Your words say no, Jimmy Wales, but your eyes say yes yes yes
3,000 words on how “don’t touch my junk” changed forever the way we view personal liberty, terrorism and cloth-covered genitalia
Today marks 550 days since Don’t-Touch-My-Junk-Dude’s self-recording of his famous admonition to a TSA agent went viral, thereby changing forever the way western society views personal liberty, the war on terror and people publicly shouting about their genitalia to strangers.
Points for discussion:
I first read this as “Space Dragon birthing …” which would have been a really cool story.
But a newborn space dragon would probably be bad news for planet Earth. So I guess it’s a good thing that’s not really what the story’s about.
Because she hasn’t suffered enough already, I guess.
*** Tune in tomorrow for more breaking siren news! ***
The big featured story on Gawker right now is a post marking the seventh anniversary of Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch. It’s over 3,000 words long.
Now, before today, I would have assumed that it was impossible to come up with 3,000+ words of commentary about Tom Cruise jumping on Oprah’s couch seven years ago. But Gawker did just that, proving my assumptions wrong — not for the first time, and probably not for the last time either.
Here’s tomorrow’s NY Post headline about Facebook’s stock-price debacle.
(At least, it would be if I wrote NY Post headlines.)
Can’t wait for the new Dan Harmon series which will be about a showrunner who is widely loved on the internet by a bunch of people who probably don’t know what a showrunner actually does and there will be an episode about how the showrunner really sustains his sense of self worth because of all the posi things people on an internet service say about him and then the people on the internet service will be all ‘he likes us!’ and then the show will get cancelled because the people on the internet service never watch the show because they read all about it on the internet service and aside from the people on the internet service no one gives a shit about showrunners or internet services.
And the showrunner will do weekly battle with a crusty old washed up former-star comedian who, we are led to believe, is probably secretly a really good guy deep down under his crusty exterior. Except in Season 2 we’ll learn that’s not true, and that he’s really just a total asshole.
Here’s an update for any folks who (like me) care about all this Dan Harmon- and Community-related nonsense ….
Dan Harmon tweets that Chevy Chase is “not happy” he was fired.
That’s true. Sartre would say you were probably stupid the whole time.
If you search “chevy chase” on Google News, this is what comes up at the top of the page.
“Also don’t believe anyone that says I have sex with animals. And if there’s a photo of me doing it with an animal - I’m not saying one exists, I’m just saying, if one surfaces - it’s a fake. Look at the shadow. Why would it be in front of the giraffe if the sun is behind the jeep?” — Dan Harmon, in the course of explaining how he got kicked off his own show and nobody from NBC even called him about it.
“I’m always hesitant to claim that any movie “changed my life,” but this one actually did. At the time I first saw it, I’d never considered the possibility of telling a story without narrative. It changed the way I thought about all art, and it made me want to be a weirder person.”Chuck Klosterman on Richard Linklater’s Slacker. So if you want to pin the former’s existence as he is currently on anyone, blame Linklater. Also, “it made me want to be a weirder person”? Ugh.Funny. I’ve always felt the movie Slackers had the same effect on my life.
See, for me it was Hackers.
For me? Crackers. It made me want be … you know, crackers.
love this guy
I DON’T LOCK MY CAPS INTENTIONALLY. THIS IS ACTUALLY A MISTAKE.
Typewriter keyboard for iPad, by Jack Zylkin of USB Typewriter. (via)