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Month: August 2014

Doctor Who blogging: “Into the Dalek”

Sun, Aug 31, 2014
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It’s not the Fantastic Voyage ripoff that bothers me here. It’s the ripoff of the wonderful early episode “Dalek.”

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site upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, look out for potential weirdness

Sun, Aug 31, 2014
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Please let me know if you encounter anything out of the ordinary. I mean, beyond my ranting.

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London photo: the Cock Tavern

Fri, Aug 29, 2014
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Lots of nice beer and lovely meat, apparently. (Somewhere in East London. Not sure where — I spotted this from a bus.)

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If I Stay movie review: you see me, you really see me

Fri, Aug 29, 2014
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Honest, emotional teen melodrama with a great performance by Chloe Grace Moretz that serves as a beautiful metaphor for the choices that teen girls face.

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Obvious Child movie review: it doesn’t care if you like it

Fri, Aug 29, 2014
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Beautifully redresses how the realities of women’s lives are too often ignored on film… and does so with startling raw power and humor.

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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz documentary review: threat to the system

Fri, Aug 29, 2014
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An essential — and enraging — documentary about activist Aaron Swartz, a danger to corporate hegemony whose work could not be allowed to continue.

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London photo: for the forgetful urbanite

Wed, Aug 27, 2014
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Apparently the ExCeL center is so large that people sometimes need to be reminded what city is beyond its borders…

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Rich Hill documentary review: American dysfunction

Wed, Aug 27, 2014
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A portrait of American poverty in which compassion for its subjects is matched only by a caustic rage at the utter collapse of the American dream.

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London photos: Paralympics remembered

Wed, Aug 27, 2014
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Loncon was held at ExCeL in East London, where some events from the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics also too place.

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how to find out what’s streaming now that I’ve abandoned you

Tue, Aug 26, 2014
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Spoiler: It’s the newly rejiggered homepage.

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