June 2010
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Preview: Fable 3 | Joystiq →
Cannot cannot cannot wait for this game. In Fable 2, not only were queer people represented matter-of-factly, but included one quest that involved helping a guy come out to his father, which was only available if you had performed heroic, good deeds earlier in the game… leaving little room for interpreting helping folks to be honest about their sexuality as anything but noble. (And Dad turns...
“The writer/performer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that “The Safety...”
– The Safety Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Everybody look at your hands
Heidi: it has just occurred to me that I have no idea what "safety dance" means
Jason: It means going down the road in renaissance clothing and occasionally making an "S" in the style of YMCA
Heidi: whoah this video is awesome
Heidi: the original?
Jason: yes
Jason: they'll do it
Jason: you'll see it
Heidi: it's about the REN FAIRE?
Heidi: FOR REAL
Heidi: NO WAY NO WAY
Jason: no it's about people in England dressed in renaissance stylee
Jason: that's not the fair that's FOR REAL ENGLAND
Heidi: um, there's a dwarf
Heidi: and a pony?
Heidi: are we watching the same video?
Jason: Damn it Heidi, horses and dwarves exist outside of the renaissance fair
Heidi: how is it "safe"?
Heidi: it's about the may pole?
Heidi: and JESTERS?
Heidi: man I love that video
Heidi: but, also "a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s New Wave music"
Jason: Okay, that part you've lost me on.
Jason: so the Safety Dance was commentary about people pogoing?
Jason: and what bouncers would do?
Heidi: yes
Jason: huh
Heidi: bouncers didn't like the dance style
Heidi: they thought it was unsafe
Heidi: they kicked out the new wave kids
Heidi: of course, later pogo'ing became slam dancing
Heidi: so they weren't really wrong
Jason: I would think pogo is more about the vertical and slam is more about the horizontal
“While Univers is refilling his allergy prescriptions, I’m racing my...”
– Short Imagined Monologues: I’m Comic Sans, Asshole. Dang. (via Heidi)
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Twitter Fail Whale in CSS3 →
Animated, even, in Safari, Chrome, and other WebKit browsers. Via my old manager Mike Lee.
Chicago-area hate group recruiting youth to fight... →
The hate group Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), based in west suburban Naperville, has organized a seminar to instruct young people how to “combat” the so-called gay agenda.
Emphasis mine. The town I grew up in, folks.
