TV
Gosh, the world is depressing right now. Not that worse things haven’t happened before, but apparently I had some emotional investment riding on the idea that the USA had broadly sensible leadership. This was clearly a mistake. Let’s talk about television instead. Sherlock I am a little bit
Politics
Who Are All These Trump Supporters? [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/11/george-saunders-goes-to-trump-rallies] — George Saunders in The New Yorker I’ve been trying to write something about some of the bullshit you see about political correctness these days… where it’s evolved from being a term criticising the
Film
It's your regularly-scheduled Sunday post. Oh yes it is. Every Sunday since this one. You remember. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd heard good things [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/26/the-babadook-review-mark-kermode-brilliant-chiller] about The Babadook [http://letterboxd.com/film/the-babadook/]. And it is very well-made. But. There'
Link
Gay Talese in The New Yorker: [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/gay-talese-the-voyeurs-motel] > Finally, I will be able to satisfy my constant yearning and uncontrollable desire to peer into other people’s lives. My voyeuristic urges will now be placed into effect on a plane higher than
Link
The Financial Times has a 404 page [http://www.ft.com/foobar?ft_site=falcon&desktop=true] that should be an inspiration to 404 pages everywhere. It turns out they've been playing around with several experimental 404 pages [http://labs.ft.com/2015/08/four-oh-four/], which are
Windows
1. Edge 2. Opera 3. Chrome 4. Firefox 5. Chrome with Material Design 6. Vivaldi 7. Internet Explorer 8. Brave
Film
I was pretty ambivalent about Man of Steel [https://thegreatescapism.com/steely-man/]. The thing that bugged me at the time (and a lot of other people, as it turned out), was the wanton destruction and general boringness of the last act. It turns out that Batman v Superman does not
TV
I was minding my own business, listening to the Accidental Tech Podcast, when John Siracusa delivered a brand new thing to be neurotic and obsessive about: 24 frames-per-second content being delivered over 60 frames-per-second output.[1] I’ve been casually streaming my films over my Apple TV like a chump,
Quote
> I envision a glorious, artisanal return to the bespoke backstabbing of yesteryear. If craft beer can do it, then so can we. — Annabel Crabb, Backstab all you like, but please do it in private [http://www.smh.com.au/comment/backstab-all-you-like--but-please-do-it-in-private-20160219-gmyia0.html] in The Age. Mmm. Beer.
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> Through eavesdropping and small talk, I start to pick up on the cast of characters. The courtroom drama most relevant to this scene is, of course, 12 Angry Men. But trapped here in close quarters with a small group of people, I feel instead like I’m in The
Film
It doesn’t seem fair to compare a brand new movie to how you feel about something after years of it growing on you. I’m not sure I liked Zoolander immediately, but at some point it crept into my brain and made a cosy home for itself. Freak gasoline
On a whim, I have moved this blog to Ghost. Not much should change on your end, except probably the RSS feed will fill up with crap you’ve already seen.
