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Month: January 2012

watch it: “Nokia ringtone during concert of classical music”

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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Gotta love how violinist Lukáš Kmiť deals with an interruption from a ringing cell phone.

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Kermit and Miss Piggy, now officially power couple Kermiggy

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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I was flabbergasted to realize that for all the many years — nay, decades — that Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy have been the on-again, off-again power couple of our time, no one has ever given them a power-couple nickname…

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The Grey movie review: snow men

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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There is a lot of real-life brutal shit on display, intense facing-your-mortality stuff, and it is anything but pretty…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: what if the Doctors were cats?

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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You love kittehs. You love Doctor Who. You’ll love Doctor Mew, with the Doctors as cats…

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fuck you, Yahoo! Screen

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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Welcome to 2012, where women like me are interested mainly in love advice and cooking tips, according to the email I received from Yahoo! Screen today…

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The Vow (trailer)

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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Not based, surprisingly, on a Nicolas Sparks novel. It only wishes it were…

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question of the day: What is the most egregious snub among the Oscar nominations for 2011’s films?

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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Michael Fassbender? Tilda Swinton? Michael Shannon? Elizabeth Olsen? But Jonah Hill gets a nom… *sigh*

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London photo of the day: kung hei fat choy

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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Happy Chinese New Year from London’s Chinatown.

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watch it: “Astronomical by Mishka Henner”

Wed, Jan 25, 2012
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Space is big. Really big. You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space…

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Sherlock blogging: “The Reichenbach Fall”

Tue, Jan 24, 2012
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There are a lot of ways in which this was 90 brilliant minutes of television drama, but the first way in which it’s brilliant is the opening moments…

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