Baratunde Thurston. [Tina] That’s so sad. How did you react? My mother’s death was a catastrophic event in my life. It sucked emotionally, which derailed me for a while. I couldn’t sleep, I was sick, and I felt sad and despondent. I checked out for many months before I made my way back. That experience ended up affecting my humor. Things started to happen in the fall of 2006.
Within a week or two of arriving in New York, I heard about a job at The Onion. At that point, I felt like things had stabilized. [Tina] Wow, that must have been really tough. It was really fucked up, but it was a part of my path. A really big moment came after I moved to Brooklyn and was asked to give a talk at the Web 2.0 conference. [Tina] That’s awesome! There are a lot of influential people who haven’t done shit for me: Kanye is really influential, but he hasn’t done a damn thing for me (laughing). There have been a lot of people who have had a positive influence on me, but my mother is number one on the list. Becoming a Voice Actor. You Have Been Poked By God. Skeptical pioneer Isaac Asimov (a founder of CSICOP, now called CSI) produced such a staggering library of books (over 500!) That his multiple autobiographies were merely punctuation. I have three Asimov autobiographies in the Junior Skeptic library. Sometimes, just for fun, I pull one down at random, flip it open, and read the first two pages my eye happens to fall upon.
Each time I do this, I inevitably read something funny;learn something interesting;and feel a blog post spring ready-made to mind. This certainly happened when I read Asimov's tale of his personal experience of psychic premonition or divine intervention — in the form of a literal poke on the shoulder.1 As told in I.Asimov,the story unfolds one afternoon in 1990. Then something strange occurred. He inspected the bright, sunlit room. Thankfully, his wife answered right away. Relieved, I hung up the phone and settled down to consider the problem of who or what had poked me. Persuasiveness of Personal Experience References: Alchemists, Astronomers, and Wild Men: A History of the Mad Scientist, Part One - io9.
"the Faust of German legend and English and German literature, who does no research or experimentation, but instead sells his soul for magic abilities rather than science" Faust was an accomplished scholar. His bargain is indicative of his insatiable lust for knowledge. He is unsatisfied with what he can learn, what power he can gain, on his own. "But the source of both the Faustian myth and name, and hence the wellspring for the mad scientist archetype, was Faustus of Milevis. Despite your apparent confidence in this assertion, I know of no scholarly agreement on this point. In this essay you assert a dichotomy between the concepts of magic and science that did not exist for the ancient mind. Now, you even include "alchemist" in the title of this piece. Elmo Stays Up Late with Jimmy Fallon. I just love it when Muppets make talk show appearances. Especially Muppets that I love (even though that's all of them)--even more especially when Muppets that I love appear on talk shows that I love.
This was very much the case last night when Elmo appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Mr. Fallon is not afraid to showcase his immense Muppet love, and that was certainly apparent last night when he and Elmo basically just goofed around. Check out the AWESOME appearance for yourself in the two video clips below from the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon website: Also on the show last night was perennial Muppet favorite Whoopi Goldberg, who got to see her old friend Elmo again backstage. The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier. Shouts & Murmurs : Seventy-two Virgins.
Virgin No. 1: Yuck. Virgin No. 2: Ick. Virgin No. 3: Ew. Virgin No. 4: Ow. Virgin No. 5: Do you like cats? Virgin No. 6: I’m Becky. Virgin No. 7: Here, I’ll just pull down your zipper. Virgin No. 8: Can we cuddle first? Virgin No. 9: It was a garlic-and-onion pizza. Virgin No. 10: . . . so I see Heath, and he goes, “Like, what are you doing here? Virgin No. 11: First you’re going to have to show me an up-to-date health certificate.
Virgin No. 12: Hurry! Virgin No. 13: Do you want the regular or the special? Virgin No. 14: I’m eighty-four. Virgin No. 15: Yes! Virgin No. 16: Even I know that’s tiny. Virgin No. 17: “Do it”? Virgin No. 18: I’m saving myself for Jesus. Virgin No. 19: Somewhere on my body I have hidden a buffalo nickel. Virgin No. 20: Don’t touch my hair! Virgin No. 21: I hope you’re not going to sleep with me and then go sleep with seventy-one others. Virgin No. 22: Do you mind if we listen to Mannheim Steamroller? Virgin No. 23: Are you O.K. with the dog on the bed? Virgin No. 63: Dang. 'Happy Days' actors claim CBS cheated them out of fees - Apr. 19. Former 'Happy Days' cast members from left to right: Anson Williams, Don Most, Marion Ross, Erin Moran.
Click on the image to watch the interview.By CNN's Scott Zamost and CNNMoney's Poppy HarlowApril 20, 2011: 5:39 PM ET LOS ANGELES -- A CNNMoney and CNN Special Investigations Unit Exclusive report "Happy Days," one of the most popular shows in television history, faces an unhappy legacy nearly four decades after it first went on the air. Four cast members, and the estate of Tom Bosley, who died last October, claim CBS (CBS, Fortune 500), which owns the show, has not paid them for merchandising revenues they are owed under their contracts. The show, which originally aired from 1974 to 1984, "represented to the public what the best of America has to offer," said Anson Williams, who played Potsie.
"The friendships, the opportunities, the warmth. Henry Winkler, who played the Fonz on "Happy Days," said he supports his former cast members. "And here we have iconic actors. Share this. London is no longer an English city, says John Cleese. Is he right? London is cosmopolitan, not English, says Cleese (Photo: Alamy) David Cameron’s speech on immigration may not have gone down too well with the parliamentary Liberal Democrats, but I can think of at least one Lib Dem supporter who probably agreed with the PM on this one. In an interview with Seven magazine, the Lib Dem-supporting comedy legend John Cleese explained why he had moved from London to Bath: Cleese also spoke about the shift in British attitudes away from a "middle-class culture" and the emergence of a "yob culture".He said: "There were disadvantages to the old culture, it was a bit stuffy and it was more sexist and more racist.
But it was an educated and middle-class culture. Now it's a yob culture. It is certainly true that London explicitly sold the Olympics on the fact that the city, while less pleasant than Paris in every conceivable way, was multicultural. And Bath is English in a particularly liberal way, in the same way, I suppose, that Monty Python was.
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