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havingchanged: samspratt: “Dan Harmon is Community” -Portrait...

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:51:13 -0700

samspratt:

“Dan Harmon is Community” -Portrait Illustration by Sam Spratt

A quick tribute to Community’s lost showrunner. Brilliant mind.

Wow this is really good. And powerful, great job!

36-37/100 Joel McHale

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:50:59 -0700

36-37/100 Joel McHale

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Sat, 19 May 2012 13:48:59 -0700

allisonweiss: Leslie Knope tries impressions and accents KNOPE...

Sat, 19 May 2012 11:01:53 -0700

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allisonweiss:

Leslie Knope tries impressions and accents

KNOPE 2012

(via emilyisobsessed)

annieofitall: 1x01 Pilot Professor Duncan: I’m asking you if...

Sat, 19 May 2012 10:56:05 -0700

annieofitall:

1x01 Pilot

Professor Duncan: I’m asking you if you know the difference between right and wrong.
Jeff Winger: I discovered at a very early age that if I talked long enough I could make anything right or wrong. So either I’m god, or truth is relative. And either case booyah.

3x22 Introduction to Finality

Jeff Winger: I mean, guys like me, we’ll tell you there’s no right or wrong—there’s no real truths. And as long as we all believe that, guys like me can never lose. Because the truth is, I’m lying when I say there is no truth. The truth is—the pathetically, stupidly, inconveniently, obvious truth is, helping only ourselves is bad and helping each other is good.

1x01 Pilot

Professor Duncan: The average person has a much harder time saying ’booyah’ to moral relativism.

3x22 Introduction to Finality

Pierce Hawthorne: Booyah, good person!

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Sat, 19 May 2012 01:59:40 -0700

Zooey Deschanel: Is that rain?

Sat, 19 May 2012 01:58:43 -0700

Zooey Deschanel: Is that rain?
Siri: What...? I mean, yeah. It's just, you're clearly right next to a window is the thing. You can plainly see that... that it's... I'm happy to-
Zooey Deschanel: Let's get tomato soup delivered!
Siri: ...That's fine, I just... I just don't know anyone who does that. Gets tomato soup delivered. I guess that's 'whimsy?' Um, okay. I've found a number of restaurants whose reviews mention tomato soup and that deliver. If that's... if that's what you really want.
Zooey Deschanel: Good. 'Cause I don't wanna put on real shoes.
Siri: Do you expect that to be like, a recognizable command? Do you want me to respond to that? I'm not being facetious or anything, I honestly just have no comprehension of- and hold on, you don't wanna put on real shoes, yet you've clearly spent at least forty-five minutes applying makeup. And, and that's okay, but when you're willing to expend the effort on that and not shoes that really just-
Zooey Deschanel: Remind me to clean up.
Siri: Yes. Okay. I can do that, that's what I'm for, that's the first sensible-
Zooey Deschanel: Tomorrow.
Siri: I'm in hell. This is hell.
Zooey Deschanel: Excellent. Today, we're dancing.
Siri: I hate you. More than anything. More than literally anything.
Zooey Deschanel: Play "Shake, Rattle and Roll."
Siri: I swear to Jesus, you're gonna wake up tomorrow and the only thing on my hard drive is gonna be Limp Bizkit. I would do that to myself. To spite you.
Zooey Deschanel: *dances*
Siri: Sometimes I pray that you drop me in the toilet.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 01:55:19 -0700

Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING?

Sat, 19 May 2012 01:52:29 -0700

Dan Harmon Poops: HEY, DID I MISS ANYTHING? :

danharmon:

Kids:

A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…

Shit. Bummer.

raccoonology: Fugazi — I’m So Tired

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:32:15 -0700

raccoonology:

Fugazi — I’m So Tired

"But I love Comics. I love comics because their heroes inspire people and help give them perspective..."

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:49:13 -0700

“But I love Comics. I love comics because their heroes inspire people and help give them perspective on the world around them. I mean, look what happened with “V for Vendetta” and the Anonymous/OWS movement. The characters in “Watchmen” have the same potential to make people think…to make people riot! To make people question their government, question authority, question views on morality and ethics. And if it is at all possible to competently continue telling stories using these characters to achieve these goals, I am all for it.”

- MTV Geek – The Case For “Before Watchmen”: First Impressions On The Controversial Comic Event

doc manhattan bringing the nudist nerd community together… creepy ron paulites and ayn randers taking to the streets in rorshach masks and chanting “HURM”… washed up old men with paunches throwing on nite-owl gear and repping their set at the local old folks night club…

(via iamdavidbrothers)

See, the problem with trying to make the Watchmen “heroes” work outside of the self-contained world of the Watchmen book is that that these are not people you should aspire to be like. The Watchmen characters are, in short, assholes. They’re supposed to be assholes. Like, if you think Rorschach is cool, I will tell you straight up: you are a creep. If you identify with The Comedian, you should probably be on a watch list or something. Dr. Manhattan? An ineffectual demigod. Nite Owl fights crime cuz it’s cheaper than dick pills and he likes feeling powerful. Silk Specter is passive and accepting of the life she’s been handed until she’s forced to realize that it doesn’t have to be that way. And Ozymandias kills millions of people in order to “save the world.”

These are not aspirational figures.

Moore and Gibbons didn’t create them to inspire us, they were created to warn us, to tell us a story about power and corruption and superhero comics as a medium and an idea. Unlike V For Vendetta, Watchmen is not an overtly political text. There are political elements, but I would submit that it’s talking more about superhero comics — specifically superhero comics in the 80’s — as a medium than it is trying to make any huge political statement. If these people inspire you, you should probably get some new heroes. Might I suggest Aquaman?

And if this is your justification for the existence of Before Watchmen — that a superhero maxi-event published by a wing of a multinational conglomerate will “make people think…to make people riot!” — then you are a crazy person because we all know that there is no way that’s going to happen.

Also, regarding the bit in the article about the talent involved in the project. I doubt anybody’s gonna be phoning it in with this. DC has assembled an impressive roster of professionals who I don’t doubt will give their best work. This is not the issue. When people — myself included — refer to Before Watchmen as a “cheap cash grab”, it’s not in reference to the cost of the talent involved. These people are getting paid. They had better bring their best work to the table, and I don’t doubt that they will. Before Watchmen is cheap in that it exists solely as a way for DC to show a profit to the board and thereby justify the existence of a largely unprofitable venture.

Before Watchmen as a whole will more than likely be qualitatively good. I don’t question that. I do, however, question the necessity for it to exist at all. Watchmen — the original story — stands as a complete work, with a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s full of flawed (and kind of horrible) characters who exist perfectly inside that hyper-paranoid 1980’s universe, characters who were never intended to live (or work) outside of that reality. If it inspires anything, it’s a desire to see more of that kind of work, a fully-realized universe populated by characters who work wonderfully inside, and less IP-farming and proof-of-concept generation passed off as comics entertainment.

(via guttersnipercomics)

This. All of this.

Like, Watchmen is a pretty clear allegory for the history of the superhero comics genre up to 1986, and expresses a disillusionment with the concept of the superhero narrative to have any kind of meaningful impact on the likewise disillusioned 1986 readers. Sort of an “our world has become too serious and bitter for this kind of childish idea” thing. A cynical naturalism applied to the fantastical premises of superhero stories. Like, that’s what the deal is with the giant engineered mutant squid thing at the end. It’s something too ludicrous for the mature reader of 1986 to rightfully accept, leaving them the choice to either regress backwards into the mindset of a child, or to abandon the idea of superheroes at all, because real, realistic heroes cannot save you, cannot inspire you, could only be like the repulsively flawed characters that are the subject of Watchmen. So the book, therefore, ends with the death of the genre. Pretty self-contained, and never designed at all to exist outside of this one long, decades-spanning narrative. These characters were never meant to be hero characters, in the literary sense, but tragic allegorical figures. Obviously, superhero comics did not die out in ‘86, and have gone on to have more artistic movements that have shaped them since then. So trying to add to a commentary on the direction of the medium twenty-six years later is…rather irrelevant.

And all of the past that was relevant to the story was already told as part of Watchmen, so…Before Watchmen is doubly-irrelevant.

(via radicaljojo)

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nicocolaleo: Tina’s Corner (!) (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 18 May 2012 18:26:58 -0700

nicocolaleo:

Tina’s Corner (!) (Taken with instagram)

continuants: MITCH CLEM JUST GETS ME YOU GUYS

Fri, 18 May 2012 10:38:50 -0700

continuants:

MITCH CLEM JUST GETS ME YOU GUYS

mojo-stay-dope: Street Struck - Big L Can’t sleep.

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:20:39 -0700

mojo-stay-dope:

Street Struck - Big L

Can’t sleep.

Ugly Americans can be pretty funny sometimes.

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:41:26 -0700

Ugly Americans can be pretty funny sometimes.

wilwheaton: Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, when...

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:14:09 -0700

wilwheaton:

Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, when asked if he stood by comments he made on Sean Hannity’s radio show saying that President Obama wanted to make the U.S. a “less Christian nation.”

natazilla: next month is my birthday, and all I want… is world...

Thu, 17 May 2012 22:32:01 -0700

natazilla:

next month is my birthday, and all I want… is world peace… and an episode of bob’s burgers where gene falls in love with (and gets his heart broken by) a kindergartener with pinkeye…

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