This is my favorite modern, offbeat holiday special, “A Wish for WIngs that Work.” From the opening strains of the orchestral score, it’s cinematic in scope.

This is my second favorite modern offbeat holiday special, “Olive, the Other Reindeer.”

I am watching Doctor Who

“I am watching “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.””

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I am watching Doctor Who

“I am watching “Asylum of the Daleks,” ep. 1 of Season 7 of Doctor Who.”

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I also like that in this scene, Marilyn Manson said we should listen to youth.

other-stuff:

Michael Moore: Do you know that on the day of the Columbine massacre, the US dropped more bombs on Kosovo than any other day?
Marilyn Manson: I do know that, and I think that’s really ironic, that nobody said ‘well maybe the President had an influence on this violent behavior’ Because that’s not the way the media wants to take it and spin it, and turn it into fear, because then you’re watching television, you’re watching the news, you’re being pumped full of fear, there’s floods, there’s AIDS, there’s murder, cut to commercial, buy the Acura, buy the Colgate, if you have bad breath they’re not going to talk to you, if you have pimples, the girl’s not going to fuck you, and it’s just this campaign of fear, and consumption, and that’s what I think it’s all based on, the whole idea of ‘keep everyone afraid, and they’ll consume.’

Thinking that national policy and behaviour does not have an effect on us is willful blindness

steampunkanachronism:

“M*A*S*H*” Col. Potter, Henry Morgan, Dies

Watch print media merge with TV. We’re a step closer to the interactive digital paper (like animated giftwrap) depicted in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, Or A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer (1996), which attempts to project the world of a hundred years hence.

icancstructures:

Is the QR code soon to be a thing of the past?

There is also a provision for user-created content, that is likely to create a wild and wooly augmented world and perhaps a new…

Original Freedom Riders Stop By WGBH

Callie Crossley talks with three of the original Freedom Riders, in advance of Freedom Riders, an American Experience film about a courageous band of civil rights activists who in 1961 challenged segregation in the South. The film premieres May 16 at 9pm on WGBH 2. The Callie Crossley Show airs weekdays at 1pm on 89.7 WGBH.

Learn more about Freedom Riders at wgbh.org. 

It’s nearly time to watch may favorite alt.Christmas TV special “A Wish for Wings that Work” by Berk Breathed, creator of the comic strips “Bloom County” and “Outland,” all of which feature the characters Opus and Bill. (Next to find “Olive, the Other Reindeer.”)