The Morning Dump: religion, reviewing and real people
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 24. Apr, 2010 | 1 Comment
So maybe I’m just really 2006 over here, but I thought this week’s story about South Park using the ol’ blocks and bleeps to censor an episode depicting the Prophet Muhammad was going to generate more discussion. Because isn’t this the first big indicator of the long-term pop culture effects of that Danish cartoon scandal? [...]
The Morning Dump: cosplayers ruin everything, epic Canadian PSA ads, Who’s words are those?, George Lois on George Lois
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 06. Mar, 2010 | 4 Comments
Star Wars cosplay nerds give casual SW fans a bad rap. Why is it perfectable acceptable—nay, cool–to be a rabid Scarface fan but the heights of nerd-dom if you dig intergalatic epics? It’s a fucking classic movie man! The cultural cache is priceless! And with the invention of the Internet a bajillion SW fans (of [...]
The Morning Dump: Crusty old poets, dealing with difficult people, the merits of Michael Bay and desecrating the Internet
Posted by theashcan in media, Morning Dump on 19. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
If you like crusty old poets as much as the next guy then you are going to love this visualization of the poem Blue Bird, written by the infamous drunkard Charles Bukowski, and done by the people at Uppercase magazine. But that’s not to forget that Canada has it’s own famous, cantankerous drunken poet, Al Purdy. And [...]
True love over the interweb
Posted by jessekg in Curiosities, Internet on 02. Dec, 2009 | 0 Comments
We’ve all heard of the Nigerian email scam, and I’m not exxagerating when I say I receive about one or two a week in my inbox. While I usually just hit delete, I recieved one this morning that can only be classified as the best email scam letter in the brief history of the information [...]
