London photo of the day: sombreros on the stairs
Sombreros are generally entirely optional on British Rail trains and in the stations, to my knowledge.
Year: 2012
meta retro ad: Ferris Bueller is back!
Ferris sold out, and is totally into isms these days, with consumerism right at the top of the list. That’s why he’s appearing in this teaser for a Super Bowl ad.
retro ad: 1970s Battleship commercial
The commercial the upcoming movie is based on. Liam Neeson plays the guy who says, “You sank my battleship!”
Doctor Who thing of the day: man built a TARDIS for his wife because she said she fancied one
This, my friends, is true love.
Safe House (trailer)
Generic action movie is generic.
question of the day: Is “the gaze” (male or female) disempowering for the gazee?
Twilight has ruined vampires, and it’s all women’s fault, doncha know, with our gazing at Edward Cullen…
London photo of the day: all the news, fit and unfit
Rack of newspapers in a Sainsbury’s grocery store.
watch it: “Nokia ringtone during concert of classical music”
Gotta love how violinist Lukáš Kmiť deals with an interruption from a ringing cell phone.
Kermit and Miss Piggy, now officially power couple Kermiggy
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…
The Grey movie review: snow men
There is a lot of real-life brutal shit on display, intense facing-your-mortality stuff, and it is anything but pretty…
