Jan 03 2013
The Extraordinary Fantastic movies of 2012 I’ve seen a lot of movies this year and wanted to discuss all of them in-depth, but realized that was way too much for one post. So, to start with, this is a list of my ten favorite films of the year and a discussion of the problematic aspects …
Jun 07 2012
I cannot tell you how excited I am to be joining Freethought Blogs. Interestingly enough, I was asked to join FtB exactly 2 years after I started blogging about skepticism and atheism. I am a relatively new voice in this atheist/skeptic/oh-my-god-don’t-conflate-the-two blogosphere, though I have been blogging for 14 years. Many of you know me, …
Dec 18 2010
I’m the first to admit that sexism and lack of reasonable representations of women in movies doesn’t always bother me, especially if the movie is entertaining otherwise. The original Star Wars Trilogy, for example, didn’t pass the Bechdel test at all, but I still love them. So, my extreme dislike of the movie Tron: Legacy …
May 05 2010
The Bitter Script Reader posted some advice about how to survive to move to LA. I tried to comment over there and it won’t let me, but this is what I said. 1) Get settled so that you’re as comfortable as possible — living out of boxes makes everything seem transient. Have roommates or whatever, …
Oct 12 2009
Daniel Handler aka Lemony Snicket knows that children have the best appreciation for the imagination at work. I’m not there because I subscribe to the specious and lunkheaded notion that children are unspoiled spouters of true wisdom. (Let’s mothball that idea, next to the one that African-Americans are inherently rhythmic and Latinas can’t be on …
Oct 11 2009
This was actually really hard. I could shoot you off 100 dudes in no time, but I had to do a lot of IMDb surfing to find these. So, who am I missing? 1. Abbey Bartlett, Stockard Channing (The West Wing) 2. Ainsley Hayes, Emily Procter (West Wing) 3. Anna, Jodie Foster (Anna and the …
Oct 07 2009
There’s an interesting article over at Film School Rejects which basically lists about a hundred films directed by women. Now, I do appreciate that there are not very many women directors, or at least, not a lot of successful ones, but I do think that it’s useful to look at the entire field of filmmaking. …
Sep 29 2009
It’s not OK to drug and rape children; sex with a child is rape. People who admit to raping children and flee the country should be brought to justice. http://jezebel.com/5369395/whoopi-on-roman-polanski-it-wasnt-rape+rape
Sep 25 2009
We’ll call these people S and T. S is a manager/producer type, T is S’s assistant. F, my creative partner, has a connection with S, in that she really loved Prombies!, the short he and I made that was about erections turning boys into zombies, and she has been in touch with him a couple …
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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