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Hugh Laurie does his so well, a lot of Americans don’t realize he’s a Brit
August 2011
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“As for the class of 2015, without any memory whatever of George Herbert Walker Bush as president, they came into existence as Bill Clinton came into the presidency. Their parents, frequently older than one might expect because women have always been able to get pregnant almost regardless of age, have hovered over them with extra care and have agreed with those states that mandated the wearing of bike helmets. Ferris Bueller could be their overly cautious dad, and Jimmy Carter is an elderly smiling public man who appears occasionally on television doing good works. “Dial-up,” Woolworths and the Sears “Big Book” are as antique to them as “talking machines” might have been to their grandparents. Meanwhile, as they’ve wondered why O.J. Simpson has always been suspected of something, they have all “been there, done that, gotten the Tshirt,” shortened boring conversations with “yadda, yadda, yadda,” and recognized LBJ as LeBron James.”
—The Mindset List: 2015 List
July 2011
44 posts
“I think [to stop cyberbullying] anonymity on the Internet has to go away,” she said during a panel discussion on social media hosted Tuesday evening by Marie Claire magazine. “People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. … I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.”
—Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online ‘Has To Go Away’
“Children that are more independent, that are able to be alone, those children are the ones that have had the most amount of affirmation and contact and co-sleeping when they were young.”
—Catalyst: Sleeping with baby - ABC TV Science
Queen answer's children's questions in new book, Does the Queen Wear Her Crown In Bed? | Herald Sun →
heraldsun.com.au
Does she also answer questions about superfluous apostrophes?
Hyperbole and a Half: :D →
hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com
Good: Book!
Oh noes: Allie has used a picture of Prince in sharing this information and it might disappear:
Nobody wants to play with a Charlie-in-the-Box →
buildabear.com
…so he’s on clearance for $4.25 at Build-A-Bear
“What it all really comes down to is the primary institution of love. The small percentage of people who are gay or lesbian were born, as all humans are, with the capacity to love and the need to be loved. These things, above everything, are what make life worth living. And unlike every other minority, almost all of us grew up among and part of the majority, in families where the highest form of that love was between our parents in marriage. To feel you will never know that, never feel that, is to experience a deep psychic wound that takes years to recover from. It is to become psychologically homeless. Which is why, I think, the concept of “coming out” is not quite right. It should really be called “coming home.”
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Andrew Sullivan: Why Gay Marriage is Good for America - Newsweek
“I don’t write every day. I never have. But I do write most days, and I’ve filled thousands of pages of notebook paper with writing. I swear there’s no magic trick, no simple solution, no get-writerly-quick scheme. You have to write a lot of words. You have to write your heart out. And in the end, you discover that the writing’s what matters. Writing is its own reward. I promise.”
—Advice for the parent(s) of burgeoning writers: How to Be a Writer
“The more serious problem is that too many of the movies themselves (even the good ones) are being made available in lousy prints: not just shabby public-domain versions (the equivalent of the old 16 mm local TV station prints that used to circulate through low-end nontheatrical distributors), but films shown in the wrong aspect ratio (beware of anything with the Starz logo on it) or even obsolete pan-and-scan (shame on you, Warner Bros.). What good is streaming delivery if you have to watch a digital mastering job that looks like it was done in 1986?”
—About this whole Netflix pricing thing… - scanners
Aquaman given something to do
Preview page of Aquaman #1
Via the Hollywood Reporter. Yeah, Aquaman flips a truck with his Trident.
