I had the honor and pleasure of doing The Moth at the Aspen Ideas Festival last year. I shared a story about racism, being let down by white friends and my worst moment in standup at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011.
Parks & Rec, Pretty Little Liars and the Fast & Furious films all exist in the same universe
And SCANDAL WTF
Oh jeez, SCANDAL….
….and BATTLESHIP too, apparently. It’s a goddamn conspiracy
Oh god. He’s on REVENGE too. How deep does this rabbit-hole go….
Oh my god. DEXTER.
THE ACTUAL NEWS
Wtf who is this guy
Protip: real newscasters actually make the best fake newscasters, and if they can swing it, shows will try to cast them. Turns out actors who play newscasters can’t get the rhythm right and seem like they are acting too much.
ME AND GIL WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS LIKE 3 DAYS AGO
The signs are man-made specks in an ocean of nature but are harbingers of a battle to come. It is a fight between the Munduruku, who have long sanctified this river, and Brazil’s government, which plans to flood much of this land to build a $9.9 billion hydroelectric dam, the São Luiz do Tapajós. The dam is one of seven planned for this river and part of a wider strategy across the Amazon that the energy ministry says is necessary to sate the country’s growing need for power. But the Munduruku say they have a constitutional right to remain on their territory — and that the government is refusing to acknowledge it, in violation of the law. […]
“We will fight to the end,” said Juarez Saw Munduruku. “This is our struggle. … I would die defending my land so that another generation can live here.”
The original pitch for the Powerpuff Girls was a student film called Whoopass Stew. Craig McCracken originally intended to show what the perfect little girl was before Professor Utonium added a can of Whoopass to the concoction. The perfect little girl (sitting on the rainbow) was supposed to be the perfect mixture of sugar, spice, and everything nice. When the accidental extra ingredient was added, the three original ingredients split up to match the personalities of the three new girls. Bubbles being sugar, Buttercup being spice, and Blossom being everything nice.
On this day we honor thousands of our unknown
maternal ancestors, who were the true mothers of the nation.
“You were afraid to nurse your young
lest fallen breast offend your master’s sight
and he should flee to firmer loveliness.
And so you passed them, your children, on to
me.
Flesh that was your flesh and blood that was your
blood
drank the sustenance of life from me.
And as I gave suckle I knew I nursed my own child’s
enemy.
I could have lied,
told you your child was fed till it was dead of
hunger.
But I could not find the heart to kill orphaned
innocence.
For as it fed, it smiled and burped and gurgled
with content
and as for color knew no difference.
Yes, in that first while
I kept your sons and daughters alive.
But when they grew strong in blood and bone
that was of my milk
you
taught them to hate me.
Put your decay in their hearts and upon their lips
so that strength that was of myself
turned and spat upon me,
despoiled my daughters, and killed my sons.
You know I speak true.“
(Beah
Richards, excerpt from “A Black Woman Speaks of White Womanhood”)
, compounded by her specific provenance – people Meinert describes as irresponsible breeders, who’d produced pups especially prone to health problems, including
