July 2010
5 posts
June 2010
7 posts
Behind the Sofa: "This Week, on a Very Special...
obsessivebehavior:
My review of Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor is up on Behind the Sofa. In short:
Vincent and the Doctor hasn’t done anything to rehabilitate my flagging appreciation for Amy as a character, and it’s probably not the best episode of the series so far (it has been a pretty strong year). But it was witty, it looked fantastic, and yes, like some of my acquaintances in...
Obsessive Behavior: The Whedoning: Week One →
The Whedoning is my review blog where I’ll be watching Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and other Joss Whedon stuff, all in order, and writing a blog post on each one.
The first week just wrapped up, so here’s a roundup of my reviews.
May 2010
34 posts
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Ann Curry 'Mortified' Over Wheaton College Mistake... →
alisonagosti:
The Huffington Post:
BOSTON — When “Today” show news anchor Ann Curry delivered the commencement speech at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, she named a list of distinguished alumni, including the Rev. Billy Graham, Wes Craven and Dennis Hastert.
The problem is the evangelist, the horror movie director and the former U.S. House Speaker all attended the Wheaton College in...
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Am I the only one..
richardfuckingalpert:
who doesn’t mind that MIB doesn’t have a name? Frankly, this makes him even more awesome. I mean, his mom didn’t name him, so he just stayed nameless? I mean, that is messed up, but sort of fitting, I guess. Come on, it’s so much better this way than for example if he would be like “Oh hi, btw my name is Bob”.
Lots of things don’t have names. The Island. The...
“Being a torturer is much worse than being Canadian.”
– - Damon Lindelof, on the criteria of being a candidate. (via madein88)
I’m going to miss the podcast almost as much as I miss the show.
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April 2010
14 posts
Are Games Art?
This is something of a response to Roger Ebert’s post of a few weeks ago on whether video games are “art” or not. I don’t agree with everything he says, but largely, I’m with him on this.
I love video games, but I certainly don’t see them as “Art.”
“Art” is one example of what philosophers call an “Essentially Contested...
