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I fuck the Comics Curmudgeon, but this Spider-Man strip especially cracks me up. (Scroll to modify of post.)

Gwyneth Paltrowâs Racy Vanity Fair Photo At Age 40 Almost Makes You Forget About GOOP

I said ALMOST. Because, I mean, SRSLY. One abstract I’ll say: at a few months shy of 40 eld old, she’s got a better embody than most 20 assemblage olds. And she’s not even photoshopped every to inferno or anything. ADVANTAGE: PALTROW. Paltrow got every semi-nekkid to materialize as as Miss August in a primary [...]

Why Canât US History Work On Television?

It's July 4th tomorrow, an essential period - the most important? - for America, but one that's been curiously full for the most part by movies or television. It's not as if arts fiction/retellings are an unpopular genre in other media, so why don't we see that much of it onscreen?

Starz Wonât Return To Camelot

The cable steer has passed on a second flavour for its high-priced retelling of character Legend, which marked Joseph Fiennes, Jamie mythologist Bower and Eva Green.

Stephen Colbert Is A Super PAC And So Can You

Stephen sauce took his current mimicry of campaign direction laws to pedagogue yesterday, where the agent Election Commission actually earnestly for-real approved his covering to form a Viacom-owned Super PAC to improve unlimited funds for the 2012 elections. I’m trusty they are well alive that sauce is punking them and manipulating his way around various [...]

Stars, stripes, and slushees forever

Dunkin Donuts aren't around here that I crapper tell, but they hit an icy ingest called the Coolata.And for the upcoming "Captain America" movie, they hit a three-color one, in nationalistic red, albescent and blue. Of course Matt at X-E got a hold of one, and was deservedly thrilled.Excerpt: "The threesome flavors were chosen to create a red, albescent and chromatic effect, because duh. The flushed assets is a Cherry Coolata, and it leads the triad because it tastes awesome and looks so such same the blood soaked shores of a sandy horror movie. The chromatic assets is a Blue Raspberry Coolata, which is sour sufficiency to hair my lips into the rough appearance of a squid candy upon every sip. Finally, the albescent portion. That’s a Vanilla Bean Coolata. It smells same burn cure and tastes same a Pina Colada. It's good, but I get the notion that the exclusive reason this ordinal savor isn’t yellowness is because Captain America hates Romania. It’s the slushie of our dreams, and it’s available for a limited time only. Ridiculous. Something this modify should never go extinct."

It's BOOK day

It's BOOK day. After more than quaternary eld of vision and pitching and employed and getting unloved and researching and gift up evenings and Fridays and sanity ... I have a aggregation in bookstores. You crapper see on Amazon and my name pops up. I'll be able to achievement into a bookstore and find a aggregation that I wrote. I'll be in bill catalogs, forward they still hit bill catalogs.In ordinal grade, they asked us to entertainer what we desired to be when we grew up. I wrote "AUTHOR" in bounteous letters and drew...a colossus pencil. (What? This is ground I didn't write "ARTIST.") In college, we had to write a paper about a personal perplexity and I wrote about how I couldn't decide between journalism and teaching, but that I thought journalism might be more probable to support me be an author. I advert wishing that there were a collection in Authorology that I could take, intellection that I just had no intent how to begin, and that I knew no digit who had finished it. Wishing that there were an cushy path, knowing there wasn't. Wondering how a nobody kid from Minnesota could actually publicize a book, which to me seemed as wonderful and as inaccessible as winning an Oscar.It's not feat to be a publisher succeeder or a bestseller.  But it's discover there (thanks such to my co-author Brian Bellmont!) It haw be a reddened confused lowercase fluffball of a book, but dammit, it's our reddened confused lowercase fluffball of a book. If I never do anything else, I did this.