Yikes!
Brazil actor playing Judas dies from accidental hanging
A Brazilian actor has died after accidentally hanging himself while playing Judas in an Easter Passion play.
Tiago Klimeck, 27, was enacting the suicide of Judas during the performance on Good Friday in the city of Itarare.
The actor was hanging for four minutes before fellow performers realised something was wrong.
Klimeck was taken to hospital suffering from cerebral hypoxia but died on Sunday.
The Passion play was being performed in Itarare, 345km (214 miles) west of Sao Paulo.
Klimeck was re-enacting the scene in which Judas commits suicide in repentance for his betrayal of Jesus Christ.
Police are investigating the apparatus that was meant to support Klimeck. It appears the knot may have been wrongly tied.
PS: The new rover will land August 5th. Pass it on.
My fingers are crossed it will land OK. It will use a never-before-tried landing technique called a Sky Crane.
Sky Crane.
Isn’t that how Willy Wonka’s glass elevator worked?
Possibly. Did Willy Wonka's glass elevator have rockets?
Well, it did punch through the ceiling.
It’s Official: James Cameron and Google Unveil Plans for Asteroid-Mining
I'm totally requesting an asteroid rotation.
Wow, this story about a Korean rap star who was hounded into hiding is really horrible:
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Poor guy, and his poor family, too!
My life is more authentic the less it is dominated by “the everyone” and the more it is governed by my own understanding, concerns, desires, tastes, goals, etc.
As a person who generally likes things that are popular, I hate that shit so much. I authentically like popular arts!
Right there with you. It implies that if you were authentic, you wouldn't be into mainstream shit; you'd be into weird obscure shit. (Also known as "I liked R.E.M. *before* 'Fables of the Reconstruction'!")
As a music critic who spent a couple years thinking about Bubblegum music and spent years listening to "punker than thou" and indierock debates, I can assure you that authenticity is a shibboleth.
Everything is mediated. Nothing is pure. Bluegrass purists ignore that the very genre is a mishmash of old timey string bands and blues music with occasional flourishes from swing.
Folk purists (as Nick Tosches pointed out) are generally ignorant of the longstanding "pollution" of pop melodies. A lot of songs people consider folk music came right out of Tin Pan Alley.
Authenticity is 100% bullshit. Anybody that claims it is - by definition - ignorant. People that espouse it as a personal virtue are also peddling bullshit. They're selling you something. Oftentimes beer, though occasionally a privileged white person's tour through Costa Rica.
