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• Westworld - I Have One Last Role to Play: Myself.

  

  Westworld - 2x01 Journey Into Night.Dreams don't mean anything, Dolores. They're just noise. They're not real. What is real? That which is... irreplaceable. Tha... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Good Fight

  

  We're living in a time of farce, not tragedy.I came into this season with two distinctive conversations in mind. One started with a question about singular,... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Link 11/4/18

  Politics: An interview with Chris Wylie, one of the founders of Cambridge Analytica who leaked about the firm's usage of Facebook data to target users in the... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Annihilation

  

  This is the most beautiful piece that will be written about Alex Garland's adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's novel. The way this film now reverberates through me... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 3/3/18

  Politics:‘Surveillance capitalism’ was the term coined in 2015 by Harvard academic Shoshanna Zuboff to describe this large-scale surveillance and modification o... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: March.

  Non-Fiction: Amy Fusselman: Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die.Fiction: Min Jin Lee... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Always and Never at Home

  Instead they’ve produced a metastasizing cancer by quickening gentrification, eroding the complex fabric of neighborhoods to the status of mere way stations, an... Read more

  Posted on 07 March 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: February

  Non-Fiction: Ron Chernow: Grant.Mary Gaitskill: Somebody With A Little Hammer. Fiction: Samira Ahmed: Love, Hate and Other Filters. Angie Thomas: The Hate U... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Blade Runner 2049

  

  Freeform, many spoilersTwo moments stand out in this three hour tour-de-force, so many years in the making. Early in the film, protagonist K (either from Kafka'... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  There are two things on my mind right now, disparate and hard to combine. The weird and entirely new feeling of faint homesickness, caused by the Winter Olympic... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

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  The students did not stand for this. In interviews, posts, and tweets, they brought antibodies to the info pathogens. Newtown parents, Las Vegas adults, and... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  

  Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - No Place I'd Rather BeWe're a thousand miles from comfort, we have traveled land and seaBut as long as you are with me,... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: January.

  

  Fiction: Naomi Alderman: Disobedience. Lidia Yuknavitch: The Book of Joan. Renée Watson: This Side of Home. Elif Batuman: The Idiot.Iain M. Banks: Consider... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Ursula K. Le Guin

  

  We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.Time and time again, Le Guin... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• A Random Links 25/1/18

  Politics: It represents the lengths Australia has gone to in order to cover up its colonial crimes. The country promotes a devastating amnesia about the mass... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Runaways - I Say We Have to Think About Each Other.

  

  Runaways: 1x10 Hostile.The best way to think about the two separate arcs on this show is the contrast between how the parents of the Pride and the kids of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Ground Below

  Two incredible essays, to start off 2018: In the months before, traveling around the American South for work, between Louisiana and South Carolina, I’d had who... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Runaways - If There’s Nothing Left for Us to Do Then Let’s Dance.

  

  Runaways: 1x09 Doomsday.In the historical excavation of how everyone has come to this point, what the Runaways (who have finally at least discussed this cool... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Runaways – I’m Still Here, and I Deserve the Truth.

  

  Runaways: 1x08 Tsunami.I keep coming back to this quote from the first season of Luther, where Alice is still weighing Luther up, weighing up her knowledge abou... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2018 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Shows of the Year

  

  Best new show: The Bold TypeThis top spot could have gone to Sweet/Vicious, a short-lived television show about the impact of rape culture on women who try to... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2017 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO