Cathy Leaves
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Cathy Leaves' Cellar Door Blog
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Reviews of current television shows, Orphan Black, The Good Wife, Orange is the New Black, and complete reviews of Bomb Girls, Skins, Popular, Caprica, My So-Called Life, Dollhouse. Pop Culture and Politics.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 779 )
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The Expanse
In Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents, Olamina, the heroine of the story, dreams of a future where humanity focuses its talents, its aspirations, its... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Muddling of Fact and Fiction
is a tried-and-true tactic of totalitarian regimes. What’s more, when the two are confused for long enough, or when an indefatigable war on truth has been... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 9/2/17
Politics: What does it mean for American politics that cities often oppose the policies supported by both the federal government and the states they are... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Octavia Butler - The Parable of the Talents
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.To be led by a fool is to be led by the... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
75 Books to Read
"So now we have another group that uses crosses and slaughters people. Jarret's people could be behind it. Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier,... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: January.
Non-Fiction: James Gleick: Time Travel.Olivia Laing: Lonely City.Guy Debord: The Society of the Spectacle. Jean Baudrillard: Simulcra and Simulation.Breanne Fah... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence
The confusion began shortly after Trump issued his sweeping executive order on Friday night. Under its provisions, Trump suspended the U.S. Read more
Posted on 29 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
After a Week
I don't even know where to start with this. It's been a week, and if there was any doubt that this would be anything but a dismantling of established rules, of... Read more
Posted on 27 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Sweet/Vicious
Jules: I know how to do things most people don't. There is stuff happening out there and no one is doing anything about it. People are just getting away with... Read more
Posted on 17 January 2017 TV & VIDEO -
"Misogyny Was Everywhere"
Trump is patriarchy unbuttoned, paunchy, in a baggy suit, with his hair oozing and his lips flapping and his face squinching into clownish expressions of mocker... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 11/1/17
Politics: Currently breaking: unverified reports that the Russian intelligence service possesses compromising information about President-elect Donald Trump (th... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: December.
Non-Fiction: Wesley Lowery: They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.Nancy Isenberg: White Trash. The... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Music of the Year
Albums: Kate Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos.Solange - A Seat at the Table.Angel Olsen - My Woman.Blood Orange - Freetown Sound.Beyoncé - Lemonade.Savages - Adore... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Shows of the Year
Best new show: UndergroundThere is nothing I could say about this show that Shannon M. Houston at Paste hasn't said much better.WestworldHow we construct and... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Films of the Year
It Follows (2015)The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015)The Wolfpack (2015)LemonadeCarol (2015)Certain WomenStar Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 31/12/16 Compact Edition
Politics and Pop Culture: We have to resist: A Longreads interview with Rebecca Solnit. 'Did the Russian government direct a cyber campaign against the U.S. in... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year
Non-FictionClaudia Rankine: Citizen. An American Lyric.Jesmyn Ward (ed.): The Fire Next Time. A New Generation Speaks About Race.Dave Cullen: Columbine.Rebecca... Read more
Posted on 30 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - Table of Contents
Season One: The Original.Chestnut.The Stray. Dissonance Theory.Contrapasso.The Adversary.Trompe L'Oeil.Trace Decay.The Well-Tempered Clavier.The Bicameral Mind. Read more
Posted on 12 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Westworld - Because This World Doesn’t Belong to You.
Westworld: 1x10 The Bicameral Mind.Dolores: They say that great beasts once roamed this world, as big as mountains. Yet all that’s left of them is bone and... Read more
Posted on 12 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 8/12/16
Politics: The media normalisation of the Trump regime is already beginning. Welcome to the kleptocracy. This is essential reading: on resistence and... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO