trailer break: ‘The Concert’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Impersonating an orchestra? An entire orchestra? This I gotta see… The Concert is now playing in the U.K.; it opens in the U.S. and Canada on July 30.
Month: July 2010
question of the day: Why is ‘Inception’ appealing to younger audiences?
An interesting tidbit from the estimated weekend box office numbers: Though Inception had an excellent opening weekend — earning around $60.4 million (the actual numbers will be in this afternoon) — it earned that from a smallish slice of the potential audience, according to the Los Angeles Times: The highest-ever opening for a film not … more…
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Ark in Space”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
Saturday cute: “AT-AT Day Afternoon”
Puppy! By Patrick Boivin. (Got a photo or image that’s adorable and at least vaguely pop-culture related? Found such a photo online? Send a link or an image, and I might post it!)
the Pandorica opens (again)…
Some of us already know what’s in the Pandorica. For everyone else Doctor Who: “The Pandorica Opens” debuts on BBC America tonight at 9pm Eastern. After it airs, hop over here for a spoileriffic discussion of the episode. More classic Doctor Who blogging coming this weekend for everyone else suffering from Doctor Who withdrawal. I … more…
porn for women; Edward Norton steps down as the Hulk (will David Tennant step up?); more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
watch it: the 7/17/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
The man in absolutely unflappable. It’s like his superpower is the ability to remain absolutely dead calm even in the face of outrageous, um, outrage. I started posting Obama’s weekly addresses because I thought they were an interesting step into the Internet age for communication between our leaders and our populace. I saw them as … more…
question of the weekend: What other Web sites do you read regularly?
As I attempt to figure out just what I can do to keep all of you already here coming back for more while, at the same time, bringing in lots and lots of new readers — this is a necessity, I’m afraid — I thought it might be instructive to hear from you what else … more…
not my best day ever
Users at Facebook who try to click through to posts at FlickFilosopher.com are suddenly encountering this message: Of course there is absolutely nothing here that constitutes abuse by Facebook’s standards, or by any other. Looks like the problem may be with bit.ly, the URL shortener, which is used by Twiterfeed, which automatically posts links to … more…
Friday night fortune cookie: Willy Wonka says…
“Invention is 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation, and 2 percent butterscotch ripple.”
