October 28, 2018
A cat will be your friend, but never your slave
October 29th is National Cat Day in the USA. Show us pictures of your cat(s). Hang out at a cat cafe. Volunteer at a local shelter or Humane Society. Don't forget to watch cute cat videos. If you're a cat, go hassle a dog or just be your badass self.
“I don’t think he wants to be found,” I said.
George
I knew that our problems were similar. Not because being gay and being trans are so alike in nature: they’re not. But because George seemed to want something impossible, too.
Got to Stick Together and Fight Them All Now
I had this idea but didn’t know if I could keep it going for 11 minutes
"Casper had someone storyboard it up with classic sitcom moments, like accidentally roller-painting someone’s face. That one feels like a trope, but we couldn’t find it online."
An Oral History of 'Too Many Cooks'
‘Some things will be dealt with at a later date’, ... ‘If at all.’
‘The Simpsons’ Is Eliminating Apu, But Producer Adi Shankar Found the Perfect Script to Solve the Apu Problem [Indie Wire]
““I got some disheartening news back, that I’ve verified from multiple sources now: They’re going to drop the Apu character altogether,” said Shankar in an interview with IndieWire. “They aren’t going to make a big deal out of it, or anything like that, but they’ll drop him altogether just to avoid the controversy.””“It was Shankar’s intention to crowdsource a script that “in a clever way subverts him, pivots him, writes him out, or evolves him in a way that takes a creation that was the byproduct of a predominately Harvard-educated white male writers’ room and transforms it into a fresh, funny and realistic portrayal of Indians in America.” Shankar’s primary hope was that Fox would produce the script as an episode of “The Simpsons,” but now that he has found what he calls the “perfect script” and announces the winner of his contest, he told IndieWire that he has heard from people who work for the show that “The Simpsons” is eliminating the character.” [Previously.] [more inside]
It's time to act like that truth is real.
A group of campaigners called Extinction Rebellion are planning a series of escalating acts of civil disobedience in London over November as a response to a lack of action by the UK government on climate change, culminating in a Rebellion Day with a sit-in at Parliament on November 17th. [more inside]
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The Mines of Messines Ridge
About 8 kilometers south of Ypres, in the middle of a farm, is a small green pond known as the “Pool of Peace”, but its creation was a rather violent event. It was 1916 and the First World War was in its second year. The Germans had occupied the Belgian coast and was using the coastal ports as bases from which they attacked merchant ships and troop transports in the North Sea and English Channel. Capturing these ports became a major objective for the British army. But before that could happen, the British had to drive the Germans out of a tactically important high ground called the Messines–Wytschaete Ridge, located south of Ypress, in Belgium. [more inside]
"What's your big biff with the Nazis?"
The Very Best of Jiminy Glick
The Jon Stewart interview (with the donut)
All Youtube videos
Wikipedia
The Jon Stewart interview (with the donut)
All Youtube videos
Wikipedia
dark phrases of womanhood/of never having been a girl
Ntozake Shange, author of 'for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf,' has died. She added the term "choreopoem" to our lexicon when 'for colored girls' made its off-Broadway debut in 1975 and became only the second work by an African American woman to make it to Broadway the following year. Her work is a staple on college campuses today and helps women of color celebrate sisterhood, self-love, and creative expression: “i found god in myself & i loved her/i loved her fiercely.” [more inside]
A New Orleans brass band reinterpret Love Will Tear Us Apart
From New Orleans, Hot 8 Brass Band rework the 1980 song Love Will Tear Us Apart with a video filmed around the city. Hot 8 Brass Band, active since 1995 through much adversity and Grammy-nominated in 2013, have also covered Sexual Healing and Ghost Town. Performing on Clapham Common, England, Get Up, Can't Nobody Get Down, St. James Infirmary and Bingo Bango.
The tales that local people tell just to frighten the incomers
News from Norfolk, 'the occasional diary of someone who lives in an old house in East Anglia', has three tales for Halloween: all set in Norfolk, and all in the classic tradition of the English ghost story. The Old Road. Incomers. Old Tom.
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