Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media ( Read more... )

Falling out of love with a pop culture phenomenon is a disquieting sensation, especially when it comes suddenly or after you've spent time telling other people how good said pop culture phenomenon was. You're reading or watching something, quite happily, and then there's some moment of squick or poor writing that kills the experience. The ( Read more... )

I'm at a loss to describe the level of poor writing squick that ruins the last twenty minutes or so of what is otherwise is a very serviceable and tidy horror movie. Suffice it to say that I've read enough terrible fanfic to know badfic when I see it and "Splice" unfortunately shifts from something an intelligent 25-year-old has written to ( Read more... )

The Onion A.V. Club's list of the worst band names of 2010 is here! As usual, there's some brilliantly crazy and stupid naming jobs ( Read more... )

In Books:

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care, by Jennifer Block: I must confess that I read a great part of this book gaping in surprise and outrage; Edvard Munch's "Scream" and I sat on the couch, paging through chapter after chapter of alternately creepy and disheartening work on the over-medicalization of birth ( Read more... )

I had heard this book being billed as "Harry Potter grown up", and recommended along the lines of "C.S. Lewis, but with sex!" And... it's sort of like that. It's a retake of the "lonely boy gets a chance to study at awesome magical school and has adventures" young adult fantasy plot, and there is indeed growing up and sex. There are also some ( Read more... )

When I see a movie as over-hyped and disputed as "Avatar", it's often hard to just view the film as a whole, a coherent story/product, without thinking of all the blog essays I've read bashing it and the general consensus of "pretty but MEH" I've heard from most people who've already seen it. And I'm very well aware of the violence inherent in the ( Read more... )

Dear Flashforward: There's so much here that I like, but it's bogged down with a lot of stupid and very poor pacing. ( More spoilers, more plot advancement, less treating the viewers like two-year-olds-with-no-long-term-memory, please! )

A while back, I wrote about the trailer for "Repo: The Genetic Opera", assuming that it would come out in theaters and I would go and see it on a sunny morning at a cheap showing. Then the movie wasn't released in the way I expected it would be, and when it moseyed over to San Diego, I didn't think I could stay up until midnight to see something ( Read more... )

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A rock opera from the director of "Saw" starring Anthony Stewart Head, Alex Vega, Sarah Brightman, and Paris Hilton ( Read more... )