must reads: “The Real Scare Is Not Being Scary”
Brooks Barnes at The New York Times looks at how scaring folks at Halloween is vexing amusement-park designers… because we’re getting more and more desensitized by outrageous horror movies…
Year: 2011
cute animal videos: Nakke the African gray parrot speaks and sings (in Finnish)
Nakke sings a children’s song, whistles the theme from The Bridge on the River Kwai, and does a little dance…
Doctor Who thing of the day: new Tennant’s Timepieces T-shirt, on sale today only
rtofirefly, who has given us some very cool T-shirts this year, is back with another…
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas (trailer)
It’s like every cherished holiday movie wrapped in one festive fantasy package.
question of the day: Should an actor keep his or her age a secret?
Does revealing ages work only if everyone reveals his or her age?
London photo of the day: Croydon really is quite ugly
The architectural style that predominates in Croydon could be called Early Modern Miserable.
retro ad: 1980s Klondike Bar commercial with Gary Coleman and William Shakespeare
In honor of the release of Anonymous, here’s a slightly less outrageous theory about William Shakespeare…
Anonymous (review)
A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. It is a fusty nut with no kernel. It speaks an infinite deal of nothing.
Doctor Who thing of the day: the “Max Headroom” pirate broadcast
One of the strangest incidents in American broadcasting history has a Doctor Who connection…
Puss in Boots (trailer)
I think I like Antonio Banderas best as a small animated swashbuckling cat.
