question of the weekend: How much “soul-searching” is there to be done over the Penn State sex abuse outrage?
I was startled to see this headline on a CBS News story this morning: “Obama: ‘Soul-searching’ from Penn State scandal”…
London photo of the day: brain sculpture
If this isn’t meant to be a representation of the neural and/or circulatory structure of the human brain, then I don’t know what it is. (In Greenwich.)
Friday night fortune cookie: Hard Harry says…
“Feeling screwed up at a screwed up time in a screwed up place does not necessarily make you screwed up.”
on the impossibility of a female gaze: Richard Corliss on ‘Immortals’
All those buff, nearly naked, totally gorgeous guys in Immortals? Totally gay!
cute animal video: “Bully cat stuffs cat in box”
What do we think? Is the gray cat unfairly villified as a bully here?
Doctor Who thing of the day: Tom Baker scarf necklace
A Doctor Who scarf for people who don’t want a scarf. No, really…
My Week with Marilyn (trailer)
Dare I hope that this will be a movie about a real woman, and not about an imaginary mirage of a fantasy of a woman?
question of the day: What movies best honor the work and sacrifices of soldiers?
This can be a toughie, because matters of war are always laden with political and moral issues apart from the actual work soldiers do… and often do against their own principals.
it’s Nigel Tufnel Day: 11/11/11
Today goes to eleven in all the ways that it can, and so it must be Nigel Tufnel Day. Here are some things you can do to honor Nigel on his day…
London photo of the day: mysterious car on mysterious street
Wait by the streetlamp, and when you see the shade go in the upstairs window, get in the car and drive away…
