May 2013
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“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to...”
– Philip K. Dick (via rabbrakha)
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Lost Girl: Season 1, Episode 5, Dead Lucky →
Lost Girl 01.05 review: Dead Lucky. Now with less good fortune!
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Theme Songs and Title Sequences: True Blood
I break down the #TrueBlood title sequence by @digitalkitchen True Bloodhas devolved from a delicious, mystery-driven, Southern Gothic evisceration of societal mores to a lukewarm pool of bloody literalism. When you ditch the metaphorical drugs, religious persecution, and prejudice (obvious though they may have… View Post
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“Renowned author Dan Brown smiled, the ends of his mouth curving upwards in a...”
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Michael Deacon, “Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown” (The Telegraph)
The comment section isn’t bad, either, and maybe that tells you more about the quality of the article than my putting a quote here. (Also, I couldn’t pick just one quote. Read the freaking article, yo.)
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Things Neighbors Say
A minute ago I thought I heard my upstairs neighbor loudly proclaiming (jokingly, I think?) into the phone that “I’m going to shove her dildo up your ass.”
And that seemed normal enough.
But then about 30 seconds later she repeated it, thrice, and I realized she said “steel toe.”
“I’m going to shove her steel-toe up your ass.”
Which just leads...
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My Thoughts On This Whole Danny Brown Oral Sex... →
Almost everything wrong with society is summed up in this article, especially the following:
“if he had figured out a way to gently push the girl off him immediately without looking like he was smacking her in the face, he’s faced with attacks on his masculinity by every douchebro in the building. Yo dude, you don’t want your dick sucked, bro? Are you gay? Haha you’re gay you don’t want...
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“The morning after tastes like coffee, M. Ward, and badly fermented awesome.”
– My Still Buzzing Mind on the Day After My Birthday
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Film Crit Hulk Smash: HULK VS. STATISTICAL SCRIPT... →
OF COURSE HULK KNOWS THAT RESEARCH IS USEFUL. AND HULK’S ALWAYS CURIOUS ABOUT THE INFORMATION. BUT THAT REQUIRES THE PEOPLE GIVING YOU THAT INFORMATION TO ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND IT, TOO. AND THE PROCESS OF GIVING / TAKING NOTES IS SUCH A VITAL PART OF COLLABORATIVE STORYTELLING. IT IS THE BACKBONE OF GOOD FILMMAKING.
The whole article is gold, beginning to end. The part about why trailers...
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Music For The Morning After
May 9 has been my birthday since the beginning. People say nice things. Buy me drinks. Bring me cake.
But in the past several years, May 10th has become more meaningful.
It’s the morning I wake up and can finally process all the nice things I was so busy enjoying the day before. Gestures. Cards. Greetings that may come only once a year, but gestures that are made because there’s...
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The Universalness of Telling Stories →
“That’s the special thing about telling stories [and art], people don’t view it as a political position. It’s story, it’s characters.”
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Roger Ebert, prophet.
crocodalerock:
Sometimes I wish Roger Ebert would come back like Elijah and Moses in the book of Revelations. And he’d wander the country, blogging about how he was wrong, there was an afterlife, and it was beautiful. That Heaven and Hell and Purgatory weren’t these three different places, but actually the same place. How, when you die, you get sent to a giant, infinite movie theater that only...
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Lost Girl: Season 01, Episode 03, Oh Kappa, My... →
Editor’s note: after reviewing Lost Girl episodes 03.05-03.13, I’m starting from the top. Rather than ignore everything that’s transpired, I intend to comment how recurring events, shot selection, …
Now with more fuzzy pink sweaters!
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“Indeed, the idea of ‘winning the girl’ – of overcoming female objections or...”
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The Creepiness Question (via notemily)
Read this whole thing. Trust your gut. Talk to someone. If you are harassed, whether it ends at making you uncomfortable or escalates to physical assault, it’s always wrong, but never feel shame. It’s never your fault.
April 2013
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Lost Girl: Season 01, Episode 02, Where There's a... →
Editor’s note: after reviewing Lost Girl episodes 03.05-03.13, I’m starting from the top. Rather than ignore everything that’s transpired, I intend to comment how recurring events, shot selection, …
The Rewatch Continues! Now with more jewels and fewer heads.
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Lost Girl: Season 01, Episode 01, "It's a Fae,... →
Editor’s note: after reviewing Lost Girl episodes 03.05-03.13, I’m starting from the top. Rather than ignore everything that’s transpired, I intend to comment how recurring events, shot selection, …
Kick-starting the rewatch with more foreshadowing and face-sucking.
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Lost Girl: Season 3, Episode 13, Those Who Wander →
SPOILER ALERT I generally try to time my reviews to coincide with the American airing, but as ShowCase already aired and SyFy is not airing until next week, I’m not going to wait. Read at your own …
Feel free to ignore the spoiler alert now.
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“It’s the disconnect of being trained since birth to look a certain way, only to...”
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Emily McCombs (via interstellardiamond)
the “natural beauty” garbage is so fucking galling
it’s bullshit disingenuous rejection of responsibility for patriarchal beauty standards
it hides yet another performance standard: never let us SEE what we are doing to you
it shows contempt for effort....
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“so, let’s get metaphysical
I won’t treat you like you’re...”
– I haven’t slept in a week and a half due to this bloody head cold, and this is where my brain goes.
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Wall Street analyst David Gray crossed Atlantic to... →
robot-heart-politics:
The coverage of this story is disgusting. They keep talking about how beautiful she is, defer heavily to the stalker’s lawyer’s version of the story, and leave out a lot of critical details. The comments are beyond gross.
She moved to a completely different continent to get away from him. That’s not a mixed message.
The comments are just as bad, with plenty of people...
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Lost Girl: Season 3, Episode 13, Those Who Wander →
SPOILER ALERT I generally try to time my reviews to coincide with the American airing, but as ShowCase already aired and SyFy is not airing until next week, I’m not going to wait. Read at your own …
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“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their...”
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Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
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Can we just...
oneheartuswnt:
In 2012, Alex Morgan scored 28 goals and had 21 assists in 31 games
In 2011-2012, the US Men played 31 games. They produced a collective total of 38 goals and 29 assists.
In her first year as a starting, 90 minute player, Alex Morgan nearly beat the entire men’s national team in total goals and assists.
And who gets the TV deals?
But the men’s game is just so much...
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When I'm Sick
I go through two stages of being sick: denial, and writhing.
The denial stage is usually the first two-three days of illness. I often rage about the senselessness of the illness (it makes no sense! My nostrils are clear, how do microscopic germs divert mucus down the back of my throat!), and claim I’m fine. What do you mean, people who are hacking up a lung shouldn’t do sit-ups? Ok,...
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Which TV shows got thrown out of the canon?
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American television has undergone a clear golden age over the last decade and a half, and has added a gigantic number of shows to its canon of acknowledged greats: the Sopranos, the Wire, Breaking Bad, etc. But what has it lost? I took a list of “The 50 Greatest Shows of All Time” made by TV guide in 2002 and wanted to see how it would have changed since the new batch came around. After...
