If you listen closely, you can actually hear Nudawn whisper “Challenge Accepted” as she hit “Create Post.”
Dashboard Confessional and MCR is all fine and good…
…but I refuse to truly get nostalgic until someone posts the entirety of The Colour and the Shape and follows it up with at least two-thirds of Blue.*
*Bonus points if it includes the real version of Slow Motion, and not the bullshit instrumental version.
Why is anyone apologizing for this? No one gives a shit.
No one was offended.
No one.
There are assholes out there whose job it is to get professionally offended, and all they managed to do was phone in another poorly written press release.
Come on, even they’re not really offended. You can tell they don’t believe their own bullshit anymore. They just have to justify their ridiculous existence.
Not one person of any age, of any gender, or of any culture out of the hundred million who watched the Super Bowl is owed an apology for this fraction of a broadcast second.
Ugh. Even ranting about the irony and hypocrisy of this kind of nonsense is tiresome and irrelevant.
What Coke Talk said. The PTC actually has a total membership of only about 12,000 people - that’s it. I’m guessing CT has more followers than that on Tumblr alone. So why does NBC - or anyone else, for that matter - give a shit about what the PTC has to say again?
Pictured below: M.I.A. places missiles in Cuba, threatens America with destruction
(via)The Parents(‘?) Television Council uses some incredible language to describe M.I.A.’s one-second bird-shooting during last night’s pretty freaking awesome Super Bowl halftime show. Like, if this press release was about the Cuban Missile Crisis, it’d still be too dramatic.
“NBC fumbled and the NFL lied because a performer known as M.I.A. felt it necessary to flip off millions of families. It is unfortunate that a spectacular sporting event was overshadowed once again by broadcasting the selfish acts of a desperate performer.
“Last week the NFL formally told the PTC – and the American public – that the Super Bowl halftime show would be ‘appropriate.’ Most families would agree that the middle finger aimed directly at them is not appropriate, especially during the most-watched television event of the year.
“The mechanism NBC had in place to catch this type of material completely failed, and the network cannot say it was caught off guard. It has been eight years since the Janet Jackson striptease, and both NBC and the NFL knew full well what might happen. They chose a lineup full of performers who have based their careers on shock, profanity and titillation. Instead of preventing indecent material, they enabled it. M.I.A. used a middle finger shamelessly to bring controversial attention to herself, while effectively telling an audience filled with children, ‘F–you.’“A simple apology rings hollow after yet another slap in the face to families, especially when NBC has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that it should be allowed to air all manner of indecent material at any time of day, even when children are watching.
“Either the NFL and NBC will take immediate steps to hold those accountable for this offensive material in front of a hundred million Americans, or they will feebly sit back and do nothing. The nation – and the PTC – is watching.”
They’re watching.
Related thought: who are the university students and 20somethings of 2012 who, in 2032, after Super Bowl 66, will complain about Lady Gaga’s lewd behavior? Like, who are these kids? And won’t they have anything better to do?
Oh no, an ultra right-wing Christian organization whose sole purpose is to complain about the “indecency” of modern mainstream entertainment found something objectionable about mainstream entertainment to complain about again?
Someone at NBC should really just tell them to shut the fuck up.
Oh god…
Top 50 modern day low budget movies - Den of Geek
A good list overall. Some surprises on there (Brick cost how much?) and some you’d expect, but almost every one is worth checking out.
2012 Candidates, Sarah Palin Get Their Own Trading Cards: Collect all nine … if you want.
No.
Only if I can hand the creator of these trading cards a one-way ticket to our future permanent moon base.
I bet the creator is a huge liberal, laughing all the way to the bank. Extra points if she’s a black lesbian.
Orly Taitz loses birther case to an empty table.
My favorite headline of the day.
Birthers: When you absolutely, positively have to be the dumbest motherfucker in the room.
"Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities" as per the FBI and Justice Dept's new flyers:
- “Are overly concerned about privacy..”
- “attempts to shield the screen from view of
- others”
- “Always pay[s] cash…”
- “Evidence of a residential based internet provider…”
- “Use of anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address”
- “…using VOIP or communicating through a PC game.”
- “obtain photos, maps or diagrams of transportation, sporting venues, or populated locations.”
Just in case you forgot to live in fear and suspicion, the FBI and Justice Department are here to help!
Now, to their credit, they do admit that “some of the activities, taken individually, could be innocent” but then immediately go back into bullshit mode with “and must be examined by law enforcement professionals…”
So even admittedly innocent activities “must” be examined now; because you should always default to fear and suspicion. Good citizen.
The kicker? Ending with this gem:
- “It is important to remember that just because someone’s speech, actions, beliefs, appearance, or way of life is different; it does not mean that he or she is suspicious.”
Unless their “way of life” involves being “overly concerned about privacy” - then they’re a “potential terrorist” who “must be examined.”
I would be ashamed, if I wasn’t so sure that was a “potential indicator of terrorist activities.”
new episode up of the Katie Willert Experience!
if you, or anyone you know is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, get help.
11:30 and I’ve already found my favorite video of the day.
This is the stupidest thing. Here’s $1 to let me shout obnoxiously and ineffectively at people! No one likes to be shouted at. That’s the obnoxious part. And it’s not like these tags do anything other than clutter the margins of the Dashboard.
But what’s really so, so dumb about these - so dumb it’s funny in a sad, pathetic way - is that they only work on the Dashboard. They don’t work on the actual blogs. So you’re paying $1 for someone to, what, give your post an extra 1 second glance? Maybe click ‘like’ or ‘reblog’? But only on the Dashboard. Not on your URL, not in an RSS feed. Only on Tumblr, for other Tumblr users. And there’s no correlating monetary gain for your $1 when someone clicks “like” on your post on their Dashboard. So basically, you’re giving Tumblr $1 to help promote Tumblr. Not you. Tumblr.
Not to mention the fact that the more successful and the more used it is, the less useful it becomes. It stops highlighting, and just becomes a bad, cluttered UI.
It took all of 4 minutes for Highlighted Posts to get annoying.
This story about Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin school district and their No Homo Promo policy may cause you to have an aneurysm. Don't read it alone. (Related: can we do something about this?)
If you read one thing that puts you into a deep, humanity-doubting depression today, it should be this.
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