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Month: May 2013

how to be an 11-year-old girl (Broken trailer)

Wed, May 15, 2013
1 comment

Spoiler: Being an 11-year-old girl sucks, and it’s mostly not fun, and it’s awful, and it sucks. Until it’s wonderful.

| 1 Comment
wisteria cottage

London photo of the day: I could live here

Tue, May 14, 2013
11 comments

Wisteria-covered cottage in Richmond…

| 11 Comments

women’s bodies as public property (on Angelina Jolie’s medical care)

Tue, May 14, 2013
35 comments

Because celebrity, women’s body issues, women’s health and health care all exist as public phenomena.

| 35 Comments

50th-anniv Doctor Who episode set to air Nov 23

Tue, May 14, 2013
17 comments

I’d say I called this, but it’s such an obvious choice to air that episode that it hardly required any great prognosticatory skills.

| 17 Comments

Doctor Who thing: US DVD customers get early peek at “The Name of the Doctor”

Tue, May 14, 2013
7 comments

And yet I can’t seem to get advanced access to the episodes…

| 7 Comments

sad is happy for deep people (The English Teacher trailer)

Tue, May 14, 2013
2 comments

Looks like Waiting for Guffman except without even the delusion of hope.

| 2 Comments
We found King Richard III

London photo of the day: cashing in on the dead king

Tue, May 14, 2013
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Love this ad, spotted on the side of a London bus this evening…

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Doctor Who thing: “The Name of the Doctor” prequel minisode

Mon, May 13, 2013
28 comments

There are a lot of promises implied and outright made here — We’re going to learn all the Doctor’s secrets! — that it will be almost impossible for Moffat to satisfy.

| 28 Comments

lost in space (Gravity trailer)

Mon, May 13, 2013
10 comments

Oh my god. This makes an icy black hole in the pit of my stomach.

| 10 Comments

what one sequel would you erase from cinematic history? (QOTW)

Mon, May 13, 2013
101 comments

And why?

| 101 Comments
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