February 22, 2018

God is far more than male and female

"Transgender people enlarge life and our understanding of spirituality and justice and the nature of God and Christian community," says Jo Inkpin, Australia's first openly transgender priest, who tells her story to the ABC.
posted by Athanassiel at 10:05 PM PST - 7 comments

Tell the story. Tell the story. Tell it over and over again.

"I believe in non-violence, as a way of life, as a way of living." Get In the Way, a documentary about congressman, civil rights leader, and hero John Lewis is currently streaming on PBS.org. John Lewis previously on Metafilter: Gun control sit-in in the House. "Because of you, John." - Barack Obama [more inside]
posted by kristi at 7:47 PM PST - 9 comments

And I feel fine

"The End of the F***ing World" is an extremely dark-humored British TV adaption of Pennsylvania native Charles Forsman's graphic novel TEOTFW [heads up, animal cruelty]. The 8-episode first series appeared first on the UK's Channel 4 in October, and is now on Netflix. [more inside]
posted by msalt at 7:26 PM PST - 22 comments

The Flame-Haired Woman of the Shadows

With Joss Whedon not directing Batgirl anymore here's 9 rad women who could take his place.
posted by Artw at 7:23 PM PST - 26 comments

Ⓞ Ⓡ Ⓔ Ⓞ

List of Oreo Varieties [Wiki] “The most popular cookie in the United States, based on sales, is the Oreo. For most of its history, owner Nabisco (originally National Biscuit Company) only made the basic version of this cookie. But in recent years, increasingly since 2010, it has expanded to a great many varieties, both domestically and globally. In addition to their traditional design of two chocolate wafers separated by a creme filling Oreo cookies have been produced in many different varieties since they were first introduced, and this list is only a guide to some of the more notable and recent types; not all are available in every country.” [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 6:42 PM PST - 64 comments

"Rule #1 is young men die. And Rule #2 is doctors can't change Rule #1."

'M*A*S*H' Finale, 35 Years Later: Untold Stories of One of TV's Most Important Shows
When the series launched in September 1972, CBS executives thought they had greenlit a comedy. Series creators Gene Reynolds and Larry Gelbart instead gave the network seriocomic vignettes of universal truths about the human condition. "We helped break the boundaries of the boss coming to dinner and burning the roast," series star Alan Alda (aka Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce) tells The Hollywood Reporter.
posted by Lexica at 6:40 PM PST - 89 comments

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

The Opportunistic Rise of Europe’s Far Right. Across the continent, racist groups have used the war on terror to gain a new platform and there is a far-right revival in Central Europe.
Guardian long read; The fascist movement that has brought Mussolini back to the mainstream.
Poland and the Uncontrollable Fury of Europe's Far Right.
The Rise of the European Far-Right in the Internet Age.
Rise of the nationalists: a guide to Europe’s far-right parties.
posted by adamvasco at 4:50 PM PST - 25 comments

I thought my bully deserved an awful life. But then he had one.

I never thought I could feel empathy for the boy who tormented me in childhood.
posted by adamcarson at 4:24 PM PST - 131 comments

The Opioid Diaries

The Opioid Diaries "Over the last year, photographer James Nachtwey set out to document the opioid crisis in America through the people on its front lines. Alongside TIME’s deputy director of photography, Paul Moakley, the pair traveled the country gathering stories from users, families, first responders and others at the heart of the epidemic. ADVISORY Graphic content could be disturbing to some readers"
posted by ericost at 2:38 PM PST - 27 comments

START A NEW LIFE, IN THE OFF-WORLD COLONIES

One of the many (many, many) challenges to long-term human habitation of Mars is the lack of an atmosphere, which was stripped away over millions of years due to Mars' lack of a magnetosphere. How to kick off a little climate change? How To Give Mars An Atmosphere, Maybe [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 2:04 PM PST - 11 comments

Newsweek Fighting Its New Owners

Why Is the Manhattan DA Looking at Newsweek’s Ties to a Christian University?
posted by MovableBookLady at 2:03 PM PST - 10 comments

"rivers are the lifeblood of the planet, and driftwood the nutrients"

From streams to estuaries to the deep ocean floor, driftwood shapes every environment it passes through. While there's an awareness that temperate rainforests are enriched with nitrogen from the marine environment, delivered by decomposing salmon, less well known is the fact that dead trees from those same forests travel to the sea and become a vital source of food and habitat. Driftwood is in need of a PR campaign, celebrity spokesperson, or publicist at the very least. Driftwood, it turns out, is also rapidly disappearing.
The Trees That Sail to Sea by Brian Payton.
posted by Kattullus at 1:12 PM PST - 3 comments

actually maybe I'm still sorting this one out

a comic by Edith Zimmerman: My First Year Sober
posted by everybody had matching towels at 12:08 PM PST - 19 comments

Extreme model railroading

In North Adams, Massachusetts, plans are afoot for the construction of a $65 million, 83,000 square foot "Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum", in which 2,000 model freight and passenger cars and 107 locomotives will operate in a landscape filled with scale models of the world's most notable contemporary buildings. Video walkthrough of first conceptual model. Building plans are being drawn up by architect Frank Gehry (the Bilbao Guggenheim, LA Walt Disney Concert Hall, Seattle Pop Culture Museum, etc.), while Thomas Krens (former head of the NY Guggenheim Museum, creator of its various spinoffs, and original driver behind the creation of MASSMoCA, also in North Adams) heads up the project, which will open in 2021. [more inside]
posted by beagle at 10:48 AM PST - 47 comments

"A neverending potlatch"

How can we explain the existence of Gremlins 2: The New Batch? A good place to start is the classic Key & Peele sketch detailing its origins as a Hollywood sequel but, to really dig into the meaning of it, one must consult the Institute for Gremlins 2 Studies. The ruminations regularly posted by the Institute elucidate the hidden symbolism of the gremlins as a challenge to Fukuyama's End of History, revealers of technology's full potential for horror/liberation, and "beings without economy, or perhaps, against economy" who negate the possibility of dialectic. [more inside]
posted by likethemagician at 10:06 AM PST - 41 comments

"I think I just need to let some arrows fly."

What Ever Happened to Brendan Fraser?
posted by Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels at 9:12 AM PST - 113 comments

From this day forward every decision will be my own!

For her third album released in 2006, India.Arie tapped deeply into her personal life and created a minor masterpiece about a strong women dealing with emotional difficulties: Testimony Vol. 1: Life And Relationship (Discogs link with extensive credits) [artist-created YT Playlist missing one song ~55m] [Spotify playlist of full album ~1h] CD track listing part one: Intro: Loving, These Eyes, The Heart Of The Matter*, Good Morning, Private Party, There's Hope [video], Interlude: Living

*fan-made TV show related video, not very good, not of the whole song, only version of album track available [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 8:52 AM PST - 3 comments

God should have made girls lethal when he made monsters of men

An interview with Carmen Maria Machado at Autostraddle. [more inside]
posted by kokaku at 8:48 AM PST - 10 comments

Scott Moir to Ref: "WAKE UP!"

Scott Moir was at the game last night. The gold medal game for women's hockey was played last night, and went all the way to a shootout. In attendance was Scott Moir, of Virtue and Moir, Canadian gold medalists for ice dance, and he was pretty invested in the proceedings. Let's watch the tape!
posted by Capt. Renault at 7:11 AM PST - 34 comments

All the art references in BoJack Horseman.

The animated TV show BoJack Horseman (previously 1, 2) contains dozens of references to classic and contemporary art. Daily Art Magazine has scoured all four seasons and found them all.
posted by Room 641-A at 5:57 AM PST - 17 comments

Let me talk about this post, which is probably a failure

Susan Cahill is failing. So is Corey Schutzer. [more inside]
posted by metaquarry at 5:34 AM PST - 6 comments

Its fans call themselves "potheads" and accessorise their pots

As the nation struggles [molten chocolate cake] through the Polar Vortex, failing and closed restaurants, and food pronunciation, hungry Brits [boil an egg] are staying in and using their eBay acquired Instant Pots [coq au vin]. Paula Cocozza tries one for a week, while Jessica Yadegaran happily makes risotto, and in Houston it faces off against the Dutch Oven. While Americans [baby back ribs] grieve over death by Crock-Pot, in Minneapolis Patricia Lopez makes a safer dulce de leche. Elsewhere [Cuban beef stew], Paul Hope faces off the Instant Pot against the Big Green Egg over pulled pork [Sloppy Joes], Melissa Clark is turned by a pork shoulder, and Urvashi Pitre becomes the "butter chicken lady". Though, [lemon pepper orzo] fried chicken replicators may be disappointed.
posted by Wordshore at 12:03 AM PST - 114 comments

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