You crazy for this one, Jay.
A lecturn in England’s Salisbury Cathedral Salisbury Cathedral – where one of four remaining copies of the (actual) Magna Carta is on display – debuted the new album’s cover art on Wednesday.
More photos of the display, after the jump… Continue reading
Owing to the Victoria Day holiday this Monday (and my own general laziness that it precipitated) I wasn’t able to spend the time necessary to prepare a thoughtful recap of the this week’s Mad Men. Without diving into the larger debate over whether this week’s episode was one of the series best ever or perhaps its very worst, I can still bring praise to the canned brilliance of Account Executive Ken Cosgrove, who performed the jig to end all jig (and the GIF to end all GIFs, with apologies to Pete Campbell).
Of course, the Internet being the glorious, horrifying beast that it, got a hold of said GIF and took it up to 11. Behold, Mad Men meeting Daft Punk… Continue reading
Editor’s Note: With Into Darkness’ release now merely a week away, there is a strong chance the United Federation of Planets is about to get a lot of love here on the site.
By all accounts, Jonathan Frakes has lead a charmed life. He is responsible for the voice and characterization of one of the greatest supervill
ians of the 20th century, Gargoyles David Xanatos (namesake of the Xanatos Gambit and general badass). He’s had a remarkably successful second career as television and film director. But, whatever other greatness Frakes brings us, he will always be remembered as Commander Will Riker.
Actors sometimes practice as technique whereby they give their character a secret only they are privy to that informs their performance. Based on the supercut that went viral this week, Frakes secret for Number One was that he had the meanest sitting game in Starfleet. As if that wasn’t enough, he made Riker’s swag next-level by making his standing-up manuever somehow even more bonkers (see 0:17). See the video after the jump… Continue reading
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