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No Boundaries? Why NOT Just Anything Goes in Online Communities...
"Because it is my name! ... I cannot have another in my life."
You know the old maxim: without your good name, you have nothing. Arthur Miller undoubtedly had this thought in mind when the wrote John Proctor's closing salvo in The Crucible. So it stands to reason that most people would be very cautious about putting it on the line. If only that ( Read more... ) -
Weekend at Davies'
"Austen wrote the first Darwinian novel ... [driven by] the gene in Mr. Darcy's breeches ( Read more... ) -
Roger Ebert: The Great Communicator
"I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization ( Read more... ) -
Quantum Stanning
"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics ( Read more... ) -
The Three Year Itch
"Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day."
[Glee 4x15 Spoilers Ahead]
So said novelist and screenwriter, Richard Price ( Read more... ) -
Oscar Wraps Up a Year in Film: Today the World, Tomorrow Hollywood
It is not just a pithy Shakespearean quote (As You Like It) any longer. The world, the whole world, is a stage … or in this case, a film.
That most ubiquitous of all mottoes about globalization, “to think globally and act locally,” has been turned on its head - at least as far as the American film industry goes. The international winds of change ( Read more... ) -
How M/M via DS Non-Ironically Ruined My Life Meme: Two Weeks' Notice
"[W]hat's the matter ... [t]hat you have such a February face ...?"
[Downton Abbey S3/S4 Spoilers Ahead]
Well, we know the answer to that do we not? (:points to meme title:) ... We are saying goodbye to the month of February, and I thought I would let the Bard of Avon play us out with today's quote. (Besides, I could not let my mirror shipper buddy, eolivet, down, could I?)
Speaking of eolivet ( Read more... ) -
How M/M via DS Non-Ironically Ruined My Life Meme: Down With Love
"I will never love again the way I love ... [them]."
[Downton Abbey S3 Spoilers Ahead]
Day 27 - When it's over, where will Matthew and Mary stand in your annal of OTPs?
Well, dear Anna (in one of the best, quietest, most effective -- and affecting -- scenes from S2) said it best. And I will never love a fictional couple the way I love(d) them. I never had before and now, even ( Read more... )
