March 2012
“He looks like the kinda guy who’d shut down the teen center in a break-dace movie.”
—Gary the Squirrel, describing Mitt Romney on The Best Show on WFMU.
“People will often cry gross over-intellectualisation when popular culture is critically addressed, as if it is somehow exempt from serious consideration because it is itself ‘non-serious’, just a bit of fun that doesn’t require or deserve dissection. I disagree; every expression of art is a product of its environment and as such will reflect the concerns, preoccupations and neuroses of the time. Mainstream entertainment particularly, by its very nature, has to reflect the dominant modes of thinking in order to qualify as mainstream, and in that respect, mass entertainment is even more fun to pick apart.”
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Simon Pegg, Nerd Do Well
Via ninestories.
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After a young man in the US state of Pennsylvania died last summer, three of his friends began receiving emails from his account.
The messages referenced private conversations and personal details, but after an initial search, the friends have decided that it’s not important to identify the sender.
While his loved ones understand that these emails aren’t really messages from the beyond, the brief notes still provide an unexpected connection with their late friend, and have helped with the grieving process.
” —BBC News - Emails from dead man’s account spook loved ones (via new-aesthetic)
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