Clonus

Friends of Great Literature.
 
 
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/famous-novels-retitled-like-episodes-of-friends?

John Oliver sets a new record (in a sense) for television give-aways by buying and forgiving over 14 million bucks of medical debt.  
 
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/06/john-oliver-14-million-debt-relief

Never bring a gun to a swordfight.  
 
Don't fly higher than you can fall.
 
Terminal velocity is your friend.
 
Growth is the amazing power to make yourself an easy target.
 
Never call someone "dead" until you finish the autopsy.
 
Being dead doesn't necessarily stop people from making trouble
 
There is no idea so stupid that it can't be used to hurt people.
 
You can't mass produce awesome.  
 
Always make your capes detachable.
 
Always know which walls are load-bearing.
 
 
 

Bo Diddley had him a rockin' big time
But he never made a solitary dime
Ya'll might laugh but it just ain't funny
Whatever happened to Bo Diddley's money ?

The record man gave him a rag-top car
Said, "Bo, you gonna be a rock 'n roll star
He didn't know he doing anything wrong
When he signed away all of his songs

Whatever happened to Bo Diddley's money?
Whatever happened to Bo Diddley's money?
Round the world in a station wagon
Workin' the road till his tail was a draggin'
Rockin' and a puffin' and makin' 'em dance
But never once seeing that cash advance

Whatever happened to Bo Diddley's money?
Whatever happened to Bo Diddley's money?
Whatever happened to Bo Diddley's money?
Whatever happened to Bo Diddley's money?

Call the FBI, call the IRS, call the BMI, call Leonard Chess
You know, Bo Diddley never saw enough
From "I'm a Man" and "Who Do You Love ?"
They just ain't cheatin' some rock 'n roll singer
Remember Bo Diddley is a gun slinger

Pay Bo Diddley
Pay Bo Diddley
Pay Bo Diddley
Pay Bo Diddley

That's right
Pay Bo Diddley
and Pay Little Richard, too
While you're at it

Pay Bo Diddley, and Little Richard, too

Villains and Viagra

Villains and Viagra

My Little Battle Royale:  May the Magic Be In Your Favour

Actually in the comic books superheroes don't give up their powers to serial killers to save one life.  They never did.  They might pretended to be complying but there would always be a last minute trick that would give them victory, however implausibly.  They also take their secret identities a bit more seriously than casually exposing them to dozens of strangers.  And if you give shadowy alien-hunting organizations a gigantic invisible alien complex equipped with cells to hold super-powered prisoners...they don't leave it vacant.  They move in and use it as their own base of operations/prison.    

The lights went out
(The last fuse blew)
The clocks all stopped
(It can't be true)
 
The program's wrong
(What can we do ?)
The printout's blocked
(It relied on you)
 
The turbine cracked up
The buildings froze up
The system choked up
What can we do ?
 
Please remember to mention me
In tapes you leave behind
 
We stood still
We all stood still
Still stood still
We're standing still
 
The screen shut down
(There's no reply)
The lifts all fall
(A siren cries)
 
And the radar fades
(A pilot sighs)
As the countdowns stall
(The readout lies)
 
The turbines cracked up
The buildings froze up
The system choked up
What can we do ?
 
Please remember to mention me
In tapes you leave behind
 
We stood still
We all stood still
Still stood still
We're standing still
 
The black box failed
(The codes got crossed)
And the jails decayed
(The keys got lost)
 
Everyone kissed
(We breathe exhaust)
In the new arcade
(Of the holocaust)
 
The turbine cracked up
The buildings froze up
The system choked up
What can we do ?
 
Please remember to mention me
In tapes you might leave behind
 
We stood still
We all stood still
Still stood still
We're standing still
We stood still
We all stood still
Still stood still
We're standing still

Ahuntsic
 

No, no Jack you were doing fine 
Before your hamfisted attempt at a terrorist line
How typical of Jack the Ripper to chase a headline
Pick Ray Liota's brain and ask him how I get mine
 
I'm the bon vivant of violence
A licensed psychiatrist
Who dines on highest society
to the sound of violins
Don't get me wrong, I'd roast both your balls on my hibachi
But for a serial killer you're as tasteless as a bowl of kashi
You prey on a prostitute and play with her body
I don't mind that you're naughty, Jack, but I hate that you're sloppy
 
Barney take me back to solitary confinement
'Cause this dirty little lamb has just been silenced.

No, no Jack you were doing fine 
Before your hamfisted attempt at a terrorist line
How typical of Jack the Ripper to chase a headline
Pick Ray Liota's brain and ask him how I get mine
 
I'm the bon vivant of violence
A licensed psychiatrist
Who dines on highest society
to the sound of violins
Don't get me wrong, I'd roast both your balls on my hibachi
But for a serial killer you're as tasteless as a bowl of kashi
You prey on a prostitute and play with her body
I don't mind that you're naughty, Jack, but I hate that you're sloppy
 
Barney take me back to solitary confinement
'Cause this dirty little lamb has just been silenced.

en·crypt
  (ĕn-krĭpt′)
tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computers To alter (data) using a mathematical algorithm so as to make the data unintelligible to unauthorizedusers while allowing a user with a key or password to convert the altered data back to its original state.

I hope Civil War isn't faithful, because the comic book storyline was an incoherent mess.  

I hope Civil War isn't faithful, because the comic book storyline was an incoherent mess.  

Uh-hunh.  A company that can't leave the skies blue in a Superman movie can't handle Booster Gold.  

Guys, they couldn't move in. It's extremely obvious that the station landed at an angle, and everyone knows that only villain lairs are allowed to be slanted like that.

Actually in the comic books superheroes don't give up their powers to serial killers to save one life.  They never did.  They might pretended to be complying but there would always be a last minute trick that would give them victory, however implausibly.  They also take their secret identities a bit more seriously than casually exposing them to dozens of strangers.  And if you give shadowy alien-hunting organizations a gigantic invisible alien complex equipped with cells to hold super-powered prisoners...they don't leave it vacant.  They move in and use it as their own base of operations/prison.    

Actually in the comic books superheroes don't give up their powers to serial killers to save one life.  They never did.  They might pretended to be complying but there would always be a last minute trick that would give them victory, however implausibly.  They also take their secret identities a bit more seriously than casually exposing them to dozens of strangers.  And if you give shadowy alien-hunting organizations a gigantic invisible alien complex equipped with cells to hold super-powered prisoners...they don't leave it vacant.  They move in and use it as their own base of operations/prison.    

There are many elements and tropes that make superhero adventures look and feel like superhero adventures. Not all of them need be, or should be, employed when adapted for live-action tv shows or feature films where your goal is to appeal to more than just 9-year olds. Making a show that is suitable for, and entertaining to kids doen't mean it has to only be suitable for and entertaining to them. Writing for "all ages" seems to be a rare skill that only Pixar's writers seem to have mastered.
 
In fact, I would say that The Incredibles is a good example of a superhero movie that "feels like the comics" but isn't dumbed down to a child-like mentality level.

But...there's plenty of gravity in space.  It's all over the joint.  It's what makes free-fall, free-fall

And for something superficial:  Those Hawk costumes are the best looking full-on superhero costumes ever seen on television.  Also the FX wings were way way better than the previous TV Hawkman could show.  

I dunno.  "White guy who is better than Asians at the martial art they invented" is a pretty venerable Hollywood (and comic book) stereotype in its own right.  

Your loyeliness, 
I can hear you coming up the stair
I can smell you flipping back your hair
Your care is in the air
Of this endless night
We may not get another
Putting on my boots
One after the other
 
Think of your embrace
I'll return when the war is won
You know justice must be done
 
In the darkness
They come out 
When I have the advantage
They will be surprised
If and when they try
To look me in the eye
When I broke his arm
To reach into scars
Will he be replaced
Like all of the others
 
Think of your embrace
I'll return when the war is won
You know justice must be done
 
If I ever saw
If I ever saw
I never saw the light
Until it took my sight

Random Patent Generator created to battle Patent Trolls
 
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2084755-computer-generates-all-possible-ideas-to-beat-patent-trolls/