the death and life of my hard drive
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have seen the posts about the death of my hard drive. It all began yesterday morning…
trailer break: ‘John Carpenter’s The Ward’
It’s just like Shutter Island, except with girls in the shower!
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘The Narnia Code’
It doesn’t explain why the books appeal to readers beyond those with a scholarly interest in medieval symbolism. But hey! If ordinary moviegoers and readers can be fooled into thinking this is gonna be like The DaVinci Code but more Jesus-y, who are we to quibble?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘Torchwood’ season 4 details
The ten-part arc is now called “Miracle Day”… but the miracle is of a dark sort…
question of the day: Will heated political rhetoric cool down in the wake of the Tucson shootings?
We have turned what should be serious discourse about the state of the nation and our culture into a sort of circus sideshow more concerned with entertaining audiences than with addressing the many problems we face. Can this ever change?
deep thought (re connectivity)
A woman dependent upon the Internet access of others cannot truly be free.
trailer break: ‘Limitless’
I knew it! Bradley Cooper is not a normal human being: he’s super-duper posthuman awesome. No mere frail mortal human could possibly look like that.
what am I keeping? my LCD flatscreen and my desk…
One was much too expensive to bear investing in again, and the other was such a crazy bargain that it has hopelessly endeared it to me…
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Award winners
Lots of love for The Social Network, Black Swan, and The Kids Are All Right…
question of the day: Is Patton Oswalt right? Does geek culture have to die?
Oswalt is being tongue in cheek, but he’s also being serious: Pop culture has become all self-references, snake-eating-its-tail meta commentary on our own dorkiness. Could the only way to refresh pop culture — as well as the nerd love that worships it — be to destroy it all and start fresh?
