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JavaScript Inventor Brendan Eich Named New CEO of Mozilla
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Comics Alliance Presents 'Kate Or Die' in '(Co)Mixology': Cocktails Inspired By Your Favorite Comics
firehosefuck me it's cocktails that aren't infused vodka and Qream
Welcome to the latest episode of ComicsAlliance Presents “Kate or Die,” a series of exclusive comic strips created by one of our favorite cartoonists, Kate Leth! In this episode, Kate passes on some comics-themed cocktail recipes with the help of video blogger Danni Danger.
Also the writer of BOOM! Studios’ Adventure Time: Seeing Red graphic novel and a contributor to IDW’s Locke & Key and Image’s The Strange Talent of Luthor Strode, Kate’s self-published work, seen on Tumblr and comic cons and elsewhere, has earned her a dedicated following for its idiosyncratic blend of adorable irreverence and brutal honesty (often equally adorable) toward topics of all kinds, from dating to depression to Doctor Who. For ComicsAlliance, Kate or Die focuses mainly on the sort of subject matter you’ve come to expect from the site, but you should also anticipate Kate taking the strip to some unpredictably cool places.
Fire Marshal Severely Limited Capacity of Hiphop Show
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Saturday night's show at Kelly's Olympian was marred by a request from the Fire Marshal on the morning of the show that the room's capacity be limited to 50 people, according to We Out Here. The downtown venue, whose capacity is listed as 150 people on Reverbnation, was expecting more than 100 people to come out for the show, a showcase of local hiphop featuring the Resistance (a trio incuding emcees Mic Capes, Glenn Waco, and Rasheed Jamal), Rey Totem, and Elton Cray.
This comes on the heels of the Illmaculate/Luck One/Mikey Vegaz show at the Blue Monk on March 1, which was also plagued by the Fire Marshal's assertion that venue capacity had been reached. Shardé Marie has the full report on We Out Here, as well as a review of Saturday night's show, which proceeded without incident in a room that was nowhere close to being full.
Cool Proposed Massachusetts Law Would Make Sure You Don’t Spread Your Legs Until Your Divorce Is Final
firehosevia Kara Jean: "WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK"
Usually we dig on Massachusetts because it is chock full of gay-loving liberals (though we are a little worried about your Jew-jailing schoolchildren right now) but that is because we forget about the weird Republicans that also inhabit the Bay State. Recently, one of them coughed up this dog’s breakfast of an idea: why not punish slutty slut slut people who think they can just get divorced all willy nilly and still keep having sex?
In divorce, separation, or 209A proceedings involving children and a marital home, the party remaining in the home shall not conduct a dating or sexual relationship within the home until a divorce is final and all financial and custody issues are resolved, unless the express permission is granted by the courts.
Totally reasonable!
Who doesn’t want to wait for a judge to give you the go-ahead to have sex, even though you are already an adult person! And also, we have no idea how the law gets enforced. Does the court get to come over and hang out at your house to make sure you don’t do the nasty? Do you have to have court-supervised visits with any possible gender of people you might want to have sex with, because lord knows one moment you’re just hanging out and then you realize it is date and holy crap you have broken Massachusetts law now and you should go to jail forever and ever, or at least not get custody of your kids.
It doesn’t take a genius to realize this is just a way for people going through a divorce — people who are already MASSIVELY PISSED OFF at one another — to fuck with each other during the divorce and custody process by declaring that they are certain that the other parent is getting some illicit nookie and is therefore unfit.
Also too, given Massachusetts’ divorce timeframe, you could be waiting quite a while to get laid.
Massachusetts law currently mandates a waiting period of at least 120 days for divorces to become finalized, and that’s only after a judge has approved the separation agreement. In other words, it could take at least four months, if not longer, before a person getting a divorce is legally allowed to fornicate.
Four months. FOUR MONTHS! And that’s if everything in your divorce is going hunky dory. (Doktor Zoom interjects: freakin’ IDAHO has a 20-day wait provided a couple stipulates to an agreement and takes their parenting class. Bunch of wild-eyed libertines in the Gem State.) Think how long your dry spell could be if your soon-to-be-ex decides to drag out the process.
To sum up: this law is literally the worst, and if you live in Massachusetts — hell, if you live anywhere, really — you should call or write Richard J. Ross, sponsor of this bilious piece of sex-shaming drivel, and give him what for. And while you get started on that, yr Wonkette hopes he enjoys his nomination for our coveted Legislative Shitmuffin of the Year Award.
Drew Brees and his wife went in costume to see 'Noah'
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Brees Almighty.
Saw @NoahMovie the other night at Cinepolis. Opens 3/28. Very intense! #thefloodiscoming pic.twitter.com/unqxZmzDku
— Drew Brees (@drewbrees) March 24, 2014
Make believe time is important, for all of us. So when Drew Brees was invited to a sneak preview of Noah he did EXACTLY what you're supposed to in these situations: cosplay.
We don't blame the Brees's. Sometimes you just want to watch a movie without the hassle of being bugged by the public, so you HAVE to go incognito. It's just a darn shame they didn't wear a two-person costume and dress like the ark.
"HONEY, HAVE YOU SEEN MY ALUMINIUM FOIL AX? I NEED IT!"
zdarsky: WHAAAAAT? MATT & KELLY SUE ARE GOING TO BE THERE...
firehoseJoe Quinones & Maris Wicks beat
WHAAAAAT? MATT & KELLY SUE ARE GOING TO BE THERE TOO???
mattfractionblog:Ahoy! Here we come, Seattle!
MILKFED CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS IN THE EMERALD CITY
MARCH 28-30
Washington State Convention Center — you know, where they shot the end of THE PARALLAX VIEWEmerald City Comicon 2014 is completely sold out. There will be no tickets or badges for sale on-site at the convention.
Come find us: Fraction’s at C-11; Kelly Sue’s at C-12; Chip’s at C-10; Quinones y Wicks are at C-13. I don’t know anything else but you’re smart, you can read, so here.
2014 Show Hours
March 28 - 10:00AM to 7:00PM
March 29 - 10:00AM to 7:00PM
March 30 - 10:00AM to 5:00PM
STUFF WE’LL HAVE:
• SEX CRIMINALS 1-5 sets. These will be made up of various printings, depending on what I have on hand. $20
• SEX CRIMINALS: SEXCLUSIVE CONVENTION HARDCOVER. Oh yeah, that’s right. Con-only, in-person only. Not available in stores, by mail, or anywhere else Chip and I are not appearing. ECCC gets first crack at ‘em. These collect 1-5 with ALL NEW EXTRAS produced only for the collection. $40.
• CHIP HAS SOME GORGEOUS PRINTS. WE’LL SELL YOU THE PRINT AND THE HARDCOVER FOR A DISCOUNT.
• SATELLITE SAM. The first five issues in a set; $20. some of 6 and 7, so you can get caught up. The first trade, THE LONESOME DEATH OF SATELLITE SAM.
• The FANTASTIC FOUR/FF suite. All five collections. Allred’s just a few tables away, Bagley, too, so you could get an awful lot of signatures on those.
• CASANOVA: THE END OF MY STOCK. this is it. this is literally the last of these books in the wild outside of stores. The rest have all gone out of print of have been pulped. I’ll have a few sets of the ICON issues for EACH VOLUME; i’ll have the three color trades. I might bring some of the super-rare BIG ONE-COLOR HARDCOVER of LUXURIA. If i have any full Image sets, I’ll bring ‘em too but I… I might only have a GULA set anymore, I dunno.
• HAWKEYE hardcover, collecting 1-11 and some new extras. Oversized.
• IRON FIST omnibus trade, collecting ed, david, lots of other folks, and my, run on THE IMMORTAL IRON FIST in one volume. 18 issues, i think? Something like that. It’s a lot!
KELLY SUE will have lots of PRETTY DEADLY, CAPTAIN MARVEL, and AVENGERS ASSEMBLE.
This list will evolve as we get closer to leaving Thursday morning; if there’s anything you’re looking for in particular, add a note and if we have it, we’ll bring it.
MATT’S SCHEDULE
I’ll be at my table almost always* unless I’m here:
FRIDAY
Secret Origins presents Matt Fraction
Room: SECRET ORIGINS (604)
Time: 12:20PM - 1:10PMComic wunderkind Matt Fraction (Sex Criminals, Hawkeye, Invincible Iron Man) is spotlighted.
"wunderkind"
Image Comics Presents Comedy in Comics
Room: TCC 301
Time: 3:00PM - 3:50PMSometimes the best comics are the funny ones, but getting jokes across in print while simultaneously telling an engaging story can be tough. Luckily, we have Rob Guillory, Roc Upchurch, Chip Zdarsky, Jim Zub, Kurtis Wiebe, Brandon Graham, Matt Fraction who can tell you their secrets, tips, and a few really good jokes.
"really good jokes"
I’ll be bailing on this a bit early so i can FINALLY fulfill my obligation to…
The Nerdist Writers Panel
Room: HALL A (611-614)
Time: 3:30PM - 4:20PMJoin host Ben Blacker (co-creator, The Thrilling Adventure Hour) as he talks about the process & business of writing comics. Joining Ben will be Greg Rucka, Cullen Bunn, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick.
SATURDAYSex Criminals presented by Image Comics
Room: 3AB
Time: 2:00PM - 2:50PMSex Criminals debuted in 2013 and quickly became the book of the year. Now, a few months into 2014, the same looks to be true! Sit down with creators Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky and bare your soul, fetishes, and anecdotes with the Sex Criminals.
Signing with CHORMP ZDARRBBLKII at the Image booth! (TICKETED)
3:00-4:00 PMWhy Eisner Matters
Room: HALL D (602-603)
Time: 4:40PM - 5:30PMWith Jeff Smith (Bone), Peter David (Incredible Hulk), Jimmy Palmiotti (Painkiller Jane), Matt Fraction (Iron Man), and Michael Oeming (Powers). In celebration of Will Eisner Week - an annual series of worldwide events that celebrate Will Eisner, a major, pioneering force in the development of the comic book and of the modern graphic novel - a lineup of top comics creators explains why - nearly 75 years since the launch Eisner’s The Spirit and more than 35 years since the publication of his A Contract With God - Eisner, as creator, entrepreneur, teacher and visionary, is more important to the present and future of sequential art than ever before.
SUNDAY
Signing with SHUP ZZKKGG3 at the Image booth! (TICKETED)
3:00-4:00 PM* sometimes i have to pee. or eat. or want to take my kid over to get his ADVENTURE TIME comics signed by infamous Canadian cult criminal Ryan North, or by one of his legit art heroes, Mr. Jeff Smith. Please don’t be like that guy who threatened to murder me because i dared have to get up from my table at a time inconvenient to him. I promise i’ll do my best to be there as much as i possibly can. IN FACT don’t threaten to murder anyone. Ever. About anything. As far as hyperbole goes, it’s a shitty one. And, and, and maybe just we, as a, what, a culture, a fandom, drawn to hyperbole for effect, or out of laziness, or for comedic emphasis could, y’know, just work on that leaving that one in the toolbox, just in general. okay.
Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word under active attack
Attackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Word that makes it possible to remotely seize control of computers, the company warned.
The in-the-wild attacks work by creating booby-trapped documents in the Rich Text Format (RTF) that exploit a vulnerability in the 2010 version of Microsoft Word, Microsoft warned in an advisory published Monday. Similar attacks work against other versions of Word, including 2003, 2007, and 2013 for Windows, Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, and multiple versions of Microsoft SharePoint Server. E-mails that are viewed or previewed using a default setting in Outlook allow the attacker to gain the same system privileges as the user who is currently logged in.
"Microsoft is aware of a vulnerability affecting supported versions of Microsoft Word," Monday's advisory stated. "At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word 2010. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted RTF file using an affected version of Microsoft Word or previews or opens a specially crafted RTF e-mail message in Microsoft Outlook while using Microsoft Word as the e-mail viewer."
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Oreo the Tuxedo Cat Plays Ping-Pong With His Humans
In this video by Hello Future Films, Oreo, a little tuxedo cat, plays both sides of the net during a lively game of ping-pong with his humans Rob and Na.
A Complete History of Republican Aggression Against Obamacare
Igor Volsky at ThinkProgress has assembled a comprehensive timeline of Republican attempts to kill Obamacare. When all four years of threats, futile repeals, and baseless claims are put together like this, it almost looks like Republicans have no idea what they're doing.
A New Formalism: Critical Proximity talk
The debates about “what is a game” happened between multiple overlapping circles that have very little to do with one another… “Games” is never going to fall into one bucket or critical lens… We enrich ourselves and our mutual understanding not by claiming pre-eminence of one circle, but by learning to move between them.
As regular readers know, I have been involved in a lot of discussions about “formalism” in games over the last few years. This talk was an attempt to reset the conversation with insights into “formalism in the real world” as Brendan Keogh put it on Twitter, a look into the ways in which looking at the formal structure of games is able to help out and illuminate all sorts of games criticism. Including “softer” or more humanistic approaches, such as historiography, study of play, and cultural studies approaches.To that end, I deployed a set of analogies from other media: fine art, and poetry, and music, to help draw connections between the ways formal approaches and even notation are used in these other fields, and how we might use them in ours.
My talk is below the fold (hover over the slides for the notes text), and for the full transcript plus a link to the video, go here.
There were many other talks I highly recommend… the entire Twitch stream is available (see that same link) and lasts 8 hours!
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I’m here to represent the formalists! -
New formalism is a term from poetry. I like poetry. I reference it in talks like these. I write poetry, sometimes. I have a poetry sheepskin. Poetry is nice, and kind of irrelevant. It doesn’t make a good reference point for people usually because nobody, not even most poets, reads poetry, unless they are forced to. Back when I was in college, we railed against what we called “me poetry.” It was a confessional moment in culture, you see, and for that matter, I think every poet coming out of high school is probably writing confessional poetry, it’s almost like a law of nature… just like it is a sort of a law of nature that if you are a student, you have to rail mightily against whatever the prevailing winds are. That’s part of your role, to be the rebel. -
New Formalism, then, was a rebellion. It was already an old rebellion when we came along. Poetry movements happen in very slow motion; this was people like Dana Gioia and Dick Allen and Snodgrass rebelling against -
language poetry and concrete poetry, -
Ashbery or even Whitman. So we are talking a fifty year old rebellion against a hundred year old trend, and the way it rebelled was by reaching back even further, to formal verse techniques from five hundred years prior. -
We can call that a kind of conservatism, I suppose. Gioia kicked off the naming of the movement by complaining not just about confessionalism but about “unmusicality” in the language used. I mean, talk about missing the point of language poetry and concrete poetry, to complain about its lack of musicality, instead of celebrating its physicality, right? -
But the picture isn’t that simple… For one, George Herbert showed us centuries ago that physicality and musicality can coexist just fine. It’s not like these are even on an axis or anything. -
For another, we can call harking back to the extreme past radical, similar to how New Realism in painting is upending abstraction but also the forms of representation that have grown common. -
A lot of art games and indie games feel analogous to language poetry, -
Or to confessionalism, and frankly, we could probably link a curmudgeonly statement like “unmusicality” to curmudgeonly statements like “not a game.” -
Another lens, though, is that New Formalism was actually a populist movement, seeking to reclaim an audience for poetry using the strengths that it had once had – much like casual games are populist in very large part because they eschew heavy narrative and presentation elements and focus strongly on a systemic core. And in that sense, it wasn’t that far out of tune with the culture as a whole. It suffered, probably, from being too much a movement of older white men, -
Given that the same impulses did actually lead to a “classical” poetic revival, just in the form of a small singer-songwriter resurgence, -
Slam and performance poetry, -
And hip hop. All of which have more in common with New Formalism than they do with the avant garde of poetry at that time, or even the widely accepted contemporary poet canon of that period. -
Formalism in games was a label imposed from outside the supposed formalists. In music, it’s applied to the avant garde composers like Shostakovich. Which raises two important points: 1) That usually the avant-garde is associated with the formalist mode of thinking, so it is sort of weird that in games it’s associated with the reverse 2) That formal terms are always bounded, always occur within a deep context of practice and culture. What is formal to one is very informal to another, and the use of a given word within the context of Stalinist Russia can have deeply different implications when it is heard – not even used, just heard – by someone in another field, time, or place. -
If we leave the poetry aside for a moment and use music as an analogy, these are all ways of looking at music, of doing music criticism. -
This is “All Along the Watchtower” – the Dylan original, versus the Hendrix take, wherein we can see via the chords that Hendrix actually turned a passing note into a full chord. Harmonic analysis shows us how these are actually pretty different. -
But of course melodic analysis says they are the same. After all, this here is also “All Along the Watchtower.” -
And then you have stuff like the Michael Hedges cover. Same melody, but radically different rhythmic pattern to it. -
A producer might well be much more interested in a spectrogram analysis to see whether the transients are punchy enough. -
And then there’s a critique of someone on American Idol butchering the song, or a review of a new version, or the stuff that I think most game criticism is currently oriented around, which is criticism that connects back out to the larger culture. For example, it might be talking about the way in which the Indigo Girls reinvented the track with a sizable break in the middle, transforming it pretty radically and removing it from its extant context. -
Game grammar, which is the sort of formalism associated with all these folks, pretty much all fits down at the lower end of this. It’s about the harmony and melody of games, which are the most mechanical pieces and also the hardest to see. -
Mechanical bits tend to be invariant across huge swaths of games. By this lens, most of Saints Row IV is pretty much exactly the same as GTA IV, there have only been five fighting games ever, and Gone Home is a game about turning over cards in a fairly fixed order to read what is on the other side. What most criticism calls “a genre,” this most rigid of lenses might actually call “all the same game” or “variants.” -
But that’s OK, because as has been said by everyone from Woody Guthrie on, all you need is three chords and the truth to get a message across. Many great pieces of music have been written with a I-IV-V progression, after all. And knowing that a song can be placed in “the blues” actually imparts a whole large dimension to criticism of it. It fits it into a cultural framework, certainly. -
The first lens that I think this sort of incredibly rigid and dry way of looking at things helps is in any form of historiography efforts. You cannot trace the development of jazz without following one particular note, the flatted fifth, in its winding journey from African scales to bent notes and thence to reclaiming the tritone or “devil’s interval” from its disdained position in the Western music orthodoxy. That journey is cultural, political, AND technical, and cannot be understood outside of the intersection of all those lenses. -
Another way where formal-style bright lines help is in creating negative space. -
If you see here on this sheet music, there are dynamics notated, performance annotations. This is actually somewhat similar to the notion of dynamics within games as well. In fact, this piece cannot be discussed without attention to its dynamics, because it is literally the same melody and harmony over and over. -
There’s vast scope in dynamics – Using a formalist lens that regards the harmony and melody as distinct from the performance and the timbres, you can actually peel away the bones these have in common in order to better look at the parts that are different. -
The biggest place where I think formalism can assist with this in games is in examining the rhetorics of games. There has been movement towards a unique rhetorics of games via stuff like Ian Bogost’s work. -
That’s actually fairly formalist. But if we start to regard the story layer that formalism intentionally blows off as being a performative layer, I suggest that instead, we could leverage quite a lot of traditional rhetorics. If we can describe a system as using anaphora or metonymy, I think we go a long way towards better understanding not only of those systems and those game stories, -
but also towards understanding how systems themselves function in those rhetorical roles in our everyday lives. And the thing is that this lingo exists and can be leveraged. It is just the formalism of another discipline, one which humanities-centric critics are maybe so steeped in that they do not see it as a formalism. -
The other big lens that I think formalism has the potential to illuminate is the notion of play. We still say we “play” music. Lately, games formalism is starting to say that ludic structures are everywhere; that there are chord progressions and a beat you can dance to everywhere in life. That means we can apply the critical language of game studies, such as it is, to elements well outside the label of games. -
Elections. Wall Street, lots of vast systems in the world, are interpretable as ludic structures, as games we play with one another, as games we play without consent, as games we are tokens in. And critics could go beyond the shallow and facile & actually offer real critique of those systems in a way that opens up both means of social change and realms for art to explore. -
In the end, it takes a formal lens to really discuss the ideas that Twine is also avant-garde literature, and the social issues affecting the 99% have a lot more in common with behavioral structures in World of Warcraft guilds, or the tournament structure in League of Legends. This blue shells critique could not have happened without a deep understanding of formal game elements. -
The debates about “what is a game” happened between multiple overlapping circles that have very little to do with one another: who sits on awards panels, and what is taught in universities, and whether feedback is narrative, and whether all kinds of people are able to make games in the culture as it now sits… the debate is completely different depending on where you were standing. “Games” is never going to fall into one bucket or critical lens; but we can build bridges and connections between buckets using these analyses, and in the end that is a far more intersectional approach, because it recognizes identity as well as commonalities. We enrich ourselves and our mutual understanding not by claiming pre-eminence of one circle, but by learning to move between them.
Newswire: Pixies announce their first new album in 23 years
The Pixies will release Indie Cindy, the group’s first new album since 1991, later this year. Cindy will hit stores April 28, 23 years after Trompe Le Monde, and is available now for pre-order via Amazon, iTunes, and other retail outlets. The record was produced by Gil Norton, who also made Doolittle and Bossanova; original Pixie Kim Deal was not involved. (Deal’s absence is just one reason fans might be wise to lower expectations, especially given the lackluster nature of new tracks like “Bagboy.”) A full tracklist is below.
Indie Cindy tracklist:
1. What Goes Boom
2. Greens And Blues
3. Indie Cindy
4. Bagboy
5. Magdalena 318
6. Silver Snail
7. Blue Eyed Hexe
8. Ring The Bell
9. Another Toe In The Ocean
10. Andro Queen
11. Snakes
12. Jaime Bravo
Newswire: The Breakfast Club had detention 30 years ago today
This isn’t exactly news, but it’s kind of neat: Today marks the 30th anniversary of The Breakfast Club’s day-long detention. While the Internet’s been fooled by this kind of film trivia before, this date appears to be legit, as its been fact-checked by various movie enthusiasts and bloggers. Long story short, eat a Pixy Stix sandwich, then go dance on a railing. Today’s a special day.
Talking Dog Spoils the Television Show Plot
Nugget the dog can’t seem to keep his mouth shut while watching television with his human on the latest installment of Talking Animals by Andrew G.
New Booze: Freya from Highland Park
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Pike’s Map of Unexplored Territories (1810)
firehose' Old Zeb Pike was stomping around the Louisiana Purchase like a house on fire. Just leaving "explored" stamps on everything and "seen it" in his wake.'
Pike’s Map of Unexplored Territories (1810)
A chart of the internal part of Louisiana : including all the hitherto unexplored countries, lying between the River La Platte of the Missouri on the N., and the Red River on the S., the Mississippi east, and the mountains of Mexico west, with a part of New Mexico & the Province of Texas Pike's Map of the U.S. Midwest Showing Unexplored Territories (1810) Date: 1810 Author: Z M Pike...
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I went to waterfront park yesterday to take photos of the cherry blossom trees, and so did everyone else in Portland.
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The scourge of coffee
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Khoi Vinh tells us how he really feels about coffee.
In the West, and particularly in urban centers of the United States, we've turned coffee into not just a daily habit, but a totem of conspicuous consumption. They are "rituals of self-congratulation" (a choice phrase I believe I read from Sam Sifton, but which I can't seem to source) wherein we continually obsess over certain coffee purveyors or certain methods of brewing coffee - each new one more complex, more Rube Goldbergian and more comically self-involved than the previous brewing fad.
I don't drink coffee either (don't even like the smell), but as someone who regularly indulges in other addictions and "rituals of self-congratulation", I don't take issue with other people's enjoyment of coffee...as long as I'm out of earshot when the "perfect grinder for pulling a great shot" discussion starts.
Coffee, like almost everything else these days, is a sport. Everyone has a favorite team (or coffee making method or political affiliation or design style or TV drama or rapper or comic book), discusses techniques and relives great moments with other likeminded fans, and argues with fans of other teams. The proliferation and diversification of media over the past 35 years created thousands of new sports and billions of new teams. These people turned hard-to-find nail polish into a sport. These people support Apple in their battle against Microsoft and Samsung. This guy scouts fashion phenoms on city streets. Finding the best bowl of ramen in NYC is a sport. Design is a sport. Even hating sports is a sport; people compete for the funniest "what time is the sportsball match today? har har people who like sports are dumb jocks" joke on Twitter. Let people have their sports, I say. Liking coffee can't be any worse than liking the Yankees, can it?
Tags: coffeefoodKhoi VinhsportsFormer NBA Player Found Dead, Stuffed In A Trash Bag
firehoseoh digg: 'Initial reports that the victim is former Nets basketball player Quinton Ross are incorrect, police said.'
Dad asks 3-year-old to list all the bad words he knows, kid’s answer is funny…and then absolutely hilarious
firehose#butts #annieshare
When his dad asked him to say all of the bad words he knew, this tike quickly rattled off an entire list. It becomes obvious that the use of “butt” with any other body part (“butt teeth”, “butt nose”, “butt ear”…) is bad in preschool.
And then at the end he digs within himself to remember the worst word he can think of…
(It probably goes without saying that you likely don’t want your 3-year-old around when you watch this.)
(via Reddit)
Newswire: Make way for the guy who's directing that Scarface remake
firehose'Pablo Larraín, who most recently directed Gael Garcia Bernal in 2012’s No—coincidentally, the most commonly suggested alternate title for a Scarface remake'
Still hoping to keep everyone from leaving, even though it’s really late and the beer ran out hours ago, Universal recently put Scarface on repeat, announcing another remake of the film that, sure, you may have seen 100 times already, but you simply have to check it out on its kickass new system. Besides, it might order some food, and you don’t want to miss out on that. In the meantime, it’s ordered Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, who most recently directed Gael Garcia Bernal in 2012’s No—coincidentally, the most commonly suggested alternate title for a Scarface remake. Larraín’s aptitude for the job goes even deeper than that, with his 2008 film Tony Manero—about a Santiago man obsessed with dressing up as John Travolta’s Saturday Night Fever character—similarly concerning an attempt to recreate a white-suited guy named “Tony.”
Of course, like Brian ...
Someone's Making A Zombie Beer Using Actual Brains
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Looking for something to drink during this Sunday's Walking Dead season 4 finale? Why not try Dock Street Brewing Company's Walker beer, which was brewed with genuine smoked goat brains? Other than, you know, the fact that it sounds disgusting?
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Adventure Time Fan Made A Snap Bracelet Replica Of Finn's Grass Sword
During this past season of Adventure Time, Finn acquired the Grass Sword, which wraps around his wrist when not in use. One fan noted that Finn's sword has a lot in common with those collapsible snap bracelets—and used them to make his very own Grass Sword.
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M.I.A. to NFL: Prince performed penis guitar - Music-News.com
And according to TMZ the star filed legal documents dismissing the NFL's case against her as largely baseless due to the risque nature of previous halftime performances.
Apparently the papers use Michael Jackson's 1993 show as an example, claiming he 'repeatedly grabbed or fondled his genitalia onstage', but these 'genitalia adjustments' didn't seem to ruffle NFL executives.
The outlet reports documents then went on to note Prince's guitar resembled 'an erect oversized phallus', and he stroked it powerfully throughout his 2007 gig, an act which was greenlit by the professional sports league.
Officials Say Missing Malaysia Airlines Plane 'Ended in the Southern Indian Ocean' - Yahoo
After Lucas van Leyden, A Family Surprised by Death, ca. 1523-50
firehoseSUCK FLIES, MOTHERFUCKER
After Lucas van Leyden, A Family Surprised by Death, ca. 1523-50