So, as you can tell by the title of this post, we are extending our hiatus.
That’s not to say that there will be no posts today- expect one from Gordon and one from myself sometime during this week.
We will be back in full-force on Monday, June 10th, exactly two years after I first purchased [rented?] this domain name. Seems fitting.
I end with a gif of a people-powered Ferris wheel:
Meet Mark Dacascos. As of this writing he is 49 years old, and a reasonably successful actor/martial artist. He has also portrayed more ethnicities than you can find in the average neighbourhood in small-town Western New York.
Posted in bizarreness, film, media, race, television
Tagged Abed, actor, authenticity, Ben Kingsley, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Bugsy, casting, China Strike Force, colourblind, Crying Freeman, Danny Pudi, descent, ethnicity, expectations, film, gandhi, Georges Melies, Harem, House of Sand and Fog, Hugo, Iron Chef America, Itzhak Stern, Japanese, Jermaine Clement, Joseph, Le Pacte des loups, Mani, Mark Dacascos, Massoud Behrani, Mazer Rackham, Middle Eastern, Moku, Naveen Andrews, Nizam, Pascali's Island, POC, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, race, Sayid Jarrah, Schindler's List, Scorcher, Selim, Sexy Beast, Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, television, Testimony — The Story of Shostakovich, Yo Hinomura
I write this over an hour before I have to leave for work, realizing that I don’t have nearly enough time for the quality of the post I want to put together. That being said, I will have my Friday post up sometime this evening.
As you might have noticed, things have been a little shaky here at Culture War Reporters lately. Heck, most mornings I’ve felt a lot like this lady over on the right. That’s why I’ve decided to do something drastic.
Well, “drastic” may be too strong a word. After my post this evening we will be taking an entire week off, with possible updates if something particularly newsworthy happens. We will be back in June after I’ve spent some time updating Shame and Fame Day posts with their respective graphics, getting caught up on proofreading, etc.
TL;DR – After a post tonight we will next be updating in June. See you then and, as always, thanks for reading.
Today is a little different because I’m not pointing to a specific show or YouTube series, but a single video featuring a ridiculous amount of talent. Below is a diagram I created that demonstrates the audience who would most appreciate it:
Now allow me to do what I do and provide a little context. Continue reading
Posted in bizarreness, Comedy, Fame Day, internet, religion, technology, television, video games
Tagged Beastie Boys, Bender, Dan Castellaneta, Dead Ringer, Fox, Fry, Futurama, Gentlebot Hell, GLaDOS, Hell Is Other Robots, Leela, MisterMulluc, Robot Hell, S1E9, Source Filmmaker, Spy, team fortress 2, tf2, The Simpsons, Valve, video games, YouTube
EVAN: So today, due to lack of reader feedback, G-Town and I will be discussing a topic of his own choosing. That is, in his own words, “whether or not an artist can retract his [or her] own work.”
GORDON: It doesn’t happen often, though it’s not altogether uncommon, that we see some artist disparage his or her earlier work.
More often than not, it’s because that earlier work was pretty rough or sloppy- heck, maybe even commercialistic. But we’re not talking about that. We’re talking about what we see once in a blue moon- when an artist actually attacks or her own work as being wrong.
I HATE YOUR PAINTINGS!
Posted in art, bizarreness, comics, Evan and Gordon Talk, feminism, film, internet, literature, media, morality, music, sex, television
Tagged 3OH3!, Angus Jones, art, artist, Bonfire of the Vanities, Botticelli, Brian Welch, Damon Lindelof, deviantART, Evil Dead, Hannah Trigwell, Head, Korn, Mein Kampf, renaissance florence, Sam Raimi, Sheharzad Arshad, Sinfest, Star Trek into Darkness, Starstrukk, Tatsuya Ishida, Teresa Scott, Triumph of the Will, Two and a Half Men, webcomics, YouTube
As luck would have it, just as I was perusing the AV Club’s various articles on the US networks’ fall programming, regular CWR reader/my friend Marilyn brought a certain issue to my attention.
This fall CBS will be bringing the series Intelligence to the small screen [not to be confused with the CBC series of the same name that aired in 2005]. The following is the trailer, which I only saw half a minute of earlier because it failed to grab my attention:
Posted in bizarreness, business, comics, internet, literature, media, television, writing
Tagged A Girl and Her Fed, books, CBS, Digital Divide, Dissident, intellectual property, intelligence, John Dixon, Josh Holloway, K. B. Spangler, plagiarism, Rachel Peng, television, Webcomic
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