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Comic Strip Safe Space
Cartoonist Stephan Pastis discovers his erroneous ways have injured diversified personages…
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… wait, we can’t say “strip” because that could be interpreted as a reference to stripping personal unclothing enterprises.
Random Static – Where’s Your Identity?
Been a busy few days, but here’s some randominomity of late –
Ain’t no analogy for individuality
Free Norther brings the strange –
I won’t be surprised if CisBlack Privilege is a thing soon.
Don’t give me chase
If I ever win the lottery I’m gonna tell the IRS I can’t pay any taxes because I identify as a bankrupt homeless alcoholic.
Tell me my sanity
Parents in Minneapolis are angry that Starri Hedges, director of the private Gaia Democratic School, took students on a field trip to a sex shop. Some of the kids were as young as 11, because it’s never too soon to start warping developing one’s sexual identity.
The “beautiful” trip may have been in violation of city codes. Hedges regrets that there probably won’t be another such trip, “because the kids had so much fun.” What kid doesn’t love purchasing their first condom?
The article has a video of Starri discussing the school with Bill Weir…
I had to quit watching after about 6 minutes. The video rolls like a retarded-yet-serious version of Sheldon and Amy’s “Fun With Flags,” including this rapier-like failure at humor –
Starri: “…Bill is our newest member at Gaia Democratic School. He is a rainbow member.”
Bill: “Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?”
Starri: “That’s right, and the pot of gold is free thinking.”
H/T to Captain Capitalism.
There’s no reset for this game!
The season finale of Flash was pretty trippy. Not sure about some of their time-travel logic, but it seems they may have structured it that way specifically as a plot point to revisit in the, uh, future. Some interesting questions of the Thawne’s identity there, both throughout the season and especially the way the finale ended. Not to mention all of Barry’s secret identity problems (for one of which he apparently borrowed Hillary’s “Reset” button, and it worked just about as well this time).
The show must get credit for one thing, though… there’s often been jokes of people doing this, but Flash is the first time I’ve ever seen it demonstrated literally –
Biologically let your system know what’s up
CIBO MATTO 2015!
The Flash
[ Stop reading here if you have not seen the show but plan to. ]
I had seen a few episodes of Arrow and thought it was decent enough. Just the fact that the show made me like Oliver was a feat in itself, considering how shrill and annoying he was in the comics (in recent years, DC Comics has gone not just from having him be an alternative viewpoint to other heroes, but now proudly boasts of him as the “left-wing crusader”).
So when I heard a spinoff was coming out starring the Flash, I had to check it out. The promotional shots of the costume looked awful. The first couple episodes were very shaky. But around the third episode it started to, uh, find its footing. It’s fun, inventive, and only mildly bogged down by CW Network teenage soap opera nonsense. They’ve even taken some near-execrable plot points from the comics and made them work.
And true to the comics, the show has a firm moral center. It’s a little wobbly in places, but even then not overly so, and Barry Allen is clearly a good guy who wants to do right.
A central point of the story arc is time travel. Unlike most stories based on such, Flash seems to be starting from a point where history has already been changed. Perhaps more than once. It’s a credit to the creative team that the plot is complex, yet still accessible to a mainstream audience.
But you wanna know “Does it look Awesome?” Let’s look.
An episode of the one-season 1990 Flash series went to town and had a sort of reversed clone of Flash with all his powers, and got the two into a high speed fight –
… yeah. Although the bullet-catching bit was nice. The series did manage to pull off some good super-speed scenes now and again, but by and large, they just didn’t have the means to portray someone like Flash on screen too well.
Compare and contrast. High-speed combat –
Not quite FX on the level of Man Of Steel or Avengers, but they don’t have a movie-level budget, and they make the most of what they’ve got.
And I don’t hate the costume anymore. Not super fond of it, but I don’t hate it.
I am very much looking forward to the season finale tomorrow night, and hope the showrunners can pull it off.
Fun bonus!
Racisying To The Bottom
John Hawkins of Right Wing News presents some of his uncensored hate mail. It’s all from self-styled “liberals” and is all a variation on one theme – “Fuck off and die!”
Honestly, I’m disappointed with the selection Hawkins shows… I was hoping for some actual flair or creativity among the h8fest, since it’s from people who fancy themselves pillars of intellect and wit. Some insults involving lighter fluid, a pack of condoms, and a goat, at the very least. No dice. But I did discover what is probably a typo and has now become my new favorite word –
Racisy! That is going to be my answer to everything. Vague enough to throw at anything and harder to deflect than a concrete charge like “racist.” Girl won’t call you back? She’s racisy! Didn’t get the promotion? Boss is racisy! That is my default response from now on.
4/1/15: Eleven Of The Best Ever
4 + 1 + 1 + 5 = 11
For your listening pleasure, Night Sky Radio brings you 11 of the awesomest songs ever performed. Not recommended for the weak or fans of Lite Rock. Click here or on the Toob below to begin the playlist!
And please take a minute to visit our sponsors. If you are strong.
Taylor Swift Buys Internet .Porn
That’s gotta be my clickbaitiest title ever.
So Yahoo’s homepage asks the question, “Why is Taylor Swift buying a .porn Web suffix?”* Obviously clickbait, but one worth investigating. The full story is that a new domain suffix – .sucks – is on the near horizon. The suffix .porn is already out there. Swift, Microsoft, and Harvard have reportedly already bought into .porn. While Swift.porn sounds tailor-made as a service for speedy, uh, delivery, something about combining “micro,” “soft,” and “porn” just seems meta-contradictory somehow.
I’m waiting for someone to start a nightskyradio.sucks site. I’ll know I’ve hit the big time once I’ve attracted hatefollowers.
* The little thumbnail teaser read “Swift buys Web’s .porn”. You know you would have clicked it too.
Pi In Your Face
Stolen without shame from John C. Wright –
Tomorrow at 9.26 and 53 seconds, it will be
3/14/15 9:26:53
Which is pi.
This will happen only once in the history of time.
The world ends. Prepare yourself.
(unless you are not on military time, in which case it happens twice, am and pm)
A bit more numerologizing at his site. No mention, however, regarding apple pi, American Pi, four of fish and finger pi, or private investigators. Disappointing, as one would expect a man of his intellect and wit to have a finger in every pi.
Valentine’s Day Gift Massacres
Not sure what to buy your special someone for Valentine’s Day? Find the perfect gift for any significant other here –
…whether they want a gift or not –
… as well as gifts for the entire Facebook LGBTISMAQEDR&B spectrum –
… or however “other” your significant one is –
I’m not even gonna tell you about the chocolates.
Lack Of Rhythm Method
What Are The Words? Oh, Nevermind
Now I’m mumblin’ and I’m screamin’
And I don’t know what I’m singin’
So Dalrock and others have posted about the newest masterpiece of feminist music…
A commenter wrote –
2014 will be the year that feminists lost control of the narrative, with such fails as “Gamergate” UVa, “Ban Bossy”, “Mattgate”, “He For She” (off the top of my head) demonstrating that they are a bunch of selfish misfits with First World problems.
From the looks of this, 2015 is off to a flying start for them.
Feminism has gone completely off the rails. In the past, there was at least some loosely defined fragment of a plan built on some vague goal of “liberation.” Now all the feminists with half a clue have aged out, died, or left the movement, leaving the useful idiots they recruited running the show. And the evidence of their showrunning skills is readily apparent in the above clip.
Weird Al: Feminist Prophet
What’s the message I’m conveyin’?
Can you tell me what I’m sayin’?
Another commenter wrote “What message they are trying to convey is beyond me.”
Weird Al accidentally predicted how feminism would end up over 20 years ago –
The song describes the utter lack of anything resembling logic or coherency, and anticipates the day when tuneless howling and yipping would be presented as Deep Art.
And the video….
The video is the distilled essence of modern day feminism, covering every beat from
– The fat middle aged tranny cheerleader (see “women without vaginas”)
– Unshaved armpits
– Setting a man on fire
– A genderfluid janitor discovering his true identity
– Violent contempt for cookie-bearing Girl Scouts.
And Dick Van Patten’s eating addiction could be representative of any number of things.
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