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2017: Books and films
Books:
02/01 If I Was Your Girl, Meredith Russo
12/01 The Go-Between, L P Hartley
18/01 The Flemish House, George Simenon
21/01 King Baby, Kate Beaton
21/01 March, Book 1, John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
09/02 The Loney, Andrew Michael Hurley
12/02 A Distant Neighbourhood, vol. 1, Jiro Taniguchi
12/02 A Distant Neighbourhood, vol. 2, Jiro ( Read more... ) -
2016: Books and Films
Books:
Animal, Sara Pascoe
The Poetry of Sex, ed.
Penguin Modern Poets 1: If I'm Scared We Can't Win, Anne Carson
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Films:
22/11 Arrival -
Am I the only skeptic left on Twitter tonight?
Then:
Lefties: The Daily Mail is a hateful rag that prints outrageous lies and smears and you shouldn't believe a word of it.
Daily Mail: The Prime Minister put his penis in the mouth of a dead pig.
Lefties: OH MY GOD HE DID WHAT I MUST TELL EVERYONE
I mean, really? Are you not paying attention to yourselves at all? Why, in the absence of any ( Read more... ) -
Pitch Perfect 2 cameos
Buzzfeed has published the The Definitive Ranking Of The Cameos In “Pitch Perfect 2”I shall now annotate this list to show how the non-American audience sees it ( Read more... ) -
INTERNET!
So, although I am a few weeks behind Game of Thrones, the fact that I use the internet means I've been unavoidably spoiled for the most recent episode due to hundreds of people losing their shit and deciding the best thing to do is rub it all over Twitter and Facebook ( Read more... ) -
I am Jack's total lack of surprise
So it turns out that Sriduangkaew's apologies were utterly insincere and she's now back to her ways of bullying and harassing people again. It's enough to make a guy wonder if he should reconsider his stance over the 'Best Fanwriter' category of this year's Hugo awards ( Read more... ) -
Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in
Random thought: @KevinStandlee and Mike Glyer as nominees for the 2016 Hugo for Best Fan Writer?
- Jim C. Hines (@jimchines) April 28, 2015
How about Jesus Christ what the fuck NO ( Read more... ) -
Finding Vivian Maier
It's funny. People can watch the same film - the same documentary film, even - and yet come away having taken different readings from it. Sometimes it's a matter of interpretation, other times they've somehow managed to get something flat-out wrong[1].
To nitpick one review:
Geoffrey Macnab in the Independent
[Maloof] doesn’t make it clear that ( Read more... ) -
TBR Piles
[Pinched from here, via coalescent]
1. How do you keep track of your TBR pile?I don't have to. It's everywhere. Books on shelves? TBR. Books in piles on top of shelves? TBR. Piles on floor? TBR. Piles on tables? TBR. Boxes of books? TBR ( Read more... ) -
2015: Books and Films
Books:
03/01 Choir, Gareth Malone
12/01 Lazarus, vol. 1: Family, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
13/01 Lazarus, vol. 2: Lift, Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
16/01 In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes
17/01 Turf, Jonathan Ross
17/01 Who is Jake Ellis?, Nathan Edmondson and Tonci Zonjic
17/01 Superior, Mark Millar
17/01 Kick-Ass 2, Mark Millar
20/01 ( Read more... )