from Twitter: life as a dork
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London photo: the UK’s “Sistine Chapel”
Just one view of the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
Where Are the Women? Pixels
There are movies that treat women as if they’re trophies for men. And then there’s this movie, in which a woman is an actual trophy awarded to a man.
Pixels movie review: blue screen of death (please)
Adam Sandler imagines himself as the savior of the planet. And then it gets even more puffed up with arrogance and all manner of masturbatory fantasy.
“Benedict Cumberbatch urges fans not to take photos during Hamlet play”
This is why we can’t have nice things.
cool things you guys are up to: publishing short fantasy fiction
Reader bronxbee has a wonderful piece of urban fantasy in a new short-fiction anthology… [This post is not behind the paywall.]
London photo: outside the night bus
I saw this outside the night bus during my most recent nocturnal sojourn: an upside-down car in the middle of the road.
Harbinger Down movie rating: red light
This “homage” to 80s sci-fi/horror is a cheerless amalgam of The Thing and Alien populated by improbable characters behaving in unlikely ways.
52 Tuesdays movie rating: green light
Compassionate Australian drama about a teenaged girl’s sexual awakening that is complicated by her mother’s transgender transition to manhood.
“does the dog die in that movie?”
As if I’d spoil such a thing! But there’s a website that will…
