If only The Boxtrolls was this epic… (My review is here.)
Month: September 2014
London photos: John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids book bench
Charity venture Books about Town placed 50 benches in the shape of giant books and painted to commemorate all sorts of great British writers around London this summer. They’ve just come off display, and will be auctioned off on October 7th. See Books about Town for more info.
This is the bench dedicated to John Wyndham’s novel The Day of the Triffids. The back:
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A closeup of a section on the back:
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A Walk Among the Tombstones movie review: only mostly dead
Liam Neeson’s good performance only just elevates the general seen-it-before-ness, including a risible appropriation of women’s pain for men’s redemption.
The Equalizer movie review: recycled junk
Yet another artifact of the long stagnation of Hollywood, which has been remaking the same movies over and over and over again for the past 30 years.
London photos: George Orwell’s 1984 book bench
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Charity venture Books about Town placed 50 benches in the shape of giant books and painted to commemorate all sorts of great British writers around London this summer. They’ve just come off display, and will be auctioned off on October 7th. See Books about Town for more info.
This is the bench dedicated to George Orwell’s novel 1984. The back:
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A closeup of a section on the back:
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And a side view, which gives the real book effect:
a new episode of the Doctor Puppet!
So cute it hurts.
Doctor Who blogging: “Time Heist”
I really like this episode, and I’m totally in love with They Who Should Be Companions, Saibra and Psi.
London photos: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway book bench
Charity venture Books about Town placed 50 benches in the shape of giant books and painted to commemorate all sorts of great British writers around London this summer. They’ve just come off display, and will be auctioned off on October 7th. See Books about Town for more info.
Here’s the bench dedicated to Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway. A closeup of one section:
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And this is the back:
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London photos: P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster book bench
Charity venture Books about Town placed 50 benches in the shape of giant books and painted to commemorate all sorts of great British writers around London this summer. They’ve just come off display, and will be auctioned off on October 7th. See Books about Town for more info.
Here’s the bench dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories. A closeup of one section:
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And this is the back:
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The Riot Club movie review: bad boys never lose
Hooray for a good old-fashioned rich-bastard bashing. But they get the last laugh: These guys are the future masters of the universe. Hooray.
