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AQUARIUS: Very doubtful. PISCES: Outlook good. ARIES: Better not tell you now. TAURUS: Concentrate and ask again. GEMINI: Signs point to yes. CANCER: Outlook good. LEO: It is certain. VIRGO: Don't count on it. LIBRA: My reply is no. SCORPIO: It is certain. SAGITTARIUS: Signs point to yes. CAPRICORN: As I see it, yes.
Specialty Bonus Sign OPHIUCHUS: You may rely on it.
Tonight is the 85th Annual Academy Awards. Over the past few years, The Shank has been working on an Oscar-predicting formula, and this year we're ready to go public with our picks.
So here's how our data suggests tonight will go down:
Best Picture: Argo X Best Director: Steven Spielberg – Lincoln Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook X Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables Writing (Adapted Screenplay): Argo X Writing Original Screenplay: Amour X Best Animated Feature: Wreck it Ralph Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man Foreign Language Film: Amour Cinematography: Claudio Miranda - Life of Pi X Production Design: Anna Karenina Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran - Anna Karenina X Documentary Short: Mondays at Racine Film Editing: Argo X Makeup: The Hobbit Music (Original Score): Mychael Danna - Life of Pi Music - Original Song: "Skyfall" from Skyfall Short Film Animated: Paperman Short Film - Live Action: Curfew X Sound Editing: Life of Pi Sound Mixing: Les Miserables Visual Effects: Life of Piwe
UPDATE: Only 16 out of 24 or 67% correct. Looks like we still have some work to do....
A night of discussion, displays and conversation featuring: Cartoonist Nicole J Georges (Calling Dr. Laura, Invincible Summer) Essayist Cassie J Sneider (Fine Fine Music) Monica Gallagher (Glitter Kiss, Bonnie N. Collide, Boobage) Sally Madden (Gray Is Not A Color)
In the graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura, Nicole discovers that when her family told her, as a young child, that her father was dead was not actually true. So she turns to the radio personality for advice.
Cassie is a hilarious and wildly entertaining essayist and pop-culture observationalist.
In Glitter Kiss, Monica illustrates a graphic novel about Tinka's magical pursuit for true love.
Gray Is Not A Color is a collection of stories, in comics format, about Philadelphia's famed Mutter Museum.
overheard Allyson Little drawn by Ryan Onorato (click on strip to see larger version) Look for a new Said What? comic in Wednesday's B: The Paper. Available free around town. You can also follow this strip and others at MutantFunnies.com. ---------------------------------------------------- Overhear
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AQUARIUS: Concentrate and ask again.. PISCES: Outlook not so good. ARIES: Signs point to yes. TAURUS: Cannot predict now. GEMINI: Don't count on it. CANCER: My sources say no. LEO: Outlook not so good. VIRGO: Reply hazy, try again. LIBRA: Better not tell you now. SCORPIO: Concentrate and ask again. SAGITTARIUS: Yes, definitely. CAPRICORN: Without a doubt.
ADVLTS. - Amazing postpunk in the vein of every band these guys used to be in,
condensed ex-Fuses/ FascistFascist/ Uniform/ SlowJets/ Roads To Space
Travel
CHARM OFFENSIVE - Chris LaMartina and crew don't want to make out, they just want to circle the pit
Sales of beer provided by UNION CRAFT BREWING at this show all go towards the fundraising.
This show is a benefit for Believe In Music, a program that aims to
uplift underprivileged Baltimore City students academically, culturally,
and spiritually, while promoting self-expression and community
awareness through music education. Through the program, students will
foster a deep connection with music in their own lives, and gain the
tools to be able express their culture, struggles, and triumphs through
music.
I booked this show because I'm truly moved and inspired
by what Kenny Liner is doing to make kids in Baltimore's lives better
through music. Please come out and help us raise money to support this
worthy cause! -Nolen Strals / Pure Junk
2012 is over, we are less than a hundred years away from the future that the Rush album foretold, (now that the Mayans' prophesy has been deep-sixed). So, let's take this opportunity to take a thankful look back at the year that was-uz-uz-uz.
1. Mitt losing. Thank fucking God! The only scary (but funny ironic thing) was that 47% of the voting population thought this ... this ... "Mitt" was capable of being anything more than an assistant manager of Staples, (and not a particularly cool one at that). I won't have to hear from chirpy li'l punk-ass beltway pundits how the "Libruls" just don't "get it." Marginal sanity, (even though Obama is effectively an '80s Republican) prevails.
2. Marriage Equality in Maryland. Finally sanity and fairness prevail!
3. The CFL. With the Ravens fans being unbelievably spoiled bastards, and being indignant about not being a first seed, it's important to remember how many post-season starved towns are out there, just look at the fervor just south of us, where the owner finally found a truffle. It's also important to remember to be thankful for the CFL and the scare it put in the NFL to get Baltimore a team before they lost that market. If not for the CFL ???, we'd still be getting talks about demographics while Cleveland got a new team when Modell moved to L.A.
4. The O's in the playoffs! Wow, what a season, gotta admit, I was doing a count down to 81 wins to snap the streak of consecutive losing seasons, all yours Pittsburgh!
5. The Westboro Baptists Wha? Yep! I'm still not completely convinced they are not secretly gay rights advocates. They are the perfect foil! Tying homophobia to metaphorically pissing on the troops? No one on the left has ever done something like that in my lifetime, any conversation with someone that is against marriage equality starts out w/ the line, "look, I'm not one of those crazy Westboro Baptists...". Thank you hatuz!
6. The Teabaggers Without these idiots the Senate would probably be Republican, and the Mittbot would be running things. So glad the 'baggers insist on having the otherwise middle of the road talkin' candidates parroting the insane right wing drivel in order to get through the primaries. Hey GOP, there's a lot of non-inspiring phony-ass, but sane-talking Dems that would have been beaten if you weren't forced into almost-rubbing-shit-in-your-hair crazy! Thanks, Teabaggers! Hilarious name and just more of the gift that keeps giving!
7. Aging Supreme Court Justices We are very close to getting back a 5-4 sane majority, start sending Scalia cheesecakes, fancy nacho dip, and cigars, know what? fuck it! Send him percocets, bourbon, and hookers! As many as possible as fast as possible!
8. The English For the Olympics and telling Mitt to sod off.
9. Atomic Books Yeah, this sounds like sucking up, fine, but there are so many cool things that go on there, sponsored by them, etc., etc. Think how less cool Baltimore would be without it. We have a book store that stands up to any "cool" store anywhere.
10. My kids getting into D&D. Sweet! It's a proven fact that one touch of a twenty-sided dice, means you won't get to kiss a girl for at least five years. I won't be a grandfather until at they're out of high school. Now if I can just get them into Star Trek.
Atomic Fiction Series presents a release party to celebrate Stephanie Barber's new book, NIGHT MOVES ( Publishing Genius).
Night Moves is a collection of all the YouTube users' comments which
accompany the Bob Seger song "Night Moves." It's an epistolary poem to
and from strangers. It's an exquisite corpse construction with all the
wonder and ridicule that such a thing involves.
Special guest Kate Porter will be playing the cello.
And Stephanie will read and talk about the book with a short Q&A to follow, with your hosts, Kathy Flann and Benn Ray.
Also - an awesome cover of Seger's "Night Moves" will be a part of the evening.