watch it: “Juju’s message to Mubarak”
See? Eight-year-olds have good solutions to geopolitical problems. Let’s put Juju in charge and see if the world doesn’t get better quickly. Plus, there’d be more cookies for everyone, too.
Month: January 2011
Razzie nominations are in!
Oh, the glorious awfulness!
trailer break: ‘Drive Angry’
“Hell already is walking the earth.” Yes, it’s Nicolas Cage as Grandpa Action Hero. From hell. In 3D.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor saves the British National Television Awards
Ever have those nightmares when you oversleep and miss an important test or an airplane or something? Well, the Doctor — in a new scene written by Steven Moffat — comes to the rescue of National Television Awards host Dermot O’Leary, when he actually does oversleep and miss his big job…
watch Al Jazeera live online
If you want to see what’s really going on in the Middle East, you want to watch Al Jazeera. Unfortunately, the vast majority of cable companies in the U.S. do not carry the channel…
question of the day: What movie has made you angriest, and why?
PopWatch wonders whether you saw The Rite this weekend, and if it made you mad. (I wonder why anyone would expect anything at all from a January thriller, but that’s just me.) Which makes me think about the movies that have good cause to make us angry…
what you don’t understand about Twitter; Facebook defriends Roger Ebert; Golden Globes in big trouble; more: leftover links
Plus: Katie Holmes smeared by mean ol’ gossip rags; Syfy picks up Web series The Mercury Men; the Internet stole Obama’s State of the Union address; more…
Saturday cute: “No One Wants To Play Sega With Harrison Ford”
Detail from “No One Wants To Play Sega With Harrison Ford” by Brandon Bird…
question of the weekend: How are your reading habits changing with the advent of ebooks and social media?
I’m certainly giving my Kindle a workout, and expect that I will read more classic novels this year than I have recently, because it’s so easy to find and download good e-versions of them… and because I’m feeling a little guilty about selling and giving away so many books…
Friday night fortune cookie: Donnie Darko says…
“You know what? No one ever knows what they want to be when they grow up.”
