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Hey, I got your #ChuckNorrisFact right here…
Best grin ever. By the way, anyone out there see I Am Bruce Lee? How is it?
Wrestlemania XXVIII is in the books, as is the following night’s Raw. How did it all end up? How do things look going forward? Well, let’s go over my predictions…
Wrestlemania XXVIII is today, and the WWE is pretty much set for what looks to be the biggest show in its history. Most of the hype, obviously, is built on the main event, the long-awaited showdown between The Rock and John Cena. The rest of the card (mostly) looks strong, but let’s not kid ourselves here—Rock vs. Cena is what everyone is coming to see.
Anyway, I had a habit back in the day of making ‘Mania predictions on my LiveJournal, so let’s resurrect that here and look at the entire card.
The AV Club recently ran this piece on Tumblr, specifically on how it relates to the in-the-moment nature of pop music, as well as concerns (expressed most notably by Drake) that it limits innovation and expression in favor of circulating the original work of others divorced from context.
The article is interesting enough in that regard, but I’m more engaged by the last couple of paragraphs, elaborating on an earlier quote about the distinction between “URL or IRL.” Especially as it relates to me.
I have, after all, lived a long, relatively eventful internet life, which has become more and more inextricably linked with my IRL existence over time. Frankie Thirteen began as a screen name, the latest of a series of internet identities that I once changed with clockwork regularity. Over ten years later, the name has come to encompass more. I dare say the “point of no return” was when I started playing competitive rock paper scissors, using my screen name as an actual nickname.
Granted, Frankie isn’t the only name I’ve been known to use in certain corners of the internet, but no matter the name, the merging continues—the people on the other end of the screen become so much more than that, to the point that aspects of my life that I once took pains to keep separate have crossed over—and I simply don’t care so much. The URL and IRL are no longer distinct in my case; I have always found it reductive to look at them as separate pieces of the whole, but now I’ve sacrificed the comfort of leaving one behind for the other for just a little while.
“But the idea that living a post-Internet life means choosing between URL and IRL … or combining the two worlds and not being able or wanting to separate yourself from your online persona, is limiting.”
This just makes it sound like you can’t have it any way at all. So then, what is the point of living a “post-Internet life”?
Ehh…at least it puts her on American TV. But not on a show I planned to watch. :\
Doctor Who star Freema Agyeman joins Sex and the City prequel
Former Doctor Who star Freema Agyeman has been cast in the upcoming Sex and the City prequel, The Carrie Diaries.
She will play Larissa in the new TV show, a character described as a “hip, cutting-edge editor/party girl” who works at Interview Magazine, reports Deadline.
Larissa will act as something of a mentor for the young Carrie Bradshaw, who will be played by AnnaSophia Robb in the pilot episode for US network CW.
Akira Kurosawa considers an explosion on the set of RAN.
boss.
Fighter’s High is a martial arts action adventure web series produced in Philadelphia starting in 2009. We’re about to start production on a brand new season next month, and could use your support! Want to check out the previous episodes? Visit FightersHigh.com!
As for my involvement, it’s been my favorite web series for a while now. I’m actually an extra in the fourth episode—you can see me getting my ass kicked (by my little brother, no less). For the reboot, I’m serving as 1st assistant director. I’m looking forward to getting involved in production, and even more excited to see new episodes!
I would pay to see this made as a movie.
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Shatner!
My hero.
(via fuckyeahgameshows)
Oh boy. (Wait, wrong show…)
Time LordMan with two hearts survives double-sized attackAt first there didn’t seem to be anything unusual about the man who, in 2010, reported to a Verona, Italy emergency room. He was short of breath, sweating, and had low blood pressure – cardiovascular trouble, no doubt. E.R. doctors see similar symptoms all the time.
But this man was very different indeed. He had two hearts.
“We haven’t ever seen anything similar to this case before,” Dr. Giacomo Mugnai said in an email.
It turned out that a few years earlier, the man had undergone a procedure known as a heterotopic heart transplant. Unlike an orthotopic transplant, in which one organ is removed and another put in its place, a heterotopic transplant pairs a new organ with a diseased one.
“We see this in cardiac patients or kidney patients, sometimes,” explained Dr. Rade Vukmir, professor of emergency medicine at Temple University and a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians. “Surgeons might leave a kidney in place if it’s too much trouble to take out, or if there is hope for recovery of a kidney, or a heart, after a period of time” of being helped by the new organ.
In the case of the ailing Italian, reported in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, the transplant team had mated his new heart with his malfunctioning old one. Chambers and blood vessels of the two hearts were married so that the new heart could support the old one….
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