December 2009
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11:18 @AdamBusch sure, just ask John Proctor # 21:09 @Annaleen Agree 137% on Excalibur. You know what they say: Anaal nathrakh urth va’s bethud dokhjel djenve. # 21:10 @RodneyRamsey …including the Mezzanine. # 22:07 @lizlet Did you get the matching scarf that’s so long you’ll trip and fall and break your neck at the crime scene? shipped by LoudTwitter
“Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, then, are the ultimate modern fictional...”
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And this helps me figure out why I didn’t really like the film: I’m so sick of the “juiced-up, overblown, sort-of-silly” that passes for modern storytelling...
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11:34 Fade in on a tenement building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Faint traffic noise is audible; As is the cry of fishmongers. shipped by LoudTwitter
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...”
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09: 56 @YuriLowenthal i dunno, does the novel by Sapphire take place in Neon Hong Kong and have Punky Brewster, er, Fanning? # 10:21 Support add a to your avatar now! - bit.ly/8OBp6y # 10:46 @Spytap these should help with that: www.quickstopentertainment.com/2009/12/25/holiday-havoc-the-venture-bros-2/ # 12:35 @deadlightsgirl if you missed this thing
I made, I think you'll like it. bit.ly/6gQenf # 20: 45 RT @barrymcw: RT @Patrick_McEvoy: Reason # 17 I'm not feeling like seeing Avatar: "Unobtainium". Really? (cont) tl.gd/1cvc4 # 21:41 OH: "Crime...boy, I don't know." # 21:47 @bnacker I be takin' fools down like they're name is Shareef. # 21:48 @bnacker what with my grammar and shit. er, their name #
21: 55 @meganwest i reserve the right to OH many different categories on utterance, some of which may have been scripted by A. Sorkin # 21:58 apparently, tomorrow Francesca will have a big update on what the Mets are up to. I'm hoping they've signed Cthulhu to play left field # 22:05 OH: "We don't talk enough about the romance between Leo and Fitz" # 22:20 @meganwest jeez, you want me to do EVERYTHING? you want links, you gotta buy a Cartographers for Social Equality shirt bit.ly/6gQenf shipped by LoudTwitter
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17:41 Polonius just reminded me that I should be drinking # 18:30 @matociquala did you see John Simm gorging himself on Doctor Who this weekend? The Master must be a gamma. # 18:36 @matociquala i know what you mean. my mantra has become “Trust the Moffat” # 18:59 Because Doctor Who and Sherlock Holmes weren’t silly enough, we’re about to watch Push shipped by LoudTwitter
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence, and that is activism and...”
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12:08 RT @Spytap: Pluto is still a fucking planet and brontosaurus are still fucking awesome - and I will duel anyone who says differently. # 19:57 @jamesrocchi and then there’s us, who cannot make it. but we’re looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday. # 20:34 @cecilseaskull wasn’t he the native american guy with the long glycerin tear in the environmental psa? # 21:39 @bnacker...
in which langer kills any hope that ebert could...
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—by langer:
Avatar is a bad film.
Not because it lacks any meaningful character development (which it does), not because its plot is laughably flimsy (which it is), and not because it is little more than a big-budget remake of FernGully, but because it is yet another example of b-grade Hollywood moralizing, of not very smart people with typically...
What The Hell Was That? - doctor who - io9 →
Yup, what @charliejane said #TimothyDaltonSpittle
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19:53 look on the bright side: there’s only one hour left in the RTD era. shipped by LoudTwitter
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21:14 watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” for the first time. So, the bad guy is Harry Potter? shipped by LoudTwitter
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12:45 RT @HATProject: Twitter + Home Alone = @HATProject starts at 6pm Central tonight. (Please RT) # 14:47 RT @BeTheBoy: RT @RFMartin: @slackmistress will be our guest on TV tonight to talk about @valemontu bit.ly/5eHCV3 shipped by LoudTwitter
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14: 50 @ColleenLindsay don't do it. it's slooow. I can't watch a low-bitrate video for more than 5 secs, use word & itunes at same time, etc. # 14:52 @ColleenLindsay even just writing/editing in Word and doing nothing else is a painful experience. # 14:56 @ColleenLindsay I may just have a dud. I'm sending it in to Apple for service this week. # 15:01 @ColleenLindsay its only about 5 months old. i'm really hoping it's just got a bad motivator or something # 15:02 i was so happy when I first got it, and it was so small and bad-ass that I named it Tyrion # 17:43 @BenPaddon heh, nice. # 19:31 @georgeruiz I drive past that place every day, and I always think it's called Master Chief Restaurant # 20:50 spending some quality time with the Organization of Cartographers for Social Equality # 20:58 @slackmistress y
es, I'm using a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe # 21: 16 @JSto they're KINDA real now: apps.facebook.com/causes/17188 # 21:17 @JSto John Billingsley totally nails this and makes it sing. # 21:30 @JSto @slackmistress you can get your own South Up Peters Projection Maps here: bit.ly/8DSVMY shipped by LoudTwitter
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15:50 Avatar gave me a headache # 15:57 @AlistairJeffs Aleve x 2 # 16:16 @charliejane @naomialderman strangely, @bronwensaurus had a headache before the movie that vanished during it. only to return right after. # 16:20 @naomialderman @charliejane i think my headache came from the use of Unobtanium. srsly, was the evil corporation Macguffin Industries? # 16:23 @charliejane i think in this case,...
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What Annalee said.
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12:59 Gift exchange underway. Consensus is that it’ll have a longer running time than Avatar shipped by LoudTwitter
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21:37 @bronwensaurus and I have decided that Kat Deeley and Janel Moloney should star in a remake of the notable sci-fi epic The House of Elliot. # 22:06 @LazyOxCanteen Psyched for you to open. We live in the building and have been looking forward to it. Gonna come by tomorrow for a peek shipped by LoudTwitter
“Outgunned in the specialist press, Dodgson took his mathematics to his fiction....”
– Alice’s adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved - physics-math - 16 December 2009 - New Scientist
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11: 21 For another BoingBoing short fic literary mashup contest, here are the opening lines of William Gibson's Moby-Dick: bit.ly/4HCCqX # 11:35 @bronwensaurus @meganwest Be sure to find out for me how they managed to get Rupert Friend into that little can # 16:57 @scott_walker definitely, yes # 17:56 Because what we all need is another list, here's a Transmedia-LA google group, to organize a bit.ly/6L21Fn
/p> 17: 57 @scott_walker link to group is here: bit.ly/6L21Fn retweet it to the moon! # 21:44 OMG, why didn't anybody tell me about Green Wing earlier? # 21:46 @cgreathouse well then, get thee to a Hulu, stat! www.hulu.com/green-wing # 21:55 @meganwest Well it's obvious I'm mental, then. # 22:00 @
JamesUrbaniak Green Wing and Jam, Nathan Barley and Boosh, it's like the UK is a comedy wonderland. # 22: 32 @meganwest Just watched the first episode, and could watch it again right away. And Tamsin Greig is making me wanna watch Black Books again shipped by LoudTwitter
William Gibson's Moby-Dick
Boing Boing is having another short fiction contest.
You may recall the “Found In Space” contest from a few weeks ago, for which I entered Jane Austen’s Doctor Who.
This time, the rule is to “re-write a scene from one classic book in the incongruous literary style of another.”
To wit, here is the opening of William Gibson’s Moby-Dick —
The sky...
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10:37 Christ, buddy, is that a Blue Letter?! # 16:10 @MaryaMurphy Something Nice # 18:52 Heisenberg transcoding, FTL. # 20:50 @christydena w00t! shipped by LoudTwitter
“He just makes everything you do funnier.”
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13:10 @BeTheBoy when I drink too much, the next day I sound like Jerome from the Bronx # 13:24 @BeTheBoy I am D-O-E-N DONE! shipped by LoudTwitter
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10:48 RT @vpisteve: Still looking for The Perfect Gift? Check out my suggestion in Popular Mechanics! :) bit.ly/60VejY # 14:37 has lost the ability to sentence a simple construct. # 15:38 @mikemonello the waiting period ends right…about…..NOW. Bon appetit. # 20:00 RT @bronwensaurus: We’re having a really festive take-out from Spitz kind of a Hanukkah. Soon there will be gelt and...
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10:54 RT @amber_benson: RT @dronesmovie Ain’t It Cool News Exclusive: The Official Drones Trailer: tinyurl.com/yza5ox8 (Please RT) # 15:37 @deadlightsgirl it’s my eating disorder and my fear of rectangles # 22:10 having one of those days where I feel out of step with everything around me. did I say day? I meant month. shipped by LoudTwitter
One Drawing for Every Page of Moby-Dick by Matt... →
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10:40 @CarriBugbee let me know if you find anything that does this. i’ve been having the same problem. # 19:31 At Cinespace for screening of “Yesterday was a Lie” # 20:07 @meganwest watch out for Bing - he’s such a bastard shipped by LoudTwitter
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10:42 RT @bronwensaurus: We’re going to walk over to Blossom to get some pho and to cut these GPS tags out of our necks. # 13:16 When did Tim Riggins become a Zen master? shipped by LoudTwitter
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20:55 OH: “you’re the handyman, I’m the hair!” shipped by LoudTwitter
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15:28 “Oh, is that supposed to be part of the demo?” *facepalm* # 15:37 @hensoncompany “no, I’m not hungry. I’m HUUUUUUUUUNGRYYYYYYYYY” # 15:41 @Cruftbox surprised you could hear that over the sound of me weeping shipped by LoudTwitter
“As she prepared her daughter for college, Anne Sweeney insisted that a...”
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