Hallelujah

Courtesy of xkcd: Hallelujah. Nice to see the classics still getting some respect.1 When you get there, be sure to read the alt text on this one. ↩

The Future

Happy Valentine’s Day from Facebook: Happy Valentine’s Day! Just logging in for a quick scroll? Take your time. You’re not on here as much as you used to be. Still, we’ll never forget you. In fact, we at Facebook love celebrating the moments and people you’ve worked really hard to forget. So now that you’re… Continue reading The Future

Station Eleven

Given the largely positive reviews that Station Eleven got, regular readers may not be surprised to learn that I ended up shelling out for a STARZPLAY subscription with the plan of watching the ten episodes then deciding whether to let my subscription roll over for another month. There’s other content I’d been meaning to watch1… Continue reading Station Eleven

Fett Fanfic

Even if I live to be 100, I will never understand why knowing more about the fate of Boba Fett became such a big deal among fans of the original Star Wars trilogy. Despite this, there’s no denying that This Place Was Home by ND Stevenson is a really good, heartwarming piece of Boba Fett… Continue reading Fett Fanfic

Luck

Tony Blair can only wish he had such good luck… Domestication is key to the rebranding of Bush as a “good” conservative. His interview on The Today Show was conducted in part by his daughter Jenna, who is one of the hosts of the show. She explained for the viewing audience that although when her… Continue reading Luck

This Is Going To Hurt

Watching the first episode of This Is Going To Hurt this evening, I was struck by the resemblance to a show called Cardiac Arrest,1 back when Helen Baxendale was a new face and Jed Mercurio was still writing under the pen-name of John MacUre. Ben Whishaw is very good in the new show and it… Continue reading This Is Going To Hurt

Lasso in NYRB

The New York Review of Books writes about the writing in Ted Lasso, and an Apple marketing executive checks off one more objective reached as Apple TV+ becomes strives to become known as the streaming age’s HBO. Perhaps the greatest literary move of Season 2 is the redemption (that is, re-seeing) of Rick Astley’s 1987… Continue reading Lasso in NYRB

Herr Gruber

Charlie Connelly1 on the author-turned terrorist who led the attack on the Nakatomi Plaza building… Charismatic, cultured and hugely intelligent, Gruber was perfectly equipped to become a shining light in the reunified Germany that was only a matter of months away at his death. If the ambition, daring and meticulous planning employed in the Nakatomi… Continue reading Herr Gruber

I can’t not look…

The horror! The horror! Submitted by @sbkeebs pic.twitter.com/JbjTIrr4qY— Keyboards (@Keyboards_bot) December 13, 2021 [Via jwz]