what the frak! ‘Caprica’ cancelled!
Bastards. Frak them. If Syfy really believed in the show, they’d have promoted it better, harder, more. But they’d rather just air crap like ‘professional’ ‘wrestling’ and reality junk about ghost hunters.
Mad Men
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “Tomorrowland”
Ah, so now we get to wait and wonder how all the little houses of cards built up over this season — and starting to teeter in this last episode — will collapse next season.
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “Blowing Smoke”
There’s a time for beans, and there’s a time for ketchup. And there’s a time to wonder just why the hell the Indian lady on the Land o’ Lakes butter box is caught in an infinite recursion…
Stephen Fry is Mycroft Holmes; Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy; Armie Hammer is NOT the Winklevi (but he kinda is); more: leftover links
Plus, Avatar sex toys, Cory Doctorow on the real cost of free, how the rich buy journalists, and more.
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “Chinese Wall”
There really is no middle ground for Don when it comes to women, is there? Either they’re invisible to him, functional furniture — like poor Miss Blankenship was — or he’s on top of them because they smiled sweetly at him. Sheesh.
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “Hands and Knees”
Is SDCP teetering on the edge of dissolution? It sure seems that way after Roger’s lie about Lucky Strike and after Pete’s lie about North American Aviation… oh, and all of Don’s lies about everything.
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “The Beautiful Girls”
What a fantastic exploration of all the ways women worked to make themselves heard in a time when they were ignored and dismissed and expected to be nothing but pretty and silent. What a beautifully subtle and beautifully pointed episode.
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “The Summer Man”
Is Don suddenly getting introspective? Maybe he really will end up running off to Haight-Asbury eventually (as I speculated, only half jokingly, a while back) and writing a novel or something.
Chilean mine disaster: the movie; Justin Bieber goes to Hollywood; Muppets online; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “The Suitcase”
Peggy may be something of an anomaly in the 1960s, but she feels like today’s everywoman — and maybe even today’s everyperson, male or female — who feels a discrepancy between what she really wants and what she’s pressured by society to think she wants.
