I'm worried about the new Trek Movie
they are showing signs of not respecting the established histories, which is what made Enterprise so shitty.
The main villain is a Romulan, but in the history, no one knew what a Romulan looked like until the TOS espisode "Balance of Terror" which the movie is supposed to precede.

Dr Who: "[The Beast] is playing on very basic fears. Darkness, childhood, nightmares, all that sort of stuff.
Danny: "But that's how the devil works!"
Dr who: "Or a good psychologist."

hmm, wanna hear something funny?
the warm weather has just caused a massive pollen drop
There is a swine flu scare
the symptoms of swine flu are similar to those of severe allergy attacks
so, what do you think is going to happen?

Spike's deadliest warrior did an episode pitting spartans vs. ninjas, and I call shenanigans on their results ( Read more... )

I'm considering going to spoutswood fairie festival may day weekend. I'm also thinking of staying at a local campground that weekend
anyone want in?

Dear Burger King,

Please stop using sex to sell your product. This is ill advised for a number of reasons:

1) You generally want your product to either have exclusive name recognition, or at least share recognition with something understood to be acceptable to the general population. That way, when say, a mother decides to google "burger shot" to ( Read more... )

For a while now, I've been wanting to do an analysis of humor. Humor is used for bonding, entertainment and political commentary. It can be both lighthearted play and a powerful social tool.
But what is humor?
In a very stripped down understanding, it is a cathartic release in responce to a presented incongruity. Humor presents you with a situation ( Read more... )

This will definitely cause some outrage

check out this petition
Sign it
Pass it on.
The Gambia is the country I lived and served in during my peace corps service.
and now the leader has gone criminally insane. Freedom of press is gone. dissidents dissappear from the streets. Homosexuals, under law, can be beheaded. and now he is organizing a fucking witch hunt. Literally, 1000 people have ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_re_af/af_gambia_witchcraft
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