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RT @daveexmachina: Today on my blog I talk about the Orson Scott Card thing for hopefully the last time. http://www.daveexmachina.com/wordpre...
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RT @kristapley: Apocalypse. RT @BuzzFeed: The Wrong Definition Of "Literally" Is Literally Going In The Dictionary http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessica...
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Mother of god... Ron Marz is right. Rand Paul DOES look like Charlie X. https://t.co/Fo23KnExJC
film-dot-com: WHY RAIMI’S “OZ” IS NOT SO GREAT FOR WITCHES (AND WOMEN) By Elisabeth Rappe When it comes to adapting the wonderful world of Oz, Hollywood is, admittedly and regrettably, in a bit of a bind. All things Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City are so tightly linked to the 1939 “The Wizard of Oz” that trying to venture back into L. Frank... - http://ragnell.tumblr.com/post...
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WHY RAIMI’S “OZ” IS NOT SO GREAT FOR WITCHES (AND WOMEN)
 
By Elisabeth Rappe
 
When it comes to adapting the wonderful world of Oz, Hollywood is, admittedly and regrettably, in a bit of a bind. All things  Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City are so tightly linked to the 1939 “The Wizard of Oz” that trying to venture back into L. Frank Baum’s mythology is treading on the memories of millions of fans.  The film is such a massive piece of film iconography that it has become the definitive version of this tale, and outstripped the Baum book itself. It doesn’t matter that it’s a loose adaptation of Baum’s work, it is *the* adaptation, and any filmmaker itching to make a more authentic version has their hands permanently tied. The outcry – “How dare you remake The Wizard of Oz!” – would be deafening, no matter how illogical the idea  (“Hamlet” can survive a hundred versions, but not the adventures of Dorothy!).
 
Yet Baum’s Oz mythology didn’t begin and end with Dorothy. He wrote 17 Oz books (18 if you count “The Royal Book of Oz,” but you shouldn’t, because it was written by Ruth Plumly Thompson) in all, and they’re marvelously weird, violent, and enchanting. Baum styled himself as “Royal Historian of Oz,” trying to maintain the illusion Oz was a real place, and that he received the stories by telegraph by Dorothy and Princess Ozma themselves. Despite such a wonderful conceit, there’s no real sense of continuity or central mythology binding these stories, as there is in J.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis. Rather, the books simply read as tales Baum felt like telling at that particular time. If he contradicted himself, he didn’t stress about it, but kept on writing.
 
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RT @hjaybee: For those that care - Zimmerman's counsel is no longer using/able to use Stand Your Ground as any sort of defense http://www.rawstory.com/rs...
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First a turbolift that acts like a carnival ride, then he gets shocked and Data trying to save him, tosses him across the Engineering.
Damn, Geordi gets beat up a lot in this "Contagion" episode.
RT @JohnFugelsang: “If the church really thinks >50% of the human race is unfit to serve, they need to take it up with the manufacturer” http://current.com/shows...
Wesley is being a real dick right now.
White coworker: You're really good at this job but I gotta admit it still bothers me when people like you come to this country & take jobs from real Americans. Me: Where do you think I'm from? Coworker: I don't know what you are, but I know you're something. What are you? Me: Native American. Coworker: Oh... then I guess you didn't come here, huh? - http://ragnell.tumblr.com/post...
Wesley, what she's trying to say is this is her one and only chance to do a stupid teenaged girl thing. And you just ruined the moment.
Huh. That escalated quickly.
And the girl's nanny orders Dr. Pulaski to kill a patient.
I'm just going to take this scene as meaning Riker and Guinan have a fling during the rest of this episode.
He does ask Riker. Riker demonstrates his pick-up technique on Guinan. They are getting kind of.. involved...
Okay, so far Wesley... and this is PRE-K'EHLAYR, has gotten dating advice from Geordi, Worf and Data.
Except, of course, to get Worf's description of Klingon courtship.
Oh Wesley... Why are you asking Geordi and Worf for advice on women?
RT @Superherologist: At Comic-Con, of all places, only a small number of audience members raise hands when I ask how many know Wonder Woman's origin.
RT @Eristae: Feminist Utopia Fantasy Story: It was midnight. Amanda felt like going for a walk. So she did. The End. http://www.sinfest.net/archive...
Man, Jellico really had Riker's number #stillwatchingStarTrek
RT @badwebsites: Elderly woman dies after nurse refuses to do CPR http://www.seattlepi.com/news...
In other revelations from this episode, Data is a really really neurotic character.
In other revelations from this episode, no one else on the crew seems to have noticed that Data was ALREADY really really neurotic.
I mean, okay, he doesn't tackle him or anything but still... how the fuck does he do that?
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