Out of Left Field

Is this a kissing book?

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:25:50 -0400

Is this a kissing book?

I have fallen down a Fast and Furious rabbit hole. Send help.

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:30:16 -0400

I have fallen down a Fast and Furious rabbit hole. Send help.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 11:19:30 -0400

"We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:50:55 -0400

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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.

I knew that if we had a daughter, because I know my wife and I know the kind of girl she wants to raise and I know the kind of girl I want to raise, she was going to look at what I did for a living and want to know how the fuck I could stomach it. How could I sell her out like that?” Fraction continued. “That conversation is still coming, and I’m bracing for it in the way that some dads brace for their daughter’s first date or boyfriend. I became acutely aware that I had sort of done that thing that lots of privileged hetero cisgendered white dudes do. ‘I’m cool with women, and that’s enough.’ It’s not enough. It’s embarrassing to say, because we somehow have attached shame to learning and evolving our opinions, culturally, but I became aware that there was a deficiency of and to women in my work, and all I could do at that moment was take care of my side of the street.

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- Writer Matt Fraction on his role on expanding the profile of female characters in the Marvel Universe. (via goodmanw)

georgetakei: The King of Videobombs.

Sat, 25 May 2013 10:10:51 -0400

georgetakei:

The King of Videobombs.

lotus09: @maggiesox Yes yes and yes.

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:19:09 -0400

lotus09:

@maggiesox

Yes yes and yes.

WUT.

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:13:51 -0400

WUT.

popmech: The muscle cars of Fast & Furious 6 UNF.

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:21:43 -0400

popmech:

The muscle cars of Fast & Furious 6

UNF.

Yes.

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:18:30 -0400

Yes.

GPOY.

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:11:29 -0400

GPOY.

From Reddit: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:08:13 -0400

mildlyamused:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.

But then, then comes the fateful moment where you find out that all this time, he’s only seen you as a potential girlfriend. And then if you turn him down, he may never speak to you again. This has happened to me time after time: I hit it off with a guy, and, for all that I’ve been burned in the past, I start to think that this one might actually care about me as a person. And then he asks me on a date.

I tell him how much I enjoy his company, how much I value his friendship. I tell him that I really want to be his friend and to continue hanging out with him and talking about our favorite books or exploring new restaurants or making fun of avant-garde theatre productions. But he rejects me. He doesn’t answer my calls or e-mails; if we’d been making plans to do something before this fateful incident, these plans mysteriously fail to materialize. (This is why I never did get around to seeing the Hunger Games movie. Not to name any names, but thanks a lot, Tom.) Later, when I run into him at social events, our conversations are awkward and lukewarm. This is because the moment we met, he put me in the girlfriend-zone, and now he can’t see me as friend material.

I must say that I find this really unfair. I mean, I’m a nice girl. I have a lot to offer as a friend, like not being a douchebag and stuff. But males just don’t want to be friends with nice girls like me. They can’t help it, I guess; it’s just how they’re wired, biologically. Evolution conditioned our male hominid ancestors to seek nice girls as mates and form friendship bonds only with the other dudes that they hunted mammoths with. It’s true—I know this because I studied hominids in my fifth-grade science class.

So what’s the answer? Should I take up mammoth-hunting in an attempt to appeal to the friendship centers of men’s primal lizardbrains? Should I keep making guy “friends” and then prevent them from making a move on me by subtly undermining their self-confidence? Should I just give up on those manipulative, game-playing, two-faced bastards once and for all? I don’t know. I mean, I’d really like to have a true friendship with a guy someday, but it’s so hard to trust and respect them when they never say what they mean—and you never know when you might be relegated to the girlfriend-zone.

Source

thekevinmarshall: inothernews: A framegrab from TV news video...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:55:07 -0400

thekevinmarshall:

inothernews:

A framegrab from TV news video shows lot upon lot of homes flattened by a “mile-wide” tornado in Moore, Oklahoma on Monday. At least 51 people are dead. (via KFOR TV / The New York Times)

Unprecedented destruction will need unprecedented assistance. Donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.

holdasmile: Ten Years ago; Buffy The Vampire Slayer Series...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:08:52 -0400

holdasmile:

Ten Years ago; Buffy The Vampire Slayer Series Finale aired….Happy 10 Anniversary

Fuck. I am An Old.

Dorothy Zbornak aka the Queen of the Bitch Face Dorothy...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:08:16 -0400

Dorothy Zbornak aka the Queen of the Bitch Face

Dorothy Zbornak is my patronus. Let’s be honest here.

Truer words, Cas. Truer words.

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:05:29 -0400

Truer words, Cas. Truer words.

fuckyeahsexeducation: This blog brought to you by someone from...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:52:00 -0400

fuckyeahsexeducation:

This blog brought to you by someone from one of those grey states.

This fucking country, I swear. Funny story: I got in mad trouble in high school for arguing with the teacher that abstinence doesn’t protect 100% against both pregnancies and STDs. The look on that man’s face when I pointed out that rape ends in pregnancy and that not all STDs are transmitted through penetration…

I hate Pennsylvania sometimes.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 19:38:54 -0400

"DiCaprio and Mulligan, meanwhile, don’t seem like star-crossed lovers so much as a delusional man in..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:02:23 -0400

“DiCaprio and Mulligan, meanwhile, don’t seem like star-crossed lovers so much as a delusional man in love with a bauble of a woman. Maybe that’s intentional?”

-
People Magazine’s review on ‘The Great Gatsby’

READ A BOOK

(via keut)

This? This is why I drink.

NOW do you understand?

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:33:10 -0400

NOW do you understand?

lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around the world had a...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:23:21 -0400

lickypickystickyme:

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people’s houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.

Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

I am suddenly exceedingly hungry.