Are you kidding? I always thought of Hank Scorpio as the good guy. He treats his employees with respect and dignity. Realizes they are as valuable as he is and he is very considerate of their feelings. He was genuinely sorry to see Homer go and gave him a gift after he left. Hank was liberating the east coast in my…
"Awwww... the Denver Broncos?!"
I like John Green. Yeah, I get that TFiOS wasn't perfect, and that his math skills were a little off there. But I still like prominent nerds who don't use their fame to exclude others, but who tries to spread the love. And I like that he seems joyful about a life of the mind, and that he loves his brother — and will…
The Fault in Our Stars is partially a commentary on the structure of typical "cancer stories"—it definitely expects its readers to be familiar with the genre's tropes and recognize how they're unfair to actual disabled, seriously sick and terminally ill people.
There's that time the flight I was on tried to get above a storm.
Yeah, I definitely think the Nerdfighters had a pretty big hand in keeping it on the NYT Bestsellers list and the subsequent movie.
And here I thought John's YouTube fans were the ones responsible for making The Fault in Our Stars a huge thing. I mean...I was one of them when the book came out.
Tweepy tweenage twirl twemographic.
Why is it that every time somebody points out an obvious injustice, there's a dozen cries for "civility?" Why is being "civil" more important than not being a racist, sexist ass?
This doesn't surprise me, for the simple reason that Geekdom is not an alternative to the way things are. Rather, it is just another strand of norm culture, but driven to the extremes in every sense. It's a nerdy country club run by socially inept and alienated but still ultimately privileged men run, with all the…
What a stupid thing to say.
"When I tell my friends that I prefer dark, cold, overcast, and cloudy to the brightly-lit summertime, some of them look at me like I'm crazy."
Mr. Farce saw a preview for The Fault in Our Stars this morning and turned to me and said, "Is that a remake of A Walk to Remember?" pause, "I'm embarrassed I asked that. And we're fucking old."
That was my first thought too. (Off topic: I saw the touring company of "The Book of Mormon" earlier this year, and there was a full page ad in the program for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with the tagline, "The book is always better." I was amused.)
Seriously. When are college students going to start treating college like the professional environment it in no way is?
The right wing populist strain comes mostly from the plain!
Also, Hills+Valleys are where mining industry was located and in the earlier parts of the industrial revolution - water wheel powered industries.
When lawns are mowed, grass screams.
Honestly, this condom commercial works too well as Birth Control in its own right...