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Month: April 2013

Cinema du Sanity: pop culture for reasonable people

Tue, Apr 16, 2013
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Let me know what you think. If enough people like it, maybe I’ll do this as a weekly thing…

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Doctor Who thing: nerd songstery “Through Time”

Tue, Apr 16, 2013
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A geek girl’s fantasy made manifest…

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the odds are in our favor (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire trailer)

Tue, Apr 16, 2013
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I hope the film is as powerful as the trailer is making it look.

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Scottish Borders photo of the day: doorway to dreamland

Tue, Apr 16, 2013
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The crazy fantasy castle of Abbotsford, former home of writer Walter Scott, through the door of a greenhouse in the gardens.

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is the BBC just plain chickenshit… or not?

Mon, Apr 15, 2013
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It’s okay to endanger lives to get a story about North Korea, but not okay to play “DIng Dong the Witch Is Dead” on the radio because someone’s fee-fees might be hurt. What the actual fuck, BBC?

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Doctor Who thing: the Doctor lands in Oz

Mon, Apr 15, 2013
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Oops.

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the movie I’m most psyched for this summer (Before Midnight trailer)

Mon, Apr 15, 2013
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I hope Richard Linklater revists Jesse and Celine every nine years…

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do you prefer science fiction or fantasy? and why? (QOTW)

Mon, Apr 15, 2013
56 comments

Given the option to choose between two books or movies that I knew nothing else about except their genre, I’d probably choose the science fiction one…

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Scottish Borders photo of the day: modes of transport

Mon, Apr 15, 2013
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How to get around the rugged borderlands…

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Doctor Who blogging: “Cold War”

Mon, Apr 15, 2013
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Alien on the Red October… though actually, this episode reminded me most of the Peter Davison-era Doctor Who story “Warriors of the Deep.”

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