October 2011
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Recommendations: Fables
Tonight, ABC debuts a new show, Once Upon A Time, which tells the story of fairy tale characters exiled into real world Boston. Many people have commented that it sounds strikingly similar to Fables, a comic book series produced by DC Comic’s Vertigo imprint. Vertigo is reserved for comics with mature subject matter, and was brought to prominence with Neil Gaiman’s fantastic magnum...
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A Partial Examination of the DC Reboot From The... →
Yes, yes, old news. I thought of this because I recently started watching Adventure Time, and one character is voiced by the woman who voiced Starfire in Teen Titans, so I thought I’d share this for people who hadn’t seen it yet.
Recently, DC Comics restarted nearly all, if not all, of their comics taking place in the main DC Universe. Some characters even received new origins, in...
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The Want You Gone cover by shakethedust on...
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Cookie Monster Explain Occupy Wall Street →
Cookie Monster was always my favorite Sesame Street muppet, most likely because he and I share a deep love for sweets.
As this article explains, there is a commenter on the forums of The A.V. Club who goes by the name Cookie Monster and writes how Cookie speaks: no articles, third-person self-referencing, and poor subject-verb agreement. This person is hilarious. This article quotes a post...
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Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken
While I’m doing all this posting about the house sigils of A Song of Ice and Fire, I guess I should explain why I like the Martells so much, seeing as how my posting of them just said they were my favorite. I’m drawn to celestial imagery, so when I first read the appendix to A Game of Thrones, the Martell sigil drew me in. (Part of why I put House Arryn so high was because of the...
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Creaming Butter and Sugar: A Tutorial →
I tried to post this yesterday, only to realize now that it didn’t work. So instead of embedding the video onto this site, I will give you the link to check it out for yourself.
This is a good video explaining how to cream butter and sugar together. Baking is very much a science (cooking is an art), and if you don’t do things exactly according to the recipe, you might end up...
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