Friday night fortune cookie: Brisco County Jr. says…
“Never look too deep into the mind of a lawyer.”
Year: 2010
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: I *knew* the TARDIS used to be smaller…
Smaller on the outside, I mean. It’s been driving me crazy since the beginning of the new show, seeing how much the TARDIS towers over the Doctor… which it didn’t used to do, I thought. And now I know that it’s not my imagination…
watch it: “Simon’s Cat ‘TV Dinner’”
Hmmm, it is getting to be dinnertime for humans, too…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #153
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. And if you assume it’s something I’ve said I’m watching or said I like, you’re not necessarily on the right track.
the IMDB got smart…
…and has turned off user ratings for films until they’re actually released. ’Bout time.
to give or to keep: ‘Star Wars’ cookie and pancake molds
Kitchen outfitter Williams-Sonoma has gone totally geeky this year with its news line of Star Wars cooking gadgets…
trailer break: ‘Chatroom’
It’s Facebook: The Faux J-Horror Teen Thriller! Don’t go on the Net alone!
Chatroom opens in the U.K. on December 22; no U.S. or Canadian release date has been announced.
question of the day: If you were filthy rich, how would financially support the arts?
I’d start a foundation to support education in arts appreciation from elementary school onward, so that even little kids begin to learn why the arts are vital to our culture, and how to interpret and understand all kinds of art. And I’d be a patron of artists with promise, from filmmakers and writers to musicians and painters. I’d be such a generous millionaire, if only I had the opportunity…
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (review)
More like Voyage of the Yawn Treader, actually. Little kids will surely find this collection of fantastical geegaws enthralling — look, a talking mouse! hey, a minotaur! — but as a grownup fan of the magical and the mysterious, I was almost totally bored by this third, and perhaps most tryingly pious, installment in C.S. Lewis’s fanciful spin on Christian mythology.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: four decades of police box modifications
Well, not modifications of actual police boxes, but modifications of the police-box props that have played the TARDIS. Complete with way more information than anybody else but us would ever need about the TARDIS props…
