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Humans of New York Les (Really) Miserables - I dreamed a dream UK Lectures! - The UK Lectures at St. Andrews, Warwick, Cambridge and Queen Mary were a success! Thanks to everyone who came out, it was great to meet you! More info here! New shirt! Order it here Need a last minute gift? Click Here! THESIS FUEL MUG BACK IN STOCK! Now shipping! 2014 PHD Calendar - is here! The Best of PHD - I'm happy to announce that we'll be publishing a run of the "Best PHD Comics" on Tapastic! The feed will be curated by me (Jorge), and will feature behind-the-scene commentary on why each comic is special to me. Tapastic is a pretty cool platform for webcomics. PHD Lectures - I'll be speaking at Penn State and Washington College this Tuesday and Wednesday (9/17, 9/18)! GOOGLE+ - Hey, PHD Comics is now on Google+! Need a Graduation Gift? UK Spring Tour - Jorge will be speaking at 4 UK Universities April 15-19!

Every David Lynch movie ranked - Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet From Eraserhead to Blue Velvet, we reassess every film from the master of the surreal. by Jeff McMahon Twenty years ago today, Twin Peaks ended with one of the most brutal unresolved cliffhangers in television history. We're still upset about it, so we're ranking all of David Lynch's film work from worst to best. 10. After establishing himself as one of the most uniquely stylish and idiosyncratic filmmakers of his generation, Lynch was awarded the Palme d'Or at Cannes for this bizarre, violent love story. 9. Lynch is at his best when following his muse into realms of nightmares and darkness. 8. George Lucas offered Lynch the director's chair on Return of the Jedi (imagine the Ewoks!) 7. Fire Walk With Me is probably the most-hated movie on this list. 6. The one title in the Venn-diagram intersection of "David Lynch films" and "Walt Disney Studios" is probably his least characteristic, a character-based road movie that also serves as a metaphor for the end of life's journey.

Re:Sound Bottle One of the coolest object I’ve seen in 2013 so far is this. Re: Sound Bottle is an automatic remixing object that can record all given sounds and then automatically remix them into a music beat. Just pull the cork off the bottle, make or find some sounds to record, and this magical little bottle turns it into music! Though the bottle is simple to use, the technical insides of the design is insanely complex and relies heavily on software to handle the recording, storing, and playback of audio tracks and the model is still a prototype. The creater, Jun Fujiwara from Tama Art University comments: ”I felt something missing in the habitual use of music reproduction media, so I thought to create an interactive music medium that changes. With this seriously rad device I do believe we can!

SIXTH FLOOR WALK-UP Back to top Transparency and the First Generation Faculty Member Submitted by syntaxfactory on February 19, 2013 - 11:15am I've been reflecting on my spectacularly unsuccessful ethos as a professional within my department. I'm saying "within my department" because I think that the ethos that carries me far enough in the field is one I'm thinking doesn't work well in a departmental context. And to be clear, I've been a faculty member in two departments, so I'm not complaining about my department; this is generalizable reflection across an "N" of "2." A colleague-friend once pointed out that I'm basically a puppy dog in my local professional interactions -- eager to be liked. Context: like many of my colleagues and friend in rhetorical studies, I am a first-gen student. Anyway, growing up, I recognized three things. (1) My ability to answer Jeopardy questions before anyone else in the family quickly went from being cute to being annoying. (2) Being smart was something my family could be proud of, but I could never be proud of it. 1. 2. 3. 1. 2. 3. --db

OTAKU GANGSTA Ghostly underwater art gallery breathes new life to sunken ship It's not a ghostly apparition, but one of the photographs by Viennese artist Andreas Franke, which was displayed aboard sunken ship USNS General Hoyt S.Vandenberg and only accessible to competent divers. After four months sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the photos became discolored with salt stains and algae. "The sea life had created new images. It's very cool, they almost look like Polaroids," said Franke. The pictures have now been displayed in a gallery on land; the Studios of Key West. The 12 images all feature the Vandenberg, which was a U.S. military transport ship during World War Two. Sunk in 2009, the Vandenberg is now the second-largest artificial reef in the world, boasting a diverse range of marine animals and plant life. "If you're a diver and you see a gallery down there, it's absolutely unique, something you'd never expect. More than 10,000 divers visited the underwater gallery. Strike a pose Water works Packing a punch Time travel Brave new world Divers' paradise

Nailed it... /-/Sticky date, choc chip puddings with Amaretto butter scotch sauce | The moonblush Baker Confession: I hate Pinterest sometimes. Yep I said it. Honestly I would say I loathe it sometimes. I appreciate the sharing abilities of the website but it has killed our self-esteem. As a Young adult (I think that is what they call the 22 ish demographic), the pins you would make you believe that all of us are looking for a fast paced, valencia filtered, alternative urban lifestyle. On pintertest, every child’s birthday needs to have a dessert table or party bar now with a theme. I am not even going to go into the way the pinned desserts and meals that are a fusion of everything and anything. Pinterest has made our normal and perfectly daggy and plain lives seem like a sin. What ever happened to the days when a child’s birthday was a one cake, a game of newspaper wrapped pass the parcel, more lollies, red cordial and chips than should be legally purchased; and everything from the invitations to the cutlery was from the super market? Buttery, old fashion, warm, sticky. 250ml water 2 eggs

Whatever Back in the day — by which I mean the last millennium, y’all – Jen Larsen and I were part of a loose group of “online diarists” (what we called bloggers before blogs were called blogs) who chatted and sniped and busted each other up over the early Web, with Jen being one of the wittiest of us all. I never doubted that one day she’d be an author and write a terrific book, but I would not have expected that book would be the memoir, Stranger Here. But that’s all right, because as Larsen explains, it was a surprise to her as well. So the thing is, I was never supposed to be a memoir writer. Memoirs are for people who have things to memoir-ize. I was going to write fiction. The other thing: I was fat. That’s the first time I remember ever thinking something bad about my body, my size, my shape. You know where this is going, right? I didn’t write a weight loss memoir, though. I tried to lose weight. A year and a half later, I had lost about 180 pounds. But I bought it—so many people buy it.

Why Oz the Great and Powerful Is A Major Step Back For Witches and Women When it comes to adapting the wonderful world of Oz, Hollywood is, admittedly and regrettably, in a bit of a bind. All things Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City are so tightly linked to the 1939 “The Wizard of Oz” that trying to venture back into L. Frank Baum’s mythology is treading on the memories of millions of fans. The film is such a massive piece of film iconography that it has become the definitive version of this tale, and outstripped the Baum book itself. Yet Baum’s Oz mythology didn’t begin and end with Dorothy. In addition to Baum’s original 17 stories, there are dozens of canonical Oz tales by other authors, as well as a dizzying array of non-canonical/alternate Oz fantasies. And what does Hollywood do? Why is this sad and troubling? But most intriguing and revolutionary of them all is Princess Ozma, who actually makes her first appearance in “The Marvelous Land of Oz” as a young boy named Tip. The reason for this is simple: Baum was a feminist. Categories: Features