What I’ve read in bold (the one I hated in bold italics). This is a pretty pathetic showing, but I’ve been busy lately. I hope to get to a number of these soon—or at least see the movie version!

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. [...]

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I just read a really good piece in Slate: Is This Tantrum on the Record? The ground rules for writing about your kids. Emily Bazelon describes her qualms about writing about her son:
What are the ground rules for writing about your kids, especially on the Internet, with its freewheeling meanness and permanent archive? Will my [...]

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Good news, TWoP put RSS feeds back for individual shows! I guess I’ll start reading their recaps again!

Posted in Tech, Television, Writing

So, a guy on the internet got his hands on an old cache of files from the company (now defunct) that released a bunch of great text-based computer games, including the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a huge hit game (based on Douglas Adams’s masterpiece) that made a lot of money. They also worked on [...]

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From an online chat with Charlotte Allen (remember her?):Washington: “They Scream, They Swoon. How Dumb Can Blacks Get?” “They Scream, They Swoon. How Dumb Can Men Get?” “They Scream, They Swoon. How Dumb Can Latinos Get?” Ha ha! Very funny. I’m laughing my head off. Inside. Get a clue.

Charlotte Allen: Is this a compliment or [...]

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In a Washington Post Op-Ed, Charlotte Allen seems to think that women are morons:I swear no man watches “Grey’s Anatomy” unless his girlfriend forces him to. No man bakes cookies for his dog. No man feels blue and takes off work to spend the day in bed with a copy of “The Friday Night Knitting [...]

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I was looking over Stuff White People Like the other day. For the three people who haven’t already seen it, it’s a funny critique of white [liberal, rich, self-centered] people, if a bit heavy on the low-hanging fruit side of white person self-loathing (and wait a second, who doesn’t like Netflix?). Anyway, a few days [...]

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[This post was spurred by this io9 piece about Kanye West and Daft Punk.]

There’s so much wrong about Kanye West’s performance at the Grammys last week. The awkward missing swears. The misogyny. The fact that Kanye essentially appropriates an incredibly awesome sample (Daft Punk’s “Harder Better Faster Stronger,” off of their amazing album, “Discovery”) wholecloth [...]

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