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Friday Ephemera

A cappella Tetris. // Make way for the gent with the hippo cart. // Popped At, where anything might pop up. // Straighten your nose. // Nigerian hairstyles of note. // A young Dame Helen Mirren and other celebrities. // Dark Side of the Moon, disassembled. // “Beware of mental-itis” and other gifs of yesteryear. // A love of magnetic tape. // Grass blade beatboxing. You’ll never tire of that. // Behold the Slingatron, a “hypervelocity railroad into space.” (h/t, Dr W) // Origami cobra. // Vortex, Pacific Ocean. // Unusual plastics. // Water trapped in a window. // Fingersurfing. // Dogfighters. // And finally, an Iron Man suit made entirely of balloons. 

Get Them While They’re Soft and Yielding (2)

Somewhat related to the previous post, here’s another display by our moral and intellectual betters. Oh, the things that can happen in a creative writing class: 

A professor at Michigan State University opened the first day of his creative writing class on Thursday by bashing Mitt and Ann Romney and ranting against “old Republicans” who he says “raped” the country, according to a student who made a secret recording of the class. The eight-minute video also reveals Professor William S. Penn bullying a student who apparently disagreed with his Democratic politics and arguing that Republicans want to prevent “black people” from voting. “If you go to the Republican convention in Florida, you see all of the old Republicans with the dead skin cells washing off them,” said Penn. “They don’t want to pay for your tuition because who are you? Well, to me you are somebody,” he continued.

Yes, prey.

Here’s the video: 

The Thinkers of Tomorrow

Spare a few minutes for this small but instructive drama in which a self-described “bottle blonde bacon-eating vegan,” one famed for railing against “privileged people,” “conservatives” and “heteropatriarchal crap” - and for complaining about the burden of student debt - is shocked to discover that her degrees in “social justice and peace studies” and of course “gender studies” are not entirely useful in the job market. 

It’s a reality our heroine finds difficult to process. 

Update: 

Note the Use of Hazard Lights

Watch carefully. Something will happen. 

Via MeFi, via Althouse.