This is the gift guide that has a bonfire on the beach instead of going to its fascist high school’s prom. This is the gift guide that’s mostly stuff to console yourself with while relatives and family friends ask why you aren’t married/ don’t have kids/ suck so much.
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I went years without cable because watching a staticky picture was OK with me, even when my leg formed part of the antenna. Now, I’m headed back there.
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Some red flags should have gone up for someone when the Muppet I most related to was Boober from Fraggle Rock.
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At FAO Schwartz, you can turn yourself into a Muppet. Or you can just create your own wackadoo Muppet, but it’s way more fun to Muppetize yourself and the ones you love.
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While audiences agree that girls and young women should have positive role models to look up to, a shift must occur. As it stands, girls and women can be powerful, so long as they have “appropriate guidance.”
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If I could have run away to Pern, I totally would have. Because there, dragons existed. There, dreams came true. There, people lived and fought and died for all of those terribly brave and heroic things I always thought I wanted to live and fight and die for. And it was Anne McCaffrey that made all of those things come true on the page.
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Haven’t we invaded countries for this sort of thing? And this is going on in Manhattan? Does that make Mayor Bloomberg the leader of a rogue state, now? It’s like he’s been watching Flash Gordon and taking notes on how Ming the Merciless runs things.
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The Umbrella Academy’s Vanya is completely changed in both body and mind, now rejoicing in destruction and her violin is now a fearsome weapon, capable of tearing people apart with a single note, and a symphony will destroy the world.
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Behind every young heroine has to be a strong male presence to guide and control her so that she doesn’t become too dangerous (in other words, independent). These women may have the power to save the world, but they also have to be protected from themselves.
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Lately, I’ve had to be like Ghostbusters. I’ve had to be like Ellen Ripley. Now, I’m being Samwise Gamgee.
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The day care kids next door decided that John, who they already think is pretty awesome, has the best job in the world: colorist on Age of Bronze.
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Sometimes, inspirational words aren’t enough. Sometimes you just have to cross the streams and hope for the best. Hopefully, someone will bring marshmallows.
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We have one final round of pumpkins to show off before hanging up our Sexy Cyberman and Sexy Baron Harkonnen costumes for another year.
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I know your dilemma, guys. You want to pay homage to your favorite geek stuff with your Halloween costume, but you want to be sexy, too. I see you there gazing at the wall of masks on the comic shop, wondering, “Can I be sexy and still be a geek?”
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I love it when we receive photos of completed pumpkins carved from the templates here at Pink Raygun. It’s almost the same sense of pride I get when a student gets into college or graduates from high school. Except, I didn’t actually have much to do with it. OK, I had nothing to do with it because John made all the stencils.
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If we’re gonna go the Barbie outrage route, how about some outrage over the Bob Mackie Dracula Barbie, which promotes overall bad taste and an unhealthy addiction to sequins and feathers (I speak as a victim, here).
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