February 2012
47 posts
“Pretty girl keep growin’ up,
Playin’ make-up,
Wearin’ guitar.
Growin’ old in a...”
– Some drunks from MPLS. (via bigredrobot)
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More awesome New York Times corrections →
Correction: February 3, 2012
An earlier version of this article misspelled part of the name of the “Star Wars” character Jabba the Hutt. It is Hutt, not Hut.
“Hopefully, next time [Spider-Man] will be a half-Hispanic, half-African American...”
– Andrew Garfield at an Amazing Spider-Man promotional event today in New York City.
Sony hosted events with the film’s principals in different cities around the world today, all simultaneously and linked up via some kind of video technology that I will never, ever understand. Stars Andrew...
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twiststreet:
“I’ve always loved ghost stories, writers like M.R. James, L.P. Hartley, Joan Aiken, Stephen King, Joe Hill. But the scariest story I’ve ever heard was a true ghost story. There were eight or nine of us at a restaurant in Raleigh, North Carolina, and we were telling ghost stories. The friend of a friend said, ‘When I was a girl living in Texas, I had a recurring dream. In this...
divination:
plants are amazing and better than people
Real talk.
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What to do when titles come in twos.
lazymercenary:
“When Ivan Reitman was planning a movie called “Twins,” he called up his longtime friend and former compatriot. The conversation went something like this, according to Cronenberg:
Ivan: “I hear you’re making a movie called ‘Twins.’” David: “Yeah, it’s about these twin gynecologists.” Ivan: “I want to make a movie called ‘Twins’ as well.” David: “Oh, really?” Ivan: “Yeah, and I...
Chicken Wing Cupcakes!
eataku:
Yes, you read that right. And that’s exactly what it looks like…
A Chicken Wing Cupcake!
These are being produced this weekend for the Super Bowl by Coccadotts in Albany, New York. A corn bread cupcake with bleu cheese frosting, topped with a fried chicken wing and sprinkled with brown sugar!
You can read more about them over at Coccadotts website or on All Over Albany!
Thanks to...
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January 2012
159 posts
More awesome New York Times corrections →
Correction: January 30, 2012
An earlier version of this article misstated Robert Smith’s age when he married. He was not 16.
desliz:
I really, really like this article on Mexican sf/fantasy, because it helps articulate how I use the genre myself. I am fundamentally incapable of writing a story where unrealistic things happen just because it’s fun to speculate. That’s my boyfriend’s passion, and I find absolutely no fault with it, but I can’t do it. It always comes back to reality, somehow, and the things that anger...
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