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 ( 781 )
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Orange is the New Black - I’m Gonna Die Here.
Orange is the New Black: 2x04 A Whole Other Hole.Lorna is one of the characters on this show that the viewer is likely to underestimate: constantly nice and... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent – You Really Don’t Wanna Be Alone, Do You?
Transparent: 1x04 Moppa.There are two moments in this episode in which somebody else names Maura – the first instance is her newfound friend, Mark/Marcy, in... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Vi Är Bäst!
One of the things that connect many of Lukas Moodysson’s previous works, especially Fucking Åmål and Lilja 4-ever, is its portrayal of adolescents navigating a... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 20/11/14
Politics: The New York Review of Books on the recent Gaza war and its fallout in the context of the history of Gaza. One of the most striking elements in the... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtapes - Once You're Gone You Can Never Come Back.
South Shore by Clark Greenwood Voorhees [via tumblr]pretty girls make graves | the number. ex hex | beast. against me! | transgender dysphoria blues. white... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent – I’m So Glad You Get to Be Who You Are.
Transparent: 1x03 Rollin.My parents moved from an apartment complex to a house when I was eleven years old. I moved with them, of course, and would only discove... Read more
Posted on 17 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
For Consideration
Some days you sit down to write … well, your focus is wandering. There is something else on your mind, and you just can’t reach the thing that you are trying... Read more
Posted on 14 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 12/11/14 Compact
Politics: A detailed overview of global migration patterns since the 1990s and Vox with an analysis of the fiscal effects of migration in the UK. Read more
Posted on 12 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent – This is a Really Big Journey That We’re On.
Transparent: 1x02 The Letting Go.Maura: Since I was a kid, ever since I was five, I felt that something was not right. And I couldn’t tell anybody, about my... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 05/11/14
Politics: Difficult to read, the NY Times has collected witness statements from people who were with the murdered ISIS hostages before their death. British and... Read more
Posted on 05 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: October.
Non-Fiction: Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation.Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others.Fiction: John Darnielle: Wolf in the White Van. William Gibson:... Read more
Posted on 31 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Transparent - It is So Hard When Someone Sees Something You Do Not Want Them to...
Transparent: 1x01 Pilot.Sometimes shows find you at the right point in your life. Sometimes they don’t and when you come back to them, after something has falle... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 22/10/14
Politics: The United States are focusing their air campaigns in Syria on the defence of Kobani, and meanwhile, an internal C.I.A. Read more
Posted on 22 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black – Everything Ends. Even Prison. Try to Focus on That.
Orange is the New Black: 2x03 Hugs Can Be Deceiving.One of the defining features of prisons, of Litchfield, is the proximity of other people. Read more
Posted on 16 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Links 15/10/14 Compact Edition
Politics: NY Mag, on drones... in great detail.New Republic has an amazing interview with US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.War games are used to... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Frank
It is a harmful and reductive misunderstanding that creative genius is directly related to childhood trauma or mental health issues. Read more
Posted on 13 October 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Reading List: September.
Fiction: Richard Powers: Orfeo. Tana French: In the Woods.Tana French: Faithful Place.Tana French: Broken Harbour. Tana French: The Secret Place.Sarah Waters:... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Random Mixtapes - i Saw You Dripping Moonlight.
Hideaki Hamada [via tumblr]caribou | our love. blonde redhead | dripping. sinkane | how we be. first aid kit | my silver lining. esben and the witch | no dog.... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Orange is the New Black – I Got a Chance Here, and I’m Doing It for All of Us.
Orange is the New Black: 2x02 Looks Blue, Tastes Red.Family as a concept makes much more sense in terms of the function it performs for everyone who is part of... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO -
Rhetorical Battles and Perpetual War
The Obama administration surely had legal and political reasons to tiptoe around the word “war,” which evokes a visceral image of comparatively massive — and... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO