Laurie Penny on Steubenville. And, the Good Men Project has a potent primer on rape culture. That’s all I can bear on the subject right now.
Music videos have been done as action movies before, but this one is a particularly fine example of the form.
In 1988, the LA Times described the far future world of 2013… (via Miri)
Movie guns changed to movie thumbs
Undergraduate history, illustrated (via Hamish Cameron)
The AV Club rounds up 13 great stand-up stories about meeting celebrities. This is good stuff, I actually listened to more than half of these. They lead with one by Tig Notaro that my fellow This American Life listeners will recall.
Mr Spock’s great advice to a biracial teenage girl (via tof)
Dylan Horrocks draws critters from the Monster Manual
Lovely new food blog by a friend of this parish: Nom All The Things
She started out in nudie films, and ended up making your mobile phone work. Along the way she met Hitler. Hers is a very unlikely story, nicely told here – I knew most of the dots here, but not how they connected. (via Peter B)
Great Disney spoof: After Ever After
Clear explanation of the logic behind those dumb Facebook posts that get tens of thousands of comments and likes. (via Julian von Sligo)
That “plus-sized” Swedish mannequin that burned up the social media last week? It was a hoax. [No it wasn’t! Check the link! Thanks Evie & Gem!] Which actually interests me even more.
Luke’s Change: a Star Wars conspiracy theory? (via everybody & their brother)
And finally, via John Machin, the Procatinator. This is a hit or miss kinda automated thing, but the hits made me laugh beyond the power of speech.
Wait, I can’t see where it says those Swedish mannequins were a hoax. Please help!
I was wrong! So was the Washington Post. The link now says “Earlier versions of this blogpost erroneously described the mannequins in question as an Internet hoax.”