December 2011
18 posts
Ifttt →
Actually - pretty amazing.
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The first rule of Thesaurus Club is, you don’t talk about, bring up, mention, speak of, discuss or chat about Thesaurus Club.
Can I officially submit my application to join the Thesaurus Club?
Mesmerizing
Now, apart from the utopian goal of the whole project, or an array of projects, more like it, this is truly mesmerizing - statistical sublime at its best.
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Kim Stanley Robinson on utopia, ecology, and what we need to do.
“The implosion of Lost was like a dirty bomb that made the world unsafe for serial dramas to this day.” I don’t agree with the article’s “I-want-my-tv-meticulous-and-rational-in-their-mysteries-and-nothing-else-counts” judgement of Lost, but it’s still a cool sentence. And if you change “implosion” to “explosion,” it is true,...
China on Howard
China Mieville on the World Fantasy Award, which is, technically, a head of H.P. Lovecraft, a writer known for his noxious racist views:
So where does that leave the World Fantasy Award? Well, in my case, I have always done something very specific and simple. I consider the award inextricable from but not reducible to Lovecraft himself. Therefore, I was very honoured to receive the award as...
Hugo
There are many good things and probably a few not-so-good things I could say about it, but one thing is certain - it is a loving testimony to the magic of cinema. It was touching. And all three of us (Melissa, Rob, moi) were fooled - that actress is NOT Sigourney Weaver.
Feist - "The Bad In Each Other"
Speak plain he said But didn’t see He acted that way And held me like a cup Fill me up then pour me out Therein lies the doubt. We had the same feelings At opposite times. When a good man and a good woman Can’t find the good in each other Then a good man and a good woman Will bring out the worst in the other The bad in each other But what and how To find us now When we’ve become...
Viewing
Several days ago, I watched Sophie Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006), Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011), and Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross (2011) on the same day - each mind-blowing and impressive in their own way (not to mention weird casting overlaps between all three).
November 2011
14 posts
Time machines.
