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Posted on March 11, 2013 via Say Crack Again with 23,784 notes
Source: lyceck
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I just had a thought. What if for the first episode of the second season of Bunheads they open with Ginny singing Forget About The Boy and Michelle joins in!!!???
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Oh just the most amazing man ever MOONWALKING.
“Buzz Aldrin, you’re from the moon.”
“Is this what it was like there?”
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THIS IS THE MOST FUCKING BEAUTIFUL THING IVE EVER SEEN
That dude is such a dude.
I wish I could moonwalk.
I can totally shimmy though.
Posted on March 1, 2013 via Scienceing! with 3,245 notes
Source: scienceing
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Oh No, The Equilateral Triangle: The thing is about Ginny and Frankie, people are acting like that...
The thing is about Ginny and Frankie, people are acting like that thing doesn’t happen IRL.
Because y’know what? It does.
And yes, they are dropping a huge bombshell on us so that they can try and get it renewed, but it’s also something that isn’t completely ridiculous.
Ginny ended up in a…
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Quick Thought on Oscars and Sexism
Seth McFarlane may or may not have been sexist last night, I didn’t watch. But what I did watch was a two headed monster grow larger. Women bloggers and writers simultaneously freaking out that The Onion tweeted a not funny joke about Quvenzhané Wallis and that they hated Anne Hathaway. Not her acting. Not her dress. Nope, they hated Anne Hathaway.
Here’s the thing. The next time any of these writers start bemoaning the lack of female driven projects and bankable women will anyone turn around and ask “then why did you guys all of a sudden decide to hate Anne Hathaway? And Katherine Heigl before her? And Megan Fox before her? How about the grouphate of Lena Dunham and Diablo Cody we all had to sit through?”
If women are going to act like this about leading ladies, why should a studio think they will show up for a movie the way both genders show up for Tom Cruise or Hugh Jackman or Channing Tatum?
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I WANT THIS POSTER
(via suicidewatch)
Posted on February 17, 2013 via with 188 notes
Source: beatastic
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Indiana Jones Mystery Package
We don’t really even know how to start this post. Yesterday we received a package addressed to “Henry Walton Jones, Jr.”. We sort-of shrugged it off and put it in our bin of mail for student workers to sort and deliver to the right faculty member— we get the wrong mail a lot.
Little did we know what we were looking at. When our student mail worker snapped out of his finals-tired haze and realized who Dr. Jones was, we were sort of in luck: this package wasn’t meant for a random professor in the Stat department. It is addressed to “Indiana” Jones.
What we know: The package contained an incredibly detailed replica of “University of Chicago Professor” Abner Ravenwood’s journal from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It looks only sort of like this one, but almost exactly like this one, so much so that we thought it might have been the one that was for sale on Ebay had we not seen some telling inconsistencies in cover color and “Ex Libris” page (and distinct lack of sword). The book itself is a bit dusty, and the cover is teal fabric with a red velvet spine, with weathered inserts and many postcards/pictures of Marion Ravenwood (and some cool old replica money) included. It’s clear that it is mostly, but not completely handmade, as although the included paper is weathered all of the “handwriting” and calligraphy lacks the telltale pressure marks of actual handwriting.
What we don’t know: Why this came to us. The package does not actually have real stamps on it— the outside of the package was crinkly and dirty as if it came through the mail, but the stamps themselves are pasted on and look like they have been photocopied. There is no US postage on the package, but we did receive it in a bin of mail, and it is addressed to the physical address of our building, Rosenwald Hall, which has a distinctly different address from any other buildings where it might be appropriate to send it (Haskell Hall or the Oriental Institute Museum). However, although now home to the Econ department and College Admissions, Rosenwald Hall used to be the home to our departments of geology and geography.
If you’re an applicant and sent this to us: Why? How? Did you make it? Why so awesome? If you’re a member of the University community and this belongs to you or you’ve gotten one like it before, PLEASE tell us how you acquired it, and whether or not yours came with a description— or if we’re making a big deal out of the fact that you accidentally slipped a gift for a friend in to the inter-university mail system. If you are an Indiana Jones enthusiast and have any idea who may have sent this to us or who made it, let us know that, too.
We know this sounds like a joke/hoax… it’s not (at least, from our end). Any hints, ideas, thoughts, or explanations are appreciated. We’ve been completely baffled as to why this was sent to us, in mostly a good way, but it’s clear this is a neat thing that either belongs somewhere else— or belongs in the halls of UChicago admissions history.
Internet: help us out. If you’re on Reddit (we’re not) or any other nerdly social media sites where we might get information about this, feel free to post far and wide and e-mail any answers, clues, ideas, thoughts, or musings to indianajonesjournal@uchicago.edu (yes, we did set up an email account just to deal with this thing).
