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THE OSCARS!
Hey guys, check out my amazing-brained sister tinuviellen's annual ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS PREDICTIONS POST. She is a wunderkind and is always right on many categories, but she also breaks down the tensions and politics within each category helpfully - so you know when to groan, when to ooh and ahh, and when to be surprised! -
(Un?)Frozen Thoughts
Aw, that felt good. This is the kind of post I used to write on here all the time - "musings: I have them!" - but when I get any time these days, I feel like I owe it to my siblings not to make them carry the full weight of the sibling blog. So I posted it on there - but LJ, at heart this is for you:
What 'Let It Go' Is - And What It Isn't(My ( Read more... ) -
February 2014 Movie Preview
Not to just link and dash, but I wanted to share Relatively Entertaining's movie preview for this month on here, because it's a surprisingly lively month with a lot going on and I thought you guys would be interested...
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There are now two seasons of What Not to Wear up on Netflix!!
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Racy/Confused Conversations with Children
Me: WHAT did you say ( Read more... ) -
Why don't we write feminist criticism like in the old days?
"Woman can never be defined. Bat, dog, chick, mutton, tart. Queen, madam, lady of pleasure. MISTRESS. Belle-de-nuit, woman of the streets, fruit woman, fallen woman. Cow, vixen, bitch. Call girl, joy girl, working girl. Lady and whore are both bred to please. The old Woman image-repertoire says She is a Womb, a mere baby’s pouch or ‘nothing but ( Read more... ) -
Why should I finish Daughter of Smoke and Bone?
This book was recommended (loaned to me, in fact) by someone whose taste is very similar to mine. I've heard great things about it from others. Right off the bat, there are certain cool elements: the setting, the magical world secretly existing side-by-side with the mundane. And I have only read 4 chapters, which isn't a lot ( Read more... ) -
The Latest News on Catholicism
I love that Pope Francis seems so much less political than your average pope, but I can't help wishing he'd be... well, a little more politic ( Read more... ) -
"There were two people in him, he told me"
Gentleman and scholar steve_mollmann pointed me toward an article in the Times Literary Supplement this afternoon which he described as a brilliant act of literary detection. Having just finished reading it, I'd have to concur.
When Dickens met Dostoevsky by Eric Naiman It begins with the occasion, reported in several biographies of both men, when Dickens and ( Read more... )
