Your Horoscopes — Week Of August 4, 2015 

Amanda Palmer as a statue for a children’s book benefit at the New York Public Library.

And here’s David Hirst’s Verity, that she’s recreating.

Smallville | 4.03 Façade

“My father passed away a year before I got married. I wish he could have lived to see me start my own family. After God, he was my god. There was no infrastructure here when I was growing up, so we lived through very hard times and often there was no food. But he’d do whatever he could to make us forget. One night he organized an entire musical. We couldn’t afford instruments so we pretended that we had them. Every one in the family had a role. I was the star.” (Hunza Valley, Pakistan)

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”   ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Popping a Falling Balloon 

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Calvin And Hobbes embodied the voice of the lonely child

Calvin didn’t have trouble focusing on the world around him, he had trouble reconciling himself to the fact that the world around him was such a disappointment. The reason the strip appealed to people both young and old is because Calvin was feeling underwhelmed at a college graduate level. It’s not unheard of for children to experience this, particularly those who are more sensitive to their surroundings, and for many it was a relief to know that seeing the world without the luster and facade constantly created for us wasn’t so unusual. 

“Calvin made it okay to be disheartened and disappointed by life and normalized the inherent loneliness that childhood can bring.”

 He was there for us as we grew up and while we learned that things were capable of getting so much better and so much worse as we experienced puberty and beyond, he was still mired in the first grade, raging against the machine.

Full story at avclub.com

No one at GeekyCon cosplayed as Hiram McDaniels, but we did meet a cool fan that wore an amazing Frank Chen costume.