January 2012
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Varanasi - Part 2
We took an early morning boat ride along the ghats and got to see them from a distance.  People bathing, chatting, brushing their teeth, coming down to the river for blessings from the great mother Ganga.  Our barefoot guide told us stories all along the way. Afterwards, for what seems like hours, we wandered the crooked curving streets of Varanasi, no bigger than alleyways, passing snaking...
Jan 27th
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Varanasi - Part 1
The Varanasi airport is on the outskirts of town, and bigger than it needs to be.  Far from the crowds of the ghats, the place is surrounded by empty fields and tin-roofed shacks.  All around the airport are giant monoliths dispensing air.  Perhaps they are calling for their own pilgrimage. The drive to the ghats is long and our car overheats and by the time we get to a place to stay...
Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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“Speaking of Ben being close to people, he tells us he’s been in love four times....”
– From Jane Marie’s brilliant Hairpin Bachelor reviews: Learning to Love Ben So I may have given you the impression that I spend all of my time reading tragic books in a semi-dirty bathtub, organizing my candy collection and taking pictures of things I cook / climb on / find in our front yard. Not...
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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Welcome to the IndieCade tumblr!
indiecade: You can check out the main IndieCade site at www.indiecade.com, but we’ll be filling this space with info, photos, videos and more! So if you’re a fan of indie games or any games, give us a follow and get ready to play! Very excited to be running social media for IndieCade!  Give the tumblr a follow because you like me and like games and isn’t that enough in this day and age?
Jan 23rd
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“I like her because she spoke truth to power about KNOCKED UP. I dislike her...”
– —Dan, RazzieWatcher Grantland has a sort-of funny article up trying to figure out if people still hate Katherine Heigl (spoiler alert: I sure do.) and I thought this opinion was probably the smartest.  It’s entirely likely that the Hollywood machine (or any bloated machine) will make...
Jan 21st
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“No one can tell you why parking prices are set as they are. But when people pay...”
– Between the Lines - Features - Los Angeles magazine I hate parking in NYC. Here’s some perspective. (via heymikewaskom) This is astounding.  If you have any interest in LA’s traffic congestion or urban sprawl, read this article.
Jan 13th
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politibeard: “Mmmmmblah-ck” Rick Santorum says “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” This is a real video from Iowa, as if there were not enough reasons to not vote for Rick Santorum (NSFW). His explanation is that he actually said “blah” people, which, no: “I looked at that, and I didn’t say that. If you look at it, what I started to say is a...
Jan 6th
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December 2011
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Dear HBO
newsweek:parislemon: First and foremost, I love your content. You’ve produced several of my favorite shows over the years, and the hits keep on coming. I’d love to watch Game of Thrones now, but I can’t. You see, the only way to get your service is to be a cable subscriber, and several months ago I cut the cord.  The recent news that you’ve reached agreements with Cablevision and Time Warner...
Dec 21st
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Reconstructive surgery
In the near future we’ll probably have the technology to enable auto-tune, except for video. Like, people on camera or on TV will have their facial aesthetics instantaneously “improved” to remove blemishes or stray hairs or wrinkles, freckles, bags under eyes, fixing it all in the blink of a perfect eye. Auto-tuned people on TV or computers (webcams with built-in auto-tune)...
Dec 15th
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“Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to...”
– Charlie Kaufman, BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture (via sunshinemakesmehigh)
Dec 13th
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Anonymous asked: I work a lot with advertisers. I can tell you that they will bow to any sort of pressure when it comes to REMOVING advertising from programming. If anyone complains about anything, they pull their advertisements. The complaints can be racist, prejudiced, close-minded, but on the flip side, I have seen it happen when the complaints are that the programming is racist, prejudiced, and close-minded....
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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My Feature Script Made the 2011 Black List →
chriscantwell: Number 16: THE KNOLL.  Awesome!
Dec 12th
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“But above all, as the department’s rallying around Leslie showed, it shares a...”
– James Poniewozik on my favorite show (at least until Doctor Who comes back next year and hopefully makes River Song less pathetic [I have a lot of feelings]) Parks and Recreation, and its ties to Friday Night Lights (which I have never seen [I know]) and Frank Capra (at the end of this episode I...
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alexblagg: “Drive-Thru” (official movie trailer) It’s like “Drive”, except more delicious.  (dir. by Matthew Michaud, co-starring saraliz, edited by Terry Huynh) This is like getting a Big Mac with a Double Whopper and a side of Arby’s curly fries.  Incredible.
Nov 20th
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