{"id":7426,"date":"2015-12-04T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7426"},"modified":"2015-12-03T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T08:26:14","slug":"judd-aye-linky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7426","title":{"rendered":"Judd Aye Linky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Loach does Star Wars<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"645\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSSFNhF4HSk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n(via Andrew Layden)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/the-heartwarming-story-behind-r2-kt-and-how-she-joined-1744986951\">The heartwarming story of the pink R2 robot that will appear in the new Star Wars film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NerdSocietyX\/posts\/440518729464642\">And this was a very important mission for the stormtroopers<\/a> (via Sam W)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hedonistica.com\/movies\/the-jar-jar-binks-sith-theory\/\">Great video summary of the case for JarJar Binks as a hardcore evil Jedi<\/a> (via the Alligator)<\/p>\n<p>&#8217;tis the season for bemused articles about the Star Wars Holiday Special! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2015\/dec\/01\/star-wars-holiday-special-1978-tv-george-lucas\">Here&#8217;s the Guardian&#8217;s take<\/a> (via Alastair G) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/article\/its-37th-anniversary-star-wars-holiday-special-eve-228547\">the AV Club&#8217;s<\/a>. (It was actually a Thanksgiving special, but everyone associates it with Christmas these days, because that makes it funnier.)<\/p>\n<p>Enough Star Wars. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/12\/1\/9828086\/donald-trump-media\">an exceptional piece by David Roberts explaining Trump and his crazy lies<\/a>. Money quote:<br \/>\n&#8220;Republican billionaires and political operators have spent decades building a self-contained epistemic bubble in which they could pump up the right-wing base with fear and paranoia. Now the Frankenstein&#8217;s monster has lumbered off the table and crashed into the cocktail party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/books\/article\/1879776\/book-review-east-meets-west-guides-you-through-cross-cultural\">East\/West cross-cultural differences depicted as pictograms<\/a>. Lovely &#038; insightful, simple images that communicate so much. The networking one!<\/p>\n<p>Via Scott A: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/12\/01\/im_sorry_taylor_swift_my_one_tweet_set_off_a_worldwide_search_for_a_missing_pop_star_from_los_angeles_to_new_zealand\/\">reflections by the woman who accidentally sent NZ into a Taytay frenzy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/culture-desk\/cover-story-2015-12-07\">Lovely New Yorker cover by Chris Ware<\/a> that unfolds into a sumptuous story in the <em>This American Life<\/em> mold. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/browbeat\/2015\/11\/30\/_popebars_meme_fills_twitter_with_rapping_pope_francis.html\">Everyone loves the rapping Pope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_uk\/read\/bruce-robinson-withnail-and-i-jack-the-ripper-912\">The writer of Withnail &#038; I has a new book giving his theory of Jack the Ripper&#8217;s identity<\/a>. There&#8217;s no reason here to give his effort any more credence than the billion other theories, but the way he talks about it is just wonderful. I hope the book is in the same voice! <\/p>\n<p>Dangerous Minds has a revelation &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/the_lost_fast_times_at_ridgemont_high_tv_series_that_was_actually_tota\">there was a Fast Times at Ridgemont High spinoff TV show<\/a>! With both Cameron Crowe and Amy Heckerling involved! DM reckons it was pretty good &#8211; I wonder how it possibly could be, given the nature of 80s TV and type of movie they&#8217;re trying to adapt. All seven episodes are at the link, for now at least.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/rage_against_the_machine_lyrics_sound_like_break_the_chicken_nuggets_daddy_\">also via DM<\/a> &#8211; it turns out &#8220;And so you do what they told ya&#8221; sounds, in Japanese, something like &#8220;Break the chicken nuggets, daddy&#8221;. And so:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"465\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W4BzJm4-Wo0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Loach does Star Wars (via Andrew Layden) The heartwarming story of the pink R2 robot that will appear in the new Star Wars film. And this was a very important mission for the stormtroopers (via Sam W) Great video summary of the case for JarJar Binks as a hardcore evil Jedi (via the Alligator) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7426\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Judd Aye Linky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-7426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-linky","tag-fridaylinky"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-1VM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}