The Battle of Helm’s Deep
The Lord of the Rings gets the Lego parody treatment. H/T IMAO
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Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the month “December, 2012”
Christmas Sweatz
Rhett, Link and friends demonstrate the most comfortable way to celebrate this holiday season.
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Go! Girl! Go!–Cuarenta y Cinco
Helen appears as the sexy cabaret star Loveleena in Agent Vinod, Bollywood’s 1977 answer to James Bond. Born in Burma to an Anglo Indian officer and a Burmese nurse, Helen and her family migrated to India as refugees in 1942 after the Japanese overran Burma during WWII. Famous for playing vamps, Helen starred in more than 350 movies. She retired in 1983 after she married screenwriter Salim Khan, but has returned to the screen in recent years, now cast as a grandmother. Agent Vinod, by the way, was remade earlier this year, emerging as one of Bollywood’s top-grossing films of 2012.
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How Children Handle Trauma
Dr. John Walkup, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital, discusses how children may be dealing with traumatic events such as the school shooting in Connecticut. H/T Wall Street Journal
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Going Broke By Degree
There is more than $1 trillion in student loan debt outstanding, and it keeps going higher, as does the cost of college tuition. Are we in the midst of a massive student loan bubble, and can universities continue to provide costly educations that burden graduates with a lifetime of debt? Will the federal government bail out struggling graduates? Find out on this InstaVision as Richard Vedder, author of Going Broke By Degree, talks to Glenn Reynolds.
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Irony By Any Other Name
Leaps and bounds separate that which is ironic and that which many people simply say is ironic. Christopher Warner wants to set the record straight: Something is ironic if and only if it is the exact opposite of what you would expect. H/T TEDed
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China’s Doomsday Pods
Liu Qiyuan from China’s northern Hebei province has spent more than a year and a small fortune designing and building “Noah’s Ark” survival capsules that he hopes will be the flexible lifeboats of the future. The 45-year-old has invested around $300,000 (USD) designing and building seven versions of the pod, which he hopes will someday be mass-produced—if someday ever comes, that is. H/T JewishNewsOne
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Bombs Away
Welcome to Chapter Eight from Manhunt of Mystery Island, our current Saturday Matinee serial. In this chapter, our hero Lance Reardon tries to secure a map of the island’s mysterious tunnels to aid in his search for the kidnapped Professor Forrest. Enjoy and return next Saturday for Chapter Nine: The Fatal Flood.
The Season’s Upon Us
Boston’s Dropkick Murphys deliver some Christmas cheer, with a tip of the hat (and the booze bottle) to the Pogues and Irish Yuletide punk traditions. H/T Maggie’s Farm
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Go! Girl! Go!–Cuarenta y Cuatro
Dorothy Dandridge kicks up her heels with the flying Nicholas Brothers as a specialty act, accompanied by the Glenn Miller Band, in the 1941 Twentieth Century Fox musical Sun Valley Serenade.
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