that first officer certainly seems to have kicked the victim’s head or neck...the rest look like they’re tamping out small burning bits (clothing?) before they move him away from the vehicle.

Moving him by dragging seems unnecessarily violent, perhaps, but perhaps they felt, with potential injuries, it was better than…

this popped up in my facebook newsfeed yesterday. how timely!

Show me, on this tabletop figure, where the troll touched you...

wait: what?

Wow, that’s bringing your full attention to bear on a subject, eh?
Wow again.

TBC: this is an independently developed property that Netflix has licensed; they didn’t produce it.

it doesn’t seem too inappropriate that Oscar would want to save her.

I read last night, too, that the current GitS only did $19M in N.America on opening weekend, against a $110M budget (which is a medium budget for an effects-heavy feature these days, and for which they put every penny on the screen as far as I’m concerned!), so it’s being written off as a box office failure. Some of…

People have argued for both GitS and Akira anime features relating them to Citizen Kane (bear with me!), or Disney’s Snow White, in the way that they were utterly ground-breaking and original at the time, but everything they pioneered has become so widely used that they’ve become part of the cinematic language, and it…

THIS!

“sounds only like he thinks this country somehow belongs to whiteness.”

So, given days to reflect, notes to prepare and reference, and editing so he can hone his message, he still manages to fuck it up.

yup.

@LukePlunkett for the win

been reading Cory Doctorow’s “Little Brother,” have they?

one might say...”golf clap”

I saw this documentary once...

LEGO needs to license this property and get designing brick sets...

http://www.alternet.org/media/19-dumbest-most-bigoted-things-bill-maher-has-ever-said

Apparently his first choice of nom de guerre was “Jewdiepie,” but was seen to be too “on the nose.”