No Medium Has Ever Survived The Indifference Of 25-year-olds.

No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.

Clay Shirky (via soupsoup)

OMFG!

So, someone saw Eclipse and DIED! Just died in the cinema. The cleaners found him the next day.

This leaeds to a few thoughts:

Which cinema?

Which chair?

It was in the front row? I am never sitting in the front row.

OMG did I know him?

Twilight movies cause death

If I see this film, I might die

Shit. I should stop washing my sugar down with whiskey

Candwhich is the sandwhich in a can. In a can! There are so many wrong/right (choose your own word there) things about the western world, and this is one of them.

Now, I'm a lazy person. I'm a huge fan of anything that saves time and effort. I've only used clothes driers for years (power bill be damned!) and I'm currently hyperventillating at the thought of moving to a flat that doesn't have a dishwasher. I like conveniences. I get that shit. But this is way too far.

What the hell, man? It comes in BBQ Chicken/You-will-eat-this-and-die flavour? Ugh, I think I just threw up a bit. No, I did not make this up. This shit is real.

chumpsview:

and another :) 

 WTF!

soupsoup:

Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone writer whose story on General Stanley McChrystal became the biggest news in Washington for a week, has scored a major book deal Forbes has learned.

If I'd pissed off a General, I'd be watching my back. That dude was military trained and he's old. An old soldier is indicative of one thing - when he went into a war, he always came out alive. The fact that he's a General means that he was especially good at it.

Still, props to Hastings for getting himself even more publicity. It means everyone will be paying attention when if he mysteriously disappears.

newsweek:

unburyingthelead:

  You just can’t make this stuff up. The Ladies Against Feminism (for real) co-sponsored a “baby conference”where Michelle Duggar of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting received the “Mother of the Year Award.”

As Amanda tweeted, “I fail to see how being physically capable of non-stop pregnancy is the same thing as being the world’s best mother…That’s like saying the guy who can eat 50 hot dogs in a minute is the world’s greatest gourmand.” Why is ultimate motherhood simply about having as many babies as possible? And when oh when is the Christian Right going to stop promoting the notion that women’s ultimate purpose is incubating?

I also think it’s worth noting that the founder of Ladies Against Feminism, Jennifer Chancey thinks women shouldn’t vote or hold office. So apparently being a dope mother is also about teaching your children that women don’t deserve or need equal rights.

via Shelby Knox.

Nwk friend Kathryn Joyce wrote a very nice piece for us a few years ago (and a nicer book) about the Quiverfull movement that is behind things like this.