September 2011
38 posts
Lil’ Black Rainclouds
Not a huge fan of grumpy on Twitter and Tumblr. I’ll put up with grumpy if you’re funny. And people do have bad days.
But if it’s the All-Grumpy All-The-Time Grumpy Grump Grump Variety Hour, I’m out.
World’s depressing enough.
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““I want her to be a hero, fighting things and be strong and helping...”
– A 7-year-old girl responds to DC Comics’ sexed-up reboot of Starfire
Do you want to know what people are talking about in the comics world right now?
Then read this. Then read this.
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OH: Ten-year-old girl explaining to a...
“You have to pretend you know how to do it and then you’ll learn how to do it.”
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Quiz Time! What is the best justification for the...
Neal Stephenson.
(I would have also accepted “George R. R. Martin”.)
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Watchbeeborg:
Dinobrain Manor is happy to present an International Happy Birthday Medley for Jason’s 40th birthday!
Happy Birthday, Jason! You’re a great pal & we love your guts!
This is glorious.
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Watchfuiru:
do-over:
So there was quite a bit of this sort of thing going on tonight.
Lather, rinse, repeat, I lost track of how many times.
Edit: tumblr’s done something horrible to the formatting. No-one at that table looked anything like this, I assure you.
One of my favourite parts of last night was when Jason and I were at the bar, paying with our debit cards, while everyone else was...
WatchThis is my wife moonwalking over her own face.
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WatchTwitter: The Criterion Collection, Volume III
What if Twitter… came to life… again?
In early 2010, we asked some of our pals to film their favorite tweets in 30 seconds or less. We didn’t care how they did it. They could act it. They could sing it. They could do it with puppets. Whatever they wanted. The only rules were it had to be a tweet written by someone else and it had to...
WatchA very special birthday greeting from a very special kitty to a very special lady named Bee.
“These go to 9/11.”
– Rudy Giuliani misquoting “This is Spinal Tap”
Cherry Blossoms and the American Dream: An Excerpt
As a young man, Jim Greenwald looked forward to purchasing a home of his own. A home with a front porch he could sit on as the sun slowly set. A normal dream. A common dream. An American dream.
Mr. Greenwald finally bought his home in suburban Greensboro in 2002. On the day he moved in, he bought his very own rocking chair and put it on the front porch. And as the sun set that day, he sat on that...
