May 30, 2017
And their little dog, too
A very special story about Todd and his Grandmother. This is a response to a writing prompt written by Peccolia on her tumblr eatbreathewrite, and then added to by others, as they started to break the plot for six seasons and a movie.
MAKIN’ MOVES
Most of the letters are like that: positive, gentle.
La Frecuencia Kirlian: Hace frío, hay fantasmas
"A city that never existed. A radio transmitting only at night. An unexpected visitor. It's time." La Frecuencia Kirlian ("The Kirlian Frequency," English title: Ghost Radio) is a new Argentinian animated web series broadcasting midnight radio—with English subtitles—from the mysterious, monstrous, missing city of Kirlian.
See the series trailer and watch the first episode, El País de Abril / "The Country of April." (via io9)
The thrilling dinosaurs of Holbrook, Arizona
Millions of years ago, dinosaurs were common across the flatlands that now encompass this city [Holbrook, AZ]. But they disappeared. A couple decades ago, several small-scale dinosaurs appeared along Interstate 40 near this city. But they also vanished. Well, not all of them. You can still find about a dozen (Google street view) home-made "cemetosaurs" in front of Rainbow Rock Shop, but these aren't the only dinos in Holbrook. There's the lonely bronze dinosaur, a would-be shower, in an adjacent park, and some more ... active ... dinosaur figures (Google maps) up the road at Stewart's Petrified Wood (previously).
Googly googly googly eyes
How this one simple trick changed a generation
How the self esteem craze took over America :
"Believe in yourself and anything is possible, and You have to love yourself first before you can love someone else. “Those phrases are taken for granted as advice we give teens and adults,” explained Twenge, “but they’re very modern. At least in written language, they were very uncommon before about 1980, and then became much more popular. They’re all very individualistic, they’re all very self-focused, they’re also all delusional." [more inside]
Frank Deford has died
Hall of Fame Sportswriter and long-time NPR sports broadcaster, Frank DeFord, has died at 78. I have never been a sports fan but always eagerly tuned in to listen to his magnificent voice and witty remarks. He will be sorely missed.
“For three-quarters of a million pounds per year, I’ll call anyone sir.”
It's a profession that dates back to medieval times and was established in its current form by the 1600s. It’s a trade that one can enter as a teenager, with no formal qualifications, only to end up earning astonishing amounts of money. Attempts at professional reform have been greeted with spittle and rat poison.
The curious world of the barrister's clerk.
The curious world of the barrister's clerk.
It comes around to bite you in the ass.
US military admits failures to monitor over $1 billion worth of arms transfers.
It makes for especially sobering reading given the long history of leakage of US arms to multiple armed groups committing atrocities in Iraq, including the armed group calling itself the Islamic State. - Patrick Wilcken, ( Amnesty International’s Arms Control and Human Rights Researcher).
who has previously warned about arms transfers to Iraq carrying a real risk of ending up in the hands of militia groups with long histories of human rights violations. 2015 arms and equipment list (pdf).
It makes for especially sobering reading given the long history of leakage of US arms to multiple armed groups committing atrocities in Iraq, including the armed group calling itself the Islamic State. - Patrick Wilcken, ( Amnesty International’s Arms Control and Human Rights Researcher).
who has previously warned about arms transfers to Iraq carrying a real risk of ending up in the hands of militia groups with long histories of human rights violations. 2015 arms and equipment list (pdf).
Remember | Resist | Redraw: A Radical History Poster Project
The Graphic History Collective has a new art activism project: Remember | Resist | Redraw: A Radical History Poster Project offers beautifully illustrated PDF posters with "histories of Indigenous peoples, women, workers, and the oppressed that are often overlooked or marginalized in mainstream historical accounts." Each poster comes with an introductory essay. Lianne Charlie's Our Land: 150 Years of Colonialism; Naomi Moyer's Chloe Cooley and Slavery in Canada; Kwentong Bayan Collective's Caregiving Work in Canada; Orion Keresztesi's The 1837–1838 Rebellion; Angela Sterritt
& Erica Violet Lee's Dance of Decolonial Love. More posters will be published in the months to come. [more inside]
Hellooooooo Nurse!
Running from 1993 to 1995 on Fox Kids, and then another year on Kids WB, the adventures of the Warner Brothers (and the Warner Syster), the mad science mice Pinky and the Brain, the Bernadette Peters voiced cat Rita and her dim dog sidekick Runt making their way through musical adventures, the hapless Buttons taking care of reckless toddler Mindy, and a host of others, the Animaniacs (a follow-up to Tiny Toon Adventures) was one of the top cartoons of its day. Winner of 8 Emmies, it recently appeared on Netflix, the entire run watchable in order. With crazy antics, great musical numbers, and a lot of silliness, it is well-loved by most who watched it.
And now... Steven Spielberg is bringing back Animaniacs.
Heinemann Uncorrected Proof Copy
Prepare.
2017 marks the 30th anniversary of Hay Festival of Literature & Arts and the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's 95 Theses. To celebrate, the Festival commissioned "30 international thinkers to write 30 new reformations of institutions and authorities, challenging assumptions and imagining the world." The BBC has posted video of Stephen Fry's reformation on technology and society: The Way Ahead. (Transcript) [more inside]
For your Chicagoland event needs
Those Funny Little People is a one-of-a-kind entertainment company with life-sized puppets who dance, sing and make people laugh.
Apocalypse Chic
Schmucks Like Us
But when the One Big Thing is gone, there is a double loss — the thing that defined your life is now in the past, and, at the very moment when your income and public profile both are likely to be heading south, you face the real crisis: You have done something extraordinary, but it is finished, and now you do not know what to do.--Kevin D. Williamson on Allen Iverson, Tiger Woods, and us
How board games conquered Kickstarter
The numbers behind gaming’s growth on the site are striking. In total, fans have pledged over $580 million (£465m) to in excess of 20,000 successful campaigns – more than 20% of all funds raised on the platform. Tabletop games have done particularly well; in 2016, a six-month study found that board, card and roleplaying games had attracted six times as much funding as their digital counterparts.How board games conquered Kickstarter: Five years on from the tabletop crowdfunding revolution
this kid is insane, man
Helloooo followers of U.S. politics! Join us inside to commiserate about the latest in the horror show we call reality: Kushner is under the gun! Civil rights efforts in government agencies will be intentionally dismantled! Trump is set to roll back Cuba policies! His foreign trip was a disaster for our relationship with allies! Also, surprise surprise, Trump is a truly horrible boss.
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