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dyingfromtrying: BACKROLLS?!!!

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:51:00 -0400

dyingfromtrying:

BACKROLLS?!!!

zlandael: grunkle stan wears truth telling teeth

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:51:51 -0400

zlandael:

grunkle stan wears truth telling teeth

Ready for Block Party…

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:47:48 -0400

Ready for Block Party…

Two exclusive games from the new Whose Line is it Anyway airing...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:23:56 -0400

Two exclusive games from the new Whose Line is it Anyway airing this summer on The CW

adibsaysrelax: After 8 seasons and 184 episodes, WE FINALLY GET...

Tue, 14 May 2013 02:36:41 -0400

adibsaysrelax:

After 8 seasons and 184 episodes, WE FINALLY GET TO SEE HER FACE!

GET THEM!

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:49:26 -0400

GET THEM!

dsneymagic: Yesterday I realized that the scene where Yzma...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:49:07 -0400

dsneymagic:

Yesterday I realized that the scene where Yzma throws her drink to a cactus because it has “Kuzco’s Poison”, the cactus turns into a llama after Kuzco starts to change into a llama. #wat

I feel like if someone wanted to web-bully me, they shouldn’t just insult me. If you really...

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:48:10 -0400

I feel like if someone wanted to web-bully me, they shouldn’t just insult me.

If you really want to ruin my life, just anonymously tell me spoilers for my favorite TV shows.

First trailer for Arrested Development - Season 4!

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:31:43 -0400

First trailer for Arrested Development - Season 4!

Happy Finals Week!

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:08:29 -0400

Happy Finals Week!

Yippie, hooray, Community is renewed. Thank goodness, because I did NOT want that to be the series...

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:24:00 -0400

Yippie, hooray, Community is renewed. Thank goodness, because I did NOT want that to be the series finale. It sucked.

The same day NBC gave Community a fifth season, ABC axed Happy Endings, the funniest comedy on TV in my opinion.

It hurts to see this brilliant show cancelled, still going strong after three seasons but it’s just missing the numbers, while Community keeps chugging along without Harmon or it’s original wit and edge. Community has become an old, tired show that keeps using and reusing the same jokes just to appease it’s rabid fans, who keep pushing it along.

Community was once amazing. It has not had a single really good episode all season. All I wanted was Happy Endings…

EDIT: What’s funny is that before they moved it to the Friday night deathslot, Happy Endings was getting more numbers than Community. Just sayin’.

hellyeahscarleteen: Sometimes people have a hard time...

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:19:10 -0400

hellyeahscarleteen:

Sometimes people have a hard time understanding what a happy relationship between two people who obvs think the other is awesome looks like.

We think this is one great (and holy bananas, so freaking hilarious) example.

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:02:07 -0400

silencingthedrums: My favorite part of conventions.

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:52:02 -0400

silencingthedrums:

My favorite part of conventions.

For our final project, my friend and I made a puppet show to the...

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:54:54 -0400

For our final project, my friend and I made a puppet show to the Decemberists’ Mariner’s Revenge Song.

Gravity Falls was just renewed for a second season. As it should...

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:12:08 -0400

Gravity Falls was just renewed for a second season. As it should be.

(Stop with all of these hiatuses. Please.)

I’m going to do a quick unpacking here with the problems I...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:13:00 -0400

I’m going to do a quick unpacking here with the problems I have, not so much with the video, but with the way it’s spreading.

1. We don’t know the context of this speech. As much as we would like to believe that this kid is completely justified, we need to acknowledge that this is only one side of an argument.

2. This speech is going to stir up way too much trouble. As much as the world loves the drama of epic last words, if this kid had a problem with the teacher, bring it up to the teacher or an administrator in private. This kid just dissolved any credibility this teacher could have had and has started a blind revolution where any kid who doesn’t like his teacher will now disrespect them and expect to be treated as a hero.

3. Stop attacking this one woman. STOP ATTACKING THIS ONE WOMAN. People are posting her information, name, address, email, phone number, anything they can. Unleashing a wave of anger towards this one woman is not the problem. Get involved in government, be vocal about what needs to change on a national scale.

4. Finally, people are saying that it’s clear this woman doesn’t care about her job and this boy is in the right by the way she reacts. If you’re a teacher, and someone is taking over the class, you do what she’s doing: stay calm, remove the distraction and get the class back on track. Would you all really rather she explode and fight back?

The educational system IS broken. We DO need teachers who can teach to all types and be more active, but attacking this one teacher with a single side of the story is ridiculous. If this student’s comments are right, and the teacher gets angry at students who don’t learn quickly enough or doesn’t do anything but assign packets, than there is a problem. But this is bigger than one teacher and bigger than all the teachers in the US.

We cannot expect teachers to be passionate about their job until we collectively give them the respect, credit and money they deserve.

Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:14 -0400

Hyperbole and a Half: Depression Part Two

thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious”...

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:28:50 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

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songsthatdontsuck: Fitz & The Tantrums - Spark [2013] If...

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:20:54 -0400

songsthatdontsuck:

Fitz & The Tantrums - Spark [2013]

If you don’t know about Fitz, you’re about to find out…

Fitz and the Tantrums’ new album is even better than I was expecting.