February 2012
36 posts
Nikita Lalwani on post colonial wish fulfilment in... →
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Tory Cumfaces →
Terrifying and wrong and evil.
As someone said on Twitter, BURN THE INTERNET.
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Oh, word?
I’m quitting Rihanna for a while.
As for the music industry…
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Lemme just play ‘Rude Boy’ one last joyous time…
Edited to add: I am not victim-blaming here. I’m just angry that this remix was allowed to happen. It seems to me that neither Rihanna nor Chris has received any real help or support since the assault and the music industry has exploited...
“He could easily not have known, because as you can imagine, at these kinds of...”
– File this under #WTF? Henri Leclerc on Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is to be questioned today by French police investigating his alleged involvement in an prostitution ring.
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“I asked Michael why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts...”
– Ben Affleck, on the Armageddon commentary track.
(this and a number of other intriguing insights are found on Film School Rejects’ “61 Things We Learned From the Armageddon Commentary”)
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“I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself that it is...”
– Maya Angelou, in her collection of essays, Letter To My Daughter.
“Back in the days of Narnia and LoTR everyone was pretty much white, but now in...”
– Holy wow. Um… are you kidding? I can only hope so, and that this question was intended for the purpose of make me explode on the internet! Wish granted, my friend, wish granted. ;)
Yes, back a while ago the world and the fiction in the world was even more racist than it currently is. Isn’t that... 