laughingsquid:

Voice Actor Jim Cummings Reads Through a Scene From ‘Star Wars’ as Winnie the Pooh Portraying Darth Vader

Could. Not. Stop. Laughing.

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A Series of Interactive Maps Showing Preferred Major League Baseball Teams by Region Across the United States

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And if you don’t like it…the doors over there. 

Good news. If you want a shirt with a positive message Steven Finch and I came up with this for you.

Jordie Bellaire, colorist on many Image titles, and Steven Finch, designer on many Image titles, have a message for you.

starwars:

Spotlight Of The Week – Han Solo (art by Jerry Vanderstelt)

Kauai 2014

I finally got around to uploading the rest of my good photos from our trip to Kauai earlier this month, including some from swimming with a pair of green sea turtles, called “honu” by the natives, that I’m thrilled to have. Click on the photo to see the whole album.

Swimming with a sea turtle

The album has been arranged by hand, so it will start with the oldest photo and go to the newest. I forgot to reset the date and time on my Canon point-and-shoot when we got there, so the photos from it were off with regard to that metadata.

laughingsquid:

Two Older Women Take Their First Flight On A Plane Together

What a brilliant pairing. I found myself smiling the entire time the two ladies were together.

starwars:

This fighting tauntaun concept was created as nose art for a Republic ship used in The Clone Wars.

Awesome.

A major concern in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones is power. Almost everybody – except maybe Daenerys, across the waters with her dragons – wields power badly.
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

In real life, real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with. Just being a good guy was not the answer. You had to make hard, hard decisions. Sometimes what seemed to be a good decision turned around and bit you in the ass; it was the law of unintended consequences. I’ve tried to get at some of these in my books. My people who are trying to rule don’t have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn’t make you a wise king.

George R.R. Martin, The Rolling Stone Interview

starwars:

There’s hope for the rest of us! Even Jedi Masters flub their lines…

Because who doesn’t like seeing Hayden Christensen fall down?

laughingsquid:

Quick 4, A Workout App Based on the Tabata Regimen Originally Used by Japanese Olympic Athletes

Your 7-minute workout takes too long.