On President Endorses States' Rights
People overcome with significance of man's personal and exceedingly reserved approval for thing
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On President Endorses States' Rights
@Clarence Rosario We fucking elected a black president, dude. The ball's gone through the earth and out the other side
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On The Kid Who Hung Out With Jesus
That's a really fascinating article, but from the headline I was expecting... Well, something about Clapton's "Tears In Heaven"
Am I terrible?
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On In Honor of "Revenge," A Brief History of TV's Off-Screen Hookups
There are probably at least half a dozen SNL hookups
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On Our Culture Needs Better Monsters! An Interview with Brian McGreevy
@brideoffrankenstein Brian McGreevy is Frankenstein?!!
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On Our Culture Needs Better Monsters! An Interview with Brian McGreevy
@Ham Snadwich I would assume "bourgeois" here is code for "soft" or "feminine", or at least the type that boys like this detest. There's a certain tradition of intellectual machismo that the guy is clearly attempting to tap into, hence the similarity to a random sample of Reddit comments. Swap out "sentimentality" for "superstition" and you've got a garden variety Bright atheist. Swap it for "politics" and you've got a Randroid.
It's a shame, I think the ideal being strived for is Hitch but what's coming out is Palahnuik minus irony.
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On Our Culture Needs Better Monsters! An Interview with Brian McGreevy
As someone who is also uninterested in the idea of bourgeois sentimentality, this is of great interest to me.
I'll check out this guy's book, even though he talks like a Reddit subforum made flesh. I am eternally deprived of decent horror fiction
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On Michael Fassbender Does An Excellent Robot
@skahammer For a film? I don't know. ARGs can get pretty impressive. I think Cloverfield had one. The one I remember was from... The mid-'00s, back when viral marketing was a hot new thing. It wasn't a movie, actually, it was an album - Nine Inch Nails, I think. They had at least a dozen different websites with hidden codes, and a phone number you could call to hear garbled messages from "the future". It was essentially Myst on the web. I think they also did things like fill USB drives with leaked tracks and cryptic in-"game" messages and then deliberately leave them on restroom floors at venues during shows.
It was impressive enough that HBO and BBC America jointly bought the rights to turn it into a TV show. Don't know if that's ever going to happen.
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On Michael Fassbender Does An Excellent Robot
Alien is basically my favorite movie so I'm simultaneously jazzed and hesitant about this film.
There's just something inherently skin-crawly about the androids in that universe. It's the milky viscous blood, I think. The first David video with the white cubes (during the "unpackaging") freaked my shit out for a good long while. They're like... tofu. Plus something about certain geometric patterns just terrifies my reptile brain. Honeycombs are the worst but the cubes are pretty bad.
Wonder of Mike is gonna hang robodong in this one.
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On Free To Be... Straight White Males
@MikeBarthel "So is The Internet the Real Thing, the place where the social mores that enforce privilege are broken down and we can be honest with each other"
If Reddit is any indication, nope