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thatneedstogo: “I don’t always say ‘I’m not racist…’ …but when...

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:35:15 -0400

“I don’t always say ‘I’m not racist…’

…but when I do, I’m about to say the most racist things that you’ve ever heard in your life.”

nothing worth listening to has ever been said after the phrase “I’m not racist but..”

Why Do I Ever Click on Deadline? WHY?

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:01:00 -0400

Okay, this is bullshit. Kimberly Pierce isn’t a female director. She doesn’t direct with her vagina. She’s a director. She’s not on any side of Kathryn Bigelow because they share the same anatomy. It is shit like this that makes it harder for studios to make hires without considering gender, cause doucheknuckles like Nikki Finke and Mike Fleming get page views from talking about how she’s a brave woman for directing like a director.

Kim Pierce to direct movie about Aryan prison reign… Deadline

Current movies. Old School posters.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:34:39 -0400

Current movies. Old School posters.

: Steubenville's Jane Doe asked people to do something...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:29:37 -0400

: Steubenville's Jane Doe asked people to do something...:

createourownlight:

I’ve never asked anyone to reblog anything before, and I probably won’t again. But I am now - because this matters.

The Steubenville rape victim, when offered money for her legal expenses or counselling, asked that people donated to a shelter for abused women and children in her county, Madden…

totalzero: It’s pretty bad when Fox News has less-shitty...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:12:50 -0400

totalzero:

It’s pretty bad when Fox News has less-shitty journalism than you.

"For readers interested in learning more about how not to be labeled as registered sex offenders, a..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:49:17 -0400

“

For readers interested in learning more about how not to be labeled as registered sex offenders, a good first step is not to rape unconscious women, no matter how good your grades are. Regardless of the strength of your GPA (weighted or unweighted), if you commit rape, there is a possibility you may someday be convicted of a sex crime. This is because of your decision to commit a sex crime instead of going for a walk, or reading a book by Cormac McCarthy. Your ability to perform calculus or play football is generally not taken into consideration in a court of law. Should you prefer to be known as “Good student and excellent football player Trent Mays” rather than “Convicted sex offender Trent Mays,” try stressing the studying and tackling and giving the sex crimes a miss altogether.

—Mallory Ortberg, on Gawker

”

- Mallory Ortberg, laying waste to fools on GAWKER, today, regarding CNN’s offensively lovey-dovey coverage of the two high school football stars who were convicted on Sunday of sexually assaulting a blacked-out drunk 16 year old girl from a neighboring town at a party, and then sharing pictures of her on the internet.

More details HERE.

I think it’s reasonable to say that, given the football culture of Steubenville, OH and the notorious difficulty of proving sexual assault even when the victim REMEMBERS WHAT HAPPENED, it is likely that what these jocks did to this other human would have become simply a dark part of Steubenville high school folklore, were it not for the digital trail of photos, tweets, and texts that the bystanders and assaulters themselves put out into the world.

SO THANK YOU, NERDS, FOR INVENTING SOCIAL MEDIA.

And thank you, Mallory and Manhattan snark-media for reminding some people—including CNN, apparently—what personal responsibility actually means.

That is all.

(via areasofmyexpertise)

Fools... thanks for 11 great days!

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:21:11 -0400

In eleven days we have successfully raised 59% of our goal. We have 29 days left and we’re hoping to break $9000 (only $182 more) by the end of the weekend.

How?

By not bothering you. Yep, that’s right, we’re not going to Tweet or Facebook or message you until Monday (when hopefully we will have a great video for our top referrer Bryan Wendorf.)

Instead we are hoping you’ll spread the word via email, Facebook and Twitter. One tweet or post from you can do more than we can do. So if you have a second, share a video (it can be a cute baby video) or tweet our link or share it with a friend on Facebook. We appreciate it so much and thank you for being part of our team of Fools.

Thanks for 11 great days

totallymorgan: cinephilearchive: Hilarious negative executives...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:19:34 -0400

totallymorgan:

cinephilearchive:

Hilarious negative executives notes to Ridley Scott after seeing Blade Runner for the 1st time.

Thank you immensely for this, Matt Bloom @MattBloomFilms

Very important

Faber Castell’s 250 Year Anniversary (1761-2011) Art &...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:24:27 -0400

Faber Castell’s 250 Year Anniversary (1761-2011) Art & Graphic Case

(x)

Some random indie film thoughts...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:20:12 -0400

I like the Veronica Mars project launching on Kickstarter and it looks like they will reach $2 million in one day. Very cool. And it gives me hope that there will be new models to finance movies independently (movies that will eventually be distributed by a studio.) The argument that crowdfunding is just rich people looking for charity is simplistic and offensive to charities. Commerce and charity aren’t the same thing. Amanda Palmer pre-selling her album to her fans so she doesn’t have to use traditional distribution models isn’t charity and never pretended to be.

And yes, it is scary when bigger fish jump into the smaller fish pond. But it isn’t always catastrophic. We’ve seen an uptick in funding for finishing funds for Fools (say that five times fast) and I think Veronica Mars on Kickstarter is good for all of us. I know that sounds all “we can play in the sandbox together!” of me but if you know me at all you know I hate everyone and want everyone else to fail unless it serves my own needs. This helps me. So I’m happy. Yes… I’m that selfish.

Speaking of which.. that Fools link? It’s http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fools/x/2526814

If backing Veronica Mars is too mainstream for you and you’ve already given to Fools (THANK YOU!) why not back the distribution of Kurt Voss and Allison Anders “Strutter” which needs a lot less and will mean a lot more to die hard indie film nerds. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/strutter/strutter-distribution-time

Or how about a puppet horror movie? http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/935772123/the-mill-at-calders-end-a-ghost-story-puppet-film

Side note: if that Lars Von Trier “Nymphomaniac” is Charlotte Gainsbourg being punished for having sex with people I’m gonna have to go back to hating Lars Von Trier which will be tragic cause we were just starting to get along after “Melancholia.”

michaelhayes: Listen to your friend Amy Poehler.

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:30:09 -0400

michaelhayes:

Listen to your friend Amy Poehler.

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!!!???

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:25:10 -0500

theunknownsessions:

With a whole dance routine of course.

Adorable.

Oh just the most amazing man ever...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:24:19 -0500

Oh just the most amazing man ever MOONWALKING.

jtotheizzoe:

astrotastic:

“Buzz Aldrin, you’re from the moon.”

“Is this what it was like there?”

[x]

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.

Video

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:36:15 -0500

Oh No, The Equilateral Triangle: The thing is about Ginny and Frankie, people are acting like that...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:35:39 -0500

Oh No, The Equilateral Triangle: The thing is about Ginny and Frankie, people are acting like that...:

the-strangest-sea:

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…

Quick Thought on Oscars and Sexism

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:27:00 -0500

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?

I WANT THIS POSTER

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:09:40 -0500

I WANT THIS POSTER

somehillbilly: The Daily Show, 1/24/13. (x) Oh hell yes.

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:13:52 -0500

somehillbilly:

The Daily Show, 1/24/13. (x)

Oh hell yes.

Photo

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 14:18:44 -0500

uchicagoadmissions: Indiana Jones Mystery Package We don’t...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:42:28 -0500

uchicagoadmissions:

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).