“For the Euro-American demographic there is a great disturbance in the Force. A bit like Darth Vader’s family crisis. His son, his ex-droid, his future son-in-law, and his future son-in-law’s Wookiee are all coming to rescue his daughter. Stay tuned.”
— “Lynda” on citizenism versus white nationalism
Malcolm Gladwell: Here’s another example: We now have pretty good epidemiological evidence that the long-term health consequences of playing in the National Football League are considerable. The life expectancy for former NFL players is 20 years lower than it is for the general public. Part of that is due to the type of person that plays football. But a big part of that is also due to the consequences of playing football: concussions, and the raft of health issues that come with being obese, which — let’s face it — the NFL basically requires most players to be. This is the kind of issue that, say, the companies who ran coal mines dealt with 50 years ago. And yet somehow the NFL — which has a thousand times more resources than coal companies ever did — gets to pretend this problem doesn’t exist. Huh?
Bill Simmons: Now you’re triggering parts of my brain that I didn’t know even existed.
JOSÉ DOLORES
Thank you. But anyway, sooner or later, they are going to kill me.
SOLDIER
Maybe not, General. Maybe they will let you live.
JOSÉ DOLORES
If they let me live, it means it is convenient for them. And if it’s convenient for them, it is convenient for me to die.
SOLDIER
Why?
JOSÉ DOLORES
Because the hunter lets the hawk live only when he wants a decoy or to hunt in his place. He is kept alive, but in a cage.
SOLDIER
But then, after a while, maybe they will free you.
JOSÉ DOLORES
No, little soldier, it doesn’t work like that, friend. If a man gives you freedom, it is not freedom. Freedom is something you — you alone — must take. Do you understand? Well, you will, one day, because you’ve already started to think about it.
I don’t really want to talk about that movie (but I will anyway), because I do not find it noteworthy. Yes, the technology is awesome in the best sense of the word, but the world that the Cameronical deity has given us is flat-out flat, despite the pop-out approach to the book of life. Pardon me if I sound Kanty, but worlds are made out of more than places and things; they need relations and a narrative to bring them together, and the story it glosses over is just fucking stupid (use of MARQUEE tag could be justified here).
And what’s up with Bart Simpson in the role of Cabeza de Vaca? How can anyone take that shit seriously?
And the bombastically execrable soundtrack? Was Kitaro unavailable?
While waiting for my associate to come back from the restroom after the movie, I overheard someone say “Whoa, I feel like everything I knew about sci-fi has changed forever.” She sounded like what I imagine pornstars sound like when they say “ooh, that’s a hot load” after they’ve caught jizz with their eyes. She didn’t really mean it, but she probably expected one of her friends to hear it.
Bottom line: It does 3D better than Jaws 3D. And it’ll be just as influential as the first Jaws (and it’s a better movie, so don’t feel too bad about that). And I can’t wait for it to become a franchise with an installment in which the Predators find the planet.
Still, it is nothing.
i haven’t felt a load this hot since th heyday of mittenstein
vegan pho? THAT’S RACIST
Last night we made vegan pho, and it was absolutely perfect. The broth made from scratch, simmering mushrooms and mock duck, a kitchen full of friends and lots of wine. The best way to cook, and enjoy a meal. We’ll be doing it again soon, forever and ever.
(a meaty version, but you get the idea. we were too busy for our own photos this time)
Without further ado, one of the most involved recipes I’ve ever made. Absolutely worth it.
Vegan Pho
I had a dream about this clip last night. It has LITERALLY HAUNTED MY DREAMS. It would be painful/hilarious enough if only for this young man’s touchingly inept delivery of what can only be called anti-jokes. But it is the cartoonishly shifting eyes after the thudding impact of each line that vaults this clip into the 5-Star Stone Classics of YouTube Tragicomedy category.
I like him much better than the top-of-the-page Youtube commenter does: “ARGHHHHHHH SHIT…..niggers cant comedy!!!”
T_T
