Frosty, the snowman

Every character on Bebop is a question of what race/ethnicity should be cast.

Given how mad geeks were that L was black in Netflix’s Death Note, but how little they cared that Light was a white American, they’re going to insist that Faye be white, and if she isn’t, they’ll call it the worst sacrilege since Jesus was crucified. American geekdom has a very obvious racism problem.

Ten bucks says she’ll be mixed Asian/Caucasian. Hollywood is more than comfortable enough these days having mixed race actors in co-lead parts, and everyone else in the main cast is likely to be white anyway, so they’ll allow it. They get much more scared when it’s a lead in a blockbuster.

Here’s a fun conversation that’s gonna happen: what race/ethnicity do they cast Faye? The only thing we do know is she’s from Singapore, but they don’t really address what kind of, or if she even is, Asian.

As I said on the tweets, Cowboy Bebop is one of the defining Anime series’ of all time, and one that almost single-handedly introduced a massive number of people to the medium via Toonami. It’s also one of the few properties, in any medium, that is as close to perfect in it’s vision and execution as a thing can be.

They…

So, if the purpose of the GoFundMe campaign was to address Bobbitt’s homelessness... do we call this a success? He’ll have a place to sleep with a roof over his head for the next 5-10 years! Let’s call that a win and move on.

No doubt some are dubious or worse, but they’re not all the same. The news media tends to promote the most extreme stories which gives a distorted picture of reality.

One HuffPost article is a far cry from making a legitimate claim that all charities are pretty corrupt.

On Thursday, they emphasized that this case shouldn’t discourage others from contributing to a good cause.

It will never happen just because of how awesome it would be. Imagine Kaep coming in and leading them to the playoffs, getting the fans on his side, and then, kneeling IN DC (OK Maryland) right in Trump’s backyard while also calling out Snyder on the team’s racist name/logo. It would be the perfect storm and it would…

“Damn, that’s good leather!” How you caught fire lighting a damn brazier in a tomb is beyond me. But do you, Kassandra/Alexios.

Not an hour goes by where Alexios doesn't randomly catch fire. 

It actually is (can be) friendly. Ela malaka, can mean “hey, brother”. Or convey surprise, even admiration (kind of like “awesome”)! There is no rule of thumb, but mostly, if it is used to describe a third person (he’s a malakas) or directed at you, as in "you are a / very malakas", it's derogatory. If it sounds like…

As a greek, this is about the amount of malakas at a wedding.

Malaka is one of the finest words in the Greek language. Go sit in any bustling plateia - town square - in Greece for 5-10 minutes and you will hear that word about as many times. The word literally means masturbator - think “wanker.”

Rousey is literally just two calendar days younger, to be more specific.

Rousey calling The Man a millennial made no sense either as they’re both 31.

The irony here is that in the supposedly anti-parity MLB, nearly half (14) the teams in the sport have made it to the World Series just in the past decade (including low-payroll teams from Tampa Bay, Cleveland, Kansas City, and elsewhere) and 23 of 30 teams have made the playoffs in the past 5 years, despite there…

Interestingly, while the WWE gloated about their promotion of women’s wrestling at this point, they had not a single mention of some of the company’s trailblazers - Joanie “Chyna” Laurer and AJ Lee, for example.  Heck, I would have at least been happy with a reference to the Jumping Bomb Angels or Wendi Richter or…