Oblivion movie review: Jetsons parody or Ikea commercial?
Postcard-pretty, unusual for a science fiction flick, but shockingly derivative.
Ikea
an Animaniacs burlesque show? (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Would you buy a TV from Ikea?
Soon, Ikea will be your one-stop shop for candles, meatballs, and home electronics. The only thing that gives me pause about Uppleva is the built-in blu-ray player. What if you want to upgrade?
London photo of the day: tragedy at Ikea
Tragedy struck at the Ikea store in Croydon earlier today when shopper MaryAnn Johanson was forced to leave the Purley Way retail park entirely bereft of Swedish meatballs…
question of the weekend: What are your most loved and most hated fonts?
My most hated font is one so basic and so ubiquitous that most people don’t even notice it: Times New Roman. I hate how bland and conserative it is.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie review: let the spy one in
Why does no one ever intone at me and tell me to go to Budapest and wear polyester and smoke cigarettes and get all espionagey, dammit?
what am I keeping? my good china
One of the things that I absolutely could not bear to part with is the set of china I bought years ago: I hardly ever used it, but somehow it feels like it defines me, or at least a part of me…
watch it: “Happy Inside” (the Ikea 100 cats commercial)
One hundred cats roam the Ikea store in Wembley, England, in one of the most effective ads for anything I’ve ever seen.
Up in the Air movie review: you are not your frequent-flyer miles
There is a thrill of recognition to *Up in the Air* — and a horror of recognition, too…
Wall-E movie review: soul of the machine
Wall-E is practically religion. It’s spiritual in the secular sense, asking us to contemplate the great things we are capable of, and how we so frequently fail to even try to live up to that potential.
