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09:15 pm
prof_vencire
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09:10 pm
prof_vencire
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10:07 am
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[The Greyhound Bus] is a rolling Coan Brothers film with casting by John Waters
When I was a wee laddie, maybe 6 or 7, my favorite thing in the whole of existence was going to the library. So many books, all for my reading pleasure. Out of the multitudes, there were a few* that I checked out every single time I saw them on the shelves. Those books are still hearty kicks to the nostalgia.
One such set of books were lost to me, with only the faintest details to work off of. The series was simply titled "Monsters", and each book focused on a different classic monster or horror movie, ranging from King Kong and Godzilla, to Dracula and The Wolfman, to The Blob and The Deadly Mantis.
And though checked them out dozens of times, all I could remember were the safety orange covers. Alas, "Orange Monster Children's Book" is not as descriptive a search term as one might hope. So for years, they were resigned to a post-it on my wall, saying "Monster Books - Orange? Library? FIND".
Friday, I was helping to re-shelve books in the school library where I was subbing. And, like a strong kick right to my nostalgia centers, there they were, in their orange covered glory. Crestwood House Monsters. I thanked the librarian for holding on to them all these years, and spend the last part of class paging though each volume. They really weren't much, just black and white photos, and whitewashed descriptions of the plots, but they were the perfect thing for my elementary school brain.
And when I returned home, armed with the publisher's name, I found a bunch of people had a similar story. Which is neat-o.
*other repeat offenders: Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades, A book on cool tree-houses that was shaped like a tree-house, and the Simon and Sushler Book of Facts and Fallacies, (I now own the copy I checked out ten million times, and the card in the back of the book with my name in every box).
And this comes on the heals of another nostalgia rediscovery, the YA sci-fi of William Sleator. I checked them out from my middle school a dozen times, and devoured the new concepts that would open up other, more elaborate vistas of sci-fi. Each book usually had a single sci-fi "hook" that was clearly defined and explored, just about perfect for a young brain that's on the cusp of handling that level of reality abstraction. There was Singularity (dealt with a miniature black hole in a shack where relative time slowed down), The Boy Who Reversed Himself (about folding up through higher dimensions), The Duplicate (imperfect cloning machine), andInterstellar Pig (alien artifact that every species covets).
I found them on the shelves of an English teacher while I was subbing at my old middle school. The guy had a wall lined with books and bookshelves. He hadn't read or even heard of half of them (seriously, I saw a Gor novel). There were enough Dune books there to build a small Dune-castle. He achieved this hoard when three other English teachers departed, and left their collections on his classroom doorstep. Now to find a way to make him retire and leave the hoard to me...
Nifflas, creator of such wonderful games like Knytt Stories and Within a Deep Forest, has just released his new game, Saira. I've only just started playing, and while the controls take a little getting use to (they feel limited by using the same three keys as his other games), it is just as full of atmospheric joy as his previous works. The full game requires payment, but the demo is pretty expansive. Plus, I'm willing to pay him on basis of how much I enjoyed his previous games alone.
I've talked many times about how much I love those giant crystal caves, but I guess I forgot how deadly they were. Still, I want to build my house there.
Mario, in fluorescent bacteria proteins. Sweet.
Hey, Patrick Stewart is going to be Sir Patrick Stewart. Sweet. That 'stash is awesome.
Japanese manga artist to create Alan Moore Dojinshi. Swee...wha?
No one is going to save you fools. Makes sense. So many people fought tooth and nail to get Obama elected. And now they feel betrayed. Because they have been. Because they stopped fighting.
This io9 article compares the race themes in Avatar and District 9, comes to a conclusion that makes me like District 9 a whole lot more.
X-Mas time!
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07:04 pm
prof_vencire
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12:03 am
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Current Music: Rachel's - 4 Or 5 Trees
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11:45 pm
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04:45 pm
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09:44 pm
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07:30 pm
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08:34 pm
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02:22 pm
drowdancer
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My Combo Science-Art Brain will get me yet.
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A Science Blog I read (local guy to boot), on the breasting threshold of the known:
"The geography, the spatial relationships of things in their laboratory and field sites, was different than in the library. It was like they were standing at far end of a room full of books and periodicals, with no walls separating the room from the outside, standing on the edge of an unfinished floor and observing poorly resolved things floating around before them that might or might not be useful data or other constructs. Shapeless forms of possible knowledge floating in the dark and cold unknown. Every now and then the scientist is able (using some tool or another) to grab on to one of these poorly defined forms in an attempt to wrestle it into a place where it could be understood. Sometimes, the thing they would grab would be reformed into books and articles to add to the shelves in their proper place. Sometimes (often) putting the new item on the shelf required tossing what was already there out into the vague abyss at the edge of the room, sometimes the thing they grabbed would wriggle free and escape before sense was made of it. Sometimes it would be thrown back because it was crap."
The set-up is the best part, but he makes some interesting points toward the end.
Second:
I will bring up Annie Wu in conversation at some point. I blame her for making me want to run away and make art.
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12:07 am
blake_reitz
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate its
Here is a pretty great hack that I had to post: How to keep flash video in full screen on dual monitors.
Using said hack, I am watching RIP; A Remix Manifesto and Origins of Life on Hulu, and the very fantastic James Burke's Connections (which I can't recommend enough) over on YouTube. Here's the first episode:
I want to go to there.
There's this insane spiral phenomenon that happened in the sky over Norway. I know there's "explanations" for this now, but I'll be damned if it wasn't something a little more...unusual.
Lion, tiger, and bear, form friendship, open opportunity for easy headlines.
Zombie Disney Cosplay is the new hot thing, apparently. I'm for it.
I'm glad that They’re eating her, and then they’re going to eat me! OH MY GOOOOOOOD!” is an official meme now, and not just something from my tiny social circle.
I've always liked the mythology of Judaism, but I'm not terribly religious and converting seems like a lot of effort. So I'm thinking I could just be a Righteous Gentile. Only seven rules, and you still get a place in the new world! That's a good deal.
Sharks. With. People teeth. Sharks with people teeth.
I just played Au Sable, another atmospheric indie game from the creator of All Of Our Friends Are Dead, which was the gaming equivalent of creepypasta. It's not quite as chaotic, but very excellent. Here's a link to a video walkthrough, if you're not in the mood to actually spend fifteen minutes in a darkened room staring at your monitor.
ze frank gives the history of Afghanistan, up to and during the current century.
I'll be gone from KORB on Vimeo.
I also want to go to here.
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09:18 pm
prof_vencire
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05:00 pm
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