On I Beg You Hold-Outs To Join Me In Watching 'Doctor Who'
@YesIsAWorld There may also be a website where you can watch most episodes instantly, that may or may not get taken down every once in a while but usually goes back up! I've heard it's called Watch Doctor Who or something.
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On False Nostalgia: How VH1 Ruined the Taste of a Generation
Tron is so good, SO GOOD.
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On False Nostalgia: How VH1 Ruined the Taste of a Generation
I too Love Tron. It's beautiful. It's great. It was also groundbreaking, visual effects-wise.
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On Is The Internet Making Us All Crazy Or Just Me?
This is also noticeable when you take text or conversation out of the internet and put it in print. I recently used a question from yahoo.answers.com for some text in a zine I made (yes, zine), and seeing the question in print on paper was so sad, like the O.P. was dead and their voice just an echo. Or at least it became so clearly human and lonely. There was something horrible about it. Maybe because it was unplugged from that place in the internet where your voice is You, your avatar, your body, your cybersoul (cyber!). Like that place in Neuromancer where everything is cubes and grids, and kind of slippery.
I definitely have this feeling when g-chatting, and a noticeable "unplugging" feeling when ending a chat. It's creepy even if you are all for the post-human evolution.
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On MGMT, "Congratulations"
The temple briefly glimpsed in this video was based on a drawing by a friend of mine, really: http://joshslaterstudio.com/home.html
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On 'Mockingjay': Is It YA That Makes You Stupider or Smarter?
Actually, those books might straight up be for kids, dang.
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On 'Mockingjay': Is It YA That Makes You Stupider or Smarter?
This is why I'll soon cave to getting a Kindle, so I never have to feel embarrassed about the book I'm reading on the subway ever again, or do such things as read the final Harry Potter minus the cover, perhaps hidden behind my bag, hoping no one is looking. To read in private, kind of! Also, because sometimes one wants to re-read His Dark Materials when one is in-between "adult" books, and there's a giant picture of a cute polar bear on the front.
Also, another notable YA series is The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper. You can literally read those things in ten seconds each but they're super dreamy and really enjoyable. Another horrible movie adaptation here.
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On The Most-Stolen Books At McNally Jackson
I hear he always says this when he's discovered.
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On Satchels, Totes and Cases! Whatever Shall a Man Carry?
I think it looks kind of silly when I see a guy in the morning going to work, no jacket or sweater over his button-up, maybe wearing some kind of thinner-material H&M office pants, with his keys, iphone, wallet and potentially more, all crammed into his pockets creating odd lumps on the tops of his thighs. I begin to worry about him, what if it rains later, or gets cold? What if he needs a pencil? Hopefully he's not also carrying a pencil in his pocket. How will he sit comfortably on the subway? What ever will he do with his hands until he gets to work? He has left the house with nothing.
I'm a woman, and I've always carried a bag and sometimes I actually need the things inside of it!