When I Was Little, I Wanted To Be A Bond Girl. Now That I'm Older, I Want To Be A Bond Villain. They

When I was little, I wanted to be a Bond girl. Now that I'm older, I want to be a Bond Villain. They have so much more fun and you know it. Luckily, there are characters in pop culture that are managing to be both a Bond girl and a Bond Villain (BTW - I always capitalise the word "Villain", especially Bond Villains. Why? Because they've earned it!).

Watch the video above. There - wasn't that awesome? The clip comes from the film Day Watch and the female that you were watching in awe is Alice. She's everything that's right with naughty Russian witches. The hell with that chick from The Matrix - I wanna be Alice! She's the right mix of Bond girl (smart, strong, sexy, female) and Bond Villain ("bad", awesome as hell, serious skills, will hurt you).

Day Watch is the sequel to Night Watch, and both are based on books of the same name. Watch the films first (you actually have to watch these in the right order. The second one just won't make sense without the back story of the first) then read the books. They are all awesome. Just like Alice.

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

Clay Shirky (via soupsoup)

Breaking out a good pick up line is an art. When you come across a good one, like a really good one, then it's pretty spectacular.

Some of the ones in this Mad Men montage are kinda corny. But if they were delivered that smoothly and confidently, then yeah. I'd bite. 

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.

wetheurban:

I’m 15.

I run a successful fashion blog (almost 10,000 strong!).

I’m coming out with an online magazine in August with some pretty nice names featured in it. 

I’ve made over $400 on the internet so far.

I’ve been fucked over, lied to, and shot down.

I never gave up.

And I’ll keep going until you see a WeTheUrban store in your mall! I wanted to share this with you all to show that ANYONE can do anything if they put there mind to it. Entrepreneurs are the new rockstars! The Youth Is Starting To Change.

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.