May 2012
18 posts
Fantastic Voyage. “Doctor Who,” “Community,” and... →
doctorwho:
The NBC series “Community” was created by Dan Harmon, a mad scientist of sitcoms—so divisive a figure that he was just run out of town by his own studio. (The show was re-upped for a fourth season, but Harmon was replaced with new showrunners.) Even amid the brutality of network TV production, this was a pretty shocking event, since “Community” is Dan Harmon, the way “Mad Men”...
“I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, “You...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via thatwasnotveryravenofyou)
It is so comforting to know that even Aaron Sorkin feels this way, because it’s how I feel every. single. time.
(via wilwheaton)
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“*Jeremiah 6:26. It’s biblical for “Spoilers, Sweetie.”
– Neil Gaiman
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. *
(via doctorwho)
“Pluto is interesting because it’s fixed on its moon, Charon, and they rotate...”
– Sufjan Stevens on why Pluto had to be a dwarf
(foxandfayvel)
#For never was there a tale of more planetary woe / #Than this of moon Charon and her beloved Pluto.
(via sunshineinthetardis)
#I ship it so hard
(via theandersonbrothers)
I like the idea of Pluto having a very understated...
Why are Martells and Tyrells so alike yet so...
fuckyeahhousemartell:
eafiu:
Can’t they just be frenemies? Even that is too much?
That’s my point about Philadelphia and New York sports teams!
April 2012
7 posts
“There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be...”
– Alan Moore (via zoetica)
Wow. (via vespertinehour)
March 2012
3 posts
Mars missions cancelled due to NASA budget cuts →
fuckyeahtheuniverse:
“The pipeline is being shut off, and that’s not what anyone wants,” said Bill Nye, executive director of the Planetary Society, a nonprofit group founded by Carl Sagan and others who wanted to foster interest in outer space. “We are closer than anyone has ever been to discovering life on another world.”
Just a reminder of the cost of war.
February 2012
6 posts
January 2012
18 posts
“‘I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.’”
– Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely)
I Heart Classics Quotes: Jack London
iheartclassics:
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via kapi
)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via troubled)
I hope I do lots of the kissing part.
(via vespertinehour)
... ahh ... you know the best thing I ever heard,... →
wilwheaton:
John Rogers, my friend who co-created Leverage:
I am not saying there are only two types of television — and even these two are very crude models. But I would say that these two paradigms dominate. Even co-mingle. One could call it the Squee/Clever Continuum. All viewers and writers fall somewhere along the Continuum for what they like to watch and write. Modern mainstream shows...