I was on an Honor Guard team in my first assignment in the early 2000s. At the time I was serving in the detail we were stationed in Florida, but we handled funerals for the veteran population for a few hours all around in between the bases/posts. The first funeral I had been was an active duty funeral, gut wrenching,…

Holy Mother of Dog — where to start? I am from the south.

Attended a Spanish/Mexican funeral with my mother of some distant relative that I didn’t know but we had to go to “represent the family”. We walk into a huge funeral home lobby and see a little sign that indicated our service was happening in east wing with another occurring in the west wing. So we walked to the left…

Disclaimer: not meant to be funny.

Like most of my family stories, this one is fucked up. My father died pretty young, after spending about half my life avoiding me because I look and sound too much like my mother, his ex-wife but spent time with my brother. His brothers, my uncles, don’t know me because my hag grandmother declared my brother and I…

This makes me think of how drag has been popular since the 18th century but organizations started banning people from performing in drag in the twenties if you were using it for identity and not just ridicule. Nothing is more ridiculous than a male body acting feminine. Nothing is more of a betrayal of strict gender…

Does it come with an accessory wrecked Escalade and dead body?

... sounds like they are too busy holding up their heads in righteousness.

I guess they don’t hate gays, they just think if you haven’t identified as gay since birth and haven’t flaunted your gayness by hooking up with the same sex since you’ve been in Israel, well then your story’s fulla holes and you just CAN’T be gay.

Nope. It’s because the “wave” or the “rune” are imaginary fantasy-land things. I’ve played tons of videogames. I don’t know what pushing a wave or defending a rune is like. I know what a juggling combo is and what camping with a shotgun is, but DOTA terms don’t mean anything to me. DOTA’s audience will never be bigger…

Not all NDAs cover only specific issues. Many are pretty general. Plus, companies have media policies covering who and who can’t talk to the media and they have social media policies saying you can’t talk about the company in blogs, twitter, etc.

Did you not read the article? Specifically the part about his explanation of their localization decision-making process and how it pissed off a bunch of Nintendo fans? You don't let your employees make unofficial public statement for exactly that reason, which is why companies put these kinds of rules in place. Rules…

Except it’s not silly reasons. It’s almost definitely a breach in a legal contract. Even if nothing ‘important’ was revealed, the inherent problem is that allowing it to happen without retribution would invite more employees to do similar interviews, and possibly release more sensitive information. So unless Nintendo…

Paul Feig is no Stanley Kubrick (or even Stanley Donen, for that matter) but at worst he has a directorial style that is warm and inoffensive and gets out of the way of the script and the actors (which in comedy isn’t a terrible decision).

You know what, I’m going to copy&paste a really good post I saw on Tumblr. Not my words, but I wish they were because they are so right.

“It’s okay to talk about a project”

PSA: Progressives have to start focusing on local as well as national elections. Your school boards and city/county governments are key. Ask candidates about sex ed and other issues you think are important. You don’t even have to talk to anyone anymore. Look up the candidates and send an email.

It’s pointless for me to comment here. None of Snyder’s movies have ever risen above mediocre for me, and everything I’ve seen of the DC Cinematic Universe has disappointed me. So no, a well-cut trailer means nothing to me. It wasn’t going to. Yet I’m typing these words regardless. It’s a mystery.