The Desk is super busy today as it's exam week for the undergrads, so I haven't had time to a new board. You're gonna have to put up with a classic! Anyways... any questions?
The Desk is super busy today as it's exam week for the undergrads, so I haven't had time to a new board. You're gonna have to put up with a classic! Anyways... any questions?
I get to be a Bond villain DJ (as if there ever was one?) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art tonight! (I'm DJ John Burke, in case you were wondering...)
I finished Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane yesterday; started reading just after I bought it. (Kept reading out of necessity.) (Biased opinion: read it! It's brilliant. It's a remarkable story.) Non-spoilery review is copy/pasted from my goodreads (unless you want to read it knowing nothing, which is…
Underground, automatic, robot bike storage. Safe from thieves and the weather, and saves space too.
Just read an interesting article tackling this very question. I know, for me, the calls for ironclad purity and ire from fans that he mentions seems very, very familiar.
The problem lies in the basic critical conceit that if we go about judging movies based on what we believe is the ‘right’ version of the character, we …