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- Video: Green Lantern and Thor Duke It Out
- The Daily WTF: Lady Gaga Paper Doll, Y'all
- Video: Vin Diesel Busts a Move
- Lessons from the Other Side of 21: Failing To Imagine Others Complexly
- Snap This: Callie and Arizona Get Married on 'Grey's Anatomy'
- Infographic: Evolution of the Internet
- From 'All My Children' to 'Gossip Girl': The Soaps Haven't Died, They've Just Changed Forms
- 'Conan' Writer Gets Trapped in Parking Garage Behind Swarm of Pregnant 'Ellen' Fans
- Video: Cute Kitten Crash!
| Video: Green Lantern and Thor Duke It Out Posted: 06 May 2011 11:45 AM PDT
[Via The Mary Sue] Post from: Crushable Video: Green Lantern and Thor Duke It Out |
| The Daily WTF: Lady Gaga Paper Doll, Y'all Posted: 06 May 2011 11:37 AM PDT
Wow, you guys, the Internet totally gets Lady Gaga. Like, this is so aspirational. Chinese food hat? Someone alert the royal family! (via BuzzFeed) Post from: Crushable The Daily WTF: Lady Gaga Paper Doll, Y'all |
| Video: Vin Diesel Busts a Move Posted: 06 May 2011 11:15 AM PDT
First the video of Prince Charles breakdancing surfaced, then we found that great .gif from Channing Tatum‘s stirpper days. What is it with these guys and crazy dancing? Post from: Crushable Video: Vin Diesel Busts a Move |
| Lessons from the Other Side of 21: Failing To Imagine Others Complexly Posted: 06 May 2011 11:09 AM PDT
Dear JJ: "A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets." Laugh all you want, but by the time you get to my age, the backlash against Titanic will have faded and you will be free to enjoy the movie with only the tiniest degree of irony. (The real irony being, of course, that you missed the phenomenon altogether because you were 12 years old when it was released in the theatres. Our parents wouldn't let you watch PG-13 movies until you were 13. 13! You were six months away! The unfairness of it all! And no, you still haven't forgiven them.) I only mention this because yes, a woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets, or at least, it seems that way to all the boys you know. By the time you turn 21, you will have been called "mysterious" by no less than three different boys. This is by turns flattering, annoying, and utterly baffling. It isn't as though you play coy or hard to get; in fact, your feelings are about as transparent as a plane of glass. The truth is you find boys just as mysterious as they apparently find you. Of course, you have a few distinct disadvantages when it comes to navigating the miscommunication between sexes. First: You went to an all-girls' high school and therefore have no idea how to act around boys your own age. Second: You've never had an appropriate crush in your life (seriously) and therefore have no idea how to act around boys your own age. Third: You are a total, complete, utter, and absolute nerd and therefore have no idea how to act around boys your own age. You are a hopeless case. But it's all right; the first two issues have cures: time and opportunity. It's the nerd aspect that makes you an unfathomable creature. It isn't as though you lack social skills. Your parents did send you to finishing school—I mean, cotillion—after all. But you have always lived in a rich, insular world of your own making, populated with comic books, Sailor Moon, Tolkien's Elvish languages, cult science fiction movies, I Want To Believe posters, Saturday morning cartoons, Decemberists albums, Libertines music videos, Harry Potter midnight parties, gay glam rock films, emo Livejournal entries, and obsessive fan behavior (fanart, fanfiction, fancrafts) of your multiple and varied fandoms. This makes you knowledgeable on a number of topics: from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the lyric tradition of rockstars, and every time you open your mouth to reveal another facet of you, a boy calls you "mysterious". "Oh," he says, seeing the power ring on your finger. "I didn't think you were the type of girl who even knew what The Green Lantern Corps is. I can never figure you out; you're so mysterious." Because Heaven forbid a girl have actual interests outside…whatever it is girls are supposed to like. Makeup? Shopping? Relationships? Girly things? (You don't learn how to be a girly-girl until much later. It takes you even longer to realize that being a girly-girl is okay, but that's a letter for another day.) You missed this chapter on flirting in all-girls' school, in which you are apparently supposed to capitulate your interests to flatter his, or worse, in which you hide the spark of who you truly are in order to cater to expectations. Why can't boys understand that you are who you are because you just are? There's no game you're playing, no artifice, no carefully cultivated image to maintain. Post from: Crushable Lessons from the Other Side of 21: Failing To Imagine Others Complexly |
| Snap This: Callie and Arizona Get Married on 'Grey's Anatomy' Posted: 06 May 2011 10:24 AM PDT
Post from: Crushable Snap This: Callie and Arizona Get Married on 'Grey's Anatomy' |
| Infographic: Evolution of the Internet Posted: 06 May 2011 10:50 AM PDT
I started seriously going online right around 2000, though I definitely remember when Google replaced Yahoo! as the definite search engine in my elementary school computer classes. But to think that 4chan and Second Life came out in the same year? Or that Pandora has been around since before the Apple App Store? Blows your mind. [When the What? via The Daily What] Post from: Crushable Infographic: Evolution of the Internet |
| From 'All My Children' to 'Gossip Girl': The Soaps Haven't Died, They've Just Changed Forms Posted: 06 May 2011 10:15 AM PDT
Although the old-fashioned daytime soaps are being killed off one by one like characters in a horror movie, that doesn’t mean that the genre is disappearing. Soaps themselves were an incredibly expensive prospect. For one, the year round production schedule was grueling – shows film almost all year round, and only within the past few years have they started to air reruns. That production schedule also made soaps incredibly expensive – the rotating storylines meant they needed dozens of actors on contract and had to pay them even when they were backburnered, and they needed multiple sets (various characters’ homes, plus a town bar/restaurant, a place for outdoor scenes, a hospital, etc). Compare that to an ensemble cast like Grey’s Anatomy or The Office – although their casts are large by TV standards, they’re nothing compared to the massive casts of soaps. For networks, who are losing ground to cable and have been able to slash budgets by investing in cheaper forms of programming like reality shows (where participants get a much smaller paycheck than professional actors who are in unions), game shows, and talk shows, soaps are simply too expensive and cumbersome to hold onto. That’s not to say that soap operas will disappear the day the last traditional daytime drama is cancelled, though. The core conceits of soaps – sweeping storylines that sometimes take years to play out, families who are connected to almost everyone on the canvas, and occasional forays into absurdity like human cloning and people coming back from the dead – can be found in many of today’s popular TV shows. Though Gossip Girl airs in prime time, many of its storylines – Serena being a sorta murderer, a character’s mother framing him for rape, the on/off epic love of Chuck and Blair – wouldn’t be out of place on a soap opera. Or take Grey’s Anatomy – at times, the long-lost siblings, surprise pregnancies, and crazy medical scenarios could work just as well on General Hospital. Melodrama will always be melodrama, even when it has a different name or comes on at night instead of during the day. Post from: Crushable From 'All My Children' to 'Gossip Girl': The Soaps Haven't Died, They've Just Changed Forms |
| 'Conan' Writer Gets Trapped in Parking Garage Behind Swarm of Pregnant 'Ellen' Fans Posted: 06 May 2011 10:19 AM PDT
Yesterday evening, Conan writer Andrés du Bouchet got stuck in the Warner Brothers parking lot behind a mass of Ellen audience members — and what a waddling, pregnant herd they were! Basically, stuff like this is what Twitter was made for. (via) Post from: Crushable 'Conan' Writer Gets Trapped in Parking Garage Behind Swarm of Pregnant 'Ellen' Fans |
| Posted: 06 May 2011 10:00 AM PDT Come ask us questions! – It’s Friday which means we’ll be taking your VYou questions and returning them with answers. Yay! (VYou) Post from: Crushable |
| Posted: 06 May 2011 09:29 AM PDT This is the world’s cutest crash! Scratch that, the world’s only cute crash. We certainly hope these little kittens had insurance. Post from: Crushable |
Hey, guys, guess what? It’s almost summer. And you know what that means: Superhero movies! Naturally, Marvel and DC are competing for the same audience, and this time round, Marvel attempted to get a head start by releasing Thor in May. It ns therefore somewhat unfortunate that Thor has thus far been getting panned; but Green Lantern, set for June, may not come out much better. But that aside, what’s the best way to decide which is the better comic? A fight to the death, of course! With action figures! 
Before he was crashing cars and doing amateur parkour in Fast Five, Vin Diesel — going by his birth name Mark Vincent — 
In this new column, a recent college grad getting her footing in the world gives advice to her teenage self.
Callie (Sara Ramirez) and Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) have been through a lot this season on Grey’s Anatomy – Callie having revenge sex with her ex, Mark, and getting pregnant, plus a car accident that endangered the lives of both Callie and baby Sofia. Luckily, this story got a happy ending: Callie and Arizona got married! (Well, gay marriage isn’t legal in Washington state, but they had a ceremony and showed their commitment to each other.) I think they both looked beautiful, and it’s great that at least one couple on this show can be happy. (For now, but you never know on Grey’s).
ABC’s recent announcement that they were cancelling long-running daytime soaps All My Children and One Life to Live was met with sad hand-wringing throughout the blogosphere. Those shows were like my childhood bedroom: I don’t ever want to live in it again, but if my parents move so much as a pillow I’ll cry about the loss of my past. Many of the people who bemoaned the loss of AMC and OLTL – myself included – admitted they hadn’t watched the shows in years.
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