The fantasy of starships is no more realistic than magic
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[image: Cover for "Tiger, Tiger" by Alfred Bester]
Interstellar travel — the kind in Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune — will never
happen. The fantasy "exists on...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Funny & Smart
12 MILE with Special Guest Sarah Silverman - watch more funny videos
I love Sarah Silverman, she is bright, socially astute, and hilariously self-deprecating. She and Bill Maher also make really cutting commentary in this interview on the really terrible formulaic writing in most comedy films - and how it's especially dire for women characters...
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Hipster Ariel
So apparently, there is this blog entitled, fittingly, Fuck Yeah Hipster Ariel. It's very funny. I guess a lot of the ingredients were right there in the original twenty years ago, weren't they: angst, a longing for someone her dad didn't approve of, alternative music, interest in non-mainstream art, feigning poverty...
Anyway, here are some of its finest pieces.
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