A full-size model of Japan’s robot animation character “Gundam” stands in front of a shopping mall behind trees in Tokyo, May 7, 2012. The 18-meter-tall “Gundam” was installed to promote its entertainment facility “Gundam Front Tokyo”, which opened last month. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
I heard from the bowels of the internet that Will Smith has signed up to do a prequel of I Am Legend for Warner Bros. , and that Akiva Goldsmith will be helming as producer. Normally, this sort of stereo oddness would end up with me peeved, but this sounds awesome. I Am Legend the movie is so different from I Am Legend the book that they’re only really related by smoke and whispers anyhow, so why get mad at this? Why not stand up on both feet right now (on a chair, on the roof, to shout it to the world) that this sounds like an AMAZING idea. It sounds like vampires + zombies + disaster movie + epidemic movie + apocalypse movie altogether, and we know that humanity loses from the beginning. Have we ever had a movie like that before? It sounds epic and gritty and revelatory. YASS. I’ll just get in line right now, ok?
Yesterday the English-language German news site “The Local” reported that a jury of German linguists had pronounced “shitstorm” the best English contribution to the German language in 2011.
The quintet of experts, who have convened annually since 2010 to pick an “Anglicism of the Year,” […] According to guidelines posted on the website, the winning word must “fill an interesting gap in the German vocabulary,” elucidating “something … previously described only with difficulty.” What does shitstorm elucidate? “An unexpected, persistent wave of indignation over the behavior of public figures or institutions, transported via social networks and blogs.”
“Shitstorm” burst over the German lexicon last year as a perfect descriptor for reactions to the Greek financial crisis, and to a plagiarism scandal involving former Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg. It carried a useful sense of argument spilling over into insult. (“Kritik,” the German term for criticism, didn’t quite capture a level of outrage so intense it forced its targets to respond—which Guttenberg did, in March, by resigning).
| — | slate.com I never thought about the phrase seriously before but it’s extremely evocative. Shitstorm! Job well done, Germany. |
Check out my hubby’s new vlog! He’s always wanted to make vlogs, so he’s gonna give it a go this new year!
Markus really is adorable. He’s funnier than me, cuter than me and tells stories better than me. I’m lucky he loves me.
I love Gandaganda : I love Hairy at the Heels : I love the videos they make : I also love videos where people talk at me (which is largely where my love of eatyourkimchi comes from, for example.)
This could be a thing. lol- Thing. I need to see that movie… I miss video rental stores. Though, I have to admit that I can’t eyescream (very accurate description) at scary movies, because I eyeshut.
Kyeongeun and I checked out a place called Beans Bins.
One of our good friends told us that the waffles there were top notch. So we get there and we see one of these guys in a pink sweater.
Why didn’t I take a picture? Was in shock. You could call me a liar or you can believe that there was a snow monkey in a pink sweater on the left shoulder of a Korean woman. I want a pet monkey.
p.s. The waffles were nice
Unfortunately I have to call you a liar because I’m too jealous that it happened to you. I am too jealous that you saw a snow monkey in a pink sweater in a coffee shop. >:I
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