Less cowbell.

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Imagine that you are a man from space! And you don’t speak English and you never heard of weed, and you landed in California and the first person you met up with took you to his house and said “Hey check out this band.” And then he played you “Sweet Leaf.” In my opinion, the man from space would hear that song, just the crunchy guitar sound and those bass notes, Geezer Butler is the best bassist it sounds like his strings are made from lime jello salad, and he would start banging his head! Because the riff on “Sweet Leaf,” that is something anybody could understand. ANYBODY.

Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality, by John Darnielle, from the completely necessary and awesome 33 1/3 series.

Oct 31

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Wondermark » Archive » #566; Supernatural Collective Nouns.

Oct 30

The weekend is for nerdery.

I just had a discussion with a friend about shapeshifting (particularly Mystique’s power in the X-Men movies and, uh, as seen in some 90’s vampire show that need not be disclosed at this juncture) and how it’s either a rapid body modification on a cellular level or some kind of manipulation of light so as to trick an observer into seeing something that isn’t there. Or something else entirely? Clothes out of organic matter were called into question and relative density of the un-shifted body was considered. Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine inspired a tangent on cellular memory. I’m only a little bit ashamed of all this.

So, question. How does shapeshifting work?

Oct 29

Clear eyes, full hearts CAN’T LOSE!

(via fuckyyeahfridaynightlights)

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Oct 27

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: A Review Of The Photography In My Gynecologist's Office.

The most politically charged piece in the collection, Macro of Fall Leaves with the Color Increased in PhotoShop hints at a post-racial America and hangs purposefully above the water cooler. To this, Dipika wonders aloud: “What if people, like leaves, actually changed color?” With this, Dipika asks us to examine our long-held sensibilities about race, leaves, and gynecology.

Oct 26

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: Three cosplayers dressed as Merryweather, Princess Aurora, and Flora from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty take a break from cosplaying it up at Dragon*Con 2009 to visit the Georgia Aquarium.

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Oct 25

fuckyeahlordoftherings:

reiben:

aragorn.

1. verb. To throw open a pair of adjacent doors simutaneously and forcefully, while striding through purposefully. “If I Aragorn this door, it might just shatter the glass with the force of pure awesome.”

legolas.

1. verb. To gaze off into the middle distance and murmur something either very obvious or vaguely non-sensical. Prettily. “I think Orlando Bloom spends this entire movie legolasing and it’s not even Lord of the Rings.”

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Oct 23

Novelettish < Imagined Slights < The Scrivener's Fancy

That is, I felt protective of novels, and they are something to which people tend to have a chivalrous attitude. I can only compare it to the public’s standpoint on Kylie Minogue: it’s as though, because she’s only four feet tall or whatever she is, it is enough that she simply makes it through a string of concerts, she doesn’t actually have to perform with distinction. Just as Minogue’s mere presence seems to be sufficient for most people, it doesn’t seem to matter what novel it is, reading it is supposed to be, by definition, a more desirable thing to do than, say, watching television.

Played 111 times

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

monkeyknifefight:

Local Natives - Airplanes (mp3)

it sounds like
we would have had a great deal to say, to say
to each other

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Oct 22

Dresden Codak » Archive » 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists

* Dinosaurs Faked Extinction
* God Did It
* Food Starts Eating People
* It Was A Dream
* It Wasn’t A Dream
* House Actually Alien Zoo
* All The Butlers Did It