shouldn’t this headline been “Chris still Pines for his Star Trek Future.” Happy friday.

Can we get Marvel Godzilla in there while we’re at it?

Jesus, even if he IS there, is it that fucking tough to assume that T’Challa, or the Queen Mother or Forest Rafiki Character said “Hey, white boy. You’re gonna sit in this room with some popcorn, a Nautilus set and Netflix for a few days. We don’t need the other tribes seeing you right now”

Uh, what?

He drops Bucky off in Wakanda and then heads out to work on some other problem elsewhere in the world. Pretty simple thing to reconcile.

Yeah, it’s kind of an unenviable position for Marvel. 15 years of building to this point, they really, really have to deliver the goods on this. The track record so far is promising - even the “Eh, that wasnt so good” movies have still been at least watchable - so I’m not too worried here.

With all at stake here it’s starting to feel like one of those Doctor Who season-enders where the payoff can’t possibly be worth the buildup. Can it?

LE EDGE

Jews begun to add Cantillation marks to aid in chanting of the Torah starting at something like the late first millenium AD, and they eventually developed into the full set of vowel dots found in modern printings of the Torah.

The First Council of Nicaea was actually convened to discuss Christology--and more specifically to refute the Arian Heresy (that Jesus was a lesser creation by God the father, and therefore was not equal with God the Father as part of the Trinity). The development of the biblical canon was pretty much complete by the…

I would find too many references to “KENTUCKY” in a 7th century Middle Eastern manuscript to be somewhat suspect.

“Nd YHVH sd: whl prfrmng brnt ffrngs, tk cr nt t st nrby bjcts n fr, y kncklhds.”

Wrong lake kiddo. Corpses don’t float in Superior because it’s too damn cold for bloat to set in.

Also just in: Researchers have completed as study of car-wheel patterns using sophisticated computers and publicly available historical data. Most cars have four wheels (2 front 2 back) and some with differential wheel sizing (2 front small 2 back big); some have three (2 front 1 back, 1 front 2 back). Rarely, there…

According to Dr. D. Waterhouse at the Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of the Technologickal Arts confirms that all vehicles either have fewer than four wheels, exactly four wheels, or more than four wheels!

Did you know: There are equally “compelling” and “interesting” studies and papers that say there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 basic plots, too? And that all of these studies are worthless bullshit?

This is sort of silly. There are only eight possible combinations of rise and fall in three parts. And two of them, (rise rise fall / rise fall fall) and (fall fall rise/ fall rise rise), are effectively redundant. Therefore in a world of six possible plots, stories fall into six of them.

Um, yes everyone hates you except for Gawker, since 2009

I work at a big library with a pretty good collection of older books, and yeah we have a bunch of these books in the stacks. The collections of jokes and “funny” toasts for weddings from the 60s are a special kind of terrible. If you want to imagine the 60s picture a drunken uncle with a bad comb over bellowing “THE…

I won’t say how important my job was, but when they replaced me with a computer—it was secondhand.