withdraw funding has gathered close to 50,000 signatures, but while Kickstarter agrees that the material is "abhorrent and inconsistent with our values", it has declined to cancel the project. Author Ken Hoisky is "devastated and troubled" by allegations that his book promotes rape, because the quotes were taken out of context. However, Jezebel reports that Hoinsky e-mailed them, "Wanna let your readers know [about the Kickstarter]? I'm sure they'll have a field day with this" which indicates he may be banking on the outrage and the backlash for added publicity. [via /r/feminism and /r/nottheonion]

With the deeply unpopular shutdown of Google Reader less than two weeks away (previously), plenty of would-be replacements have jumped into the mix, including the newly web-based Feedly, Newsblur, Digg, and possibly even Facebook (a particularly bitter irony, as obsession with defeating Facebook has been the alleged impetus behind CEO Larry Page's abandonment of beloved Google hallmarks like 20% Time, Google Labs, and open platforms like Reader). But while there's no shortage of attempts to replicate Reader's look and feel, there's one little-known aspect that none can match, and that will be lost forever come July 1st: the vast cache archive of every article from every website, living and dead, that has ever been subscribed to in Reader.

This immense collection of tagged, organized content, the foundation of Reader's powerful personalized search, cannot be exported with Google Takeout. Luckily, the unofficial API provides a way to siphon this data safely into local storage.

Labnol.org offers a simple text form to convert any RSS feed into a JSON list of stored content (more info), while Archive Team is mounting an ongoing crowdsourced effort to discover and save as much content as possible before it's destroyed. If there's any old site with an RSS content stream you'd like to save -- an old personal blog, a defunct website, anything that's obstructed by paywalls, formatting errors, poor organization, or hard-to-find content -- act now... before it's too late.

More reading:

The Guardian: Killing Google Reader is like killing the bees: we'll all be worse off

It's a mistake to think that just because a small number of people use a product that they don't matter - and Google's attempt to push Reader users to Google+ is a mistake too.

TechCrunch: What If The Google Reader Readers Just Don't Come Back?

Forbes: How the Shutdown of Google Reader Threatens the Internet

GigaOm: Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator [Ed: and Mefi's Own] Chris Wetherell reflects

Google Reader was doomed to fail from the very beginning: the company never really believed in it and it took big effort on part of a small team to make it work. Chris Wetherell, original creator & part of the Reader team reflects on past & the future.

MuleRadio Podcast: You Have One (1) Unread Eulogy In Your Feed

Jason Shellen, part of the original Google Reader team, joins Mike and Leah to talk about the recent announcement of Readers' death sentence. We also discuss why Reader and RSS get conflated, whether the window for consumer adoption of RSS has passed (spoiler: It has), and whether social media is the right tool to carry the upcoming load.

James Whitaker: "Why I Left Google" (previously)

The Google I was passionate about was a technology company that empowered its employees to innovate. The Google I left was an advertising company with a single corporate-mandated focus.

Could Firefox be next?

Será pola alianza entre a crise económica e unha tendencia anterior, que xa vén de vello, a cervexa artesá está collendo unha gran forza por todas partes. As posibilidades de fabricar cervexas únicas cun investimento reducido e con certa rapidez están a converter estas bebidas nunha sorte de novo hobby que tece unhas impresionantes redes persoais que se intercambian entre si botellas destas cervexas con nome propio. Iso si, poucos se atreven a dar o salto cara producir a máis escala. É o caso da cervexa Peregrina, que se produce no polígono Costa Vella, subindo máis alá do Leroy Merlin. O outro día Torrado lembroume que a fábrica abre para degustacións os venres e os sábados á tardiña e aló nos fumos a experimentar.

A cervexa Peregrina, a primeira realmente fabricada en Compostela, ocupa unha nave industrial á que lle adosaron unha barra para as degustacións. O ambiente reúne a curiosos que se achegan ata aló a consumir unha cervexa que aínda non é doada de atopar nos bares da cidade, canda valdubrenses (ten un motivo) e xente do polígono que remata alí a semana con compañeiros de traballo. Unha noción superlativa das tapas axuda a encher o local.

E ben, a cervexa? Pois dentro da miña ignorancia diría que é unha pale ale, con certos toques de amargor, de cítricos, á que lle presta moi ben a temperatura fría. Está moi rica, e é moi distinta ás cervexas comerciais: moi fresca e con máis carácter. Como problema, vímoslle que tiña demasiado carbónico. Con menos é posible que estivese moito máis sabrosa e agradable, pero é unha opinión.

Estivemos vendo as instalacións, que parten da filosofía singular dos socios. Contóunola Juan José García Noya, un deles. Eles tentan que a maior parte dos produtos e dos procesos sexan galegos. Coa malta non se pode conseguir, pero compénsano co investimento en maquinaria. Noya, que é de Val do Dubra, emprega depósitos de inox fabricados nese concello, nos que confía a morte, e a maiores reconvirte maquinaria da industria leiteira do interior da provincia da Coruña para o procesamento da cervexa. Aínda que a auga é compostelana, as notas finais de amargor veñen dadas por lúpulo das ribeiras do Tambre aínda en estado salvaxe. Ese lúpulo tamárico contén propiedades únicas, segundo Noya, para darlle o último toque á cervexa.

Compensa achegarse un venres ou un sábado a partir das 18.30 pola fábrica da Peregrina e degustar in situ unha cervexa que pide frescura e que arrinca, en moi boa posición, na ambición de identificarse cunha cidade e unha comarca. Non o ten doado, pero pódese conseguir. Os tempos complexos piden ideas novas, e en Galicia a cervexa artesá é unha auténtica novidade.

El edil Adrián Varela (PP) dijo que comparece muy tranquilo

“Non hai churrasco para tanto moderno”, dicía un tuit de @Tuitfer o pasado sábado. Falaba, por suposto, da Romaría Pop, que por segundo ano encheu unha zona do Parque de Belvís en Compostela de varias xeracións de modernos (de dúas, en realidade, os que rondamos os 30 e os menores de cinco anos, o que nos fai preguntarnos se non hai modernos adolescentes ou de vintepoucos, saltouse a modernez unha xeración ou simplemente esta xente vai aos seus propios saraos sen nenos e sen “vellos” -entendible desde o seu punto de vista, por outra banda? Aí queda a reflexión). A oferta era máis ampla que o ano pasado en todo: máis postos na feira, máis concertos, máis obradoiros… e máis cola para comer.

Non hai churrasco para tanto moderno #romaríapop

— Tuitfer (@tuitfer) June 15, 2013

 

A nosa crónica é obrigadamente incompleta: pasamos o día coidando do noso querido photocall e agochados baixo a sombrilla, dando de cando en vez algún paseo para ver que se cocía polos distintos escenarios, que ofrecían os distintos postos da feira (moitos discos, moita roupa, moito accesorio, moita arte e moita segunda man), e que demo facían todos eses nenos xogando con instrumentos de xente maior (facían cousas marabillosas e experimentais, claro). Ademais das obrigadas visitas á barra para conseguir cervexa e o momento churrasco: a cola era enorme, pero despois sabía aínda mellor.

Empezamos á mañá mirando pola fiestra antes de saír da casa e maldicindo unha vez máis a Meteogalicia, que parecía ter mentido: o ceo non era azul, senón gris, e as temperaturas estaban lonxe dos 27 graos prometidos (máis de 10 grados por debaixo!). Pero rápidamente a cousa cambiou: cando as nubes desaparecían, o sol pegaba con moita forza. As sombras empezaron a ser un ben moi prezado (nós intentamos facer negocio coa nosa, pero sen éxito) e a inxestión de líquidos fríos imprescindible para a supervivencia. E, maldita sexa, non trouxemos crema para o sol?

E pouco a pouco, Belvís foise enchendo de modernos: gafas Wayfarer, sombreiros de palla, beizos pintados de vermello, cada vez menos flequillos (van desaparecendo), pantalóns pitillo, camisetas de grupos, cazadoras vaqueiras. O paraíso de calquera trendhunter que quixese saber como está a moda da rúa no sector hipster galego. Está así. A ser posible cun prato de polbo ou churrasco na man para un look completo.

Pero deixémonos de contar cousas que en realidade é mellor ver. Nun momento da tarde mandamos ao noso fotógrafo a facer un percorrido polo parque e facer fotos, deixando o photocall abandonado por uns minutos. Este é o resultado. A Romaría Pop en imaxes (non son moitas, sabémolo!). O ano que vén queremos outra!

Here's "Failure," a new short film Michael Cera made for the YouTube channel JASH. Cera directed and stars in the short alongside his Scott Pilgrim vs. the World costar Aubrey Plaza, who plays a bigger weirdo than normal in this.

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We reported last week that Dumb and Dumber To, the long-awaited sequel to Dumb and Dumber, had been dropped by its studio, Warner Brothers, but co-writer/co-director Peter Farrelly announced today that Universal is picking up distribution to the film and he hopes to start shooting in August. Farrelly made the announcement on an episode of the Nerdist podcast recorded last week. "Long story short, we're going to another studio," Farrelly explained. He added, "That's what's held this thing up because we're negotiating with two different studios — Warner Brother and New Line — about how to get it out of there."

Farrelly confirmed that original stars Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels will be back to reprise their roles. Farrelly spoke highly of the script, which he co-wrote, saying, "It's a little masterpiece ... It's so good that I think it makes the first one better." When asked about plans for production, he responded, "We'll hopefully be shooting by August in Atlanta ... It's gonna come out next summer. It'll be exactly 20 years when it comes out." Peter Farrelly also announced a new contest in which fans can end up with a small part in the sequel. Farrelly wants fans to film Vine videos making Dumb and Dumber references and post them on Twitter with the hashtag "dumbto." He and his brother/co-director Bobby will be selecting the best one to receive a one-line part in the movie, so start planning your Vines now.

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Students at the Cambridge University, in England, were asked ‘Why they need Feminism?’ The question was asked by ARU Feminist Society and CUSU Women’s Campaign, who together photographed and collated the answers.

The students’ responses ranged from:

I need Feminism because I used to think calling my brother a “GIRL” was a legit insult.

To:

I need Feminism because People still ask what the victim was wearing.

And:

I need Feminism because LESS than 1% of the world’s property is owned by Women

View more answers here.
 

 

 

 
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Earlier this month, living comedy legend Rick Moranis announced that he's putting out a new album, entitled My Mother's Brisket & Other Love Songs, and that album is now here. It's a super Jewish collection of humorous songs from Grammy-nominated Moranis. The comedian says on his official website, "When I first began writing jokes and sketches with various Jewish partners one of us would inevitably stop at some point and announce, 'Too Jewish!' Too Jewish for the star, the show, the network, or the audience. The songs on this album are all in that category." You can pick up the album at Amazon or listen to it on Spotify below:

Track listing:
1. I'm Old Enough To Be Your Zaide
2. My Wednesday Balabusta
3. Live Blogging The Himel Family Bris
4. My Mother's Brisket
5. Belated Haftorah
6. Pu-Pu-Pu
7. Parve
8. Wiggle Room
9. I Can't Help It, I Just Like Christmas
10. The Seven Days Of Shiva
11. Kiss My Mezuzah
12. Asian Confusion
13. Oy, The Mistakes I Made

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Yahoo, on June 12, announced that it is releasing inactive IDs. Yahoo says they are "committed and confident," while others think it is a "spectacularly bad idea" and a "dirty trick."

Dibujando en las reuniones.

Drawing at meetings.

Lo conocimos (lo conocí) en la nunca lo suficientemente recordada Amor a Quemarropa. Apareció en nuestras vidas como una nave imperial, con esa voz (qué voz) donde cada sílaba era un shot de bourbon, vocales que eran Mustangs derrapando sobre las carreteras secundarias de lo gris y lo mediocre.

Era diferente. Nosotros andábamos buscando princesas (Alabamas) algo tristes y armaduras de segunda mano tras las que escondernos; armaduras con velcro y finales felices. Hasta que llegó Tony Soprano. Se ha escrito tanto (y tan bien) sobre la mejor serie de televisión de la historia (Draper, Walter y McNulty: chitón) que aquí sólo queda espacio para él. Para Tony.

Con Tony aprendimos que no hay caminos fáciles. Que el desprecio, el respeto, el amor, el odio, la piedad y la esperanza son tan tuyos como tu piel o tus palabras. Aprendimos a mirar esa parte de nosotros mismos (sí, esa) que no tenemos huevos a mirar, que las chicas guapas no tienen por qué ser de otro. Que no eres más que tu actitud y tu familia. Aprendimos la (más dura) lección de Faulkner: «Uno nunca se cura de su pasado». Aprendimos a mirar el mundo desde nuestra casilla y aprendimos (gracias, Tony) a defenderla. Hasta el final.

James Gandolfini ha muerto en la Italia de sus padres, un caluroso día de junio. Su padre era albañil y su madre cocinera.

Él fue el hermano mayor que nunca tuvimos.

El hombre que nunca estuvo allí (2001): “Los japos nos tuvieron contra la pared en Buna por unas seis semanas. Bien, déjame decirte que creía que nosotros lo teníamos jodido, pero por Dios, teníamos víveres. Ellos estaban comiendo larvas, nueces, cardos. Cuando al final arrasamos la playa, allí encontramos a Arnie Bragg, el chico que nos faltaba en los recuentos. Los japos se habían comido al hijo de puta, si me perdonas el, uh… Y estamos hablando de un chaval flachucho y lleno de granos, nada del otro mundo. O sea, que yo nunca, ya sabes… Así que, ¿qué es lo que suelo decir, cariño? ¿Cuando no me gusta la comida, qué suelo decir? Digo: ‘Jesús, cariño, ¿Arnie Bragg… otra vez?’”.

Romance & Cigarettes (2006): “¿No me vas a dar otra oportunidad? ¿Por favor? ¡Haré lo que sea, cualquier cosa! ¡Te daré lo que sea! Te quiero. Puede que no te lo sepa mostrar como en las películas o en los libros, pero te quiero. Tengo amor que dar”.

In the Loop (2009): “Doce mil tropas. Pero eso no es suficiente. Esa es la cifra de los que van a morir. Y al acabar la guerra vas a necesitar algunos soldados vivos, de verdad, porque si no parece que has perdido”.

Donde viven los monstruos (2009): “Bueno, mira: esto solía ser todo piedra, y ahora es arena, y después, un día, será polvo, y después toda la isla será polvo, y después… Ni siquiera sé lo que viene después del polvo”.

Los Soprano (1999-2007): “Perdona, deja que te diga algo. Cuando América abrió las compuertas y nos dejó entrar a todos los italianos, ¿por qué crees que lo hicieron? ¿Porque estaban intentando salvarnos de la pobreza? No, lo hicieron porque nos necesitaban. Nos necesitaban para construir sus ciudades y cavar sus metros, y para hacerlos más ricos. Los Carnegies y los Rockefellers necesitaban abejas trabajadoras, y ahí estábamos nosotros. Pero algunos no quisimos revolotear en su colmena y perder lo que éramos. Queríamos seguir siendo italianos y preservar las cosas que significaban algo para nosotros: honor y familia y lealtad… Y algunos quisimos un trozo del pastel. Bien, no estábamos educados como los americanos, pero teníamos los COJONES para coger lo que queríamos. Y esos otros tíos, esos otros… Los, los JP Morgans, ellos también eran chorizos y asesinos, pero así es el negocio, ¿verdad? El modo de vida americano”.

John McAfee on How to Uninstall McAfee Antivirus (Light NSFW: Profanity)

I'll Be Gone        
Loving Cup        
Em        
Woke Up In A Police Car        
Call The Police        
Pinball King        
Run For Cover        
Come A Little Closer        
Little War Child        
Fire Detector        
Oblivion        
Back Street Hangout        
Desperation        
Mama Guitar 


  Oblivians are back after almost 16 years with a brand new record. As dedicated followers of this blog know, yers truly, the headmeister, is a huge fan of anything Greg Cartwright lays his mitts on. This is beautifully muddy garage punk as only the Oblivians can muster. A glorious comeback and one of this years best, word.

VO

 
I just had a HOLY SHIT moment! I’ll be damned if I see a better music video than this all year. It has everything: love, loss, anger, regret, redemption, destruction. Pimples being squeezed. 30 second thrash pop. Sets to make John Waters proud.

SF heroes Hunx And His Punx, aka the gorgeous Seth Bogart and his (mostly) all girl backing group, return with a new record in July called Street Punk, and to whet our salivating appetites to the point of drowning, have dropped a new clip featuring not one, not two, but THREE tracks squeezed into one 5 minute video. So, technically, it can’t actually be called a music video, singular, which excludes it from end-of-the-year polls. That makes it even better.

But it doesn’t matter what those poll-building squares decide anyway, man, we finally have the queer-punk Star Wars. Street Punk Trilogy defines a generation; like Lord Of The RIngs before it, it manages to convey that universal mystery of the human condition, while making bold statements about life in the late-capitalist, early 21st Century.

OK, full disclosure: one of the highlights of my performing career so far has been warming up for Hunx & His Punx last year in Manchester (pics cos it happened) so of course I am biased. They are super-nice people, and, most importantly, they are brilliant. So really, it doesn’t matter what I say or how much hyperbole I lay out, this video is still ace, and I dare any of you to watch it and not lol at least once.

Help some Punx get viral people, give this a whirl:

Hunx & His Punx “Street Punk Trilogy”

Sabemos que el mundo entero se encuentra paralizado desde ese capítulo 9 de la última temporada de Juego de Tronos. ¿Cuántos días faltan para la nueva temporada? Muchos. Demasiados. Y los que nos mordemos los nudillos de impaciencia no podemos hacer otra cosa que no sea tirar de IMDB y ponernos a ver más películas de los protagonistas de la saga en un vano intento por suplir la carencia.

El trabajo sucio de buscar y rebuscar nos lo ha hecho un tal Mattie432, estudiante de informática, gamer, friki y, aún así, con tiempo libre suficiente como para ofrecernos una lista con los actores y actrices más relevantes de Game of Thrones y sus apariciones estelares en otras películas… acompañada de fotos, fotos que nos dejarán a más de uno con la boca abierta preguntándonos cómo es posible que no nos diésemos cuenta antes.

Atentos. Porque no tiene desperdicio

Alfie Allen (Theon Greyjoy): The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon): Batman Begins (2005)
Richard Madden (Robb Stark): Chatroom (2010)
Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark): The Awakening (2011)
Rory McCann (The Hound): Hot Fuzz (2007)
Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger): 12 Rounds (2009)
Nikolal Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister): Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister): Ali G in da House (2002)
Conleth Hill (Lord Varys): Whatever Works (2009)
Jerome Flynn (Bronn): Ripper Street (2012-2013)
Joe Dempsie (Gendry): Skins (2007-2008)
Sibel Kekilli (Shae): Contra la Pared (2004)
Julian Glover (Grand Maester Pycelle): Indiana Jones y la última Cruzada (1989)
Donald Sumpter (Maester Lurwin): Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres (2011)
Natalia Tena (Osh): Harry Potter (2007-2011)
Ron Donachie (Rodrik Cassel): Titanic (1997)
Ian McElhinney (Barristan Selmy): City of Ember: En busca de la Luz (2008)
James Cosmo (Jeor Mormont): Braveheart (1995)
Sean Bean (Ned Stark): El Señor de los Anillos (La Hermandad del Anillo) (2001)
Stephen Dillane (Stannis Baratheon): El rey Arturo (2004)
Oona Chaplin (Talisa Maegyr): Quantum of Solace (2008)
Rose Leslie (Ygritte): Downton Abbey (2010)
Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell): Capitán América: el primer vengador (2011)
Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton): La Recompensa (2009)
Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth): Furia de titanes (2010)
Carice van Houten (Meisandre): Valkiria (2008)
Hannah Murray (Gilly): Skins (2007-2013)
Kristofer Hivju (Tormund Glantbane): La Cosa (2012)
Mark Addy (Robert Baratheon): Full Monty (1997)
Francis Magee (Yoren): Crimen Organizado (2004)
Mackenzie Crook (Orell): Piratas del Caribe (2003-2007)
Paul Kaye (thoros of Myr): It’s all gone Peter Tong (2004)
Ian Whyte (Gregor Clegane): Furia de Titanes (2010)
Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Jojen Reed): Love Actually (2003)
Diana Rigg (Lady Olenna Tyrell): Los Vengadores (1965-1968)
Nonso Anozie (Xaro Xhoan Daxos): RocknRolla (2008)
Tobias Menzies (Edmure Tully): Casino Royale (2006)
Noan Taylor (Locke): Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Iwan Rheon (Ramsay Snow): Misfits (2009-2011)
Ralph Ineson (Dagmer Claftjaw): Harry Potter (2010-2011)
David Bradley (Walder Frey): Harry Potter (2001-2011)
Patrick Malahide (Balon Greyjoy): El mundo nunca es suficiente (1999)
Clarán Hinds (Mance Rayder): Munich (2005)

 

 

 

La entrada ¡¡Me suena tu cara!! Los actores de Juego de Tronos en otras películas aparece primero en POR NO BUSCAR PORNO |XXX| Sexo, Arte, Humor.

Vi ringrazio tutti, e vi anticipo prima che comincino ad arrivare le (sempre benvenute) segnalazioni: ecco l'intervista completa della mia amata per l'Huffington Post.
Curioso leggere i commenti dei vari giornalettini online sull'unica cosa che è stata ripresa.



Con l'occasione vi butto pure altre due intervistine (datatissime) così vi abboffate per bene e ce ne avete aBbBbasta per un po'.

* Una delle primissime interviste, risalente e più di 4 anni fa.
* Una curiosa intervista a un uomo estremamente fortunato giacché ha avuto l'immenso onore di lavorare con lei (solo tecnico di scena, poverello!)

circa 1890

your great-grandparents porn…

www.vintagelust.com/the-mistress-of-pierre-louys/

Zohra Ben Brahim by Pierre Louÿs originally appeared on My[confined]Space NSFW on June 18, 2013.

Suponemos que todo el mundo conoce ya el trabajo de Melissa, esa maquilladora profesional que se está dedicando a tirar mitos abajo subiendo fotos de pornstars antes y después del maquillaje. Hemos buscado el origen de tanto revuelo (su página en instagram) y hemos seleccionado la colección completa de imágenes que sacan al descubierto el secreto mejor guardado de las actrices porno que pululan por nuestras pantallas. Este secreto es que, detrás de tanta parafernalia, son mujeres normales y corrientes.

Por las manos de esta artista han pasado reconocidas actrices de la talla de Christy Mack o Skin Diamond y otras mucho más anónimas. También hemos encontrado fotos del antes y después de su hermana el día de su boda, pero hemos decidido descartarlas.

Disfrutad de la primera de tres entregas.

Akira Raine

Alexis Ford

Alexis Monroe

Allie Haze

Amor Hilton

Anikka Albrite

Aniss Kate


Anita Toro

Annika Amour

Arabelle Raphael

Aria Amor

Ash Hollywood

Asphyxia Noir

Ava Adams

Abbath

Bailey Blue

Bonnie Rotten

Brea Bennet

Bree Olson

Bridgette B

Brittany Lynn

Brooklyn Lee

Celeste Star

Charmane Star

Christy Mack

Dana de Armond

Danielle Delaunay

Darryl Hannah

Diamond Jackson

Diamond Kitty

Elaina Raye

Eva Notty

Even von Sleaze

La entrada Pornstars antes y después del maquillaje (Parte 1) aparece primero en POR NO BUSCAR PORNO |XXX| Sexo, Arte, Humor.