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Month: September 2010

Chilean mine disaster: the movie; Justin Bieber goes to Hollywood; Muppets online; more: leftover links

Sat, Sep 18, 2010
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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…

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question of the weekend: Why are there no male muses?

Sat, Sep 18, 2010
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The notion of women inspiring men to make art seems ‘normal,’ but the converse — men inspiring women to make art — is just about unheard of…

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Friday night fortune cookie: Andy Dufresne says…

Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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“Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.”

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watch it: “Happy Inside” (the Ikea 100 cats commercial)

Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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One hundred cats roam the Ikea store in Wembley, England, in one of the most effective ads for anything I’ve ever seen.

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Easy A (review)

Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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The secret is out: Hollywood knows how to make movies about authentic female human beings. It just chooses not to do so 97 percent of the time.

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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: “Alternate Empire” Episode 2

Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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The next installment in a fan film that’s also a crossover with the Star Wars universe…

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screencap Friday: what the flick? #141 — now with prizes!

Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a TV show on DVD. Guess the TV show — you don’t need to guess the episode, just the show.

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trailer break: ‘Waiting for ‘Superman’’

Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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Education in the United States sucks. But worrying about it is left to lefty progressive documentary filmmakers in niche arthouse films. WTF?

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question of the day: On October 30, will you attend Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity or Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive?

Fri, Sep 17, 2010
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As Colbert often says, We’re at war: pick a side. I hope the DC police are ready for this.

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watch it: 1960s Newport cigarette commercial

Thu, Sep 16, 2010
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Ah, no! The happy beach smokers are jumping out of the TV!

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