This effing bullshit is why My Name Is Khan is a necessary movie.

God bless Kate Dailey and Ben Adler, though.

....from Aamir Khan's blog.Creating Bhuvan
Creating Bhuvan was tricky because he is such an all round good guy. No weaknesses. Characters like this have a tendency to get boring. I began at his core. What is his strongest quality? What is the quality about him that stands out the most? Based on the script I felt it was his inner strength. He''s got ( Read more... )

This scene made me really happy, despite the unfortunate choice of facial hair.

I keep hearing people say, about for example the full-body scanners that The Netherlands is now employing to scan passengers on US-bound flights, that "this technology may have prevented the undie-bomber from ever boarding the plane," etc etc. Every time I hear this, I have to take a minute to go "Bzuh?" and then figure out what they really mean, ( Read more... )

I just found this on this post and thought it was really smart -- a subtle analysis of the often-subtle difference between sympathizing and derailing.Whiner said... It's quite obvious that "being mistaken for the help" happens more often to POC than white folk ( Read more... )

Since Megan McArdle's stupid blog won't accept my comment, I paste it here for my own satisfaction:Megan, the slavery debate was not "the last time" we had a debate about personhood. What about woman suffrage (mid 19th-early 20th century)? What about civil rights and desegregation? What about the ERA debates? What about gay rights (which are ( Read more... )

Finally watched it. Agree with jennyo. That's pretty much it.

Obama-Mania: Critical Essays on Representations of President Barack Obama in Popular Culture ( Read more... )

Dear Roger Scrotum Scruton,

Bite me.No love ( Read more... )

WTF -- Baltar's father is Worzel Gummidge??

I will miss Adama and Roslin and the rest so much, and I continue to admire the acting from almost everyone, but this series has seriously gone off the rails and is dealing in the most laughable emo clichés.