Saturday cute: Robocop on a unicorn
Apparently I’ve been missing out for years on one of the greatest Internet memes in the history of, erm, the Internet…
Year: 2011
question of the weekend: What is your favorite ice cream?
Warm weather is upon us, and now come the urgent decisions of our time: What flavor of ice cream to choose? If you get the multi-scoop option, do you go for all the same flavor, or do you break it up? Cone or cup?
Friday night fortune cookie: Lord Arthur Goring says…
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: when ‘Peanuts’ meets ‘Doctor Who’
Snoopy really does make the cutest Dalek ever…
Rubber (review)
A tire develops sentience. And independent mobility. Be afraid. Because it can also kill you with its mind. Yes, it has a mind. And it enjoys killing you with its mind. Be also amused, in a deeply weird, weirdly deep sort of way…
trailer break: ‘The Conspirator’
A national tragedy? Military tribunals for those accused of civilian crimes? Throwing away the Constutition when it’s convenient? Is this 1865 or 2001?
question of the day: Has there ever been — and can there ever be — a positive depiction in movies or on TV of an accountant or tax auditor?
To most Americans, “April 15” has a ring of terror to it. So is it any wonder that in American movies and TV it’s almost impossible to find positive depictions of people who deal with high finance, or — heaven forfend — of an IRS auditor…
because when you shine a line on cockroaches, they scurry back to their dark corners (possibly NSFW)
Must to share a truly enlightening email exchange I had today that was ostensibly about my review of Your Highness, but was really about so much more…
journalmalism has its price: young Americans now think torture is okay (but only when Americans do it)
A new study by the Red Cross on American attitudes toward torture is highly revealing, hugely terrifying, and very, very depressing…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: on the Doctor’s love of gingers
Donna. Mel. Amy. Turlough. What’s with all the redheads on the TARDIS? Greig Byrne at the Doctor Who zine Kasterborous thinks he knows why the Doctor appears to favor companions of the ginger persuasion…
