January 20, 2018

With a car, you put it in neutral. With a room, Neutral puts you in IT!

Room escape game developer Neutral (previously - I kind of know how you feel, phunniemee - I found out about this by randomly checking Bart Bonte's site) has returned from the unknown once more with his latest game, SIGN. (If you thirst for more, welcome to hell No1Game.)
posted by BiggerJ at 11:17 PM PST - 16 comments

Something's Happening at Tagruato.JP

In April of this year, Paramount will release the third movie in the "Cloververse," an incredibly loosely tied together anthology, which began with Cloverfield in 2008, and 10 Cloverfield Lane in 2016. As was the case with the first two movies, an alternate reality game set in the Cloververse has begun in the run-up to the movie. [more inside]
posted by to sir with millipedes at 10:00 PM PST - 8 comments

"Oh, it was such a hell of a smelly, noisy one"

Tired of the sanitised, filtered, and happy depictions of the everyday lives of her friends and family on social media, Kaviya wanted to talk about things and issues that not many like to discuss or even acknowledge in public. So, much in the vein of #100DaysOfHappiness and #100DaysOfExercise, the Mumbai-based artist decided to take up her own 100-day challenge on Instagram; but hers is #100DaysOfDirtyLaundry [all links NSFW, probably].
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:01 PM PST - 10 comments

As gouda drum solo as possible

Han Bennink on the Cheese Kit Diptych. Part one of a three-part video documenting Bennink's performance at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in 2005. Not only is edam good drummer, a käse is made for the relevance of humor in art. [more inside]
posted by ardgedee at 7:46 PM PST - 14 comments

Commodious!

How many people have you had in your drawers? At one time? For a mere $235,000 you can have somewhere to store gargantuan hosiery. Roadside America rates it as "major fun" and really, how could it not be? [via Boing Boing]
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:34 PM PST - 16 comments

Dust Bowl Women & Iowa Porkettes

A women's basketball team in the Depression, and farmer's wives in the 60s Here's the link for the Iowa Porkettes: Farmers Wives Take Over
posted by MovableBookLady at 3:32 PM PST - 6 comments

One summer I hitchhiked through Britain trying to find a harp-maker.

A Conversation with Judith Pintar, writer of the 1991 interactive fiction game Cosmoserve. Pintar and Jimmy Maher talk about the history of interactive fiction, game settings, identity and empathy and how she is using interactive fiction in teaching now.
posted by paduasoy at 3:18 PM PST - 10 comments

“That letter destroyed my life. And it was worth it.”

Talia Jane (previously) reflects on the backlash & aftermath of the open letter she wrote two years ago about the low wages she was paid as a customer service employee at Yelp.
posted by The Gooch at 2:03 PM PST - 59 comments

A Horror Movie for Every Day of the Year

Shaenon K. Garrity, the comic artist/writer behind Narbonic, Skin Horse, and the X-Files recap webcomic Monster of the Week, has a new project Horror Every Day, a sort of electronic tearaway calendar recommending a new horror movies tied extremely vaguely to anniversaries or holidays or some such, with nice illustrations and occasional content warnings. Occasional mild spoilers, I suppose. Previously Previously Previously
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:45 PM PST - 3 comments

“It is unafraid to be corny, unafraid to be purple,”

‘It was an electric time to be gay’: Sarah Waters on 20 years of Tipping the Velvet [The Guardian] “What’s it about?” people sometimes asked me, when they had heard I’d written a novel – and I always had to brace myself, slightly, to answer. There was the awkwardness of explaining the rather risque title. There was the fact that I outed myself the moment I began to reveal the plot. And then there was the plot itself – because, oh dear, how lurid it sounded, how improbable, above all how niche, the tale of a Victorian oyster girl who loses her heart to a male impersonator, becomes her partner in bed and on the music hall stage, and then, cruelly abandoned, has a spell as a cross-dressed Piccadilly prostitute and the sexual plaything of a rich older woman before finding true love and redemption with an East End socialist.”
posted by Fizz at 12:53 PM PST - 18 comments

"Hi, I'm Max Keller. This is how I usually leave a bar."

Thirty-four years ago today, NBC premiered The Master (publicity still), a ninja action series starring Western film veteran Lee Van Cleef (as the ninja) and Timothy Van Patten, half-brother of Dick Van Patten, as his hot-headed young sidekick. Each week, Max and The Master drive into a new town (in Max's custom van) and end up protecting/rescuing a damsel in distress from greedy land developers, union-busters, crimelords and their thugs, a surprisingly high number of other ninjas, and the occasional terrorist. (Here's Van Cleef promoting the show on Carson.) Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 know the show from Master Ninja I and II, repackaged video versions of the first four episodes. Cancelled after 13 episodes, the entire series is viewable on YouTube: [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil at 11:04 AM PST - 27 comments

From where the church used to be, 2 blocks south, 1 block east

Let's talk about addresses in Nicaragua.
posted by cthuljew at 10:32 AM PST - 30 comments

the eucharist is lit

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posted by Going To Maine at 10:29 AM PST - 22 comments

An Homage to You Rudy

Two Tone was both a record label and movement that combined imported Jamaican Ska with homegrown British punk to form a uniquely British multi-racial, multi-ethnic musical (and sartorial) style that has gone on to have a worldwide impact. They also had complicated relationship with another UK youth culture at the time: skinheads.
posted by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey at 6:53 AM PST - 44 comments

Martin Luther King's intellectual, ethical, and political commitments

MLK Now - "In the year before King's death, he faced intense isolation owing to his strident criticisms of the Vietnam War and the Democratic Party, his heated debates with black nationalists, and his headlong quest to mobilize the nation's poor against economic injustice. Abandoned by allies, fearing his death was near, King could only lament that his critics 'have never really known me, my commitment, or my calling.' " (via) [more inside]
posted by kliuless at 12:12 AM PST - 7 comments

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