So in one week we’ve got three cannibal cases in Florida, a man spitting blood all over a highway patrol officer, another man disemboweling himself and then throwing his intestines at two police officers, and a woman beheading her infant and eating it’s brain…….
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If you’re not reading Dead Winter right now WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU do you not know joy, have you never been hugged before… well here… let me give you a warm hug… mmmpphh… feel better? Okay now go read Dead Winter. Shabet is fuckin’ amazing.
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Man I love theseUM YES LET ME LOOK AT MY NOTES
- 2500 bc-gilgamesh is said to have traveled to the underworld in search of the ghost of his dead partner enkidu. Enkidu is thought to have escaped after gilgamesh smashes a hole in the earth. Enkidu is thought to be the first powerful ghost to return to the coropreal world (!!!! important)
- 1353 bce-akhenaten is cursed by priests to walk the desert in death for all eternity. Reported as the oldest “surviving” ghost and can still be seen in modern day. (important!!!)
- 1st century ad-a bathhouse in plutarch is closed due to a vociferous ghost of a murder victim. A house in athens is haunted by a chain rattling ghost. It is discovered that proper burials are capable of putting the dead at rest and ghosts are frequently riled by improper burials. Ghosts take on more human appearances. (implication that at one point ghosts had to evolve and that they werent always so prevalent/noticeable due to lack of power)
- 1600-1800- spirits become highly misunderstood as they are studied against the church’s urgings. Research is sloppy and badly handled and done in secret, leading to ghosts becoming a taboo topic due to the forbidden nature.
- 1840s-Spiritualism becomes popular. Ghost research enters the golden age. Ghosts become considered scientific phenomenon rather than acts of god.
AND i have a bunch of notes about how ghost populations havent really increased they just became more noticable as human communication increased??? as technology marched on most ghosts faded away due to being weak, some grew freakishly strong and then the discovery on how to bind them to objects happened around the 1860s and mankind kind of went “hahaha we conquered DEATH” and continued to treat ghosts like household pests instead of something to be feared ever since
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PULL BACK THE RISKS ARE TOO HIGH
Be bold, indeed, headline writer!
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In Your Face: You don't need a Gun or Pepper spray -
I know some of you own GUNS but this is something to think about…
If you don’t have a gun, here’s a more humane way to wreck someone’s evil plans for you. Did you know this? I didn’t. I never really thought of it before. I guess I can get rid of the baseball bat.
Wasp Spray - A friend…inaccurate.
Bear Spray - greater in range and strength. One of my psychology teachers in college recommended it to us years ago and internet says it checks out. If you’re going for spray self-defense, why not go for the shit that can take down a grizzly?
So, when I worked at Chemistry Communications in 2011, I experienced my first tangle with spam faxes. Having been raised entirely on computers, this was actually my very first experience with a functioning fax machine, so, imagine me blown away.
So, fascinated with the concept, the director of new business and I concocted a scheme to come up with our own hilarious junk spam and send it to new business prospects to see if they’d follow through with us.
Cockamamie, yes. But, in all honesty, my favorite piece of work I ever did.
Bea.
its fantastic
Today Jojo draws Ellen Ripley from the Alien movies!
Hey everyone! The long weekend threw our schedule off but we’re getting back on track. Also Tumblr was being super weird today and not uploading stuff right. Yesterday, in lieu of an official drawing, Jojo drew Scarlet Witch from the shirt I was wearing. It was pretty great.
But let’s not focus on that! Let’s focus on the theme of this week. I just got my tickets to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus today so I’m having Jojo draw characters from Ridley Scott sci-fi movies!!!!!!
We start with the best character of them all (and that’s out of every movie ever, by the way) Ellen Ripley from Alien. Jojo asked if she could draw “The lady in the robot suit” and I was happy to oblige.
This drawing is great. She actually did get the robot suit wrong, but when I told Jojo this, she said, “Whatever, the blog’s not called remembered robots.”
I guess I can’t argue with that.
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INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Fits Perfectly into Quentin Tarantino’s Movie Universe and Influences the Entire Filmography
By now, most Quentin Tarantino fans are aware of the connections interlaced throughout all of his films. John Travolta’s Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction is the brother of Michael Madsen’s Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel’s Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, the plot basis for Kill Bill is described as the synopsis for a TV series in Pulp Fiction, etc.
Now the epiphany that Eli Roth’s character of Donny Donowitz aka “The Bear Jew” in Inglourious Basterds is the father of the movie producer Lee Donowitz in True Romance has inspired a truly mind-blowing theory that the rest of the films (chronologically speaking) in Tarantino’s filmography take place in a world where [Inglorious Basterds spoiler] World War II came to an end when Adolf Hitler was brutally murdered in a movie theater by the Basterds.
This initial connection was brought up in an article on Cracked, but a poster on Reddit (via David Chen’s Twitter) has more eloquently summed up what this means for Tarantino’s movieverse:
As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, ‘The Bear Jew’, is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance – which means that, in Tarantino’s universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker. Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc. You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino’s movies are technically two universes – he’s gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn take place in a ‘movie movie universe’; that is, they’re movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.) What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn? That they’re crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America’s crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits – and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer. Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uw9gSZmJ1qz9qooo1_500.jpg)
By now, most Quentin Tarantino fans are aware of the connections interlaced throughout all of his films. John Travolta’s Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction is the brother of Michael Madsen’s Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel’s Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, the plot basis for Kill Bill is described as the synopsis for a TV series in Pulp Fiction, etc.
Now the epiphany that Eli Roth’s character of Donny Donowitz aka “The Bear Jew” in Inglourious Basterds is the father of the movie producer Lee Donowitz in True Romance has inspired a truly mind-blowing theory that the rest of the films (chronologically speaking) in Tarantino’s filmography take place in a world where [Inglorious Basterds spoiler] World War II came to an end when Adolf Hitler was brutally murdered in a movie theater by the Basterds.
This initial connection was brought up in an article on Cracked, but a poster on Reddit (via David Chen’s Twitter) has more eloquently summed up what this means for Tarantino’s movieverse:
As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, ‘The Bear Jew’, is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance – which means that, in Tarantino’s universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker. Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc. You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino’s movies are technically two universes – he’s gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn take place in a ‘movie movie universe’; that is, they’re movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.) What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn? That they’re crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America’s crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits – and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer. Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.
(via thespeedoofsolomon)
