marvel's biggest bone-liner

[PhantomCatClock]

update: it is a kudu horn, not a ibex horn

ps: a c deez

[PannacottaClock]

iron maiden iron maiden iron maiden

I like when they say the title of the album in a song that isn't the title track

[RobClock]

The only instance of that I can immediately think of is in Brain Damage on Dark Side of the Moon but there is no title track

[Slurpee]

I like when they say the title of the album in a song that isn't the title track

hell yeah

[PannacottaClock]

Now I hate Radiohead as much as the next Radiohead fan

But In Rainbows has the best example of this that I know, the title is sung in the track "Reckoner" during the bridge but you most likely won't even realize it's there unless you know about it because it's sung by the Background Thom

also Kid A has a title drop in "Everything In Its Right Place" which sounds the exact same when reversed

[PhantomCatClock]

what if microsoft, the company behind FUD, is only playing with linux so they can later trademark the phrase Open Windows

[Slurpee]

fictional characters that are teenaged males who are mute but not deaf and not mute from birth and are not gay but still come off kinda gay for some reason and are named "jo":

jojo mcdodd from the cgi horton hears a who movie (2008) - mute because he's afraid of saying something that will disappoint his father, the mayor of whoville. starts talking when everybody is making noise so the big people can know they're there you know the story, voiced by then-current teen heartthrob jesse mccartney who I don't even have to look to know was on the cover of tiger beat, at which point he sings a song because of course he does. god, was it r.e.o. speedwagon? am I remembering that correctly? seems kinda gay because he's emo and all emo boys seemed kinda gay, but also the subtext of not expressing yourself openly because you don't want to disappoint your father. cough.


joseph "jericho" wilson from teen titans - mute because his father slashed his throat and severed his vocal cords. pictured here in his cartoon incarnation which tactfully left that tidbit from the comics unmentioned. the comic's writers actually considered making him gay but they felt that he seemed so gay already that him liking men would be kinda homophobic. (this was in the 80's; never let anyone tell you that liberals accidentally galaxy-braining themselves away from progress is a new phenomenon)


joey crusel from nightmare on elm street 3: the dream warriors - mute for unclear freddy kruger-related reasons. can speak in his dreams, where is voice is super powerful because that's his dream power (each kid gets a dream power in elm street 3, and they use them to confront freddy in the climax, it fucking owns), but then in nightmare on elm street 4 he just talks regular? and nobody acknowledges that he used to be mute? same actor but basically a completely different character imo. everybody complains about patricia arquette being replaced with "tuesday knight" (dumb name) but I didn't even notice that until I watched the Never Sleep Again documentary because I see all people as glorious beams of light and at least her character was written consistently. totally comes off as like a quiet nerdy gay who just needs to come out of the closet in order to blossom, but all of his nightmares are about him going to what he thinks is a pretty girl who turns out to actually be freddy. (wait, did I say "but" in that last sentence? I meant "and")


joseph "paul dano" hoover from little miss sunshine - on a self-imposed vow of silence until he fulfills his dream of becoming a jet pilot to get away from his awful family. has a little meltdown partway through the movie when he finds out he's colorblind and probably won't be allowed to fly, at which point he begins talking, just in time for him and steve carrell to jointly fill alan arkin's role as the best characters in the movie. I feel like this movie probably wouldn't hold up at all in current year. just a sense I have. whoa, bryan cranston was in this? weird. anyway, something very closeted-middle-class-millennial-gay about quietly holding in a swell of emotions and your inner complexity for an extremely long time as you determinedly set your focus on the person who you want to be, believing you will someday be safely away from your terrible family, and then the fantasy dies as it suddenly all comes crashing down around you like a housing market and suddenly you have to come to terms with how to let your inner self out without the safety of the life you imagined for yourself, that you were promised, that you worked for... which actually might encapsulate this whole phenomenon, apart from naming these characters "jo." also, just kidding, this character's name was dwayne, but would anyone have even noticed if I didn't admit that? what were any of the characters in this movie named? their names are so unimportant. I actually can't think of a fourth jo, but it's pretty weird that I can think of three. I guess being named jo didn't have to be a prerequisite, I just thought that was funny. this list is stupid

[Slurpee]

do you guys think a listicle site will buy my article?
that's not a serious question, obviously nobody would be cool enough to hire me.

[Slurpee]

maybe fanbyte.
they're the only website that seems to have roughly the same shade of almost-but-not-quite not giving a shit that I do, imo

[Slurpee]

all their writers seem to have read a lot more books than me about society or whatever, though

[Slurpee]

and let's be honest, I'm not going to correct that. second hand knowledge and philosophy from respected and reputable voices in their fields? why don't I just buy a flamethrower while I'm at it?

[Slurpee]

now that I'm thinking of it I might have posted about the mute jo thing before, but probably not as fleshed out as this, it's something I've been thinking about for years.
just such a weird coincidence!

incidentally, can any of you think of a fictional, white-haired, twiggy, emotionally centered, gay-coded japanese boy who shows up partway through a story, befriends and flirts with the neurotic teenaged protagonist, and then turns out to SECRETLY BE A LITERAL FUCKING ANGEL, other than kaworu from evangelion and joshua from the world ends with you? because if I can get a third, that's... that's another post right there

[Slurpee]

also weird: three of the characters in The Room have biblical names: Peter, John, and Mark

as far as I can tell there's absolutely nothing to this, but it really seems like there could be. it's maddening.

[PhantomCatClock]

do you guys think a listicle site will buy my article?

No, I think a listicle site will find it and copy/paste it without telling you

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

gay-coded japanese boy

I like how in the official official manga adaption that took over a decade to finish after the anime did, Shinji has no emotional interest in Kaworu and actually hates him on a personal level, but he does have a physical interest in him which irritates the hell out of Shinji, so after he pops him like a pez dispenser he asks Misato about it and and she has no fuckin clue who to say even though she's the one person in his life who could talk to him about that exact thing.

[JambaClock]

howdy

how was thanksgiving?

[PhantomCatClock]

i am thankful for slurpeeposts

[FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK]

I'm not sure how home made enchiladas and tortillas fit into traditional thanksgiving fare but I'm not complaining.

[PhantomCatClock]

congrats guys, clock crew won the best, another yuear in a row

[pop-tart]