Here’s a kickstarter project to look at sexism in video games. This is a project by a woman, Anita Sarkeesian, who likes video games and wants to see them improve, but as she says, “many games tend to reinforce sexist and downright misogynist ideas about women.” Some of you will say that is an outrageous …
Category Archive: Entertainment
May 06 2012
I don’t even know what this movie is about anymore, but I still want to see it
They keep teasing me with these little trailers that are all completely different in tone from one to the other…and you can’t even tell that they’re from the same movie. So far, what I’m seeing is something about aliens, space travel, scientific hubris, the nature of self, fear and danger, some tenuous connection to the …
Apr 27 2012
The Pirates! With Charles Darwin!
In the UK, they released an exciting new movie a while back, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists. I have the book. It’s marvelous: it prominently features pirates, beards, scientists, and Charles Darwin, and is exactly the kind of story I like. The good news! It’s just been released in the US. The peculiar …
Feb 25 2012
“IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!”
There isn’t that much difference between a trained archaeologist and a professional wrestler, is there? Look at the new depradations encouraged by reality TV: There’s nothing more exciting than digging for treasure, and that’s just what SPIKE TV’s new unscripted original series, American Digger is going to do when it premiers on March 20 at …
Feb 12 2012
The Grammy Awards will be televised tonight
Do not watch them. Do something else. The Walking Dead season premieres tonight, and that stuff is going to be showing all day. You could read a good book. You could put on some good music and dance in your living room. However, the Grammy Award organizers are apologizers for abuse. In fact, it sounds …
Jan 31 2012
Posin’
The latest edition of Randy Milholland’s Super Stupor mocks the ridiculous poses comic book artists contort their heroines into — you know the ones I’m talking about, the strange postures in which they simultanously thrust their breasts upwards and forwards, while thrusting their buttocks backwards and upwards, with their impossibly slender waists slung spinelessly between …
Jan 23 2012
Why, Charlie Brown, Why?
Mondays are my long, long days — this is the day I get to spend 3 hours talking to students in small groups about cancer (they’re young and invincible, so so far it hasn’t been as depressing as I feared.) And they teach me stuff! Among the things I learned today is that there was …
Jan 13 2012
Sacrilege for a good cause
A godless band of unrepentant heathens has released a new album — and is donating a portion of the proceeds to the SSA. You can listen to samples and order the album on Amazon. Get more music for your iPod and help atheists at the same time!
Jan 08 2012
David Bowie, how could you?
I remember when turning 30 was an act of betrayal to an entire generation — I remember being younger than 30. So allow me to express a moment of shock at this news. David Bowie turns 65 today. It’s OK. Let’s dance.
Dec 26 2011
Feminist nerd rage
Oh, this was good for a laugh. In fantasy role playing games, there are certain standard roles that have to be filled: the tank, the big heavily armored brute who can take lots of damage; the damage dealers, who may be more fragile, but can pew-pew lots of hurt at the bad guys; and the …
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