Abstruse Goose
Another webcomic worth following. Here’s a taste:
From the always interesting The Awl: Because here’s the thing that we all know: just because you employ a ton of women (40%, they say!) on your staff doesn’t negate the possibility that the content of your show, and its public image—as in, who actually writes and says the words, who, in a word, are [...]
Today’s “quote of the day” is from an article someone on Twitter described as a poorly written attack on Gawker Media. I thought the piece made an important point about incentives in for-profit blogging. As of this writing, Carmon’s post has generated almost 1,000 comments and nearly 90,000 page views. It’s a prime example of [...]
Ann Arbor has a nice Summer Festival every year, which includes a free concert series called Top of the Park. I’m often surprised by the quality of the acts that get booked, considering how long the free concert series lasts. I’ve decided to post some samples from this year’s lineup. I guess you get your [...]
Even if you don’t find Starship Troopers as prescient as I do, the years have been kind to it, if only because it’s now removed from the context of whatever expectations people might have had for it at the time. It seems absurd now to write it off as some silly piece of escapism, as [...]
I have a small collection of phobias that I’ve learned to live with over the years, even appreciate in an odd way as situations that confer a kind of instant adrenaline. For example, I’m bothered by heights, not airplane style heights, but railing style heights that look out over built environments of concrete and imagined [...]
All the cool kids on the internet are hating on Lost after the series finale, but I actually enjoyed the way the series ended. As far as I could tell, the only outright flaw was Christian Shepard’s monologue on the nature of the flash sideways universe. I would have preferred something more ambiguous and subtle at the end, [...]
If I had the budget for one, I’d definitely buy one, so I can certainly understand why people with lots of disposable income are flocking to Apple stores today. That said, there is something sort of unseemly about reveling in the act of consumption. I guess this particular tweet captures what I’m trying to say [...]
I keep hearing about this problem of communicating with people in the future about dangerous radioactive waste storage sites. My solution to the problem is to make the sites as desolate and unremarkable as possible. Given our natural curiosity, putting up elaborate structures seems like more like an invitation than a prohibition, even if those [...]
People always look at me a bit quizzically when I start to rave about Primer. Today’s subtle Primer reference in XKCD perfectly captures both why I love the film, and why nobody knows about it.