January 2012
27 posts
Charlie Kaufman's Screenwriters Lecture at the... →
And here’s the transcript.
The size of the known universe.
I don't partake of fanfic, but for these, I'd make...
Five Slash Fiction Pairings I’d Like To See
1. Peter Jackson/Guillermo del Toro
2. Nick Clegg/David Cameron
3. Mark Kermode/Simon Mayo
4. Ben Goldacre/Simon Singh
5. Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama/Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury
Cupcakes used to be known as fairy cakes, until something happened a few years...
– Wondering what to give up for New Year? A few suggestions, by Charlie Brooker » The Guardian
Jeff Harris has taken a self-portrait every day for thirteen years. Worth watching ‘til the end; there are some genuine surprises.
We open in the world as we know it, humans in charge and apes in cages. An...
– Fall And Rise, Joshua Clover » Film Quarterly
It’s so nice to see some Joshua Clover pop up on the internet again! I really miss jane dark’s sugarhigh.
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Lisbeth Salander is skinny. Frail-skinny, bird-boned skinny, so that when...
– Eleven Thought About Lisbeth Salander » The Rejectionist
December 2011
14 posts
At the end of Dracula the vampire’s defeat is complete. Dracula and his lovers...
– From Franco Moretti’s essay The Dialectic of Fear.
If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without...
– Just Like That but Funny, by Todd Levin » Good Magazine
TO ALL THOSE AT MTV,
I WOULD LIKE TO START BY THANKING YOU ALL FOR THE SUPPORT...
– Nick Cave’s letter to MTV, 1996.
November 2011
15 posts