HUMOR - Ralphie "just" had a fight...

HUMOR - Black Friday - Movie Trailer

ENTERTAINMENT - A Porno by Wes Anderson

ENTERTAINMENT - Christopher Lee doing a metal cover of "My Way"

HUMOR - Winter!

MY LIFE - Flashback to planning my 50th bday

HUMOR - ALL ABOUT THAT BASE

HUMOR - Frankenstein’s Monster Goes Trick-or-Treating

BY MATT PASSET

You call me Frank. It just easier. People think me called Frankenstein because of doctor who make me. But me not him. Me his monster. Me get called Frankenstein so much that me make peace with it. Better though just call me Frank.

It funny story how me end up doing trick-or-treating this year with nephew Kevin. Kevin not really nephew, but he call me Uncle Frank because his dad-creator, Dave, is close friend. Frank best man at Dave’s wedding, to Tracy. Tracy sometimes a bit much to take, but Frank try to get along with her. Before Halloween, Dave say he taking Tracy out of town. Need to have day to “talk about us,” so they ask Frank to take quote-unquote nephew to trick-or-treating. “Frank already have costume,” they joke. Tracy make joke sound mean. Me agree to go, because me care for quote-unquote nephew Kevin...

At next house, nice old lady answer door and give Kevin Tootsie Roll. She say Frank’s costume good. Dave tell me this would happen because Frank’s clothes look like costume. Jacket tattered, but Frank always say comfort over fashion. So me thank old woman (maybe witch or maybe just also bad fashion sense). Kevin say thank you, too...

At last house, young couple say bolts in Frank’s neck look real. Frank smile polite but couple reach out to touch bolts. Frank get scared and kill couple. Feel sad but was only thing Frank could do...

To read full piece - http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/frankensteins-monster-goes-trick-treating

HUMOR - Parental nightmare!

HUMOR - Science fiction text not sent!

HUMOR - Life Can Be Awesome

HUMOR - Speedrun: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Ep #3)

HUMOR - Happy Meal for adults!

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HUMOR - Coming this Christmas

ENTERTAINMENT - Of Muggles and Mutants: Sci-fi’s Concern for “Better” Humans

By Paul Fidalgo

I’ve moments ago finished The Bone Season, a novel by Samantha Shannon that I quite enjoyed, about a near-future world in which “clairvoyants,” those born with an ability to interact with the spirit world, are considered riffraff at best and plague-carrying criminals at worst. The layers of the world are rather quickly shown to be numerous, with a number of possible answers to the question of who is really in control (and it does get complicated). For this post, I’m primarily interested in how an aspect of the book’s premise compares to that of some other fictional universes. So be warned, ahead be great spoilers....

The idea of a special subgroup of humans being singled out by the less-special majority is not a new concept. The mind immediately jumps to X-Men, in which mutants with superpowers are mistrusted and feared, but there is still a semblance of struggle to integrate mutants with the rest of society. I think it’s safe to say that as the audience, though, we are generally expected to see the mutants as “better” than non-mutants. They are humans-plus.

Another version is the world of Harry Potter, where witches and wizards aren’t persecuted because they’re not known, other than to a handful of people. Magical folk, again, are presented as “better” than non-magical people who don’t get the benefit of amazing powers or insight into a universe beyond their graps. They even get a kid of abysmal name, “muggles.” Again, wizards and witches are humans-plus...

So why am I hung up on the presentation of normals in these worlds? Perhaps I have some kind of paranoia that the creators of these worlds see either themselves or some other group in the real world as being analogous to these humans-plus. There would be some subset of people in real society who have an ability or an insight that the masses do not possess, and are as a result either reviled and persecuted, or at least forced into total secrecy....

For more - http://www.patheos.com/blogs/imortal/2014/08/09/of-muggles-and-mutants-sci-fis-concern-for-better-humans/

MY LIFE - I'm just one wild and crazy guy!

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ENTERTAINMENT - Geek Pride Day/Towel Day pics

CULTURE/SOCIETY - Basic rights and responsibilities of geeks

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