October 2011
Evolutionary Psychology: A One Act Play
secondbalcony:
Evolutionary Psychologists: The real motive behind [some behaviour] is [some Darwinist benefit]!
Other People: That’s so conceptually confused!
Evolutionary Psychologists: That’s why we never said it!
lmao. no but for real evolutionary psychology is the worst
katespencer:
Billy Bob Thorton defends former Red Sox manager Terry Francona: “All my thoughts and support are with Terry Francona. I think he got a raw deal in the press.”
Yes, this made the Sawx fangirl inside me swoon. Tito forever.
Sci-Fi Gorillas and "Gorilla-Like Beings" from...
jessnevins:
the bodyguard/assassins of an immortal Egyptian priest who, with his high tech weapons and his atomic power plant, intends to conquer the world and repopulate it with the Early Dynastic Era Egyptians he has in suspended animation in his subterranean base beneath the great pyramid.
the lobster-clawed test subjects of a Dr. Moreau-like mad scientist on an island in the South Pacific....
I like it when songs...
andyhutchins:
screwrocknroll:
…use prescriptive grammar correctly, though I’m not so churlish as to dislike it when songs don’t.
E.g.
“If I Were a Boy” — nice use of the conditional, Beyoncé!
“Bitches with whom I’ve slept solidify my rep” — You may end a sentence with a preposition, Curren$y, but good work with the objective pronoun.
Others, I’m sure?
Trina, “Red Bottoms,” which is my...
It sounds Persian or something. It just sounds not from a first world. it seems...
– Natasha Leggero on Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R.” bmichael tells me that the source of this quip is the podcast Who Charted?, which explains why it’s hard to Google and indicates that it was not in response to a set-up question.
Some of the region’s gain in young adults might be the result of more people...
– Census: D.C. area gains young adults in recession - The Washington Post (via dayan)
And it’s also cool. Some have probably moved to D.C. because they’ve heard it’s a cool city to live in, though not to the extent of Portland.
When people who grew up in Toronto in the ’80s talk about their childhoods, one...
– Sheila Heti, “Down the Rabbit Hole” (via Carl Wilson)
In which comedian Yannis Pappas portrays a racist... →
Yeah, every single person signed a release. People would come up to us and...
– Q&A: American Juggalo Director Sean Dunne on Drugs, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, and a Pregnant Smoking Juggalette (via dayan)
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We wanted to answer the question: Who are the living legends out there that have...
– GQ Senior Editor Will Welch on Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys, Brandon Flowers of the Killers, The Black Keys, and others selected for November’s “Survivors” feature.
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"show me what democracy looks like!"/"this is what...
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isabelthespy:
I mean I feel like I’m at summer camp, you know? I half expect someone to bust out with BANG BANG CHOO-CHOO TRAIN, LET’S SEE DEMOCRACY DO ITS THANG. incidentally the rest of that chant goes: I can’t!/why not?/cuz I can’t!/why not?/cuz my back is aching, my belt’s too tight, my booty’s shaking from the left to the right. aching backs, overly tightened belts? someone...