Legend of Zelda: Links to Stuff
Hi guys! Really quickly, here are a few fun links that happened to my life today.
First, here’s a news story about Franklin and Bash that actually shows a cast photo!
spoiler alert!
Second, here’s the first review of Neko Ramen, the manga series that I have been rewriting/adapting for English speakers!
Third, Matt Ruby sent me this awesome website of EVERYTHING DON DRAPER SAYS in the entire series of Mad Men. Oddly hilarious. Thanks Matt!
The Day Don Draper Pitched to the Dharma Initiative
Now we join Don Draper and the rest of the Mad Men crew in a meeting with Dr. Pierre Chang, head of the Dharma Initiative. Dharma needs a logo, and they’ve come to Sterling Cooper for ideas.
"Ok Mr. Draper, wow me."
Dr. Chang, I’m not going to waste too much of your time, I know you’re a busy man with a lot of science to do. I’m an ad man, I don’t know science, but I do know people. You want to run psychological and electromagnetic experiments on some bizarro island somewhere out in the Pacific. You want to do it creepily, and you want to do it secretly. You want to scare these people you call “the others” with your shady science, and you want the peace and quiet to conduct your experiments without interruption.
Since so much about Dharma, literally and scientifically, is underground, we were thinking that it’s high time that you hide in plain sight. What if your logo was actually a representation of the basement nature of your work? I hear Dharma and I think tunnels, holes, hatches, places where you won’t be disturbed, places that seem terrifying to people on land.
I give you your new Dharma Initiative logo.
Salvatore came up with a different logo for each of your weirdo stations, but when “the Others” see this symbol, they’ll know to stay away or else be weirdly killed. It’s a new age, Dr. Chang. It’s time to take a little initiative.
Ask Gynomite!
In her former life, Emily “Gynomite” Gordon was a couples and family therapist licensed in 2 1/2 states. In this life, she’s a freelance fighter of your emotional woes. Write her at askgynomite@gmail.com- all emails stay confidential. You can also check her out on her weekly column over at Lemondrop. Today, Gynomite takes on safety in the big city.
This is not really a crazy person or relationship question, but I just moved to New York about a month ago, and this place terrifies me. I live in an ok neighborhood, but do you have any tips on how a girl can keep herself safe in a big city?
I went through the same feelings when I moved here too, and it’s more of a mental health question than you might think!
Pleasant dreams!
My pal Jared just sent me this video, which will now reside in my subconscious forever. Two years from now I’ll probably start crying at a stoplight somewhere, and this will be why. I give you The Cat with Hands.
The Dog with the Heart of a Protesting Lion
For the past two years, as people in Athens have been growing more and more frustrated with their government, they have been protesting. And for two years, they have had a mascot.
They have no idea why, but for two full years, this one dog has been showing up to hang out with the protesters and bark at the police forces. He seems happy and somewhat healthy, and he doesn’t seem to belong to anyone.
Did I mention there are pictures of all this?
Yep.
Hi all, it’s time for a news update! In a few weeks, the base camp for Gynomite Inc. (not a real company) will be moving from New York City to sunny Los Angeles, along with my trusted sidekicks, Kumail and Bagel.
We’re moving because the TV pilot that Kumail was in, Franklin and Bash, has been picked up on TNT for series. This has been a long waiting out process for everyone involved, and now that we know, we can get ready to move into this apartment (which we found three days ago).
Nothing will change in Gynomite Land, except maybe I’ll be a bit more tan, and we’ll get to all the mushy stuff about leaving New York and all the wonderful people here at a later date and time. For now, we celebrate.
Come visit us, we’ll be in apartment 203!
Childlike Terror
Topless Robot has a pretty good collection of 14 Incredibly Disturbing Moments in Kids’ Movies (Besides the Entirety of E.T.), which I loved right away because they clearly understand my intense phobia of E.T.
But there are plenty of things to be scared of, including the obvious:
Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Willy Wonka boat ride
But they forgot a few things…
