Category Archives: arts

watching the talkies

Tonight’s feature presentation was His Girl Friday (1940), and it left a bad taste. Summary: a chick digs a guy who’ll do anything, including framing innocent people for felonies, to win her. Do they still make movies in which a … Continue reading

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a protest song

The ever-amazing Joshua Burton calls my attention to this song from someone I’d never heard of before.

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keep on decadin’

As the collapse of civilization proceeds, Jerry Ritcey reminds us what to expect.

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temporal foreshortening

Watching Hitchcock’s Secret Agent (1936, starring John Gielgud so young that I couldn’t place him), I think I’ve spotted Hitchcock – but my first thought was “there’s Rumpole!”.

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serial or parallel?

Shiny! (before Firefly)

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morbid

Did anyone mark the occasion when Tom Lehrer’s joke about Mozart reached a certain age?

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another Browncoat

Claire Wolfe enjoys Firefly, film at eleven. She’s not so keen on Kaylee: The only element that didn’t ring true to me was this little gamin girly they made the ship’s mechanic. She sort of “intuits” the machinery of the … Continue reading

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