Double Reading

Last summer Slate had a nice piece about the “Afronaut Invasion.” I.e. hip-hop music that was obsessed with outer space and sci-fi stuff.
I gotta say, that the more electro and spacey crazy aspects of hip-hop are certainly my favorites. The first hip-hop album I really loved was Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive (which I [...]

Jobie and I rewatched Vanilla Sky tonight. I haven’t watched this movie for well over a year. There was a time back in 2003 when I was obsessed with the movie and watched it over and over again. During that time I posted a few things to my old blog “Out of Control.” Here are [...]

My friend Jennifer broke the news (via Ausiello) that Dirty, Sexy, Money is over… or will be, at the end of this season.
Although this show wasn’t quite as dirty or sexy or money as the title makes it sound, it was good. I loved the cast and the overarching mystery (”Who killed Nick’s dad?”) is [...]

I’m glad to see a few places (Defamer via The Stranger) noting how “gay” last week’s Saturday Night Live was.
And by “gay” I don’t mean the great, awesome, queer-type way.
There were four gay-themed sketches:

A family where everyone kisses each other — and at the end two of the guy cast members had an open-mouthed kiss [...]

The other week I was reading an article about a mummy found in the alps that has little/no living relatives today. That got me doing some wiki research and I thought my “stream of wiki” was sort of interesting…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_DNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Explosivity_Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Garita_Caldera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordovician-Silurian_extinction_events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_event
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray_burst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_hypothesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum (this actually resonates with an idea i have about the next step of evolution being the [...]

I love the io9 post about bad vampire hair. I actually liked Angel’s hair…

I stumbled across Imagekind yesterday. It sort of makes me want to order art there, but as I told my friend Shannon, I’m torn between:

feeling like i should make my own artwork
feeling like I should have some personal connection to the artwork (a la the prints she and my friend Molly made for me)
feeling like [...]

I dunno if it’s a troll or what, but this post on the Apple forums about the iPhone saving raunchy pictures being a glitch is hilarious.
“It wasn’t me, honey. My iPhone has a glitch that somehow calls my ex in the middle of the night when you are sleeping and makes up texts messages that [...]

io9 has a (part 1?) feature about who the final cylon on Battlestar Galactica is. I honestly have no idea who I want it to be. I’m worried that I’ve been waiting to find out for so long that no matter who the final cylon is, I won’t be satisfied… I’m also worried that it [...]

I’m proud to say that Dan Savage is a Seattle-ite and editor of our weekly paper (The Stranger).

I love how he gets Colbert to laugh!!