watch it: “Cosmic Journeys: What an Astronaut’s Camera Sees”
I so want to see this view — shot by NASA astronauts of the Earth from orbit — with my own eyes…
Month: June 2011
VS Naipaul isn’t just a sexist pig, he’s blindered to his own privilege
Gotta love what author V.S. Naipaul thinks of women writers: they’re none of them his equal because of their “narrow” perspective…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Steven Moffat rec.arts.drwho posts from 1995-6 shows he’s been thinking about “A Good Man Goes to War” for a long time
In January 1995 and April 1996, Steven Moffat posted some, er, interesting things to rec.arts.drwho…
Fright Night (trailer) (finally with some David Tennant!)
Yeah, I know this is mostly the same as the trailer I posted a few weeks back… but now there’s a few glimpses of David Tennant, so it is most important to get this in front of your eyeballs.
question of the day: If you were going to invent a new Oscar category à la the MTV Movie Awards, what would it be, and who or what would be the definitive example of a winner?
Perhaps the best thing about the MTV Movie Awards is its cheeky categories: Best Kiss, Best Fight, Best Villain. The Oscars could use a few fun categories to enliven its broadcast each year…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “A Good Man Goes to War”
I am not convinced that everything we see here is totally kosher or, you know, real. There’s a whole lotta stuff going on here that is about names meaning different things, and things not needing names because it’s completely obvious what they are, or things appearing to be one thing and turning out to be something else entirely.
question of the weekend: If you could do a Freaky Friday switcheroo with anyone, who would it be?
It could be a real person — your first grade teacher, a glamorous movie star or famous athlete, maybe your own sibling — or it could be a hypothetical someone: perhaps a person doing a job you’d love to try, for instance…
Friday night fortune cookie: Miles Raymond says…
“I’m so insignificant I can’t even kill myself. Half my life is over and I have nothing to show for it. Nothing. I am thumbprint on the window of a skyscraper. I’m a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea with a million tons of raw sewage.”
oh, WTF: “sexy” ‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ poster misses the fucking point entirely
You know, there’s a reason why the original, untranslated title of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is The Men Who Hate Women…
in which I confound the corporate PR world with my refusal to be mainstream media
So I heard, from a fellow critic here in London, about a screening of a film I’d like to see, being run by a PR agency I haven’t yet been in touch with. I acquire said agency’s contact info and shoot off an email asking if I might attend. The reply…
