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Ray Bradbury is Mad as Snakes, Claims there are Too Many Internets. Rachel Bloom Shares Her Bradbury Love.

Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Interviews, Music, Video on August 17, 2010

Prolific science future writer Ray Bradbury had a few things to share about today’s world. His words are political, frustrated, and a tinge desparate. While we agree with his thoughts on returning to the moon, Mars and the universe at large, we see a lot of angry old man shaking his cane at today’s youth in his words. That always makes it difficult to separate the useful wheat from the crazy chaff.

For example:

Useful Bradbury

“He[President Obama] should be announcing that we should go back to the moon,”

“We should never have left there. We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever.”

Crazy Bradbury

“We have too many cellphones. We’ve got too many Internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.”

Bradbury says he’s not technology obsessive which is fine and good. Lots of people aren’t. We can’t help but wonder how humanity will ever reach the stars without massive amounts of proven technology. Unless he’s invented the fine art of “traveling without moving” we’re gonna need those machines for future use.

Rachel Bloom’s “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury”
And now, hold on tight as we take a wild left turn. The following is a sexy pop music video about Ray Bradbury created by You Tuber racheldoesstuff . There’s no doubt Bradbury’s crazy old man rant was never meant to mix with this catchy NSFW tune. That’s just how we roll.

Our universe lives in dichotomy.

via @comicscavern, @richl1, la times, racheldoesstuff

UPDATE: Ray Bradbury watching “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury”

Thanks, Ain’t It Cool.

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Prince Becomes ‘That Bitter Old Guy’, Declares: “The Internet Is Over”

Posted by mistergroonk in Artist, Intertube Madness, Music, Versus on July 6, 2010

“The Internet’s completely over,” he said. “I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it, and then they get angry when they can’t get it.”

Prince, we miss the time when you were the trendsetting musical genius that you truly are. By our reckoning that’s 1978 – 1992. We now look to the Internet to find people making glorious new art. The Internet is where we find people making music like you once did.

“The Internet’s like MTV,” the star said to the Mirror’s correspondent. “At one time, MTV was hip, and suddenly it became outdated.”

“Suddenly,” a.k.a. around the time the Internet started taking off, perhaps?

Not only is Prince down on the web; he also is decidedly not a fan of consumer electronics. “All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.”

Numbers. Those crazy numbers. Because we all know math has not a bit to do with music. Music and computers? That’s obviously crazy talk.*

via mashable

*Remember: our links are your friends.

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Good Morning: Future Day After Doc Brown’s Altered Chronal Dimension Total Film Tricksters

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness on July 6, 2010

Have a full quote for reference.

in ‘back to the future’, doc sets clock in the delorean to a day 25 years in the future. today is that day.

via @verso & @smalltimegenius

UPDATE: So Total Film fessed up and admitted the above time clock was a bit of photoshopping. Through several clever cut and pastes Total Film managed to give a small measure of geek joy and snatch it away like some mean embittered uncle with an unknown point to prove. Also, they’ve revealed yet another gap in our once extensive movie trivia mental knowledge base.

Disconcerting, that is.

It’s not the first time we’ve been tricked. It is the first time we wished the trick was reality.

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Sword Canes Plague Airport Security, Explains Why Zatoichi Always Walked

Posted by mistergroonk in USA on January 29, 2010

Errant bottles of mouthwash are not allowed. Fingernail clippers are right out. The most obvious hidden weapon since the days of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. or any Zatoichi-esque flick, including Rutger Hauer’s BLIND FURY, and airport security screeners are shocked by their existence. What’s even more unbelievable is that fact they think the elderly passengers are “just as surprised” their seemingly innocent walking aids hide sharpened righteous justice underneath.

Since 2002, TSA screeners have found more than 200 canes concealing either swords or knives. Many of these incidents involve elderly travelers who are just as surprised as the security screeners to find sabers hidden inside canes they may have inherited, found at antique shops, or received from charities. In September alone, four such incidents occurred according to documents provided by the TSA.

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During the Middle Ages, members of the nobility carried walking sticks with blades on pilgrimages. And at the peak of cane popularity, in the 19th century, men would have an array of canes including so-called defense canes. Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote about carrying one in an 1816 diary entry describing a mountain hike. “Guide wanted to carry my cane; I was going to give it to him when I recollected that it was a swordstick and I thought the lightning might be attracted toward him; kept it myself.”

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(via Stephen Colbert, gawker, WSJ)

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