Posts tagged: kick ass
His latest interview with The New York Times is fantastic. An excerpt:
Interviewer: You’ve long argued for the decriminalization of marijuana. Do you smoke weed?
Barney Frank: No.
Interviewer: Why not?
Barney Frank: Why do you ask a question, then act surprised when I give an answer? Do you think I lie to people?
Interviewer: I thought you might explain why you support decriminalizing it but don’t smoke it.
Barney Frank: Do you think I’ve ever had an abortion?
Heh.
this was a commission i did a while back that neil gaiman tweeted about last night (thanks neil). i thought i may as well get out in front of tumblr on this one…
“Uhura” comes from the Swahili word UHURU meaning “freedom”. Uhura was pretty much the first ever black main character on American television who was not a maid or a domestic servant in 1966. TV network NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hired her as a “day worker,” but still included her in almost every episode. She actually made more money than any of the other actors through this workaround, and it was kept secret from the other actors, but it was still a humiliating second-class status. The network people made life hard for Nichols, constantly trying to pare down her screen time, purposefully dropping racist comments in her presence and even withholding her fan mail from her.This deplorable state of affairs led Nichols to make the decision to quit after the 1st season, but then she happened to meet the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. who pleaded with her to stick with the show because as a Black woman she was portraying the first non-stereotypical role on television.
I had a crush on Uhura as a kid. LOL.
A woman attacks a nazi in a nazist demonstration in Växjö, 1985 (Sweden). She was a Polish woman who had been in a concentration camp during the second world war. Minutes later, thousands of anti-nazists chased the nazists away.
Kick ass.
live and let die
“This famous stunt in the movie was actually built around what went wrong with the original stunt. Keaton intended to leap from a board projecting from one building onto the roof of another building, but he fell short, smashing into the brick wall and falling into a net off-screen. He was injured badly enough to be laid up for three days. But when he saw the film (his camera operators were instructed to always keep filming, no matter what happened), he not only kept the mishap, he built on it, adding the fall through three awnings, the loose downspout that propels him into the firehouse, and the slide down the fire pole.” IMDb
MUSIC PAINTING - Glocal Sound - Matteo Negrin (by mgitano)
This is still one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen and deserves to be shared again. I guess I can say something positive about my old Youtube Likes…
Is there any easy way to find one’s old Facebook Likes? I mean, on YouTube there’s an entire page of your likes. (Firefox knows the difference between Youtube and YouTube…did not know) That aside listen to the pretty music and watch the kick ass illustration.
Dig it.
