fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Feb 09-15 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
Anderson Cooper
Benedict Cumberbatch outed as a nerd! (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Google is guessing at the sexual orientation of celebs — is this weird?
Google isn’t revealing any secrets, it’s just summarizing the conversation about a celebrity. But why suddenly make a special point of summarizing so succinctly about this particular aspect of a person’s life?
Sam Worthington surprised by ‘Titans’ sequel; book banning makes a comeback in the U.S.; early ‘Siskel & Ebert’ now watchable online; more: leftover links
Also: Billy Ray Cyrus wishes Hannah Montana had never happened; thoughtless tweeting brings down Nir Rosen; J.K. Rowling ticked at unauthorized biopic; more…
what he said: Glenn Greenwald at Salon…
…about the kerfuffle CNN’s Anderson Cooper caused among (some) U.S. media watchers after he called Egyptian politicians liars…
war is good for business
The revolution will, in fact, not only be televised, it’ll be packaged for advertisers and marketers. Try the new Baharat Flavored Doritos!
rest easy, everyone…
…Kirk Cameron assures us on CNN that dead birds falling out of the sky does not mean the end of the world is nigh…
female gazing at: Anderson Cooper
For bronxbee, who noted as we were watching CNN’s New Year’s Eve countdown that she considers Anderson Cooper a fox…
question of the day: Was Universal right to cut the gay joke from its trailer for ‘The Dilemma’?
I don’t want comedians not to be offensive: I want them not to be stupid when they give offense. I want them to give offense, if that’s what they’re going to do, for a reason. Universal wouldn’t have had to cut the joke if it were defensible in any way. But it isn’t.
deep thought (re Tyler Clementi and Anderson Cooper)
Imagine the power of Anderson Cooper opening his nightly CNN newscast like this: ‘I’m proud to say that I am a gay man, and so I have a personal appreciation of the hell that Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi went through before he committed suicide.’
