Emmanuel Hapsis

Emmanuel Hapsis received his MFA in creative writing from California College of the Arts. As an Interactive producer, he helps produce The Writers' Block (an audio podcast featuring author’s readings), the websites for The Do List (radio and online weekly event picks) and This Week in Northern California (a TV weekly news roundup), writes for the KQED Arts blog, and is a co-editor of KQED Pop. He spends a majority of his time crushing on Abe Lincoln and sharing his whiskey far and wide.

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Before Midnight: A Reason to Believe in Love

Before Midnight: A Reason to Believe in Love

| May 9, 2013 | 0 Comments

Before Midnight, the latest installment in Richard Linklater’s Before series, screens tonight as a part of SFIFF’s closing night. Here are a few reasons why you should cancel your lame plans and see this instead.

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Fictional Moms Who Frighten Us And Ones We Love

Fictional Moms Who Frighten Us And Ones We Love

| May 8, 2013 | 1 Comment

In honor of Mothers’ Day, here’s a look at the most frightening and the most beloved fictional mothers in the history of forever.

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Earth Day: Everything I Know I Learned from Salute Your Shorts

Earth Day: Everything I Know I Learned from Salute Your Shorts

| April 22, 2013 | 0 Comments

Living in San Francisco has turned me into more of a hippie than I was, but the foundation of my Mother Earth-loving self was not born here, but in front of Nickelodeon in the early ’90s.

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Celebrate Mandy Moore’s Birthday with Gifs!

Celebrate Mandy Moore’s Birthday with Gifs!

| April 10, 2013 | 0 Comments

Mandy Moore turns 29 today! And what better way to celebrate than with animated gifs!

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Arrested Development: A Gif Timeline from Cancellation to Rebirth

Arrested Development: A Gif Timeline from Cancellation to Rebirth

| April 5, 2013 | 0 Comments

In celebration of Arrested Development’s return to our lives, let’s express all the emotions that got us to this point with an animated gif timeline!

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Mortality Is Real, The Fraggles Unfortunately Are Not

Mortality Is Real, The Fraggles Unfortunately Are Not

| April 3, 2013 | 1 Comment

In nearly all 96 episodes of Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock, Red and the gang discussed or alluded to death in some way and this supercut is here to prove it.

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9-Year-Old Philosopher Knows More than You

9-Year-Old Philosopher Knows More than You

| March 28, 2013 | 0 Comments

Most 9-year-olds are not spending too much time analyzing major existential questions like what is the meaning of our lives or whether multiple universes exist or whether events in life are predestined, but this one is!

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Listen: Highlights from Supreme Court Hearings on Marriage Equality

Listen: Highlights from Supreme Court Hearings on Marriage Equality

| March 27, 2013 | 2 Comments

I listened to all 3+ hours of the Prop 8 and DOMA Supreme Court hearings to give you this: a list of audio highlights that include Justice Kagan explaining menopause, Justice Scalia reciting Destiny’s Child lyrics, and so much more. You’re welcome!

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13 of the Best Marriage Equality Memes

13 of the Best Marriage Equality Memes

| March 27, 2013 | 5 Comments

Facebook started seeing red yesterday. Supporters of marriage equality changed their profiles to a red equal sign, and, in the blink of an eye scrolling down a Tumblr feed, a meme was born. Here’s a collection of the very best.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the Antidote to Your Case of the Mondays

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the Antidote to Your Case of the Mondays

| March 25, 2013 | 0 Comments

Mondays are the worst, but a clip of Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Jeopardy from the ’90s vault is just the thing to turn that frown upside-down!

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