ONE Magazine, 1953
From Pop.nography:
When the haters cry that same-sex weddings are some newfangled idea (versus their apparently eternal “traditional” variety), here’s a good historical reminder of how far back our own roots stretch on this matter. Long before California’s Prop 8 or even the Defense of Marriage Act back in 1996, gays were asking when we’d be included in the ceremony.
Peter Serafinowicz: 50 Impressions, 2 Minutes
The immensely talented and popular P. Seraf. makes with many rapid-fire funny faces and voices. My favorite is the go-to for any impressionist worth his paycheck, Gubfield Queerborn.
“The entire iPhone platform is only 15 months old. The cheapest model still costs $199. The room for growth in this market is unlike anything Apple has ever seen. So the question is: Despite continuing strong iPod sales and record-breaking Mac sales, how long until the iPhone is undeniably the primary product and platform made by Apple?
My answer: Not long.
HODGMAN ON MADDOW
Hodgman on how his fabrications may be the stuff of political punditry:
“It’s storytelling, d’you know? And jokes are perhaps the shortest stories there are, in the canon of fiction, but then, political smears are probably the longest lasting.”
“The Peanut Butter Solution” (1985) - trailer
“I don’t think it’s natural, Dad.”
This is an adorably strange little Canadian kids’ movie that I saw for some reason as a kid.
UPDATE: Via Troy, the full-length feature film is up on Google Video.
“Says “Geoff”: “Those who oppose same sex marriage on religious grounds will be increasingly labeled as intolerant.” HA, YES THEY WILL. Yes you are.
Radar: Hip Young People Hate Gay Marriage (via nickdouglas)
I know this is immature, but I watch all these “Preserve Marriage” ads and I can hardly control my impulse to draw shit-moustaches on all these horribly misguided young people.
The entire campaign is based on, “Listen, we’re cool with your ‘Will and Grace’ lifestyle, but you’re not welcome to the same basic rights as the rest of us.” If that’s not intolerance, “Geoff”, I don’t know what is.
Can we settle this once and for all? Your freedom to practice your religion is protected under the Constitution. Your hiding behind your religion to discriminate against groups of people is not. SO KNOCK THAT SHIT OFF.
What would Jesus do, “Geoff”? First, he’d draw a shit-moustache on you, then he’d comb out your butt-cut. Then he’d forgive you and we’d all have a big gay party.
NO ON “GEOFF”. NO ON 8.
Okay, I tried to unfollow BONER PARTY because boners are infantile and parties make me uncomfortable and I’m so far above looking at cute girls on the Internet. But damn it if I didn’t get drawn back in by its nearly impeccable taste in cute girls, a goofy picture of Shannyn Sossamon and this quote:
being famous on the internet is a lot like being the prettiest waitress at IHOP. no-one really gives a shit.
Favorite Obama bumper sticker
Mistral = I am eating a croissant.
From a set called Typocalyse, the subliminal messages that fonts are sending you.
via Bullshit
I just found something pretty cool that’s been around since 2004. It started as a place to collect well-known television writing tropes but has since expanded to include film, comics, and video games.
For instance, a Character Derailment is “when an established character becomes largely different, exhibiting behavior contrary to what has been previously shown. This is not a matter of organic growth.” Prime example (although not included in the wiki), George Costanza in “The Opposite” episode of Seinfeld.
There are hundreds of these. And when you start to get into it, you uncover a whole lexicon thriving in the wiki, providing something resembling validity to what is essentially just a really fun exploration of the stuff of story.
And the ads are a trip. The entry on Makeover Montage sold me defrizzing hair product and bare abs. And the one on Paranoia was rife with ambiguous banners for Scientology.
