From Scott McCloud, Five Card Nancy consist of thinking five random panels from the Nancy comic strip and making a three panel comic. It’s like Cards Against Humanity, but more surreal.
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Five Card Nancy
From Scott McCloud, Five Card Nancy consist of thinking five random panels from the Nancy comic strip and making a three panel comic. It’s like Cards Against Humanity, but more surreal.
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MD Foodie Boyz
“These are three middle schoolers who podcast,” Barstool Sports’ Pat McAuliffe explained in a podcast episode this week, where they attempted to book the boys for their show. “It’s an unintentional parody of what podcasts are. They’re like ‘what’s your favorite pizza,’ and then they just talk about pizza.” There’s something hilarious about the juxtaposition…
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The story of Neon films
Whenever you see the buzzing, fuchsia Neon title card, you know your going to get at the very least something different and interesting. Eric Ducker at the Ringer tells of how six people in a WeWork space grew to a 55 person team consistently supporting awards campaigns.
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Cabin in the Woods 4k
I think Cabin in the Woods still succeeds in deconstructing the horror movie genre while placing Easter eggs as callouts to other movies and stories. Beginning with the cheery introductions of our characters, with an early career Chris Hemsworth playing the quintessential jock, the film leads us down a road to the middle of nowhere…
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Lost Tomb by Douglas Preston
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston collects his nonfiction essays from across nearly 40 years of writing. The flashy subtitle is accurate but told through pragmatic prose using anthropology, archaeology, and a dabble of political science. When successfully combined, they create a taut narrative such as…
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Rodger Sherman pet all the dogs
The Westminster Dog show occurred recently, and sportswriter Rodger Sherman visited to pet all the dogs. If you’ve ever wanted a visual guide to all the different breeds, this is it.
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Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch
Andrew Childs built a Type 1 Diabetes monitor from scratch. My 9 y.o. son has Type 1 diabetes, which basically means his pancreas is on manual (hard) mode 24×7. A healthy pancreas not only produces insulin, which helps convert glucose in the bloodstream into energy – it also produces glucagon, which tells the liver to…
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Trying all the Mountain Dew flavors
For a long time, Mountain Dew was my vice. The green, sugary, citrus fizz delivered the caffeine kick I needed at lunch, or sometimes breakfast. I’d probably only sampled three or four from the growing endless line of flavors, some of which are regional or business exclusives. Geraldine DeRuiter, aka The Everywhereist, tried 21 Mountain…
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The Legacy of Hokusai’s Great Wave
The Legacy of Hokusai’s Great Wave Of course, the Great Wave was made to be reproduced. It has never had a definitive form. Hokusai’s original brush drawing would have been destroyed when the printers cut the woodblocks in 1831, and though no one knows exactly how many impressions from the original blocks still exist, it’s…