Elliot Mandel and James Furbush surveyed the last 60 years in American movie villain history. Here’s what they found.
Archives for August 2011
You Make My Dreams Lucid
Brian Heffron with a poem that touches upon men’s desire, at the heart of everything, to fly.
What Are the Benefits of Friends with Benefits?
Joceleyn Wentland has discovered the joy of sex research and wants to share with her findings.
Jonathan Kay and The Exciting Adventure Into The Land of Confounding Variables
Admittedly I have only read one article by Jonathan Kay. For all I know, he’s won Nobel Prizes in multiple disciplines in his spare time from writing Pulitzer-Prize-winning articles about the national debt, programming open-source software, working as a UN translator and directing and starring in a Broadway musical about his life. However, judging from this article, he…
Workers Song
We’re the first ones to starve, we’re the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky Dropkick Murphy’s Thanks to my friend The Daddy Yo Dude for helping out with Music Week 2011. This guy is quite possibly my favorite hick and I don’t talk with him on the…
Why Are We All Talking About a Pissing Skier?
I happend to know the Mad River Glen crowd where Sandy grew up. They can’t believe what he did. But they also can’t believe that its become an international story.
Opinion: The Commentary Track for the August 10th Buy Pile [@cbr], Issue #5, “Crime & Punishment on Earth & Cybertron”
An analysis of elements from Hannibal Tabu’s reviews column on Comic Book Resources.
Dear John: Love When You Least Expect It
When does a deal breaker become a breakup? How much does a bad haircut matter? Dear John has some answers.
I Realize This Has Nothing To Do With Masculism, But
29,000 children have died in the past ninety days in Somalia. That means: imagine the number of people at an average Major League Baseball game, except every one of them is a child dead of famine. 3.7 million people are currently in crisis in Somalia thanks to the famine, and 3.2 million of them are…
Web: How To Survive Anonymous’ Guy Fawkes Day Attack On Facebook
Anonymous is planning to take down Facebook on November 5th. Be ready. Don’t lose all of your data.
Webcomics: @World_of_Hurt: The Thrill Seekers #022, “Tell The Truth, Shame The Devil – Part 3”
World of Hurt is a webcomic created by Jay Potts, syndicated twice a week from its inception on Komplicated.com
The 10 at 10
Bert and Ernie could get married, London looks like Rodney King, and Americans choose cell phones over sex.
Music: The Perfect Chord from @darrylzero: Ten Grand
The melding of styles was as widespread as it was seamless and, perhaps, inevitable; as a genre, punk was always as defiantly resistant to clear definition as it was to authority, with bands like Fishbone, The Clash, Fugazi, Bow Wow Wow, and the aforementioned Bad Brains merging rock with dub, calypso, funk, jazz, and any imaginable musical form. Still, the starkness of The Vidablue’s approach—the instrumental arrangements so delicate and tender, with vocals so scrapingly abrasive—suggested a sort of identity crisis, an inability to move too far in one direction.
100 Thoughts on Race, Gender, and Everything Else
Whoa.
I Ain’t No Whiteboy: A Reflection on Hip-Hop, Misogyny, and Racial Identity
For David Perez, Hip-hop was a means of acquiring an identity, but it came with baggage that he still finds himself lugging around.
Beauty, Obsession, Men, and Women
Is women’s obsession with beauty because of an intense desire to be attractive to men? And if so, is it a men’s issue?