March 2012
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If men really could not distinguish between frogs and men, fairy-stories about...
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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Repetition Is Not An Issue, Madame
Alan Boon, of Mills & Boon, on Sophie Cole’s writing:
Her books usually featured the heroine, a pie-eyed little girl, going down to Brighton and being seduced.
She wrote 65 novels for them, so yeah…
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Garrison Dean & Roland Emmerich Present:
2012: It’s A Disaster!!!
The trailer for the most destructorific film ever created!!!
It’s 2 years old, but just so good
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The Internet and Books Share the Same Critics
Over at PlusUltraTech, Laurence Sanders has a couple of posts detailing how the critics of the Internet and Books seem sprung from the same pool:
Part 1
Part 2
Me thinks past, present and future critics had their buttocks thoroughly prodded.
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P.G. Wodehouse's American Psycho →
I say, simply spiffing!
By Rhian Jones over at McSweeney’s.
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We always ask ourselves “why” because we look for intention around us, because...
– Douglas Adams, Parrots, the Universe and Everything, a speech given at the University of California, 2001. (via hitchhikersguidequotes)
A froody frood who would have been 60 today.
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Good Show Sir →
“Only the Worst Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book Covers”
There are brave people out there actively seeking these terrible things. Finding them, photographing them, facing the horrors. So the rest of us don’t have to.
I am grateful.
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Closer to Van Eyck →
And when this site uses ‘closer’, it means it in the ‘sticking your nose to the canvas’ sense. Brilliant! :D
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Oh, Anglophone marketing
…of Foreign Language Film, You Make Me Smile.
So, I’m at the local cinema to see The Woman in Black.* And the UK trailer for Hodejegerne, aka Headhunters, comes on. I have seen trailers for this one before. It’s in Norwegian. This is known. And how does the UK trailer deal with this fact?
It has no dialogue. Not entirely unexpected, but still…
Sneaky bastards.
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