Posted at 02:44PM on November 03, 2022 by \tDevin Nealy @ Boing Boing
How did "lean" and rap become so interconnected
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Posted at 05:41PM on June 06, 2022 by \tJason Weisberger @ Boing Boing
John Oliver knows the problem is guns
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t t t t tThis Week Tonight can and does go on and on and on about the stupid things people say and the stupid things that we as American's do instead of addressing the elephant in ro...
Posted at 05:43PM on April 14, 2022 by Devin Nealy @ Boing Boing
Enjoy this collection of Tokusatsu insanity
Superhero movies are an institution at this point. It's almost hard to remember the period of time when the general consensus was that superhero movies were invariably fated to suck forever. Back in the early 90s, we comic reading zealots thought that audiences wouldn't be a...
Posted at 11:50AM on March 21, 2022 by Rob Beschizza @ Boing Boing
Dr. Strange 1978
Behold the Dr. Strange movie from the year of my birth, clearly set in an American NTSC Scarfolk.Correction: this was real, not the deranged ironic mashup I assumed it was....
Posted at 02:39PM on May 14, 2020 by Rob Beschizza @ Boing Boing
Are you "medium busy" with various sundry computer-related tasks?
This humorous scene presents a beautiful fractal of American office life. The soup of politeness, defensiveness, misaligned expectations and incentives, barely-suppressed self-loathing and rage, and bullshit? Surely recognizable to anyone who ever sank into the trance of Med...
