Relaxed Focus

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

"The Republican vote to defund Planned Parenthood is just one more piece of a deliberate, methodical, orchestrated attack on women's rights."

Still awesome, Coulson.

'Dat realization.

& this is up there too.

Still the MCU's best fight scene.

A close second.

"If I See One More Fucking Person Talking About How “Cute” and “Classy” Betty Page and Old School Burlesque Performers/PinUp Girls were, while calling modern sex workers trashy/gross/etc"

via downtime

"Daddy needs to express some rage."

Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool Trailer : People.com: "It's lines like that that give you a taste of what kind of superhero movie Deadpool will be. The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson, a.k.a. the supersoldier Deadpool, who has a grim backstory but still takes time to crack wise. (And in the case of his particular line, Reynolds is also making fun of his previous superhero effort, 2011's unsuccessful Green Lantern.) Reynolds, 38, technically played the character before – in 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine – but the Marvel cinematic universe is calling a mulligan on that radically different take on Deadpool. Based on the NSFW red band trailer, which went live Tuesday night, this new movie is keeping the character closer to his portrayal in the comics: deadly but motormouthed. "

Tuesday, August 04, 2015

The Continued Wisdom of Ron Swanson.

Wait for it.

"We get put on the straight and narrow path and told to be responsible."

Dating is hard.

I've heard.

Technology Level: Asian.

Laziness/Innovation Level: Bro.

"The Berenst#in Bears Problem" & the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.

I distinctly remember "Berenstein" as well. How very odd. The Berenst#in Bears Problem: Are We Living In An Alternate Worldline?: "A couple months ago, someone left an innocuous comment on my post 4 Weird “Clues” that Parallel Universes Exist. The comment was this: “You need to look up the Berenst#in Bears problem.” My response at first was probably what yours is now: The what? But after a quick Google search, I realized what this person was talking about. The Berenstein Bears. Now, if you don’t know about The Berenstein Bears, they were a series of children’s books, and eventually a cartoon, created by Stan and Jan Berenstein. They focused on a family of bears, and did the usual educational children’s book/tv series thing. Simple enough. I remember them, vaguely, and I believe I owned a book or two when I was a kid. It’s been a while. So what’s the problem? They’re not The Berenstein Bears. They’ve never been The Berenstein Bears. Despite the fact that many others remember them as The Berenstein Bears, and I myself still pronounce their name as The Berenstein Bears, this is false. This is wrong. They are The Berenstain Bears."

Also the Wood between Worlds: The Berenstein Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe & the Wood between Worlds: On the Berenstein Bears Switcheroo

"I got the big one because I'm a professional."

Well Played.

via Andi Blaydes — iwishyouwouldphan: I laughed more than I ought...:

"Everybody pays the Piper!"

RIP 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, Iconic Figure of Subversive Cinema | The Daily Grail: " ...the film They Live, in which he brilliantly portrays reluctant blue-collared hero John Nada, had a huuuuge impact on my development as a anti-establishment outsider and non-conformist contrarian...

They Live is iconic of the Reagan era in which it was produced, and at the same time it remains as powerful and relevant as ever, by showing how a simple, working man who just wants to survive and get by as best he can in the dog-eat-dog world he lives in, is suddenly and quite unpreparedly forced to confront the mind-bending realization, that EVERYTHING put before his eyes is an illusion. In the land of the blind, the one-eye man may be king; but in the land of the asleep, the awakened man is considered a threat. They Live is *more* than a Sci-Film flick with cheap effects and rubber masks, seeding the Conspiranoia fields for the likes of David Icke and all the rest of the NWoo-woo repto-phobes --it's a recruiting tool, designed to pose to the viewer a very simple question: Do you take the sunglasses off, or do you dare to take a stand?"