Friday Ephemera
Pig drumming. // Dogs + birds = dirds. // How to fight a baby. // Homeopathic stress mints. They’re vegan and gluten-free. (h/t, Things) // Smell like Mr Takei. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) // An artist’s statement. // Tiny animals on human fingers. // Tin of Soylent Green, circa 1973, sold at auction for $2,250. // Tail lights for horses. // Platypuses in hats. // The Star Trek bathroom set you’ve always wanted. // Everything wrong with Man of Steel. // Winged robot. // What “Che” said. // Have you belly-rubbed your piglet today?
Everything wrong with Man of Steel.
I’m not sure that was everything. “An artist’s statement” was amusing.
. . . begun to put up posters with select quotes from the guerrilla fighter, titled, “Can You Tell Who Said What?: Che Guevara or . . . .
“Hatred is the central element of our struggle! Hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him a violent and cold-blooded killing machine. Our soldiers must be thus.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtbi2UzdSU
I was very disappointed to learn that the Soylent Green sample is actually “a square piece of balsa wood painted lime green”.
I’m not sure that was everything.
No, but to mention every shortcoming and bizarre decision you’d need a video half the length of the film. As noted in the thread on this, I don’t think Zack Snyder knows how to do elation, which is pretty much essential in a Superman film.
Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!
At least the Che groupies have taken this to heart.
The Che quotes in english… they were translated and published by Humberto Fontova in his excellent expose…
Here, (The Libertarian could easily have given them the attribution they deserve):
http://babalublog.com/2013/11/26/where-did-all-those-che-guevara-quotes-in-english-come-from/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2515969/Humans-evolved-female-chimpanzee-mated-pig-Extraordinary-claim-American-geneticist.html
pimpanze?
Sperm whale explodes as man tries to open stomach
You can imagine the smell.
Sperm whale explodes as man tries to open stomach
See Snopes for a classic historical example.
“My insurance company is never going to believe this,” said Springfield, Ore., businessman Walter Umenhofer as he surveyed the crushed remains of his big Buick.