‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: make your own TARDIS birdfeeder
It’s easy! Just go pour all the milk out of that half-gallon carton in the fridge and get started. The Blue Peter Web site has full instructions…
Month: January 2011
who is Ebert protege Ignatiy Vishnevetsky?; Hollywood hates Netflix; the FCC delivers smackdowns to broadcasting’s old guard; more: leftover links
Plus: celebs run afoul of Twitter; is True Grit going to the Oscars?; Hurley’s lotto numbers come up (almost); more…
Saturday cute: old-fashioned joystick for your newfangled iPad
This could make Ms Pac-Man even more of a flashback to a seventh-grade Saturday night at the roller rink than it already is…
question of the weekend: What one possession do you treasure above all else?
Imagine that all the usual important stuff — your children, your pets, family photos, important papers, and the like — is accounted for. That leaves you to pick the one thing you love selfishly just for itself…
Friday night fortune cookie: Lloyd Dobler says…
“If you start out depressed everything’s kind of a pleasant surprise.”
what am I keeping? my good china
One of the things that I absolutely could not bear to part with is the set of china I bought years ago: I hardly ever used it, but somehow it feels like it defines me, or at least a part of me…
Country Strong (review)
There’s solid workmanship and an authentic emotional muscle in this movie. I was startled to find myself overwhelmed, eventually, by its ragged charms and its rough-edged vision of female power and pain.
2011’s films ranked
I rank 2011’s new theatrical releases on the fly…
Season of the Witch (review)
The screenplay is like a transcription of a Dungeons and Dragons session: better hope you make a high saving throw during the wolf attack in Wormwood Forest! The “performances” are like clueless imitations of Monty Python by actors who don’t understand comedy. And those are its good points.
Disqus is down…
…and it’s not anything I have any control over…
