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Mortal Kombat: Legacy (S1 E7)
Each Friday you can catch up with an episode from this series.
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will.i.am – Bang Bang
From “The Great Gatsby” Sountrack here’s Will.I.Am.
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Tagged dance, music, pop, r&b, The Great Gatsby, video, Will.I.Am
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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Rooney Mara returns to the big screen on August 16, 2013 in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints. The film is the story of a fugitive who attempts to reunite with his wife and daughter who he has never met. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints also stars Ben Foster, Casey Affleck, and Keith Carradine.
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Tagged Ben Foster, Cannes, Casey Affleck, David Lowery, entertainment, film, Keith Carradine, movie, Rooney Mara, Sundance Film Festival
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Scandal Season 2 Withdrawal: How to Cope
Thursday nights will never be the same (at least until September). After last week’s head-exploding closing line — “Dad?!” — fans of ABC’s cultural phenomenon Scandal have been left with a gaping hole in their social calendars. What to tweet about? What to actually talk about? What’s a gladiator to do without the deliciously over-the-top antics of Olivia Pope and Associates to spice up an otherwise nonscandalous existence?
“I’m thinking about taking up a trade,” joked humor writer and blogger Luvvie Ajayi, whose hilarious Scandal recaps are the stuff of Friday morning legend. “Or learning a new language. Or maybe rocking back and forth from withdrawal because it’s going to be a long summer.”
According to Ajayi, who blogs at AwesomelyLuvvie.com and tweets blow-by-blows of the show to more than 18,000 followers, the show’s summer hiatus will give her more than six hours a week of free time. On Thursdays she spends one hour prepping for the show, then there’s the hour-long show itself, followed by “two hours of cooling off” and two hours of recap-writing time.
“I have all this extra time on my hands,” she said. “Maybe I’ll learn to paint.”
Every week developer Scott Hanselman joins Ajayi for the podcast “Ratchet and the Geek,” covering social media, pop culture and technology. Hanselman, who admits to dipping out of a professional conference early in order to catch last week’s season finale live, is a certified Scandal-head.
“I think that we’re at the beginning of a golden age of television,” he said. “Scandal is just the best. It’s a soap, it’s a telenovela, it’s political scandal, it’s the West Wing meets Nikita all in one.”
In the downtime, Hanselman plans to catch up on other programs featuring the actors starring in his favorite show. “Surprisingly, a large number of them have worked together before, because [Scandal creator and showrunner] Shonda Rhimes pulls from a pool. It’s an incestuous crowd at best. There was a time when there was two weeks of no Scandal when I went and got Django Unchained so that I could see something with Kerry Washington in it.”
Read More Scandal Season 2 Withdrawal: How to Cope.
Monsters University
Mike and Sully return on June 21, 2013. Monsters University tells the story before Monster’s Inc. Monsters University stars Billy Crystal, John Krasinski, Steve Buscemi, and John Goodman.
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Tagged Billy Crystal, children, comedy, entertainment, film, funny, John Goodman, John Krasinski, movie, Steve Buscemi
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Khalil Gibran – A Tear And A Smile
My first experience with Khalil Gibran was the 2011 movie, The Prophet. Normally if I like a movie I make a note of the writer and book it was based on. This was no exception. As I delved into Khalil Gibran’s writing I realized a wealth of wisdom and inspiration. Khalil Gibran is not just a poet but a philosopher and motivational writer also, in my opinion-one of the best.
A Tear And A Smile
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart
For the joys of the multitude.
And I would not have the tears that sadness makes
To flow from my every part turn into laughter.
I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.
A tear to purify my heart and give me understanding
Of life’s secrets and hidden things.
A smile to draw me nigh to the sons of my kind and
To be a symbol of my glorification of the gods.
A tear to unite me with those of broken heart;
A smile to be a sign of my joy in existence.
I would rather that I died in yearning and longing than that I live Weary and despairing.
I want the hunger for love and beauty to be in the
Depths of my spirit,for I have seen those who are
Satisfied the most wretched of people.
I have heard the sigh of those in yearning and Longing, and it is sweeter than the sweetest melody.
With evening’s coming the flower folds her petals
And sleeps, embracingher longing.
At morning’s approach she opens her lips to meet
The sun’s kiss.
The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment.
A tear and a smile.
The waters of the sea become vapor and rise and come
Together and area cloud.
And the cloud floats above the hills and valleys
Until it meets the gentle breeze, then falls weeping
To the fields and joins with brooks and rivers to Return to the sea, its home.
The life of clouds is a parting and a meeting.
A tear and a smile.
And so does the spirit become separated from
The greater spirit to move in the world of matter
And pass as a cloud over the mountain of sorrow
And the plains of joy to meet the breeze of death
And return whence it came.
To the ocean of Love and Beauty—-to God.
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Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal
In the furious fallout from the revelation that the IRS flagged applications from conservative nonprofits for extra review because of their political activity, some points about the big picture — and big donors — have fallen through the cracks.
Consider this our Top 6 list of need-to-know facts on social welfare nonprofits, also known as dark money groups because they don’t have to disclose their donors. The groups poured more than $256 million into the 2012 federal elections.
1. Social welfare nonprofits are supposed to have social welfare, and not politics, as their “primary” purpose.
A century ago, Congress created a tax exemption for social welfare nonprofits. The statute defining the groups says they are supposed to be “operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare.” But in 1959, the regulators interpreted the “exclusively” part of the statute to mean groups had to be “primarily” engaged in enhancing social welfare. This later opened the door to political spending.
A Face in the Crowd: Say goodbye to anonymity
If you don’t normally watch 60 Minutes on Sunday evening you are really missing out on excellent journalism. This report confirms that the Matrix is here and we are all part of it.
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