Douglas R. Turek
Greetings! I'm Doug! I write poetry, fantasy, and science fiction.
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World’s Biggest Pac-Man - a series of interlinked Pac-Man screens that you can travel across. Awesome, and it plays just like you remember!
I am trying really hard to contain my excitement about this video.
So damn cool. And I love how purposefully the guy moves, even using exaggerated anticipation in his motions.
Ugh. “Activist 9th Circuit Judges”? As opposed to shady presidential hopefuls who want to run the country only to impose their own divisive and somewhat antiquated beliefs?
California made a horrible decision which has (temporarily at least) been fixed. Fuck off Santorum
(also, I think it’s crappy and completely inappropriate any time a member of the executive—hopeful member in this case—flips out about a higher level judicial ruling. If we want this government to work, there should be at least a modest amount of respect between branches. Disagreeing with the decision is one thing, but labeling judges activists… fighting words right there).
A Christmas Carol was published 52 years before H.G Wells’s Time Machine, and yet employs the idea of moving through the past, present and future in a way that is emulated by all the western literature to follow. Sure, religious texts and myths have earlier examples of time travel, but with A Christmas Carol, the time travel of Scrooge throughout his own life creates a positive paradox. Because the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge the future, Scrooge changes the present. And yet, that future couldn’t have existed if Scrooge changed in the present. So how did Scrooge see this future? Well, it was one possible future, which is a notion presented to science fiction characters every since. Would Q have taunted Picard or Billy Pilgrim skipped through time if it weren’t for Dickens? Doubtful.
Kudos to Ellen & JC Penney!
Rebuttal of the Day: At a taping of her show set to air tomorrow, Ellen DeGeneres called out conservative group One Million Moms (actual membership: 40,000) for calling on JCPenney to dump her as their spokesperson or risk losing customers “with traditional values.”
“I usually don’t talk about stuff like this on my show, but I really want to thank everyone who is supporting me,” Ellen told her audience. “Here are the values I stand for. I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you’d want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. That’s what I stand for.”
She then concluded, in signature Ellen fashion: “I also believe in dance.”
Watch the video here.
[towleroad.]
Television - See No Evil
Marquee Moon was released 35 years ago today.
“John Lennon envisaged this song as a call to prayer from the Dalai Lama, echoing and reverberating through the Himalayas to the faithful below. At no point did he ever mention falling down a hole into the middle of the world whilst out on a ramble, go go dancing natives or dinosaurs, ‘cause I would have remembered.”
via: Island of Terror
Unbelievably bad. Nearly entertainingly bad. It’s like the producers of the cartoon had no idea what to do with the song Tomorrow Never Knows, so they just made stuff up. Of note, though, are these quotes from the Wikipedia article on The Beatles Cartoons: “Originally, The Beatles disliked the cartoon; however, as time went on they grew to like it. In 1972, Lennon commented, “I still get a blast out of watching the Beatles cartoons on TV.” In 1999, Harrison said, “I always kind of liked [the cartoons]. They were so bad or silly that they were good, if you know what I mean. And I think the passage of time might make them more fun now.”[8]”
by Douglas Robert Turek
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I saw her at the docking port. She was filling out forms for an attendant. Her cube had apparently not cleared yet. Tunicless, she wore old fashioned shirt-and-pants. Her skin was real, not nupact coating. I bet her bones were real, too. A real lady, one who could read and write without an obsecretary glommed onto the side of her head. Her hair was blonde, regulation traveler’s cut, but flipped at the end. Defiance via loopholes. Absolutely captivating. I reported her, and she was led off into the attendant’s office for a few minutes. When she came out again her hair was even shorter, and she had a minder glommed on. I checked my account via my own minder and watched the balance go up. I set the vision of her, precorrected, on my internal screen, tied to the hourly flush of medications from my pharmapatch. Aaahhhhhhhh, love at first sight. Again and again and again.
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© 2012 Douglas Robert Turek, all rights reserved.
(via A History of Christian Archie Comics: A History of Christian Archie Comics) From Chuck Colson’s Born Again, an autobiographical comic from former Special Counsel for President Richard Nixon (from 1969 to 1973). Colson is known as the first one of the Watergate Seven to be sentenced for Watergate-related crimes.
OK Go “Needing/Wanting” & Chevrolet Sonic - Super Bowl XLVI Commercial (by brettsvtec)
So Cool!!!
GPOY - From my School Years Book, in which my parents kept my old report cards and school photos. This is me in Kindergarten in 1973. Yeah, that’s a red white and blue check suit with a red clip-on bow tie. I think I pulled it off.
