Cathy Leaves
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Cathy Leaves' Cellar Door Blog
http://cathyleaves.blogspot.com/
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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Reading List: March.
Non-Fiction:Oliver Burkeman - The Antidote. Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking.Daisy Hernández: A Cup of Water Under My Bed.Melissa Febos:... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 29/3/16 Compact Edition
Politics: On Brussels, in many ways the centre of the European Union, a place that means nothing without freedom of movement: Brussels, that magnificent... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 21/3/16
Politics: To understand Trump, looking at Western European populists provides a better framework than anything from US history. Read more
Posted on 20 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
The Obama Doctrine
The Atlantic analyses President Obama's foreign policy, and attempts to distill the ever elusive Obama doctrine from it, in this very long article (CSIS... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 10/3/16 Compact Version
Politics: China is banning gay people on television.Germany is making a second run at banning the Neo-nazi party NPD. A previous attempt failed because the part... Read more
Posted on 10 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 4/3/16
Politics:They'll start writing books in 20 years how the baby boomers managed to fuck up the entire planet for all future generations while writing snarky... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: February
Fiction:Nicola Griffith: Slow River. Nicola Griffith: Ammonite.Nicola Griffith: The Blue Place. Nicola Griffith: Stay. Nicola Griffith: Always. Kelley... Read more
Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtape - i Adore Life.
Adam Lupton [via tumblr]savages | adore. poliça | wedding. born in flamez modeselektor | tbf. thao the get down stay down. | departure. affelaye | fewer... Read more
Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 29/2/16
Politics:All the single ladies: "This is why the expansion of the population of unmarried women across classes signals a social and political rupture as profoun... Read more
Posted on 29 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 19/2/16
On the death of Antonin Scalia: This moment, with Scalia’s trademark snark, nicely sums up the paradox of how his religious views influenced his Supreme Court... Read more
Posted on 19 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 4/2/16
Politics:With his presidency nearing its end, The New Yorker asks if Obama is serious about closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay:Another, perhaps more... Read more
Posted on 04 February 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: January
Non-Fiction:Rebecca Solnit: A Paradise Built in Hell. Rebecca Solnit: A Field Guide to Getting Lost.Films:Carol (2015, Todd Haynes).Oddball (2015, Stuart... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Person of Interest
In Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom outlines in great detail how difficult it would be to programme a superintelligent AI to do... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 11/1/16
Welcome to the new year! North Korea detonated a bomb of some sorts, a situation that occurred to late to make it into the Crisis Group's Ten Conflicts To... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Carol
“Their eyes met at the same instant moment, Therese glancing up from a box she was opening, and the woman just turning her head so she looked directly at... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2016 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Serien Des Jahres
Best new show: Jessica JonesOne of the dominating features of the past few years, perhaps one of the most reliable thing about pop culture for me, has been a... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: December
Non-Fiction:Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Read more
Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Musik Des Jahres
Albums: Laura Marling - Short Movie.Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell.Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love.Howling - Sacred Ground.Tei Shi - Verde.Kendrick... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Filme Des Jahres
Ex MachinaCitizenfour (2014)Mad Max: Fury RoadClouds of Sils Maria (2014)A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)Appropriate Behavior (2014)Inside OutBonus... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Favourite Books I've Read This Year
Non-FictionMy non-fiction reading is essentially a divide between reading about technology, innovation, AIs, theories of information, and personal essays and... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO