Vin Diesel – I Only ACT Like I Can Drive:
Vin Diesel is an incredible actor — because he’s been pretending to be an amazing driver in all those “Fast and the Furious” movies, but turns out parking spots can be a bit, uhh … challenging?
[tmz.com]
One year ago, in the wake of a number of gay teen suicides, Dan Savage created a video with the aim to tell those being harassed and seeing no way out that “it gets better”.
It became a meme with over ten thousand videos echoeing Savage’s initial appeal from everyone from Barack Obama to Colin Farrell to Woody the Cowboy, with Google turning a selection into an advert for its social networking.
This week, the X-Men got involved, in the latest issue of Generation Hope by Phonogram team Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie.
It’s an allegory that sees a young man’s latent mutant genes emerging, only to find his situation mocked, seeing only one way out. However it’s not a complete substitution, we also discover that Generation Hope member Kenji Uedo’s father committed suicide when his mother found him with another man.
At which point Wolverine echoes Dan Savage’s campaign.
[bleedingcool.com Rich Johnston July 30, 2011]
First Look: “The Hobbit” – Dori, Nori, Ori:
Here’s the first look at three of Bilbo Baggins’ dwarf companions from the upcoming Peter Jackson film, “The Hobbit.” From left to right, that’s Jed Brophy as Nori, Adam Brown as Ori and Mark Hadlow as Dori.
Aww yeah!
Via tdw:geek
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AlterNet Greta Christina June 20, 2011
You’ve almost certainly heard feminist rants about impossible cultural ideals of femininity: how standards of femininity are so narrow and rigid they’re literally unattainable; how, to avoid being seen as unfeminine, women are expected to navigate an increasingly narrow window between slut and prude, between capable and docile, between moral enforcer and empathetic helpmeet.
Here’s what you may not know: It works that way for men as well.
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Like a two year old.
Bears some repeating, because that’s what these “men” are acting like, them and every other guy that thinks like that. They’re all acting like two year olds and damn, does it get tiresome. If not getting what you want is going to make you fall apart at the seams, perhaps you’re not in any position to be in charge. Of anything.
“Obedient Wives Club” Teaches Women Advanced Doormattery Skills:
It’s easy to point fingers at the ass-backwards inanity of groups like the Obedient Wives Club- how is it that men are meant to rule the world, run businesses and governments and households, yet they’re unable to act independently of dangerous female stimulus? Men are the stronger sex, unless a woman makes them act in a bad way. The only way to assure that a man will not, say, get mad and invade Poland one day, is to make sure you’re giving him whatever he wants. Like a two year old.
This view is insulting to both men and women, and it’s not limited exclusively to countries with more strongly religious populations. It’s sadly pervasive in American society as well.
Remember when we were told for thousands of years that we should obey men and we did it and no women were ever hurt or harmed or unhappy ever?
[jezebel.com]
The past couple of weeks have been life changing for me. With my surgery on the 5th of May, not only is my uterus gone, but hopefully, the cancer that came along with it will be gone for good. That’s not all that’s gone. After 30 years of menstruation – BOOM! – no more. If I hadn’t had the surgery, I would be having my period right now, and it’s kind of weird that I’m not. I don’t particularly miss it but it’s certainly strange after all this time to not have it. So, in a sort of honor of my first un-period, the better half got me a sparkly! You can’t tell in that picture, but it’s a garnet, which is fitting I suppose 
Cinemacon – Action hero award – Sexiest Man alive award:
People’s “Sexiest man alive on facebook”… CinemaCon’s “Action Star of the Year”…
Both are first annual awards…
You are with me.
/smile
Thanks for the love. [Vin Diesel - facebook]
Wherein I read things, laugh, and pass them on to you…
Introducing: Our first-ever Good Sex awards: Last fall, I wrote a column about the Bad Sex in Fiction Award presented annually by the Literary Review in Britain. “No one raises an eyebrow if you talk about what doesn’t strike you as erotic,” I kvetched, suggesting that praising good depictions of sex would require a lot more nerve. Writing well about sex — one of life’s most delightful and important activities — is difficult, so instead of sneering and sniggering at the authors who get it wrong, why not celebrate the ones who succeed?[salon] Continue reading
Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet February 8, 2011
Republicans came to D.C. “and immediately started putting the government in charge of every single pregnancy in America,” said Rachel Maddow on Tuesday night.
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