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Watch the original Alice in Wonderland on The Auteurs.

Alice in Wonderland (1903), the first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale, has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive and premiered at a celebration of the history of the classic story at the British Library.

Although originally running just 12 minutes, Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time and represented a major investment for the pioneering Hepworth Studios. However, despite its historical importance, it was almost lost for good, and just one incomplete print is known to survive.

peterwknox:

The Office’s Jenna Fischer on Tonight’s Baby Episode, and Why Pam Misses Her Old Desk

Written by my good friend Mike Ryan. Read it!

peterwknox:

If we stopped telling girls and women how to be What Guys Want (But Would Totally Never Tell You Because Ew, Feelings Are For Girls) and started telling them that what they want matters, that every sexual and romantic partnership from a hook-up to a marriage can be fantastic if you both want it and miserable if one of you really doesn’t, then maybe the ones who want relationships wouldn’t get stuck waiting for guys who don’t to fall for them. And meanwhile, the ones who enjoy exploring their sexuality more casually would be free to do so without being slut-shamed, and the ones who don’t want guys at all wouldn’t be erased from the picture entirely. If we encouraged girls and women to place real value on their own desires, then instead of hand-waving about kids these days, we could trust them to seek out what they want and need, and to end relationships, casual or serious, that are unsatisfying or damaging to them, regardless of whether they’d work for anyone else. (While acknowledging, of course, that to some extent, heartbreak and romantic regrets are an inevitable part of growing up.)

The thing is, if only one kind of dating “culture” is acceptable at any given time — whether it’s hooking up or old-fashioned courtship — then anyone whose desires don’t fit the mold will be left out. But if we teach all kids that there’s a wide range of potentially healthy sexual and emotional relationships, and the only real trick (granted, it’s a doozy) is finding partners who are enthusiastic about the same things you want, then there’s room for a lot more people to pursue something personally satisfying at no one else’s expense.

Read the whole thing. And then wonder why more people would rather talk about the damaging effects of this ‘hook-up culture’ instead of actually making navigating relationships about the two people involved. I’d consider myself a mild success as a parent if this was all that I was able to impart.

I have so much to say on this, but not enough time during this lunch hour to do that. However, I’m reblogging as a note to myself to do it at a later date.

In short, yes. A hundred times, yes.

This has been making it’s way around the internet this week and I had to stop after 30 minutes this morning because I was unknowingly creating a map of North America.

(I also need to use my second screen more so that it doesn’t get taken away.)

@AaronRagsdale:

SDSU Percussion Ensemble concert tomorrow. Tull, Becker, Green, Benson and the world premiere of Broadside by Barrett Hipes. Should be good.

I forget that Barrett titled one of his compositions ‘Broadside’ after we got in a car wreck during camp last summer in Arkansas. One day when we’re all famous this will be funny.

rickankielsmustache:

Some good ‘ole Tennessee kids got engaged at tonight’s basketball game against the Razorbacks.

Those white pants may not have been the best choice.

Feel free to reblog with your own caption.

I’m just hoping that it’s a ring that she’s gasping about and nothing else.

Dickson Street in Fayetteville, Arkansas, is best known as bar row; a downhill walk from the state university where you can almost always find live music or dollar drafts. But squeezed between the bars and restaurants is the Dickson Street Bookshop, the best used bookstore in the South.

Photographer: Johnathon Williams

I miss Fayetteville so much.

rickankielsmustache:

MLB At Bat 2010

It’s amazing how better I feel after $15.

Baseball has officially arrived.

rickankielsmustache:

It’s 8 AM on March 2nd. Where is the MLB At Bat 2010 app?

They already missed the Feb. 28th date. Are they going to miss this one as well?

Yes, I’m that person who was checking at 12:01am to see if the app store had been updated. No dice. This thing is like crack during the baseball season. So good. And I need it.