fun fact: Sid Caesar was television’s killer app
If you didn’t want to be left out of what everyone else was talking about — like Caesar’s show — you had to have a TV.
Month: February 2014
what’s your favorite word that we use today with a different meaning than it used to have?
Apart from the evolution of geek, I kind of love how friend has become a verb…
Amsterdam photo of the day: where to go to get your violin made
To the violin maker’s shop, of course.
is Russell Crowe’s Noah a “crazy, irrational, religious nut”?
Paramount is hoping to sell Darren Aronofsky’s Noah to both secular and religious audiences. This’ll be fun to watch…
Doctor Who thing: some valentines from the Doctor (and one from Amy)
A sweet little something(s) to make Valentine’s Day more tolerable…
The Love Punch trailer: dirty rotten divorcés
Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson snarking together for the first time is more than enough to intrigue me.
is there anything better than a man in uniform?
How about three men in uniform?
The Monuments Men review: saving private collections (and public art)
As jaunty as Jean Dujardin’s beret, but in a sincere, old-fashioned kind of way. It could almost have been rediscovered from the 1940s…
behold the ugliest, most cynical geek glom-on ever
Looks like someone found an original set of Star Wars bedsheets in a thrift shop…
