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I’ve always thought Doctor Who was sweet, but these folks are serious about that. From Cake Wrecks (from its Sunday not-wrecky-cakes alterna-blogging): Many many many people have had similar ideas. Another TARDIS cake: And another: And another: And another: Crazy. (Thanks to bronxbee for the Cake Wrecks link. If you stumble across a cool Doctor … more…
…and on Newsweek’s fawning profile of Huffington, which declares that “The Huffington Post may have figured out the future of journalism.” And that future — though Newsweek will not say it, and barely even acknowledges this fact — is that journalism will be the purview of the idle rich, and not a field in which … more…
Who is Don Draper? That has been the question since the beginning, hasn’t it? And “Don Draper” has been selling the image of “Don Draper” since the beginning. Yet now, all of a sudden, when the selling of Don Draper has to be more overt than it ever has been, not just to those people … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Okay, so not the fun movie about PTSD we’ve been waiting for. Though surely it’s only a matter of time before Hollywood gives us that. Perhaps that’ll be the Iraq war movie people will go see. People used to not mind being depressed or provoked or both … more…
Are you familiar with the blog Bad Astronomy? It’s where, in part, astronomer Phil Plait dissects how TV and film get the science wrong in their science fiction, and even sometimes in their science “fact,” as when he rips apart alien-abduction and moon-landing-hoax “documentaries.” Now, as Web Newser reports (and as Plait himself posted the … more…
I’m reading people’s tweets and Facebook updates about “A Study in Pink” — awesome awesome title — and feeling like I’m going to explode with the waiting. It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die. Meanwhile, please don’t spoil in comments here. It’s unlikely I’ll even be able to see this for a day or two. Also … more…
I’m sure the rush for seats is always a dangerous game, but seriously? (via 10News.com, a local San Diego TV station): A young man who stabbed another near the eye with a pen Saturday at the Comic-Con convention at the San Diego Convention Center was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, police … more…
Take a look back at an old trailer… I can’t wait to see Steven Moffat’s new Sherlock Holmes adaptation — the first episode is called “A Study in Pink” *snort* — which debuted tonight on BBC One. While I wait, here’s look at a 1959 Hammer film — a more faithful adaptation, it seems — … more…
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
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