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The Dark Underbelly of Puppeteering
![Link thanks to justjens.
thedailywhat:
Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.
“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”
Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing, by Nelson Ribeiro in Collected Editions, of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”
Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.
DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.
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Link thanks to justjens.
Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.
“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”
Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing, by Nelson Ribeiro in Collected Editions, of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”
Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.
DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.
[death+taxes / robot6]
Sony’s firing of danharmon from *his* show “Community” is so typically scummy-Hollywood-corporate style & SO clueless about: 1) why the show is good 2) how grown-ups should actually handle communication 3) how the show’s fan-base will react & why that matters, that they 4) deserve whatever backlash happens now. #asswipes #GoDan
Kids:
A few hours ago, I landed in Los Angeles, turned on my phone, and confirmed what you already know. Sony Pictures Television is replacing me as showrunner on Community, with two seasoned fellows that I’m sure are quite nice - actually, I have it on good authority they’re quite nice, because…
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Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes
Matt Smith as The Doctor
Daniel Craig as James Bond
Philip Glenister as Gene Hunt
Avengers: United Kingdom
NOW, THE STORY OF A SUPERHERO TEAM WHO WAS NEEDED TO FIGHT THINGS, AND THE ONE MAN WHO HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO BRING THEM ALL TOGETHER.
It’s Avengered Development.
(Source: -andrews)
(QG: My pull-quote from this: “What does lead to more employment is a ‘circle of life’ like feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring.”)
It is astounding how significantly one idea can shape a society and its policies. Consider this one.
If taxes on the rich go up, job creation will go down.
This idea is an article of faith for Republicans and seldom challenged by Democrats and has shaped much of today’s economic landscape.
But sometimes the ideas that we know to be true are dead wrong. For thousands of years people were sure that earth was at the center of the universe. It’s not, and an astronomer who still believed that it was, would do some lousy astronomy.
In the same way, a policy maker who believed that the rich and businesses are “job creators” and therefore should not be taxed, would make equally bad policy.
I have started or helped start, dozens of businesses and initially hired lots of people. But if no one could have afforded to buy what we had to sell, my businesses would all have failed and all those jobs would have evaporated.
That’s why I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is a “circle of life” like feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring. In this sense, an ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than a capitalist like me.
Nick Hanauer, a venture capitalist whose TED talk about inequality was deemed “too political controversial” to publish. (via theatlantic)(via wilwheaton)
This is our cafe with its new name and a logo facelift - because sometimes you hafta ask for take-backs. ; ] (Formerly JavaLoveCafe.) On twitter it’s: JavistaCoffee.
We’ve made it through several BIG Los Angeles permit hurdles and a couple of funding hurdles - so hurrah for that.
We did discover that we’d be much better off if we changed our name to something we could trademark, so we’ve had a name change and a face lift to start the game afresh, with a Name…
From my other me. ; ]
The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes
Since it’s been weeks (again!) since Ragtag’s Typogrammoricon! has tumbled from our antique 1906 American Type Founders “American Line Type Book”, and since we’ve hit a point in the pages that’s a bit booooring (trust us on this), we’ve dived into later pages - again - to present you with just two of some very particular pages devoted to men’s fraternal organizations/lodges.*
Since this kind of group was quite common in the U.S. throughout its first centuries, and they were still very active at the turn of the century, frequently forming the basis for much of the social activity of small town U.S.A., it would have behooved the jobbing printer to get a few of these to have handy for whenever he printed a related article or announcement.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows - or Odd Fellows for short - is an American offshoot of a British organization formed in the 18th century for fellowship & charitable acts - which at the time was apparently considered somewhat odd. Their emblem includes three links, which represent friendship, love & truth.
Most of the Odd Fellow type offered is emblem/logo or regalia-related, and while interesting, not of very much use now to the average graphic designer. We’ve therefore cleaned-up one of the beehives, which is one of the images representing the originally all-female auxiliary order of the Oddfellows, the Daughters of Rebekah, and which symbolizes industry and united effort. We offer it for your high-resolution use. We love bees.
The Knights of Pythias was another fraternal & benevolent order, founded in 1864 to “promote friendship among men, and alleviate suffering”. They take their name from the Greek legend of the friendship of Damon and Pythias. Their motto is Friendship, Charity, Benevolence and their sister order was called, aptly enough, the Pythian Sisters. Their emblems primarily consist of imagery of knighthood and armor - originally each inductee was required to buy a ceremonial sword for use in lodge rituals - but their Uniformed Rank, which adopted military terminology for its organization, also called themselves the Army of the Lily and used the calla lily as an emblem - we present the bud and full flower cleaned-up and at print resolution for your enjoyment.
There’s a couple of emblems thrown in at the bottom of this page from the Order of Heptasophs (The Seven Wise Men), founded in 1852, I’m not sure why exactly, which eventually floundered due to schism — and there’s one from the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, founded in 1852 to help Jewish immigrants to the U.S.; their initial clubs later became the foundation of the Jewish Community Center system. A Young Women’s Hebrew Association was later founded in 1888.
Finally: my maternal grandfather was a Mason, and he apparently took his membership and responsibilities very seriously; he was some grand poobah and had all the badges, honors and responsibilities of his office. Not that I really know what these were.
He was also an Odd Fellow, and while I heard it mentioned less often, it appears, at least in his small-town community, it was taken a bit less seriously - see the picture of he & his Odd Fellow lodge as they pose in lovely female attire. They do look a bit odd, except the guy in the upper right, who looks very much at at home in his pretty dress. My grandpa is the one in the front, second from the right - a redhead - on whom I’ve placed a red “x”. He does not shine as a woman.
There are no other photos of my male relatives in drag. That I know of.
*(We would present you with more typebits related to women’s lodges, but apparently the few that existed did not warrant a much of a look-in from the World O’ Metal Type. Maybe at some point later point in the book I will find some pieces devoted to the Order of the Eastern Star, which was all-female at the time - the wives of those belonging to the Masons.)(This type book - from 1906 - is in the public domain; it is scanned from our own hardcopy.)
JavaLoveCafé are us! We present the Befores.
JavaLove Café - The Befores
Alrighty, we feel a little like we’re doing a Monty Python bit here (“Here’s one of Uncle Bob behind the woodshed. Here’s Uncle Bob in front of the woodshed…”) and you can rip them up as we go along if you like. (Ha! You can’t! They’re digital.)
We just had to show you the photos of the café space completely untouched - before carpets are ripped up, doors are moved, building fronts re-worked - in its current, um, pristine, 70’s-ish shape.
Almost everything you see here will change - the narrow side door w/ the awning will be gone, the front will lose its silly white-green-yellow siding - everything must go in a spectacular gutting. We’re all for preservation, but there’s nothing worth saving here - except for the original structure, and any Fun Surprises we may find as we uncover it. (We don’t know anything about the building’s history, prior to the L.A. Weekly using it for their Classified offices, but when we do find out, we’ll be delighted to share that with you.)
Meanwhile, our architect has moved with gratifying speed, and has preliminary drawings to show us on Wednesday - tomorrow!
We won’t be able to sleep tonight.
JavaLove Café. Exceptional Organic Coffees & Teas. Fresh Artisanal Baked Goods. Stylish & Comfortable Setting. By Whedon Fans. Located in The Hungry Heart of Hollywood, and with website to follow. Currently digitally located on tumblr and twitter, soon to be located in the Real World at 6705 West Sunset Blvd. (will probably change to 6711), Hollywood, CA 90028.
[TW: Rape]
And until you’ve been raped, you don’t really wake up and see how much rape is out there for the casual consumer. You didn’t really hear those offhand comments when walking down the street – “oh, you know she totally made that up for attention” – you didn’t really notice that the sex scene in Blade Runner actually really looks like a fucking rape scene, you didn’t really hear how the TV news focuses on what she was wearing, and calls it “sex,” and digs for details about where and how he penetrated her, when you don’t really need to know that, do you? And you don’t realize how many of the people you know and love do not take rape seriously, because they have been sucking up all the same TV shows and movies you do, and they don’t think they know a real person who has been raped. Of course, some of them you might tell, and they can accept that, accept the secondary trauma, begin to start thinking of you whenever they see a rape in a movie, hear of one on the news, hear a rape joke. Or they can disqualify you as a real person. Guess which one happens most.
A Woman Walks Into A Rape, uh, Bar (via andyouhavetogivethemhope)(Source: fugitivus.wordpress.com, via worldofhiglet)
(via wilwheaton)
Well, this is me. I mean it. Well, me (QG) and a few others. But it’s our new Unsane Business Venture. Tell yer friends.
JavaLove Café. Exceptional Organic Coffees & Teas. Fresh Artisanal Baked Goods. Stylish & Comfortable Setting. By Whedon Fans. Located in The Hungry Heart of Hollywood, and with website to follow. Currently digitally located on tumblr and twitter., soon to be located in the Real World at 6705 West Sunset Blvd. (will probably change to 6711), Hollywood, CA 90028.
JavaLove Café is, as we speak, being planned and designed, and should be built and ready to go (knock wood) in September of 2012. We have an awesome-y architect already knee-deep in designs & schemes, hard at work planning the café’s construction and interiors.
On the corner of North Las Palmas and West Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood (two blocks west of Highland; see maps in images), it’s located in the building that formerly housed the L.A. Weekly Classified Ads Dept. A new jewelry store has opened *right* in the corner position; JavaLove is just west of it (or to the left as you face them) in the same building - and naturally, on the ground floor.
We’re located right by what’s come to be known as the Cahuenga Corridor - a few doors down from Hollywood’s famous Cross Roads of the World, right by St. Ambrose Church; nearby are The Mercantile, Piano Bar/Hollywood, Boardner’s, Miceli’s, and down the street are the Cat & Fiddle, Amoeba Music/Hollywood, and the Arclight & Cinerama Dome theatres.
It won’t be a huge place - including several tables out front, it won’t seat more than 25 people or so, but what it lacks in size, it will more than make up for in taste and style. And if it does well, we hope to expand into other parts of the building. (It has the added advantage of being located just around the corner - or about fifty steps - from Ragtag Design, our graphic design business, where we conceived of JavaLove over a year ago. Ragtag will keep ragtagging during and after the establishment of JavaLove. Once a designer, always a designer.)
We don’t want to give away the farm yet - after all, we will be together talking about JavaLove for six months or so as it is being built and furnished - so for now, all we’ll tell you is that it will be both modern and warm in design (think warm colors - and see the color palette in the images) and lovely wood, with a touch of polished concrete, and a pinch of Mediterranean flavoring), and will pay particular attention to lighting. (Fluorescent lighting, especially in cafés, is a HUGE pet peeve of everyone here at JavaLove - so look for both natural sunlight and subtle/pinspotted and/or hanging lamps to light your enjoyment of our fine organic coffees and delicious bakery treats.
The menu will feature brews and bites from the lovely folks at Urth Caffé, and we’ll also offer a few traditional treats from Armenia and the middle east, as well as some exotic treats cooked up specially for JavaLove by area bakers. We’ll offer everything from traditional American drip coffee, to cappuccinos & espressos & lattes, to hand-poured cups from specialty beans from around the world.
We’ll have some books and iPads for your entertainment and enrichment, and will feature in them some of the works of and by the Joss Whedon-sir, including comics and fan-related material. Whedon-fans are especially welcome, and will receive extra attention and discounts from the proprietors.
That’s it for now - gotta get off the tumblr and design and plan and brew and bake. Time’s a’wasting and the café won’t build itself. As I understand it.
I mentioned to the remarkable Amanda Palmer (currently about to do some small practice gigs with her new band then record a new album in Melbourne, Australia) that I wished there was someone who’d magically show up and make me a cup of tea or who I could have dinner with. It’s the sort of thing…
This is what I’m talking about.
Coming soon to Netflix!
Mal becomes Buddhist after Inara dies. He’s having some trouble remaining peaceable though.
Zoe has a kid and has remarried. She’s the de facto leader of the New Resistance.
Wash and Book are still dead. They repose in extreme awesomeness.
Simon and Kaylee broke up but…
The internet may well be the only coping mechanism I have left for the upcoming election season. Well, the only one that doesn’t involve a hermit lifestyle or self-harm.
ETA: The video these are all making fun of is here.
(Source: unpopularopinionrickperry)
