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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Links 8/4/15
Politics: What does it take for the public to care about the surveillance revelations? John Oliver interviewed Edward Snowden in Russia, and the only question... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Proxy Wars and New Deals
openDemocracy argues that Saudi Arabia's attempt to save the government of ousted President Mansour Hadi in Yemen is doomed, as he lacks any significant... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Charlie Foxtrot
The situation in the region is unprecedented. For the first time since the World Wars, virtually every country from Libya to Afghanistan is involved in a... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 2/4/15
Politics:"ISIS hardly fits that description, and indeed, although it uses terrorism as a tactic, it is not really a terrorist organization at all. Read more
Posted on 02 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent - Table of Contents
Season One: PilotThe Letting GoRollinMoppaWedgeThe WildernessSymbolic ExemplarBest New GirlLooking UpWhy Do We Cover the Mirrors Read more
Posted on 01 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent – And I Know That He Loved His Family.
Transparent: 1x10 Why Do We Cover the Mirrors.Ali: So why do we cover the mirrors? What does the bible or the Torah say about that?Raquel: It’s not in the bible... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: March
Non-Fiction: Shane Harris: @War. The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex.The Complete Rolling Stone Interview with Susan Sontag. Kim Gordon: Girl in a... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 26/3/15
Politics: The Atlantic on the US' reluctance to negotiate with its enemies. "American moral righteousness can make the act of bargaining seem inherently suspect. Read more
Posted on 26 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent - I’m Constantly Hurting You?
Transparent: 1x09 Looking Up. Relationships are often a mystery from the outside. Transparent explores them, explores what people do to each other and how they... Read more
Posted on 26 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Doing What You Love with the People You Love: Looking Back on ‘Parks and...
I’ve often called Parks and Recreation my happy place, a show that reliable cheers me up and has frequently been a source of comfort during difficult times. Read more
Posted on 23 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Doublespeak
If we are not cautious of this contagion, the ramifications will be more than merely theoretical. If the discourses are blurred, the physical uses themselves... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 18/3/15
Politics: On the IS' destruction of history in the land it conquers: "The Islamic State, he added, has invented an entirely new, ahistorical vision of society,... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black - There is No Through This. I’m Gonna Die.
Orange is the New Black: 2x08 Appropriately Sized Pots.Rosa: I always pictured myself going out in a blaze of glory. Hails of gunfire, screeching tires. Read more
Posted on 16 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 11/3/15
Politics: International Crisis Group the Islamic State, Boko Haram declares allegiance, and what this could mean.Boko Haram is the latest of about a dozen terro... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent - We’re Just a Bunch of Bodies, That’s It.
Transparent: 1x08 Best New Girl.Best New Girl is one of my favourite episodes in the stellar first season of Transparent. It takes place completely in the past ... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 04/03/15
Politics: An overview of possible 2016 Republican contenders and what they've published, while Hillary Clinton struggles with the fact that her correspondence a... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: February.
Non-Fiction: Joan Didion: The White Album. Joan Didion: Salvador.Peter W. Singer: Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century.Anne... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black – I Am an Inmate. I Have Nothing.
Orange is the New Black: 2x07 Comic Sans.Orange is the New Black is a show about the characters, but it also portrays how systemic corruption affects... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 25/2/15
Politics: If ISIS is claiming to be Islamic, they will have to construct their claim for legitimacy and their law on precedence, but how they understand that... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 18/2/15
Politics: The Atlantic with a thorough and insightful analysis of ISIS' ideology (and goes back to the profound question of whether ISIS is a rational... Read more
Posted on 18 February 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO