April 2012
March 2012
'Hunger Games' Racist Tweets: Fans Upset over... →
canisfamiliaris:
Rue, a character in The Hunger Games novels, and now the movie, is described in the books as having “dark brown skin.” In the movie, she’s played by Amandla Sternberg, a young actress with “dark brown skin.”
Sounds fine, right?
WRONG.
This is racist America, where fans are angry that a “white” girl didn’t play the role. One “fan” tweeted:
“Awkward moment when Rue is some...
the-absolute-funniest-posts:
tim burton: hey guys i had an idea- producers: oh god not again tim burton: so we have some undead people tim burton: who are creepy and shit tim burton: and helena you know my wife helena she’s in it of course tim burton: and we call up johnny you know johnny depp to be in it tim burton: what do you think?
I am not looking forward to this movie.
Old people: Stop hating on The Hunger Games →
All I can say is that if transparently topical dystopias about being forced by a callous elite to hunt and kill your juvenile peers for your fellow proles’ reality-TV jollies are the new girliness, then girliness is just full of surprises.
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main...”
– Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel (via nubivagantmusings)
The Search for Europan Life →
Coolidge effect x) →
“Ethologist Frank A. Beach is credited with naming the “Coolidge effect” in 1955, after one of his students suggested the term at a psychology conference.[5] He attributed the neologism to:[5]
… an old joke about Calvin Coolidge when he was President … The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came...
