Endless exposure to coolness via mass culture channels reinforces my distaste for those who underestimate the general public.
Similar verbal meter:
If we are to assume those whales are ours to do with as we please, we would be as guilty as those who caused their extinction.
With graphic novels, comic books, glittering websites, and pixelated films, GGI'd to the max, forming torrential currents that inform cinematic and visual culture, the underwater streams, moonlit trends, and tertiary darkness of vampires, continue to inspire and drive the murky, turbid brooks coursing through back alleys and gargoyle-tormented parapets.
The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and the so-called Dark Knight, would be wise to avoid the skulking bloodsuckers, for all three, and their cliquish brethren, would be severely outmatched by Nosferatu, and his brethren. Plainly put, superheroes are not primordial enough to battle folk legends and mythological beasts.
For instance, The Hulk would not stand a chance against Ajax. Supposed stats notwithstanding, the primordial power is not there. Smaug would have no chance against a serpent plucked from a medieval bestiary. And, perhaps the most fitting past-present match-up, Dungeons and Dragons Tiamat would be feckless against ancient Tiamat.
These age old concoctions and constructs are too vast, too shrill, and too fearsome for any chromatic pop culture hero or villain.
Our newest category, Vampires, will contain random and non-systematic commentary and review of bleeding edge vampiric presence in film, graphic novel, video game, artwork, poetry, novel, tale, and, if so inspired, even board game and puzzle.
Check out Breaking Dawn: Book Four in the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer and upcoming HBO series True Blood.
Polar bears: adorable and deadly, awe inspiring and delicate.
This article offers a pretty grim forecast for their survival. They have always been my favorite species of bear, though, as of late, after the confluence of going vegan and documentaries becoming more brutally graphic in their depictions of nature, I have been much less able to enjoy and appreciate their beauty.
I still deeply admire them.
18 Suicides This Year in National Parks on AOL
Darkling I listen; and for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Called him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever, it seems rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou are pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstacy...
Though heartbreakingly sad, there is a melancholy beauty in this.
Photo by Wilfredo Lee AP
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I can only imagine how desperate one must be to perform such monotonous labor for such paltry wages. It grieves my heart to think of it. I thought I could find the humor in this, but am having trouble doing so.
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