February 2012
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Lucy Liu To Play Watson In CBS’ Modern Sherlock... →
The name is Watson, Joan Watson. Lucy Liu is set to play Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick in CBS’ drama pilot Elementary, whose tweaks to Arthur Connan Doyle’s classic include switching Watson’s gender to female. The project, written by Robert Doherty, is set in present day and stars Jonny Lee Miller as eccentric Brit Holmes, a former consultant to Scotland Yard whose addiction problems led him to a...
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this is just to say...
…that every time I think I’m a hardened cynic who won’t get super upset about any bullshit the Oscars pull, I AM PROVEN WRONG.
I just really want to write a fantastic role for Viola Davis now. Ugh ugh ugh. I didn’t realize how badly I wanted her to win until she didn’t.
Like, look, I like Meryl Streep as much as the next girl, but couldn’t we reward her for...
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Why Not Frack? by Bill McKibben | The New York... →
In one sense, the analysts who forecast that “peak oil”—i.e., the point at which the rate of global petroleum extraction will begin to decline—would be reached over the last few years were correct. The planet is running short of the easy stuff, where you stick a drill in the ground and crude comes bubbling to the surface. The great oil fields of Saudi Arabia and Mexico have begun to...
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the poor dancing girl she won't dance again:... →
breathingvioletfog:
oldfilmsflicker:
Help Reverse MPAA’s R-rating of TWC’s “Bully.”
obliviousandinept:
The Motion Picture Association of America has given The Weinstein Company’s new documentary “Bully” an R-rating due to some violence and harsh language. TWC had trouble…
This is so fucking stupid I can’t even handle it, AND hardly any people have signed the petition. So go...
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Bookshop: Drive and the Male Gaze →
bookshop:
Anonymous asked you: 2012-02-23 18:22 Do you think you could explain how Drive subverts the male gaze? I’m legitimately interested
Yes, yes, YES, I would love to! Follow the links over to my journal for the full essay, which got way too long for Tumblr. :D
I. Intro to the Male Gaze (if you need one!) II. The Driver as the Object of the Gaze. III. Irene as the owner of the Gaze....
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The Present Tense, The First Person
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ivyblossom:
I address this a lot, because I have a narrative preference everyone hates. I’m at peace with that, really. I hear it so often now I just shrug my shoulders about it. If you don’t like first person present tense on principle, and don’t think there’s anything that can be done with it to make it awesome, well, don’t bother trying to read anything I’ve ever written. If you...
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One Town's War on Gay Teens →
At the close of the seven-month-long sex-ed review, Anderson and her colleagues wrote a memo to the Anoka-Hennepin school board, concluding, “The majority of parents do not wish to have there [sic] children taught that the gay lifestyle is a normal acceptable alternative.” Surprisingly, the six-member board voted to adopt the measure by a four-to-two majority, even borrowing the...
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30 Romance Novels, The Last Great Bastion Of... →
So what is it, exactly, that makes literature trivial? Is the point of literature to depict something more like “real life”? If the formulaic qualities and perfervid fantasy of romance novels bring them closer to superhero comics than to Dostoevsky, what does this mean, exactly? What is the difference between genre and “serious” fiction, now that Maus and The Left...
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The Impossible Question of 'We Need to Talk About... →
The film is able to zero in on a connection between Eva and Kevin that defies easy explanation. There is resentment, hatred, and manipulation, but there are also odd strains of respect and even love. They identify with each another in ways neither is prepared to admit, and that uneasy bond allows for surprising moments of reluctant tenderness in an otherwise brutal film. As Phillips plays Eva into...
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The Increasingly Disturbing War Against Women’s... →
Taken individually, these incidents all seem like isolated events. Taken together, they start to look like a disturbing trend. Increasingly, what we are seeing from the right when it comes to women’s issues is not conservatism but radicalism: a bid to roll back the gains and freedoms that feminism has managed to earn for women. During the various imbroglios over Planned Parenthood, for...
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“When you write, it’s important to do it while you have the enthusiasm for the...”
– Jo Nesbø, in an interview with Robert Birnbaum at The Millions.
I’ve never read any of his books but this interview was really interesting and enjoyable to read. I’m working on an idea for a novel about a crime (kind of) and may do some crime reading in the near future, in which case he...
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“I as a Catholic have absolutely no right in my thinking to foist through...”
– Boston’s late Richard Cardinal Cushing, 1965, the man who married John F. Kennedy.
The spirit of the church is not to control the lives of others, but to respect their consciences in a pluralistic society, and to uphold certain values as examples to follow, not as rules to be enforced.
(via...
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“Conor Oberst’s pain is my pain and I will have it on a record.”
– Me, earlier this evening, in the process of buying I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning on vinyl. It has been that kind of week, folks.
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Can YOU guess which famous French figures Julia is...
Keep in mind that these are pronounced with the most hideous American accent to ever have existed.
Napo
Baud-Baud
Flaubs
My boy J-P
Simoooooone
My man Mo
Al
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Roe V World: How in the Hell are We Supposed to... →
The state legislatures of Virginia and Oklahoma have continued to embarrass their reasonable constituents this week by passing legislation that defines fertilized eggs as “persons” eligible for the same rights as normal humans that aren’t multicelled, consciousless globs. Framers of Personhood bills believe that their new laws would outlaw abortion, and they’re right—...
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2011 in Film Addendum: YOUNG ADULT & WE NEED TO...
When I made my Top 11 Films of 2011 list a couple of weeks ago, I hadn’t yet had a chance to see quite a few of the year’s notable releases, but I decided that if I really wanted to be a completist about it I wouldn’t be able to make a list until March at the earliest, which seemed silly. Of course, in the time since then I’ve seen two more movies from last year that would...
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