I have frequently wished for good writers to rewrite movies with good premises but bad execution. At last, here’s a taste: Line from Revenge of the Sith: “I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything’s soft… and [touching her skin] smooth…” Line as rewritten […]
The "Family Research Council," a religious political extremist outfit, now believes that the minority’s right to filibuster presidential nominees should be removed. Seven years ago, the mouth was on the other foot. If you’re feeling strong, and your blood pressure isn’t susceptible to dangerous increases, I heartily encourage you to check out more of Media […]
Sesto Senso has lots of super-luxury personal products, including the best selection of Demeter fragrances I’ve seen! Anyone want to smell like waffles?
An entertaining archive of detective novel covers— almost seems like the sort of thing I may already have posted about. A little extra content in case I have: I visited a little bookshop near Powell’s City of Books that had a display of 50s and 60s naughty book covers that were strangely similar to any […]
So there was this article in the Stranger about how if only the county had less stringent food safety rules and if downtown merchants were only less cranky about people using the sidewalk in front of their stores, Seattle could have a vibrant street food scene. Which may or may not be true, what with […]
Despite my misgivings, David Tennant will be the new Doctor. I’m loving the Eccleston series (even the darkness) enough that I’m optimistic about Tennant.
A story on NPR this morning about synesthesia and synesthetes got me to wondering whether sun sneezing is simply a more common form of synæsthesia (I’m varying the spelling to attract more search engine traffic). So, if you’re a synesthete, please drop me a line and let me know whether you also sneeze in bright […]
A neat exhibit of Soviet architecture of the 30s through the 50s that never made it off the drawing board. Watch that space, as was just boingboinged and may be overwhelmed for a while.
Ever since the other person who lives at my house told me about it, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the arrow in the FedEx logo. It’s genius, or maybe just inevitable: Update: here’s an interview with the creator, in which he answers several of my questions.
The BBC has a rundown of five actors deemed likely to play the next Doctor. Here’s my take on their picks: David Tennant: too fey (or maybe it’s just the photo they used) Bill Nighy: too old Richard E Grant: too famous David Thewlis: no opinion (possibly too actory, but Eccleston seems to have done […]