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This is amazing. All the artsy Brits in my Twitter stream have been moaning about the UK Film Council getting the axe, but then the author Ian Rankin mentioned this article as a “sharp and persuasive critique”.

The Times – Good riddance to the UK Film Council, by Chris Atkins

The real scandals, however, came [...]

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Wheat & Weeds – Mad Men, Season 11

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Those of you (most of you) who don’t play this game won’t get this, but this is OUTRAGEOUS: PLANTS VS ZOMBIES IPHONE PULLS MICHAEL JACKSON ZOMBIE, OTHERS TO FOLLOW

It’s a vaguely Michael Jackson-looking zombie doing the thriller dance. What a bunch of GREEDY GUSSES.

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I love Kevin Spacey. I really do.

I think impersonations must be the best kind of comedy. One doesn’t even have to say anything funny, just a good impersonation is enough to make everyone shriek with laughter. Why is that, I wonder.

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The Times – This new Karate Kid kicks where it hurts, by Sathnam Sanghera

This is the most incredible tale of WTFness, but this really takes the cake:

One of the biggest problems with the new film is the change of setting. Instead of moving from New Jersey to California as a result of his [...]

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I haven’t seen it yet (baby), but I’ve allowed myself to break the usual Pixar-related embargo (because this is the first one I haven’t seen in the theaters since I’ve been out of school), and I think it’s probably a bad sign if I can’t get past the spoiler-lite conceptual-overview high-concept plot set-up without welling [...]

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What else could unite Trekkies, the Israeli Defense Force, and the Simpsons, all on the same day (honestly, the Simpsons one is the only one I came across because I was looking at the others; the other two were purely coincidentally and nearly sequentially discovered)

And, you know, just cuz, here’s the original Ke$ha “Tik Tok”:

Honestly, [...]

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Curtsies, who else? Vanderleun

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Mark Steyn’s Song of the Week is unique this week cuz it’s a song I’ve played. Played a lot. (We did Guys & Dolls my junior year in high school)

Steyn Online – LUCK BE A LADY Song of the Week #173 by Frank Loesser

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Lost’s Damon Lindelof pitches his treatment of the BP oil spill: Armageddoner!

FADE IN: We OPEN on Billy Bob. He doesn’t need the cane anymore — maybe he has some kind of Iron Man cyberleg or something. This will be important later. Just don’t ask me why. The phone rings. [...]

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Today I got stuck in THE WORST traffic jam, but my car has 6 months of satellite radio so I was listening to Radio One playing its late Friday night dance mixes, and the DJ announced this to be the hit dance song of the summer, Yolanda Be Cool – We No Speak Americano:

Which is [...]

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Wheat & Weeds – Agony of Agora

I was kind of excited about this movie, because last year, a few weeks before I saw the first trailer for this movie, I’d read Umberto Eco’s Baudolino, and Hypatia features rather, erm, heavily, in parts. But, oh well!

Won’t be seeing this one, as it’s a prolonged [...]

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Telegraph Blogs – Ed West: As Joan Bakewell now admits, Mary Whitehouse was right about a lot of things

She wasn’t right about everything, certainly, but as someone who grew up thinking of her as a bogeyman I can see she was right about some of the long-term effects of media sexualisation, and her [...]

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I cautioned a guy at work the other day (who’s first language isn’t English (not that you’d notice, it’s so good)) against using “pimp” as a verb, as in “pimp my ride” (except “ride” was something more relevant to where I work). I said it was a bit …negative. I’m feeling very righteous (and relieved) [...]

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And this one, because the subject is of endless fascination to me, features rather heavily the Japanese obsession with Christian churches:

I love especially the bit where she’s dipping her fingers in the holy water. I suppose it looks about the same to us as Madonna with Sanskrit all over her hands in her Yoga [...]

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