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| http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wondermark/~3/xJyFTe9ABGM/ http://wondermark.com/?p=4108 
I highly recommend the movie Away We Go, the newest from director Sam Mendes. I don’t think it’s for everybody, but for me, a dude really close to 30 who is in the first sort of nascent stages of starting a family yet who’s still waiting to discover what Adulthood is supposed to feel like, I think this movie was utterly, totally for me.
I won’t link you to the trailer or anything though, because with all due respect to my friends who worked on the marketing, this movie (like pretty much every movie) is better off seen totally cold, without anticipating the big moments that the trailer and commercials give away. So, don’t watch the marketing, but do see the movie. (Oh, and if you don’t like it — well, there’s no accounting for taste. I liked it. Let’s not argue about it, huh?)
Finally: take a look at John Krasinski up there. What do you notice?
He’s bearded.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is the only mainstream, non-period American movie in a great while in which the primary romantic protagonist wears a full beard. Leave me a comment if I’m wrong; I’d like to know if there are others!
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| (It's a movie. I have just seen the ad one too many times.)
I would like this trope to die, please. I am done with homely, geeky stalker guys whining about how uberhot cutie girls they've never actually had a full conversation with should stop being so shallow and see the Real Them (and, ergo, lurv them or at least sex them up). With no apparent sense of irony, at all.
I would also like it to die in real life.
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| Who's in Minneapolis this weekend for the Bicycle Film Festival? What are your plans?
I live in Minneapolis, I ride a nondescript 2003 (steel blue/gray) surly steamroller and have red hair. Say hi if you see me at the events on Friday or Saturday. I'll probably be photographing. | |
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| Setting: Post-Edwardian England, around 1912 or so.
Basically I need a word that my character could use to refer to the thugs that beat up his friend. Something roughly equivalent to today's 'bastard' or 'git'. He's from a well-off background, public school educated (as in an Eton-type place), currently at University (Cambridge, to be specific). Mainly, I've found very American words that I can't imagine him using, he being painfully British, of the 'I say, let's jolly well play cricket!' type.
I've seen PG Wodehouse use 'son of unmarried parents', but that sounds far too much like a comic euphemism, though it does suggest that 'bastard' was being used as an insult.
Research: I've looked in the archives here and googled various combinations of 'Edwardian slang' , 'Jazz Age insults', 'public school [and Eton] insults', but no banana.
I'd love a good list of British Edwardian (or thereabouts) slang, so if anyone knows any ...
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| When: early 1980s Where: Hungary Searched: Wikipedia (" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Hungary") and links from there, including various institutions home pages. It's 1981-ish and I'm teenage Hungarian, fresh out of gymnasium with above-average grades and well-above-average test scores. Where do I go to get (the closest equivalent of) a college liberal arts education? Of the places I've looked into, all either a) were founded after 1990, or b) specialize in a particular discipline (medicine, law, management/business, performing arts, etc.). I understand Hungary's a small country ( roughly ten million), so there won't be the number of institutions available in western Europe, much less the United States. But it's hard to believe there wasn't someplace that trained the mathematicians and engineers and schoolteachers. | |
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| Evening folks! Plans for Sunday night? Cancel them - this will be way better! Free hard rock gig at Henry's Cellar Bar this Sunday (12th July) Lineup: Februus , Dead On The Live Wire and Safe Search Is Off It's all going down at 7:30pm How much 'free' can we give you? Free entry! free CD's! free USB sticks! Free love! Oh my! Hope to see you there! :) ( Flyer and Facebook event link under cut )- Mood:excited
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| I feel relaxed and strangely decadent.
I slept - I still couldn't say well, but more overall than I had in a few days. Cautiously hopeful about trending toward sleeping through the night again. That would be so nice.
The latest fanfic is moving along, slowly - she's spending much more time talking about the quests than Tavi did, but not to worry - still plenty of That Other Stuff. Including a scene that came totally out of left field for me, which I should try to write today. ._O | |
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| Photos from the world record attempt bike parade; we needed ~2200 people to break the record, but the highest numbers I saw were 1700s. :( ( Read more... ) | |
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| Going out for a few beers tonight with friends, looking for somewhere in town, not too noisy so we can actually chat. Places already struck off my list are Brass Monkey, Queen's Head, Standing Order, Peartree, Basement...so fellow edinburgers what's your fave haunt for a week day pint and a chat with friends? Doesn't have to be a pub, a little quiet bar etc will be fine...thanking you. | |
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| http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/2009/07/09/massive-meat-harmers/ http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/?p=3380 Thanks to Alan for finding this one about the Channel 4 show “Inside Nature’s Giants” where they do autopsies on massive animals (I think).
I find the program offensive – it makes me feel sick. You wouldn’t show the autopsy of a human being on TV… I understand the importance to and interest of inspiring and existing veterinary professionals and appreciate it – but think this should be an optional “watch online” program – the amount of animal “harmers” and such that must watch this is unacceptable and the fact that adults and children know that animals are being cut up and “examined” for the entertainment or interest of people is not pleasant. I am upset at the adverts of this program and disgusted at the knowledge that these animals are being examined on television. I think this program should not be advertised on TV or should be advertised to interested parties only… or shown to them via the internet or recorded media. I somehow cannot believe that all the animals on the show died of natural causes or were happy to have their body examined on TV for the world to see. I appreciate the sharing of knowledge, but there is many cases which you would not share with everyone and anyone for certain reasons – and a show about cutting up animals should not be treated any different – it promotes animal cruelty un-directly – people get ideas from CSI – so people will get ideas from this program – and not feel ‘as’ guilty from acting upon their ideas because they are “only animals” – as some people think.
JANEFREE
Up until now I’ve used garden tools and fireworks to damage animals the old-fashioned way but this is really going to open up a new world for me. Soon I could be kicking a horse’s lung off or giving a giraffe an unwanted vasectomy. | |
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| http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1506  | archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about–  |  | | | ← previous | July 9th, 2009 | next | July 9th, 2009: Shortly after this comic went up, Greg sent me a link to The Odds Of Dying From..., which is very handy if you're an American and you want to know the lifetime odds of dying from, say, a "foreign body entering through skin or natural orifice", which are (just?) 1 in 103,004.
As Greg points out, the current odds of dying from being "bitten or crushed by non-venemous snakes and lizards" are at 0! The lesson here is clear, you guys: FEEL FREE TO ANNOY ALL THE NON-VENEMOUS SANKES AND LIZARDS YOU WANT, THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT
FLASH UPDATE: A few readers pointed me to the WHO International Classification of Diseases, 10th Edition, which enumerates all sorts of problems you can have, more completely than the selection I linked to above. And it's only a hop skip and a jump from there to just reading this list as Tons Of Ways You Can Die. There's no probabilities, but it includes some fun ones like T63.9 ("Toxic effect of contact with unspecified venomous animal"), W.19 ("Unspecified fall") and V97.3 ("Person on ground injured in air transport accident"), clarified on the site as "Sucked into a jet".
FUN TIMES AT THE WHO AND DINOSAUR COMICS TODAY – Ryan |
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| Over the new Haikasoru blog, Nick Mamatas interviews Joseph Reeder, translator of Haikasoru's forthcoming novel A ll You Need is Kill. Linguistically the rules for what can pass as a sentence are much, much looser in Japanese than English. For example, you might have a series of fragments bookending a longer explanatory passage, and that back and forth is very at home in the Japanese. The same section in English might come across as lacking focus. So simple things like grouping the fragments together to get a rhythm going, then switching to the longer explanatory passage can make the whole much more cohesive to the English reader without unduly disrupting the intent of the original. - read the rest of the interview. | |
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