March 2012
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“Another perpetual problem [in Doctor Who scripts] was the necessary technobabble...”
– Terrance Dicks (via the-bluest-ink)
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James Cameron: Diving Deep, Dredging Up Titanic →
James Cameron, when asked in an NPR interview about whether he sees himself as a filmmaker or an explorer: “I think the through-line there is storytelling. I think it’s the explorer’s job to go and be at the remote edge of human experience and then come back and tell that story. So I don’t see them as that separately.”
Mr Cameron?
Werner Herzog would like a word...
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“Peter Meehan was friends with David Chang of the Momofuku empire of restaurants...”
– Lisa Abend, “How to Write Like a Top Chef”, Time
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“Check out these racists/Mail commenters” is Twitter’s version of the playground’s “Smell this, it’s disgusting.” I do it every time.
—Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) March 26, 2012
what do they call The Hunger Games in France?
ibad:
I laughed, no lie.
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Red Scharlach Points At Interesting Things: Ten... →
redscharlach:
(It’s only human to want to cash in on a successful Tumblr post, isn’t it? But sequels are never as good as the original…)
More reasons (as if you needed them) why Red Scharlach is one of fandom’s great assets.
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“In fact, I even viewed the dressing up as a sign of [the Village People’s]...”
– Phil Knight, “You Can’t Stop the Music”.
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List of bands seen at SXSW 2012
Noteworthy (to me) acts starred.
Led Er Est
Amen Dunes
Zola Jesus*
Mahogany
Bonaparte*
Christeene*
La Vida Boheme
Sugar Tongue Slim*
Poliça
Lower Dens
The Magnetic Fields*
Charli XCX*
Purity Ring*
Grimes*
Nicolas Jaar*
Zambri*
Thomas Dolby*
Peter Gregson*
Owen Weaver
Spoek Mathambo*
Line By Line Percussion*
Micah P. Hinson*
The Jameses
Dive*
Blouse
Soft Metals
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Review of Doctor Who in the Guardian, 2 December... →
hpgeneration:
Review of Doctor Who in the Guardian, 2 December 1963, “The space ship, for some unexplained reason, remained looking like a police box in the dusty desert. I hope this will be explained later.”
So I originally posted this thing back in November of last year. It was mildly popular then, but why is it suddenly blowing the fuck out of my dash today?
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Baubles: Tribe Size? →
kellysue:
Let’s try something…
“Like” OR “Reblog” this if
a) you’re a woman; and
b) you buy and read superhero comics (of any variety - doesn’t have to be Big 2).
DON’T LIKE AND REBLOG BOTH. I’m trying to get a sense of the size of our tribe here on Tumblr; if you both LIKE and REBLOG it’ll double…
Chiming in and boosting signal.
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“Through the madness rose Paul. All season long he was professional and poised....”
– Hugh Acheson on the Top Chef finale and Paul Qui.
I’m pretty sure that Paul is one of the nicest people to have ever won a reality show competition, and I have to admit, I’m pleased to be able to say that “I knew him when…” Bruce and I met him a few years back when we... 