Flotsam and jetsam collected and annotated when I should instead be working...
Stick with it until the end, it’s worth it: MUSCLE MARCH Launch Trailer (via AngryBananas101)
Posting this to my blog b/c of the Robocop reference at 1:50-1:58 (I think it’s Robocop for Genesis/SNES, or maybe Robocop v. Terminator v. Aliens)
From back when ‘College Rock’ meant something tangible.
Jean-Paul Sartre Experience - Inside And Out (via flybuy42)
((This is only tangentially related to tonight’s program.))
Adventure Time! (via SuckerForTragedies)
Cartoon Network is finally outdoing those crap peddlers at Williams Street by joining forces with Channel Federator. Can’t wait until the series airs!
On my wishlist: American Audio Velocity Controller- Dj TechTools inside look (via eangolden)
via lastdancedeathdisco:
I’ll be damned if I ever say I want to go to LA (and I’ll be double-damned if I ever willingly go there) but this is just not fair! If I didn’t have a job and turned my radio show into a full-time thing, I would totally do this for Boston.
That said, anybody in Boston/Cambridge want to do something like this for our little city?
A reason to turn on my Wii tomorrow (other than Bit.Trip that is): Muscle March for $5!
This is also part of a continuing series that could be labeled: Resasons to Love the Internet, or Reasons to Love Wikipedia.
I first learned about the 12th century superhero Prester John (Presbyter Johannes), the fabled Christian King of the East, from Umberto Eco’s excellent book Baudolino. Eco’s book is an exploration of the medieval concept of reality: that it was malleable and open to myth and story.
The basic story is that there’s this ancient Christian Priest-King with a kingdom on the Eastern edge of the world, beyond the Muslim lands, filled with all of the fabled monsters and beasts from various bestiaries (vampires, dog monsters, etc…). A letter from him is received by the Byzantine Emperor of the time, and starts a centuries long attempt by Western Popes, Kings, knights, and adventurers to find his fabled lands. In Eco’s version, the letter is written by the title character, as a fake, but as a fake that he comes to believe in (and that comes true bit by bit).
Thanks to a random tweet from @AllenVarney, I learned that it’s not just Italian linguists who’ve brought this once great Western myth to modern readers, but Smilin’ Stan Lee and Jack Kirby brought Prestor John into the Marvel Universe before Eco thought to write of him. He lost his lands and his people to plague, so after he preserved his body to last for the ages, of course he became pissed off and fought the Fantastic Four after Johnny Storm tried to steal from his resting place. The Fantastic Four have never been ‘good guys;’ even though they’ve attempted altruism, they tend to screw it up time and time again.
For the full story, see the Prestor John entry from the Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe. (And leave it to Marvel to make this great man a villain in their version of things).
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