Via this review essay in the NYT on Why Intellectuals Support Dictators:

This sounds like the contemporary equivalent to Milosz's The Captive Mind, which I read a few months ago, but as extended op-ed rather than literary polemic:

snip:

Anne Applebaum’s contribution to this discussion, “Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism ( Read more... )

 Incomplete thoughts on pop culture consumption and spoiler anxiety--and keep in mind this comes from a Gemini, so I'm going back and forth on this a lot.

One of the big papers--prob the NYT--had a piece yesterday about how everyone watching Game of Thrones talked about it on social media while watching or immediately afterwards, as if this was a ( Read more... )

Dear Daria: Revisiting the Misery Chick: An interview with Tracy Grandstaff, the voice of Daria.

I LOVED Daria when I was a teenager. I love it almost even more as an adult. That is all.]

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The Geek and Gamer Girls Song:


Geek and Gamer Girls Song - Watch more Funny VideosI could write a paper on this, I swear to fucking God. Also, can't decide ( Read more... )

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is one of the stupider films I've sat through in a while. Why did I sit through it? Because Clive Owen was in it, that was why. I didn't learn from the first film, with its exceedingly oversimplified Essex Rebellion or misplaced speeches. (Yeah, the really good one about how Elizabeth has the body of a woman but the heart ( Read more... )

Today’s NYT brings us yet more cultural handwringing via an Op-Ed with the glimmering title of ”Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?”.

Ms. Jacoby, whose book came out on Tuesday, doesn’t zero in on a particular technology or emotion, but rather on what she feels is a generalized hostility to knowledge. She is well aware that some ( Read more... )

Like his previous picture The Island, which I reviewed many moons ago, Michael Bay loves him some chase scenes. I love me some Optimus Prime (don't we all?).

Tom Lenk was in this for about 75 seconds but they were worth it! I squealed "Andrew!!!!!!!!!!" involuntarily.

Me like. Night night.

Can't stop humming "More Than Meeeeeeeeeeets the Eye!"