We should write this movie together, Esther. It should star the fabulous cast of the io9 Show and a certain fetching young actor who is writing this comment. Clearly, Pepper’s Ghost and explosions are about to occur. Read more
something along the lines of a Diet Coke? Read more
my mother was one of the babies in ny she was born in Cincinnati ohio in 1933 her dr was dr couney my aunt Helen was the one that took her up there most of the babies came from very poor folks and he saved her life with the incubator. each baby had a name bracelet and my mothers is at a museum in ny Read more
Shared this with a friend from across the country who actually works at a comics shop and also happens to be black, and has many amusing stories about casual nerd racism. He had a pretty good comment I'm going to paraphrase here.
Him: "Okay, so if my shop had a room that everyone called 'dead nigger storage', think… Read more
Hey I used to live walking distance from this store they were a bunch of jerks and we would drive out of our way to get to a different store. Good to know we were right all those years ago. Read more
No. No. No. Stop excusing the inexcusable. Just because we don't cohabitate with corpses anymore is no excuse for this behavior. If they can't grasp the "real processes of death" and that "there is a real corpse and real grief left behind," then they are assholes. Our "physical and emotional ritual" with death IS the… Read more