Only virgins can ride/touch unicorns, and only virgins would be interested in hearing a pseudo-profound grad student ramble on about this.
Only virgins can ride/touch unicorns, and only virgins would be interested in hearing a pseudo-profound grad student ramble on about this.
As someone said above, it was the targeting of the Marathon - the big event of the Bostonian year - that caused this reaction. It was a symbolic attack on the core of Boston, even if it did only kill three people. If a terrorist bomb had killed three people on a meaningless day in August, the reaction would have…
I am of two minds about this - the movie is indeed likely to be exploitative and not very good, but I don't like the groupthink cult of "too soon." We had World War II movies while World War II was still going on.
What an odd statement. Even if we were to accept that human motivations are primarily negative, you left out two of the big ones - greed and lust.
We can't fully blame Marah or the Billboard writer - there is a direct quote in the article from a TV executive implying that the Platters were elected between 2009 and 2011. Clearly this person was not very well-informed.
Hard to say. It seems as if almost everyone, no matter how purportedly anti-establishment, does show up when inducted. Morrissey openly hates everyone, but Marr might be in the "I might as well show up" tradition.
The Platters were inducted in 1990, long before Fuse even existed. If that ceremony was televised (not sure if they always were in the early days), it probably would have been on VH1 (and since it included the Who, Simon and Garfunkel, the Kinks, and more, it hardly lacked for popular acts).
Actually, I think the seen-better-days cities of the Midwest and Northeast are more like the opposite of Milton Keynes. They would be more the equivalent of the old industrial cities that Milton Keynes was designed to replace.
"It’s not widely known that The Sound Of Music was based on a true story."
Actually, no, I think this title really was given up. The same family stayed rulers of Austria until 1918 and never used the title again, so I doubt if they revived it in their post-power years.
I don't know; I think the Ford years are part of the mental seventies also. (If for no other reason than the Chevy Chase skits on Saturday Night Live, which are definitely "seventies" rather than "sixties.")
Today the reverse convention would make more sense - I think the original underlying idea was "The great empire of today corresponds to the great empire of yesterday," but Britain has not filled that role for a long time.
Richard Hatch really changed the original intention of a survival-based game, though - but of course Burnett never had qualms about profiting off the modified version.
I think it was Judas who was considered a redhead in medieval Europe. Red hair was considered a Jewish trait (? - I have a feeling that they may have been defining "red" differently than we do) and then anti-Semitically linked with a bad Biblical character instead of a good one.
I was replying to Billybob, not the original poster. I meant that Iesus was the Greek form of Yeshua - "crude adaptation" is not really the right way to put it.
Life expectancy at 35 means the average of everyone who died including the very high number of short-lived babies. If you made it to age five or six, you would probably make it to age fifty or sixty.
It was filtered through the Greek.
Actually, someone at another site who claimed to be a lawyer analyzed this prosecution as one that would be very unlikely under New York State law, where conviction for assault would require at least some degree of long-lasting injury.
The funny (?) thing is that the first tweet itself is already watered down and censored - this is what used to be called a "moron joke" (and it probably exists in variants targeted toward specific ethnicities as well).
At least that did get a bit of mainstream publicity. The sexual assault fiasco did not.