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No room for the XX chromosome in Hollywood?
http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/cross-post-13-myths-hollywood-uses-to-hide-discrimination-against-women-directors
Thanks to shakesville for the h/t.
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Rest In Peace (on the wild side)
Lou Reed died.
He was only 71.
I listened to quite a bit of Velvet Underground and sang along to his songs a lot back when I was young.
This is so sad.
I hope his family finds peace, and solace, and I hope he goes and makes heaven a little wilder.
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Recommended
Europa Report...5 cups of coffee rating.
Excellent, real science fiction, and a wonderful sense of exploration and search for knowledge. This movie is worth watching. Highly recommended. -
Highly recommended
I just saw My Week With Marilyn...5 excellent cups of coffee!!
That's my highest rating, and I don't just fling that good coffee around!
It's very good, very atmospheric, and Nat King Cole's Fallen Leaves so perfect.
Michelle Williams, like Robert Downey Jr in Chaplin and his intensely perfect Charlie, is Marilyn Monroe. Amazing work! She is ( Read more... ) -
My staycation adventure
Well, nothing exciting at all, however, I did finish, in the span of 8 days, Mira Grant's Newflesh trilogy.
I give this whole series such a big 5 cuppa rating, it "stands" (heh) with two of my top favorite books forever: Stephen King's The Stand and Octavia E. Butler's The Parable of the Sower ...I've read King's book about 10 times....and Butler' ( Read more... ) -
Cultural updatingly along
I have finished Feed by Mira Grant---and now am reading Deadline by Mira Grant...this is excellent 5 cuppa coffee reading! I am recommending this to all folks who like a good mix of apocalypse, dystopia, "on the road/on the run" book, medical thriller, political thriller and yes, well thought out zombies.
I have also finished season 1 of ( Read more... ) -
Updatingly along
Physical: still around a 2 on the scale. Insomnia, messing up with my energy levels and daily patterns. I am attempting to self help, and yet, even my self help doesn't help much.
Very much discouraged.
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