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.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2012 7:47:15 am PDT #2167 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tom Scola - Apr 24, 2012 7:49:48 am PDT #2168 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sky Crane.
Isn’t that how Willy Wonka’s glass elevator worked?
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2012 7:51:59 am PDT #2169 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Possibly. Did Willy Wonka's glass elevator have rockets?
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2012 7:56:49 am PDT #2170 of 30001
brillig
Well, it did punch through the ceiling.
shrift - Apr 24, 2012 8:03:56 am PDT #2171 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
It’s Official: James Cameron and Google Unveil Plans for Asteroid-Mining
I'm totally requesting an asteroid rotation.
Allyson - Apr 24, 2012 8:10:23 am PDT #2172 of 30001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
"Authenticity" is one of the great bullshit standards.
For reals.
Consuela - Apr 24, 2012 8:21:49 am PDT #2173 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Wow, this story about a Korean rap star who was hounded into hiding is really horrible: [link]
Poor guy, and his poor family, too!
Steph L. - Apr 24, 2012 8:30:14 am PDT #2174 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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'!")
DavidS - Apr 24, 2012 8:37:33 am PDT #2175 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Atropa - Apr 24, 2012 8:43:54 am PDT #2176 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
It implies that if you were authentic, you wouldn't be into mainstream shit; you'd be into weird obscure shit.
This reminds me! There are some cranky people on the internet who have been ranting that if you like GCS, you're not a REAL Goth. That I'm one of the signs that Goth Is Dead, and that (wait for it) I'm not authentic. Oh, how I giggled when I was reading these posts.
(And then absurdly pleased when swarms of other people commented to defend GCS, me, and to tell the cranky people that while they're entitled to their opinions, those opinions are wrong.)