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PUNCH IT: The Empire Strikes Back Uncut trailer we’ve all been waiting for.

This teaser full of awesome Empire Uncut scenes from far and wide is ready for your previewing pleasure. We are continuously blown away by the creativity and craft we’ve seen from every user - now it’s time to spread the word to the rest of the galaxy!

You can still claim a scene to remake until May 1. Get excited for new viewing options to watch completed scenes coming soon!

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Completely boring tip that still might be useful to somebody who’s Googling it:

If you’re applying to Global Entry and you live in New York, you probably don’t want to book an appointment way out at JFK. You can book an appointment at 1 Bowling Green, but you may get a message on the website saying “there are no appointments available.”

I got this message, then kept trying every few days for a week or so, and eventually a whole batch of dates opened up. Sure, I have to wait ‘til May for my appointment now. But I don’t care if these people do have the power to have me deported, I’m not going to JFK for a 20-minute appointment.

Not long after they learn how to write in longhand, most children spend hours filling up pieces of paper with their names. It is not an empty pursuit. It is an attempt, I feel, to convince ourselves that we and our names are one, to take on an identity in the eyes of the world.

Paul Auster

… I have no interest in why an artist did something, or what his work means. Like with Jackson Pollock: I’m always interested in what kind of paint and canvas he used, I just don’t want to know what he meant. You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

In Conversation: Steven Soderbergh”, New York Magazine
An archangel locking the Hellmouth, from the 12-century manuscript the Winchester Psalter. I can’t get over the theological viciousness of this image—it communicates not just the agonies of hell, but how cleanly and precisely this agony fits into God’s ordered universe.

An archangel locking the Hellmouth, from the 12-century manuscript the Winchester Psalter. I can’t get over the theological viciousness of this image—it communicates not just the agonies of hell, but how cleanly and precisely this agony fits into God’s ordered universe.

… those who believed in Hell, in every culture, usually believed in a naked, humanoid soul that was timid and vulnerable outside the body, like an insect out of its carapace. The sheer exposure of the soul made Hell decidedly worse; and the soul’s very immortality, as argued by Plato and endorsed by Christians, helped make eternal pain possible. Hell could not lose its vivid grip until Descartes in the 17th century declared that the soul was immaterial, and thus beyond physical pain. It was this, as much as the diminishing clout of priests and preachers in industrialising Europe, that at last began to damp the flames.

“Into everlasting fire”, The Economist.

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… Paul Trewhela … described the Islamic campaign as a “bursting forth of mass popular irrationalism,” a formulation that implied an interesting question, a tough one for the left to deal with: How should one react when the masses were being irrational? Could “the people” ever be, quite simply, wrong?

Salman Rushdie, “Joseph Anton”.

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