160 Writerly Posts Tagged media
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May 10, 25 Delusional militia menaces weather scientists
Oct 5, 21 “Do Not Track” isn’t working
Sep 29, 21 The Imposter’s Handbook
Sep 4, 21 An RSS feed of book launches
Aug 27, 21 Vegan baking adventure
Aug 19, 21 Apple’s messy podcast subscription service
Aug 19, 21 How the climate emergency accelerates
Jul 17, 21 The time for hesitation is over
Jul 16, 21 Murderbot Diaries not quite winning me over
Jul 15, 21 Carl Sagan’s Star Wars criticisms
Jul 7, 21 The Tomorrow War is an extremely realistic film
Jun 25, 21 Ratings reversal
Jun 25, 21 Not so foreign
Jun 1, 21 Project Hail Mary ★★★★☆
May 29, 21 Gaga sings Smelly Cat
May 29, 21 Under the Skin ★★★☆☆
May 27, 21 Army of the Dead ★★☆☆☆
May 24, 21 Narcissistic flexing
May 24, 21 The Chicks vs. The Iraq War
May 22, 21 Too Like the Lightning ★☆☆☆☆
May 8, 21 Made for Love ★★★★☆
May 5, 21 Another Round ★★★☆☆
Apr 15, 21 Stephen King’s “The Tan”
Dec 13, 20 You’re welcome
Sep 25, 20 “Have you turned it off and on again?”
Aug 21, 20 SETI marches on
Jun 25, 20 It’s life, Jim, but it looks weird
Jun 9, 19 Go see Booksmart
May 30, 19 Game of Thrones: Flawed but still amazing
Mar 8, 19 The Favourite: micro review
Nov 28, 18 Astrology book in science book display
Nov 6, 18 First Man: brilliant but surprisingly morose
Oct 9, 18 A Deepness in the Sky
Jun 23, 18 Nature at it’s weirdest and creepiest
Jun 8, 18 Comedic constipation and diarrhea
Apr 26, 18 Actually “so bad it’s good”
Jan 15, 18 Chronic Pain and Tragic Irony: I started out helping people with chronic pain and now I have it
Jul 5, 17 Weird, cool Queen concert follow-up item: the crinoline thing
Jul 3, 17 Another classic band on tour: Queen this time!
Jun 3, 17 Midnight Oil again
Nov 14, 16 Done with Trek
Feb 18, 16 What are the best books about writing style?
Dec 14, 15 A domain move disaster
Dec 4, 15 2 days to watch rented movies from iTunes is not long enough
Nov 16, 15 Stressed about stress
Oct 19, 15 A rock in my throat: The story of a terrible tonsil stone
Aug 28, 15 Getting the Borderlands vibe right
May 11, 15 Caustic Soda lets ladies take over
May 7, 15 The inventor of malls
May 3, 15 Few really ask
Apr 5, 15 Doing nothing
Feb 19, 15 Lindy West’s remorseful troll
Oct 2, 14 Speak to me
Sep 2, 14 Overcast’s Smart Speed: faster podcasts that don’t feel faster
Aug 31, 14 Outlander: so far, so good
Jul 7, 14 The Sarantine Mosaic ★★★★☆
May 26, 14 No Strings Attached ★★★★☆
May 17, 14 Giger is dead
May 3, 14 After antibiotics
Apr 19, 14 Run like it’s 911
Apr 1, 14 From the Dept of No Fucking Shit
Mar 22, 14 Blindness ★★★☆☆
Mar 22, 14 Riddick-ulous again ★★★☆☆
Mar 2, 14 Enough Said ★★★☆☆
Mar 1, 14 The Abominable Science of the Cryptids
Feb 17, 14 Get Real: You Are Poor
Feb 15, 14 The Monuments Men ★★★☆☆
Feb 14, 14 Ender’s Game ★★☆☆☆
Feb 11, 14 No more dreams, please
Oct 24, 13 Pseudo-science is all grown up
Oct 16, 13 After Earth ★★☆☆☆
Oct 1, 13 Fiction & Science Fiction in Ancient Rome
Sep 29, 13 Storytelling fail
Sep 28, 13 Gamer ★★☆☆☆ Not much fun
Sep 28, 13 Admission ★★★☆☆ Well, I liked it anyway
Sep 25, 13 Marsbound etc ★☆☆☆☆
Aug 29, 13 Elysium ★★☆☆☆ Shallow & noisy
Aug 19, 13 Agora ★★★★☆ Inspiring then depressing
Aug 19, 13 Centurion & The Eagle ★★★☆☆ A pair of 2011 films about the 9th Legion
Aug 14, 13 Spartacus, Andy Whitfield, and when to worry about back pain
Jul 28, 13 So unrealistic
Jun 24, 13 The Impossible ★★★☆☆
Jun 24, 13 Oz the Great & Powerful ★☆☆☆☆
Jun 24, 13 Chasing Ice ★★★★☆
May 29, 13 Room 237 abuses The Shining and Kubrick
May 17, 13 Justice is tricky
May 9, 13 Gone Girl review
Apr 17, 13 Under Heaven
Mar 30, 13 The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Mar 3, 13 Spoiler alert! The fate of every successful species is to wipe itself out
Feb 13, 13 The Sonic Hedgehog Gene
Feb 10, 13 The Secret Origin of Windows
Feb 9, 13 Raining face huggers
Dec 17, 12 Snow White and the Huntsman: under-rated high fantasy ★★★★☆
Dec 14, 12 It’s science
Dec 14, 12 Rivalling the tragedy of wars, plagues & famines
Nov 3, 12 White Wedding, Unplugged by Ian Kelly
Aug 29, 12 Wanderlust ★★☆☆☆ Rudd does Rudd
Aug 28, 12 Wrath of the Titans ★★★☆☆ A self-aware, winking romp
Aug 28, 12 Total Recall ★★☆☆☆ Guilty-pleasure only!
Aug 27, 12 Indie Game ★★★☆☆ Brilliantly filmed, surprisingly tense
Aug 6, 12 Insecure and unhappy childhoods
Jul 30, 12 An albino, a mosquito
Jul 27, 12 More Prometheus mockery, more!
Jul 23, 12 Attack the Block ★★★☆☆ Maybe a little over-rated, but fresh and fun
Jul 14, 12 The Descendants ★★★☆☆ Nice, but enough with the ukulele
Jul 14, 12 Prometheus ★☆☆☆☆ The Alien franchise sinks even lower still
Jun 29, 12 We Die Alone
Jun 16, 12 Some people think Prometheus is a great film
Jun 11, 12 A wonderful Prometheus snark-a-thon
Jun 6, 12 Bradbury on illiteracy
May 24, 12 It is known
Apr 27, 12 The Station Agent ★★★★★ Peter Dinklage (long) before Game of Thrones
Apr 25, 12 Everything Must Go ★★★★☆ Pleasingly simple, engaging
Apr 19, 12 SolarWalk ★★★★☆
Apr 19, 12 SkySafari ★★★★★
Apr 19, 12 Ghost Protocol ★★★☆☆ Over-rated!
Mar 22, 12 Talhotblond ★★★☆☆
Mar 15, 12 A 50-soak read ★★★★☆: Grammar book read exclusively in the hot tub over more than a year
Mar 13, 12 The Way Back ★★★☆☆ A really long walk makes for sparse drama
Mar 12, 12 The Sea Inside ★★★★★ Great, but sooo depressing!
Mar 12, 12 Ponyo ★★★☆☆ Meh
Mar 4, 12 Game of Thrones ★★★★☆
Mar 2, 12 The user-unfriendly future of books
Feb 17, 12 Take Shelter ★★★★★ Easiest film to spoil ever
Feb 15, 12 Conan the Barbarian ★★☆☆☆Tedious!
Feb 14, 12 The Ides of March ★★★☆☆ A skillful film, but grim, tense and bitter
Feb 14, 12 The Guard ★★★★☆
Jan 1, 12 Sherlock Holmes: ★★☆☆☆
Dec 25, 11 War Horse ★★☆☆☆ Spielberg at his mediocre worst
Dec 12, 11 Cargo review ★☆☆☆☆ Where’s the “smart,” exactly?
Sep 16, 11 The Ghost Brigades Review
Sep 4, 11 Troll Hunter micro-review
Aug 16, 11 my xkcd picks
Jul 26, 11 When Patents Attack!
Jul 3, 11 Micro Review: Old Man’s War is pulpy fun from a fine writer
Jun 25, 11 Super 8 is about itself
Jun 25, 11 Now that’s how you make a villain! How X-Men First Class got it right (and Lucas got it wrong)
Jun 1, 11 Neat Canada goose behaviour
Apr 22, 11 Imagine better haircuts
Mar 14, 11 Ebert rips Battle: LA a new one
Mar 13, 11 Monsters Mini-Review ★★★★☆ Moody and intriguing, but a bit boring
Jan 25, 11 Reservoir Dogs in 60 Seconds
Jan 5, 11 Dawkins on the horror of the “circle of life”
Jan 2, 11 Science Fiction Fans: Lower Your Standards!
Dec 28, 10 Micro-review of The King’s Speech
Dec 24, 10 In praise of the sci-fi corridor
Dec 24, 10 An Alien Earth in the Oceans
Dec 3, 10 Happiness is …
Nov 26, 10 Ironic regulatory fail!
Nov 23, 10 Joss Whedon on the Buffy reboot
Nov 20, 10 Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be ★★★★★
Nov 16, 10 The Beatles on iTunes? Meh
Nov 5, 10 Predators ★☆☆☆☆ A weak homage
Nov 5, 10 IMDb app micro-review
Oct 25, 10 Splice ★☆☆☆☆ Not-in-a-good-way creepy
Oct 11, 10 The Earth belonged to the Martians
Oct 9, 10 Radiolab Does War of the Worlds
Oct 3, 10 Book review (and my first ebook): An Oblique Approach, by David Drake & Eric Flint
Sep 14, 10 Herding drunken, stupid cats