deep thought (re YouTube)
YouTube would make everyone’s lives much more pleasant if it allowed users to turn off autoplay…
Month: September 2010
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: TARDIS Time Machine for Mac
The inevitable has happened: Some kid named Max crammed a 1TB hard drive into a TARDIS toy for a proper Time Machine for his Mac…
Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D (review)
Paul W.S. Anderson loves him some style without style, texture without substance: this is all white noise, visual static to make the movie pop more in 3D.
trailer break: ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’
This looks fun. I’m glad Woody Allen escaped to Europe: it seems to have done wonders for his creativity.
question of the day: What actresses should play Shakespeare’s great male characters?
Woo-hoo! Helen Mirren is going to play Prospero — the wizard has been redubbed Prospera — for a new film adaptation of The Tempest from director Julie Taymor…
retro trailer: ‘Wall Street’
Remember when wrecking companies and trading on inside information was merely cool, instead of something that gets a CEO bailed out by the federal government using taxpayer money? Good times, good times.
my reads: ‘In the Shadow of No Towers’ by Art Spiegelman
I figured this weekend would be a good time to finally read this book. Because it is indeed ironic and infuriating that something that no longer exists as a physical thing can continue to cast such long, solid, dark shadows.
Martin Freeman is not Bilbo; Apple takes over Twitter; ‘The Dark Tower’ is a go; 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…
so, the site was down for something like eight hours…
…but this time it wasn’t anything I accidentally did, or comment spammers overwhelming my server.
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “The Suitcase”
Peggy may be something of an anomaly in the 1960s, but she feels like today’s everywoman — and maybe even today’s everyperson, male or female — who feels a discrepancy between what she really wants and what she’s pressured by society to think she wants.
