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• The Wilds

  

  I don’t know how long it took for this show to hit the point where it felt almost exactly like that moment, a few years ago, where Pretty Little Liars was the... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• A Frivolous Case

  "Still, the fact that so many powerful Republican politicians endorsed Paxton’s Hail Mary is a profoundly disturbing sign for American democracy. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: November

  Non-Fiction: Becky Cooper: We Keep the Dead Close. Lee Tran Lam (ed.): New Voices on Food. Diversity in Food Media.Fiction: Elizabeth Bear: Ancestral Night.Emil... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• "Appeasement Didn’t Work in the 1930s and It Won’t Work Now."

  "Nevertheless, we get this hopelessly naïve version of centrism, of the idea that if we’re nicer to the other side there will be no other side, just one big... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transitioning from Chaos

  The most remarkable experience of this Presidential election has been the gradual appearance of a result - I was 13 in 2000, and didn't have much sense of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - It's Too Close for Comfort

  

  Veronika Gilková - Misc bananarama | cruel summer. warpaint | so good. thao the get down stay down | temple. laura marling | strange girl. kaki king |... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Re-discovering Rejoined

  

  It was the week of the 2020 US Presidential Election, so nothing else really got through, nothing felt important or intense enough to break the cycle of... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Plain Bad Heroines

  

  Emily M. Danforth’s Plain Bad Heroines (aided by beautiful illustrations by Sara Lautman) is a matryoshka doll of a story. Nesting – and what a great... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• "We Did It Joe"

  It is finally done. After days of following the counting of the votes in the remaining states on the map, Biden's lead in Pennsylvania and Nevada finally... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  Not really sure what to say on this day. I remember four years ago leaving for work before the election was decided and then coming home to the result - and wha... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: October

  Non-Fiction: Anne Helen Petersen: I Can't Even. How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Fiction: Paul Tremblay: The Cabin at the End of the World. Yrsa... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Haunting of Bly Manor

  

  Jamie: The wrong kind of love can fuck you up. [...] I don’t know why so many people mix up love and possession. Dani: […] People do, don’t they. Mix up love an... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: September.

  Fiction: Seth Dickinson: The Traitor Baru Cormorant.Seth Dickinson: The Monster Baru Cormorant.Seth Dickinson: The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. Lilah Suzanne: Tack ... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtape - i Stretch My Bones out on the Floor

  

  Xanthippe Tsalimi - Endless, 2010 [via tumblr]pip blom | truth. shopping | wild child. sweeping promises | hunger for a way out. bedouine, waxahatchee hurray... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Reading Notes Act Four In Progress

  ACT FOUR: Yawa's Choice. "Mother! Mother!” “Baru,” her mother said, “your hands smell like pussy.”And thus, the tone for this final act is set. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Reading Notes Act Two in Progress

  ACT TWO31/8/20This second act of the third book did something peculiar - taking a story that has been dark and sad for so long and somehow changing course... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: August.

  Fiction: Lindsay Ellis: Axiom's End. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan: Starling Days. Celia Laskey: Under the Rainbow. Genevieve Hudson: Boys of Alabama.Alex White: A Big... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Tyrant Baru Cormorant Reading Notes (in Progress, Spoilers!)

  It is finally here! I just finished Alex White's Salvagers trilogy and the second part of Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb trilogy, but nothing is closer to my heart... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  "So often I had heard Americans say they wanted their country to be run like a business. In fact, this was one of the most common arguments advanced in favor... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  I have been finding it very difficult to put any coherent thought together about anything that is happening in the world since February - not about Covid, not... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2020 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO