Community fans (that includes you, Dan Gibson,) stop clutching your Community DVDs and check this out—though be warned, the narrator can be a bit hard to bear at times.

Yes, that is indeed a video of the fan-made game "Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne," based off of the Community episode "Digital Estate Planning."

The game is downloadable here, but be warned, it is a fan-made game that's currently in its beta stages—you can keep up with each update by subscribing to the reddit community that's been working on it here.

I'm of the opinion that you get extra nerd points if you play the game while watching the episode it's based off of. On a related note, I think you could now easily guess what my plans for this evening will be.

Earlier this year, local photographer Liora Kuttler became fed up with the way our country has treated womens' reproductive rights; the groups she joined, petitions she signed and the money she donated helped, but didn't make her feel as if she was making a difference.

So she put down the pens and picked up her camera.

"I got this image in my head, called two of my friends and said, 'Hey, can I paint things on you and photograph you half-naked?'"

A fun-sounding idea with serious execution. The original photos were posted by her friends onto Tumblr, where they went viral, eventually turning into a series (which can be seen here) that was donated to UniteWomen.org.

Things took off from there for Kuttler.

"I finally felt at peace with myself in relation to what was happening," she said. "People would write to me and tell me about their life, and say, 'Whenever I get frustrated about life, I look at your photos and think something is being done.'"

That's when Kuttler formulated a plan to take this concept beyond the Grand Canyon State, developing a nation-wide project that would bring her and her camera to like-minded women in each state, as well as Washington, D.C., profiling feminists and documenting the journey.

She plans to turn the project into a book, which she's titled Out of Fear: Rediscovering Feminism In America.

"The dichotomy of what that could mean is really driving the book for me," she said. "I began the project because I"m really scared about what's happening in the U.S. right now, but I'm also fearless and out of fear because I want to pursue the project. It's that combination that I feel is driving both me and the women I've been talking to."

Kuttler hopes to raise $44,914, at minimum, for the project to get on the road—anything beyond that would go straight to photographing more subjects and printing the book in hardcover.

If you're interested in more about Liora Kuttler and "The Feminist Photos," see her website at The Feminist Photos, or her Kickstarter page here.

Huge score by Gawker today, publishing nearly 1000 pages of documents detailing the financial magic that presidential candidate Mitt Romney has used to protect his massive wealth.

From Gawker:

Bain isn't a company so much as an intricate suite of steadily proliferating inter-related holding companies and limited partnerships, some based in Delaware and others in the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and elsewhere, designed to collectively house roughly $66 billion in wealth in its many crevices and chambers. When Romney left in 1999, he and his wife retained significant investments in many of those Bain vehicles—he claims they are "passive investments" and that they are managed in a blind trust (though the trustee isn't blind enough to meet federal standards of independence). But aside from disparate snippets of information contained in his federal and Massachusetts financial disclosure forms, his 2010 tax returns, and SEC filings, the nature of those investments has been obfuscated by design.

Gawker's asking its readers to help dig through the documents and offer their expertise in comments. To see the files in question—or scream at them in their ever-confusing commenting system—visit the article here.

Can't get enough news about the high school classmate you haven't seen in 20 years? Or maybe you love reading about that Facebook friend you've never met, never talked to and wouldn't know if you passed them on the street. Good news, social media fanatics! There's another network for you to explore: www.nextdoor.com.

From a press release:

Nextdoor (www.nextdoor.com) is a private social network for the neighborhood. Using Nextdoor’s free online platform, neighbors create private neighborhood websites where members can ask questions, get to know one another and exchange local advice and recommendations. Nextdoor is specifically designed to provide a trusted environment for neighbor-to-neighbor communication. Hundreds of neighborhoods are already using Nextdoor to build happier, safer places to call home.

Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s comments about "legtimate rape" and abortion have thrust the topic into the center of the nation’s political debate just one week before the Republican National Convention.

Congressman Jeff Flake, who is the odds-on favorite to win the GOP primary next week, has urged Akin to get out of the race.

After a speech Tuesday afternoon at the Pima County Republican Club, Flake said that while he believes abortion should be illegal in most cases, he supports an exemption for rape, incest and the life of the mother.

“I have always, throughout my career, said that there should be exceptions for rape, for incest and for life of the mother, “ Flake said. “I’ve received a lot of criticism from groups on the right because my position wasn’t as they wanted it to be, but that’s been my position and I’m sticking with it.”

But the Arizona Democratic Party is reminding voters that Flake was one of 227 co-sponsors on the bill that Akin was discussing when he got into trouble this week.

That bill, H.R. 3, was designed to narrow the circumstances under which federal dollars could be used to pay for an abortion. Among other changes in federal law, it would have redefined “rape” to “forcible rape” in regards to an exemption to the Hyde amendment, which blocks the use of federal funding to terminate a pregnancy.

The Christian Science Monitor has a good run-down of the controversy regarding the bill here. The CSM noted:

The term “forcible rape” was never explicitly defined, but pro-abortion-rights forces presumed the bill would preclude federal funding for abortions of pregnancies resulting from a variety of rapes where force may not be involved, including date rape, statutory rape, the rape of a woman who had been drugged, and the rape of a mentally incompetent woman. The bill also restricts abortions in cases of incest to females who are minors.

Reel Arts 6 at Crossroads Grand Cinemas (4811 E. Grant Road) presents the film Ingenious at 7 p.m., Friday, Aug. 24. The movie was filmed in Tucson in 2006 and shows many local landmarks. The film stars two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Lockerer and The Town) and Dallas Roberts.

A summary from imdb.com: A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.

Reel Arts 6 is hosting a film fan event sponsored by Coyotemoon Films. Before the screening, a panel will discuss the way the film was constructred from pre-production, principal photography and post-production. The film's producer, Tim Flood, will be in attendance.

Special prizes and gifts will be available for those attending. Admission is $5. The film will be shown for one week after the event.

Watch the trailer here.

• Jim Nintzel

Well, the Padres might have had one the weirdest rain-outs ever yesterday when the Colorado Springs Sky Sox got stuck in Vegas, but the team has made it to Tucson for tonight's game, which starts at 7:05 p.m. at Kino Stadium.

But you can get into the ballpark as early as 6 p.m, since it also happens to be the last Thirsty Thursday of the season (co-sponsored by your friends at Tucson Weekly), so why not get out to a ballgame for some cheap drinks and plenty of fun? Details on tickets here.

Lots of other fun is on tap this weekend as the Padres wrap up their final homestand of the season, including a big giveaway on Friday night (which will now be a double-header to make up yesterday's game), fireworks on Saturday night and the final Bark in the Park on Sunday night.

As an added bonus. two local Olympians will be throwing out the first pitch. From the Padres' Tim Hagerty:

The Tucson Padres are welcoming two local Olympians from the recently concluded Summer Olympics in London to throw out ceremonial first pitches before Thursday’s game against Colorado Springs. Women’s swimmer Alyssa Anderson and Men’s swimmer Clark Burckle are both former University of Arizona swimmers who competed for the United States teams last month.

Warning: Possibly NSFW. And while amusing, it's probably not really all that far from the truth, if this story is any indication.

In case you don't have time to watch the video, the headline and subheadline are amusing and probably quite accurate:

Tampa Bay Gay Prostitutes Gearing Up For Flood Of Closeted Republicans

Tampa Bay gay sex workers say they plan to rake in the cash sucking off secretly gay Republican politicians during the Republican National Convention.

Since I am the editor of a newspaper, and since it's election season, my email inbox is being inundated with press releases from various campaigns and whatnot.

One of these inundaters: The National Republican Congressional Committee. Once a day or more, I two—count 'em, two—twin news releases slamming our two local sitting Democratic congressmen. These news releases are identical, except for the names: Raul Grijalva, and Ron Barber.

I got twin news releases yesterday with this alarming, but helpfully hashtagged headline:

#IWANTREPEAL: Barber Voted to Put 15 Unelected Medicare Cutters Between Seniors and their Doctors

OK then! Anyway, it goes on to demonize the two congressmen not voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act (and includes the oft-disproven "Medicare cuts" line).

“Ron Barber thinks 15 unelected bureaucrats are better suited to make healthcare decisions than nearly 50 million American seniors and their doctors,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “After slashing over $700 billion to Medicare in order to pay for ObamaCare, Barber's support for a Medicare rationing board adds insult to injury for current and future Arizona seniors.”

Barber voted against repealing the board of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats. (H.R. 5, Roll Call #126, 3/22/12)

The email, again ever so helpful, includes a link to the list of votes on that bill. And, of course, RON BARBER'S NAME IS NOT ON IT.

Because Barber was not elected to congress until June.

Hey, NRCC press folks: Pay a little more attention to the carbon-copy news releases you're sending out. Accuracy, y'know.

Martin Sepulveda, currently running for U.S. Congress in Arizona's District 9, was a bit overeager yesterday when defending our troops against some harsh language.

According to The Duffel Blog, State Senator Linda Lopez of Tucson's LD29, isn't a big fan of the troops. In an article posted Aug. 21, Lopez is quoted as saying, in an interview supposedly with Arizona Foothills Magazine, that "the troops should just go fuck themselves.”

Harsh words, particularly from someone who sits on the state's Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, and something that she should be raked over the coals for. If, you know, they were actually true. Which they were not, considering that everything posted on The Duffel Blog is satire — think of The Onion, with a completely military bent.

A few conservative blogs picked up the story and ran with it only to learn a bit later that that the story was bunk. As did Sepulveda and his Twitter account: