August 2012
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Happy Birthday Jack "King" Kirby →
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Chris Sims Explains Why Jimmy Olsen is one of the... →
“Once Kirby has arrived, there’s just no going back to the Silver Age.”
Chris Sims always kills it. Seriously. Everything he writes.
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10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Star... →
6) The show could have had a musical episode
Ronald D. Moore says he kept pitching a musical episode, over and over. His idea was that: “There’s just some tech virus that infects the crew and they can only communicate in song, you know? And just do it! And have a ball.” Moore pushed for this idea over and over, and “they fought against it and fought against it and fought...
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“A lot of people go, ‘Oh I hate putting a suit on’ and ‘how can you be...”
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Greg Proops, from his Smartest Man in the World podcast
(Thanks, Brendan!)
I kept meaning to transcribe this. Glad someone else did, ‘cause I wasn’t gonna bother.
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“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel,...”
– Ray Bradbury. (If it turns out this is not a real quote, but something the internet invented, I will be very sad.)
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Siberian princess’s remarkably well-preserved body... →
So metal.
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Leader Of Anti-Semitic Party In Hungary Discovers... →
Fucking of course he is. Ain’t that always the way?
I had been especially freaked out by these guys and their surprisingly old-fashioned form of bigotry, (I think they even brought back the blood libel? Or was that someone else?) so I am not shocked to hear that it has the same ironic twist this story so often has.
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Guantánamo Bay prisoners just can't get enough of... →
The AV Club comes with hard-hitting reporting. This is actually kinda fascinating.
