July 9, 2012
Kirby Epic Yarn
Instead of playing the serious games I keep meaning to get to, I've been stuck on this ball of cuteness. Probably a great game for a five year old, because you can't die.
What Happens After Restaurant Impossible?
by David Segal in New York Times
Say this for “Restaurant: Impossible,” the hit Food Network show that begins its fourth season Wednesday: It is not afraid to stick to a formula. In every episode, the menu and décor of an ailing restaurant are overhauled in 48 hours on a budget of $10,000.
"New Girl"Bus
Seattle Aug 31 - Sept 3
While most TV shows are taking the summer off, New Girl is hitting the road.
Fans who stop by the bus can grab gift bags, watch exclusive videos, play "douchebag jar" pong, eat cupcakes and more.
For the full list of dates/locations, head to facebook.com/newgirlsummertour.
Kirby Epic Yarn
What Happens After Restaurant Impossible?
by David Segal in New York Times
Say this for “Restaurant: Impossible,” the hit Food Network show that begins its fourth season Wednesday: It is not afraid to stick to a formula. In every episode, the menu and décor of an ailing restaurant are overhauled in 48 hours on a budget of $10,000.
The project always seems hopeless at first, typically because the food is lousy, the staff inept and the premises a shambles. But salvation arrives in the form of Robert Irvine, a brawny British chef in a snug black polo shirt, who, through a mix of tough love, expertise and shouting (and with an assist from an interior decorator and crew of carpenters), transforms the place.
The last scene of every show is a full house of customers dining happily from a radically altered menu in a bustling and beautified room. Cut to the once-desperate owner, beaming joyously.
Roll credits. Another week, another miracle. But does it stick?
When a business is in such dire shape, can it actually be turned from money pit to thriving enterprise in just two days?
"New Girl"Bus
Seattle Aug 31 - Sept 3
While most TV shows are taking the summer off, New Girl is hitting the road.
Fans who stop by the bus can grab gift bags, watch exclusive videos, play "douchebag jar" pong, eat cupcakes and more.
For the full list of dates/locations, head to facebook.com/newgirlsummertour.
Men, Women, and Chainsaws
by Carol Clover
(It shouldn't be surprising that this book exists. Someone specializes in everything.)
Before Men, Women, and Chain Saws, most film critics assumed that horror (especially slasher) films entail a male viewer sadistically watching the plight of a female victim. Carol Clover argues convincingly that both male and female viewers not only identify with the victim, but experience, through the actions of the "final girl," a climactic moment of female power. As the Boston Globe writes, Men, Women, and Chain Saws "challenges simplistic assumptions about the relationship between gender and culture... [Clover] suggests that the 'low tradition' in horror movies possesses positive subversive potential, a space to explore gender ambiguity and transgress traditional boundaries of masculinity and femininity." Be forewarned, though: Clover addresses an academic audience, so her language can be heavy going.
Bechdel Test
The Bechdel Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel Rule is a simple test which names the following three criteria:
(1) it has to have at least two women in it, who
(2) who talk to each other, about
(3) something besides a man.
The test was popularized by Alison Bechdel's comic Dykes to Watch Out For, in a 1985 strip called The Rule. For a nice video introduction to the subject please check out The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies on feministfrequency.com.
by Carol Clover
(It shouldn't be surprising that this book exists. Someone specializes in everything.)
Before Men, Women, and Chain Saws, most film critics assumed that horror (especially slasher) films entail a male viewer sadistically watching the plight of a female victim. Carol Clover argues convincingly that both male and female viewers not only identify with the victim, but experience, through the actions of the "final girl," a climactic moment of female power. As the Boston Globe writes, Men, Women, and Chain Saws "challenges simplistic assumptions about the relationship between gender and culture... [Clover] suggests that the 'low tradition' in horror movies possesses positive subversive potential, a space to explore gender ambiguity and transgress traditional boundaries of masculinity and femininity." Be forewarned, though: Clover addresses an academic audience, so her language can be heavy going.
Bechdel Test
The Bechdel Test, sometimes called the Mo Movie Measure or Bechdel Rule is a simple test which names the following three criteria:
(1) it has to have at least two women in it, who
(2) who talk to each other, about
(3) something besides a man.
The test was popularized by Alison Bechdel's comic Dykes to Watch Out For, in a 1985 strip called The Rule. For a nice video introduction to the subject please check out The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies on feministfrequency.com.
Today's Photos:
Not that I had big plans today, but I was going to do something.
Then again, the point of summer is to relax and do whatever you want to do.
Finally, I tried the Doritos Locos Taco
I know the lighting is weird, but it's really that Doritos nuclear orange.
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