July 01, 2009
June 22, 2009
Holy Shit!
Why Redd Foxx and Paul Lynde are in it makes as much sense as the disco dancing stormtroopers at about 6:30.
June 11, 2009
Obvious but still worth it
Yes, Phil without his wig looks exactly like Riff Raff from Rocky Horror...June 01, 2009
May 22, 2009
Jennifer Sullivan's 'One-Week Walden, 2006'
"One-Week Walden, 2006, is an account of my experiences trying to replicate a Walden-like experience during a weeklong stay in a pop-up camper parked in my father's backyard. In the process of realizing the implausibility of this action, I tell a story about my feelings and thoughts during the experiment and create free-associated dramatizations drawn from fantasies of what I had hoped would happen."
Related: Jennifer Sullivan's 'Ms. Walden Woods'
April 28, 2009
Three Examples Of R-Rated Films Repurposed For Children
Alien! Hooray!
First Blood! Hooray!
The Toxic Avenger! Hooray!
April 09, 2009
Death of a Dungeon Master
RIP Dave Arneson, 1947-2009
Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, has died. From Ed Grabianowski's post on Robot Viking:
It’s tempting to say that Arneson brought the “fluff” to D&D, while Gygax was the “crunch,” but that’s really too simplistic. It is safe to say that Arneson’s ideas on storytelling, experience levels and rules flexibility shaped virtually every aspect of the RPG as an industry and an art form. Yet he never achieved the widespread fame that Gygax did, perhaps because his personality wasn’t the kind that drew attention. By most accounts, he was easy-going, good-humored and never took himself too seriously. I’ve always thought of him as the George Harrison of D&D.
April 02, 2009
Dance of the Future
What are those fucker's doing back there??? And even though I don't speak a word of German, I can't take them seriously or pay attention to their conversation with all that crazy shit happening behind them!
An Excerpt From Robert E. Howard's "Rogues In The House" (1934)...
"...After Athicus had been marched away to be formally arraigned before a magistrate, this jailer made the rounds of the cell as a matter of routine. As he passed that of Conan, his sense of propriety was shocked and outraged to see the prisoner free of his chains and in the act of gnawing the last shreds of meat from a huge beef bone. The jailer was so upset that he made the mistake of entering the cell alone, without calling guards from the other parts of the prison. It was his first mistake in the line of duty, and his last. Conan brained him with the beef bone, took his poniard and his keys, and made a leisurely departure..."
Read the entire short story here.
February 19, 2009
An Excerpt From Richard Wright's Autobiography "Black Boy" (1945)...
"...On one such lazy, hot summer night Granny, my mother and Aunt Addie were sitting on the front porch, arguing some obscure point of religious doctrine. I sat huddled on the steps, my cheeks resting sullenly on my palms, half listening to what the grownups were saying and half lost in a daydream. Suddenly the dispute evoked an idea in me and, forgetting that I had no right to speak without permission, I piped up and had my say. I must have sounded reekingly blasphemous, for Granny said, "Shut up, you!" and leaned forward promptly to chastise me with one of her casual, back-handed slaps on my mouth. But I had by now become so adept at dodging blows and I nimbly ducked my head. She missed me; the force of her blow was so strong that she fell down the steps, headlong, her aged body wedged in a narrow space between the fence and the bottom step. I leaped up. Aunt Addie and my mother screamed and rushed down the steps and tried to pull Granny's body out. But they could not move her. Grandpa was called and he had to tear the fence down to rescue Granny. She was barely conscious. They put her to bed and summoned a doctor..."
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