Life is too short for groping

The daily miss-mash.

April 17, 2013 at 5:23PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Sound advice, no? We'll get to that in a moment. First, here's good news for everyone who loves 3D movies. They've added another dimension! Hollywood Reporter reports from Hollywood:

In other words, you pay $25 so you can get water sprayed in your face. These theaters have been in Disney theme parks for years. As you're flying through a scene from Aladdin, the wind blows. As you splash through a waterfall, mist squirts from a hose embedded in the seat in front of you. Things vibrate and tilt. It's fun, except in the wretched Stitch ride, where you hear a big ripe belch and the room fills with the aroma of burped-up chili dogs. Or maybe that was just the guy in the next seat. In any case, it adds some novelty to the experience, but I really don't want water shooting in my face when the Enterprise crashes into the ocean or Jack Black bellyflops in a pool.

ART I hate the use "stunning" to describe things, particularly if they're iconic, but these are stunning. And iconic. "Industry and Architecture in Mid 20th Century America" - the photos of Ezra Stoller.

While we're on the subject of industry, here's the hard-hitting go-getter exhortations of Jazz Age workplace posters. (via Coudal's great collection of ephemera links.) Two favorites:

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

COMMERCIALS Everyone has to start somewhere. Flavorwire dug up 10 commercials with actors who went on to bigger things.Steve Carroll's early days as a chicken-shiller:

MEANWHILE IN RUSSIA or one of its previously captured satellite nations, it's your daily ration of dashcam vid. First: an indication of how long one can reasonably expect to impede traffic by standing in front of a vehicle berating its driver.

The poster frame tends to give away the ending, alas.

Oh, what the heck, have another. It's like "Signal 30" every day on every road over there.

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