Rabbi Larry Hoffman tells us that, while Chad Gadya probably originated as a French or German drinking song (which is certainly what it feels like), it came to be “an allegory on Israel’s fate, each of the victors in the song representing another (and later) kingdom to which the Jews...
With Girl of Glass, the world is ending, people are dying in mass, so the damage I did to Nola Kent is like…meh, at least you’re alive. In How I Magically Messed Up My Life in Four Freakin’ Days there’s tons of drama and magic and danger, but Bryant’s resilient so I ...
Instead, it feels like Oppenheimer shoehorning a key quote into the film early on, with Tatlock serving as the best vehicle to do so. Oppenheimer's second sex scene is more surreal — and still unsatisfying in its treatment of women....
And when Huniii was dying and things first went sour with Alderney, I took to Rome: Total War like a Praetorian. Just looking back at one week in May, there are four blog entries in one week. One about how I’d lost the will to blog, the next about being absorbed in the game, ...
old tiles are all asbestos so I'm probably gonna die. Ah well, it only happens once so it's really nothing to fear. Unless you believe in the afterlife in which case dying would suck a lot more. All I can think of right now is that catchy Queen song calledWho Wants to Live ...
(look I'm doing it again, it's a question mark) Or like what happened? Also, you can see this is not just a me thing, as the people above are also confused as to what was the lie or expectation after reading it's description, tags and looking at the trailer....
David S. Goyer wrote the first two Blade movies, and he was given the chance to helmBlade: Trinityafter German director Oliver Hirschbiegel passed on the project to makeDownfall, a German World War II movie that’s been endlessly meme-ed because of its Hitle...
In a world where people read all day long, books are dying. People read trash on a screen. Don’t blame books, or Barnes and Noble, or Amazon, or Goggle. Mankind is evolving. Readers are evolving. But writers are not and nor should they. Writers write. We should all strap in, appl...
http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts3/WaitWhat271.mp3 0:01-7:38: Greetings from Graeme “Swallow At The Wrong Time” McMillan and Jeff “We Are Probably All Dying Faster Than Previously” Lester who are back for another bout of two-fisted audio comics fun! And we… ...
We've taken a tour of five classic and five modern memes, but this is only a tiny sampling. Memes are constantly emerging and dying off---what's insanely popular today is stale next week. Many memes originate from corners of the internet like 4chan and Reddit. Eventually, if they stay ...