Tim Minchin - If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out

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These are the lyrics for anyone who doesn't want to watch the video, or who simply wants to read over them for any other reason (I attempted to put them behind a cut, but for reasons beyond my understanding it kept messing with the video, so forgive my space-consumption):

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Speaking as an avid supporter of the televisual arts, myself and many like me have begun to feel the sting of the Screen Writers' Strike currently taking place in the US, which has halted the production of such beloved shows as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and a few other shows that I refuse to ( Read more... )

I find it truly remarkable that I live in a place and time, where it is widely seen as wrong to make assumptions about a person based on the place of their birth, but it is generally acceptable to make such assumptions based on the time of their birth.

Fuck Astrology, and the idiots it rode in on.
Tim.

I watched Princess Mononoke recently, and thought I'd share my thoughts on the film.
I can omit a few points I was going to make about this movie, since, as a Studio Gibli movie, most of what I might want to say can simply be inferred (i.e. spirits don't exists, mystics are not a reliable source of information, conservation of mass is important, etc ( Read more... )

It just occurred to me that I've never posted what may be my favorite Mitchell & Webb sketch here on my Livejournal. This will not stand!

"Medical" Drama:

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Suffice to say, the description "incredibly poorly" has worked its way into my vocabulary.
Tim.

Fictitious journalist and children's action hero Tintin, was once criticised for being excessively brutal and a poor role-model for children, when an early version of his Tintin in the Congo adventure contained a sequence (pg. 56) in which Tintin killed a rampaging rhinoceros by leaping onto its back, drilling (with an actual drill) a hole in its ( Read more... )

I recall recently saying that a discussion I had on the Livejournal of paradox_dragon, increased my confidence in the efficacy of reason. I can't help but wonder if I spoke too soon, given another discussion that I have just concluded (in fact, may still be having) on the same Livejournal, with a different person, this time going by the name color_blue.
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As you, my loyal (presumably) confidants, are likely aware, I am a feminist. Which is to say, of course, that I do not willfully practice, nor in any way endorse nor approve of, sexism. As you likely also know (if you read any of the inaccessibly long thinking-into-my-keyboard that I do on this LiveJournal), I am known to take issue with a ( Read more... )

In the words of the delightful Conan O'brien, imitating the ever-disappointing Jay Leno, 'Hiya Folks!',
Two things to mention, for the greater good:
Last week I gave a seminar on the explanatory power of the Evolutionary Psychology paradigm in the study of Personality Psychology. It seemed to go very well, partly because I own Evolutionary Psychology ( Read more... )

I am a fellow who is interested in, concerned about, and in my own way have commented on, issues of contemporary sexism. As such it should be no surprise that I enjoy reading the blog, Girls Read Comics (And They're Pissed), on occasion. On occasion, not because it updates infrequently, or because it is only sometimes enjoyable (both of these are ( Read more... )