Well, Miley Cyrus, You Make An Excellent Point

Fat? We live in such a technological firestorm that anytime a celebrity is photographed nearly instantaneous commentary arises on anything from the hairstyle they’ve chosen, their wardrobe, and even their physical features, via any number of sources. Within moments it’s mentioned on a blog, on Twitter, on Facebook, via text message and possibly with corresponding video. It’s now as easy as hitting “submit” to glimpse someone’s image and make a judgment all in seconds.

Well, one millennial used that very technology to fight back…and good for her.

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QOTD: Would You Survive the Apocalypse?

I love watching post-apocalypse movies, but sometimes I get to wondering: how useful would I be if I found myself living in a post-apocalyptic world?

As we see on The Walking Dead, there’s always washing and cooking to be done.  However, anyone able-bodied can wash stuff, and even if you can’t really cook you could peel potatoes, so there’d be an abundant supply of washers and kitchen-workers, so my abilities there wouldn’t necessarily make me worth feeding if things got tight.  I could teach the children, but then so could any adult who can remember a reasonable amount of what they learned in school.

I’m a good organiser, so maybe I could be the quarter-master.  Give me a room with some shelves to set out all the camp’s stock and I could mete it out like a sonofabitch. Continue reading →

Open Caption: Ebony and Ivory Edition

It’s been a while since we’ve poked fun at a GOP Presidential Candidate photo. This image is stuffed with possibility as tightly as Newt is packed into that suit. Tight like Mrs. Cain holding her fingers to her ears when you try to explain to her what “Running Game” and “Fronting” mean. You guys know the rules: There aren’t any rules, just don’t not be funny.

Five Reasons You Should be Watching Happy Endings

Admittedly, the first time I saw a promo for ABC’s Happy Endings, I was nonplussed, to put it mildly. As a long-standing fan of Fox’s 24, my memories of Elisha Cuthbert were a shade, well, terrible. Throughout her run on the show as star Keifer Sutherland’s daughter, she seemed an uneven performer whose character did a lot more to get in the way than it ever did to help move stories along.

By the time Happy Endings was through it’s first season, I had managed to avoid the show completely, save for risking ocular injury at the trailers that popped up during Modern Family. Then, something weird happened. ABC Family ran a marathon of the first season, and once I overcame my own biases against Ms. Cuthbert, I came to realize-Hey, this show is actually rather amusing. Continue reading →