May 2012
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I’m leaving tumblr for a few weeks? I don’t even know why I feel like I have to tell you, except that I like it here, but I’m going to be traveling. Specifically, I’m going to India, and I need to be there alone, without tumblr.
I’m sitting here at 3am, tooling around on the intranet, having deep thoughts about Pulp Fiction. Here are my thoughts: I don’t think...
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28 Days
It was on Oxygen, I literally have no excuse. Viggo Mortenson is in it though!
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Glee, Season 3
Wrapped things up well, but very inconsistent. No one cares about Rachel/Finn, come on. And why were all the new characters completely flat? I don’t understand how they could manage to screw up something that seemed very foolproof, but I don’t understand why I keep watching Glee, either.
My favorite thing is when I say something that's...
“you used to be so fair”
– every family member in India (via neeethi)
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Community, Season 3
Top three episodes:
1. Remedial Chaos Theory 2. Basic Lupine Urology 3. Digital Estate Planning
I’m not sure if I like watching Community week-to-week. I absolutely loved the show when I was watching six episodes in a row on my bed with dinner. But I don’t think it holds up as well week-to-week, intercut with commercials and with 30 Rock bumpers in each direction. Community requires...
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Sherlock, Season 2
*tears hair out* I knew exactly what was going to happen and I’m still soooo upsettt[[MORE]]
I really, really like Sherlock, but I think the writers go a little too far with manipulating our emotions at the ends of episodes. It’s like Downton Abbey up in here, except all in the last five minutes. Most egregious was “A Scandal in Belgravia,” with the Irene Adler fakeout....
“There’s a famous tweet by _why:
when you don’t create things, you become...”
– Env by Charlie Loyd (via Findings.com)
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so my mom watched the hounds of baskerville with...
astudyin-neuroticism:
10 minutes in: he’s kind of funny looking, isn’t he? 25 minutes in: I can’t decide how I feel about his face.. do I like his face? 40 minutes in: why do you like his face so much? 45 minutes in: is it the cheekbones? 50 minutes in: it must be the cheekbones. 60 minutes in: he DOES have nice cheekbones. 70 minutes in: how does he do that with his face?...
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“I will give you two or three non-white actors in smaller supporting roles. Why...”
– Aasif Mandvi parodies the mentality of studio executives who whitewash, in a satire article for Salon.com (via racebending)
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Parks and Recreation, Season 4
Meh.
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The Avengers
Whedonesque —[[MORE]]
Which I hear works for some people. I feel like I ate too many fries, because I did, right afterwards. Fries covered in witty quips. And cheese.
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We got published on Jezebel. →
this led to some pretty ridiculous hyper-ventilating around 2pm
“[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two...”
– The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)
Some interesting science pointing to daydreams as a crucible of creativity. (via jtotheizzoe)
My entire life makes sense now. (via meganwest)
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Mother Earth Mother Board →
In which the hacker tourist ventures forth across the wide and wondrous meatspace of three continents, acquainting himself with the customs and dialects of the exotic Manhole Villagers of Thailand, the U-Turn Tunnelers of the Nile Delta, the Cable Nomads of Lan tao Island, the Slack Control Wizards of Chelmsford, the Subterranean Ex-Telegraphers of Cornwall, and other previously unknown and...
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ambient television
For the first time in maybe five years, I have access to cable television regularly, which means if I want to, I can watch TV for fun in the middle of the day (if I can’t find something to watch, I can even On-Demand primetime TV from the last five weeks).
As a result, I’ve watched a lot of television in direct opposition to the purpose of this blog, which was to review everything...
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The Golden Notebook
This book really blew my mind.
I don’t mean that in the euphemistic way, which is a really 1990s thing to say, you know? “This album is going to blow your mind” or whatever. I mean it in the my mind exploded way. I was thinking. What actually exploded? Preconceived notions. Idealism. Romance. Faith. And a post-postmodern affection for literary structure.
I picked up this book...
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Just Kids
I spent the entirety of this book thinking to myself “wow, this is really badly written and kind of self-serving and demonstrates how fringe and previously ‘cool’ elements of our culture have gone totally mainstream” and then I listened to Patti Smith’s “Gloria: In Excelsis Deo” on repeat for a week so I’d say critically, the good outweighed the...
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Whither the Manic Pixie Dream Guys? →
In which I, with Gabrielle Moss, attempt to answer the most important question of our generation. At Nerve.
“Los Angeles is a city whose primary inhabitants are Cars. These Cars need...”
– Me explaining LA to a 3 year old. (via kenyatta)
April 2012
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The Good Wife, Season Three
My recap of the finale here. This was a fantastic season of television.
