July 2012
8 posts
slavish re-enactment
keyholez:
Remember the German sex cannibal (“Come to me and I eat your horny flesh”)? I had thought that the Keri Russell-starring film based on the incident was never released, but it was! The cannibal sued over it, when he wasn’t busy suing Rammstein:
Meiwes is also suing to stop the release of the horror film “Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story”, calling it a “slavish re-enactment” of his...
therealmsmanners:
seedz:
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I mean, I guess if Harvey Dent can take the time to custom-burn a suit, Batman can take the time to custom-burn a bat symbol onto a bridge, right? It’s not like there was a ticking time bomb he had to deal with or anything…
Hahaha he stopped like ten times on the way to the Batwing to listen politely while people confessed their true feelings about him.
My Dark Knight Review from 2008 →
testingdistance:
I deleted this post at first because I worried people would stone me for not enjoying the Dark Knight. But then I remembered the internet is amorphous and can’t pick up stones.
Aaron Eckhart/Two-Face: Did anyone notice the half burnt suit Dent wore once he became Two-Face? Where did he get that? The original suit would have been unwearable after the fire. So what does that...
“All this was uncovered by a writer, Joe Coscarelli, who discovered that “What does ‘fanute’ mean?” was a recommended Google search; the query was that popular.”
“I further hoped he’d sit his critics down and thoughtfully explain that Mormonism is more than a ceremonial endeavor; it constitutes our country’s longest experiment with communitarian idealism, promoting an ethic of frontier-era burden-sharing that has been lost in contemporary America, with increasingly dire social consequences.”
(A semi-related point often made by Capital political reporter and resident Cowboy fan and Romo apologist Reid Pillifant: The Eli-Romo dichotomy is often portrayed as Glamor Boy vs. No Frills Guy, until you realize that Romo was an undrafted free agent from a non FBS school and Eli was the first pick in the draft from a patrician football background, who leaned on his ex-star player father to...
A fire somewhere on the road between my office and the train station caused the shuttle bus to arrive late. Presumably due to some unrelated mishap, the train was also several minutes late. This illustrates how complements work (maybe), the importance of diversification (not really), and how a frame of reference can impact valuation of an occurrence (definitely — hope that fire went okay for...
