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Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 5:00 PM

Zelda Convention - May 24, 2011

Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 5:00PM

Feels like a Tuesday...

Want People to Fall in Love with You? Use smaller words, nerds!
You Can Major in Game Boy If You Know How to Bullshit: If love doesn't interest you, how about 5 TED talks about games? You're welcome.
Giant Floating Head Beats Rape and Crying Every. Damn. Time.: Glen Weldon's excellent piece on why gleefully goofy beats broodingly brutal in comic books. Exhibit A: Modok. Exhibit B: US 1 (pictured below)

Park Place Isn't the Issue Here, Dude: Want a Lebowski Monopoly board? Of course you do. Then check out Samzo.org's site.
Intentionally Bad is Not Good Bad. It's just Bad: Twitch piece on why insta-cult movies and intentionally bad/campy movies seldom succeed.
Silver Lining...Of My Stomach is Being Eaten Away By This Food: Four food artistes take a second glance at Big Mac combo and make it their own!
I Don't Think that's a Rusty Venture: JG Thirlwell conducts an orchestra playing a medley of his music from The Venture Bros.:

Your Wallet Won't Be Able to Repel Savings of THAT Magnitude!: Want the inside track on some nerd deals? Check out Thwipster - offering up daily and weekly price slashes on comics, toys, and all other manner of nerdery.
I Blew My Load on Star Wars References Already: A round up of 15 Amazing Star Wars Costumes.
HULK SMASH! THEN ANALYZE ROLE OF CHRIST IMAGERY IN SCORSESE OUEVRE!: Film Crit Hulk is a great blog with an astounding amount of insight into films. Also, I just like the idea of Hulk in a darkened theater watching Eat Pray Love.
Adorable + Disturbing + Hilarious = THIS: I leave you with this compilation of Bill Corbett adding the Ice Cream Bunny's laugh to various scenes on Rifftrax's rendition Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny:

References allow you to track sources for this article, as well as articles that were written in response to this article.

Source: Using Very Short Words Can Make People Fall in Love With You

by Alasdair Wilkins on May 23, 2011 at 11:45 AM
Source: 5 Good TED Talks on Games

by Amit Garg on Apr 23, 2010 at 12:45 PM
Source: In Praise of M.O.D.O.K.: Why Gleefully Goofy Beats Broodingly Brutal

by Glen Weldon on Sep 29, 2010 at 1:30 PM
Source: Here's the Thing About Making Something Intentionally Bad

by Todd Brown on Apr 23, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Source: Happier Meals

by Karon Liu on May 19, 2011 at 12:02 AM
Source: 15 Amazing Star Wars Costumes

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