crappy TV is a universal human constant (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Oscar Nominated Live-Action Shorts (85th Academy Awards) (review)
My favorite of the lot is the French-Belgian “Death of a Shadow,” a steampunkish science fantasy…
Amour (review)
There have been other stories about longstanding love and the devotion it inspires, but none with quite the wallop of this one…
Doctor Who thing of the day: 11 Doctors and the TARDIS, in crochet
Allison Hoffman of Crafty Is Cool really captured their personalities… in yarn!
Stand Up Guys (trailer)
It’s Oldfellas. Ever since I got out of the nursing home, I wanted to go back to being a gangster.
question of the day: What’s the most inexplicable appearance by a big star in a crappy movie?
Inspired by Movie 43, which distinguishes itself in this regard merely by the sheer number of incomprehensible movie-star appearances in a single film…
London photo of the day: Rosie the Riveter for a new generation
Sticker graffiti near Charing Cross…
you won’t be able to unsee this horrifying and yet mesmerizing 1980s Hobbit book art (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Doctor Who thing of the day: another lovely Doctor Who wedding (but it’s pretend)
Alas, this appears not to be a real wedding, just a sort of mock up by geek wedding planners and photographers Candice Benjamin and Kiera Faye. Still, it’s nice:
House of Cards (trailer)
Netflix will release all 13 episodes of this new series on Friday.
