In this rather adorable student film by animation students Susan Yung, Emily Buchanan and Esther Parobek, a misunderstanding between a man and his treasured 1950s refrigerator causes it to run away to the big bad city.
It’s a story cold as time.
Yearly Archives: 2013
Ana María Jiménez Ortiz, a congresswoman for the Mexican political party PAN, has caused outrage by saying that gay people should not be allowed to marry because they don’t face each other during sex.
According to Mexican media reports Jimenez Ortiz told supporters during a forum on whether to legalize gay marriage in the state of Puebla that “marriage should only be considered in those relationships in which the members have sex while facing each other.”
“A marriage should only be considered amongst people that can look at each other in the eye while having sexual intercourse,” Jiménez Ortiz said. “Something that does not happen in homosexual couples.”
File pic: LGBT Noise March for Marriage 2012
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
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UCI Downhill champion mountain biker Aaron Gwin careens insanely down the hills of Idyllwild California on his Specialized Demo 8 Carbon bike at terrifying speeds for your queasy delectation.
Hmm.
Ruadhan O’Donoghue writes:
Sign posted at entrance to Dunnes Stores, Ballyhooly Road in Cork. I wasn’t sure if I was dressed appropriately, but I entered anyway. All was well. Everyone looked respectable
Newly declassified CIA documents released to the National Security Archive of George Washington University (ten years after an initial request) are the first official acknowledgement of the existence of Area 51 by the US government.
The CIA map shows Area 51 in an area northeast of the Atomic Energy Commission’s test site for aerial surveillance aircraft, including the infamous U2 spy plane.
See? It was spy planes all along, stupid hippies.
*Is what they want you to think*
The Government Now Admits There’s an ‘Area 51’ (The Atlantic Wire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMG2oNqBy-Y
What you may need to know:
1. It’s not a trailer.
2. It’s a 10 minute ‘performance art’ film by Jay-Z.
3. It’s directed by Mark Romanek who has made a fair-to-decent amount of the greatest music videos ever made, including THAT Johnny Cash video.
4. It was shot on July 13th in the Pace Gallery, NYC, and features appearances by everyone from Omar from The Wire to performance art legend Marina Abromovic.
5. We like it, even if Hova‘s new album is pants.
Release Date: Out now (click above)
The Tayleur, pride of the White Star Line.
Unsinkable, they said.
That’s how they rolled.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
It was the biggest ship of its time, and ‘the safest ever built’, the clipper ship, The Tayleur, owned by the White Star Line, which ran aground off a reef on the east coast of Lambay, Dublin, in 1854.
Like the the Titanic, The Tayleur was on its maiden voyage, but there was no iceberg (the new-fangled iron hull had distorted the compasses), and certainly no policy of women and children first; out of its shipload of Irish emigrants bound for the Australian Gold Rush, only 3 women (out of 250) and 3 children (out of 50) survived.
Among them was a baby, tied to a bed-tick, found still alive among the wreckage washed up on Portmarnock Strand the following day.
Known as ‘The Ocean Wonder’ he was adopted by a woman who had lost her baby in the disaster.
Not all survivors were so lucky. Many North Dublin coastal inhabitants of the time made a healthy living from wreckage, and contemporary accounts record some of them as more interested in cutting diamond-ringed fingers off the bodies of the dead than helping the living.
The ship’s African cook fared particularly badly with locals who, reputedly unfamiliar with non-Europeans, refused to help him on account of his skin colour…
Good times.
The Wreck Of The Tayleur (LoughShinnyVillage)
Lambay Island (MalahideHeritage)
Pic via Newton Les Wilows
Following the successful free screening of Galaxy Quest.
Brian Lloyd writes:
Why So Serious? are doing another free (yes, FREE) screening in Grand Social, Upper Liffey Street, Dublin. This time it’s 1996’s camp classic The Birdcage. On Wednesday, August 28th and doors at 7PM with the film starting at 8PM. We’ll have free giveaways and a little trivia quiz beforehand.
Why So Serious Presents The Birdcage (Facebook)
Why So Serious on YouTube here