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Fear not, no spoilers or even a review below, just one incredibly picky gripe. Sunday night I watched the third episode of season 7 of Game of Thrones, and one of the main actors, as well as one of the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Arts and entertainment
You may have seen the flash mob performing the Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the Plaza San Roc in Sabadell, Catalonia (in Spain). If you haven’t, you can find it here, and it’s definitely worth seeing, both … Continue reading
Jim O’Heir is an actor who looks something like me, or would if he grew a beard and had less hair and was shorter. And yet he got to make out with Aubrey Plaza because Aubrey Plaza thought it would … Continue reading
This article on game designers from the July 5 issue of IndyWeek (a weekly newspaper in the Raleigh / Durham / Chapel Hill area of North Carolina) is definitely worth a quick read. Just as there are scads of novelists, … Continue reading
The latest issue of Sky & Telescope has a short article by astronomy professor Andrew Franknoi on a project to address the high cost of college textbooks. OpenStax, a non-profit based at Rice University, has commissioned a series of new … Continue reading
My thanks to my friend Derek Roff for pointing out this short film, which turns out to have won a whole series of audience awards at film festivals. It’s rated “Mature” on Vimeo for dialog (language and comic references to … Continue reading
Don Rickles died May 8. Here’s Jimmy Kimmel that night, obviously very saddened by his loss but remembering his friend with some funny stories: Link: https://youtu.be/6Fpcf0HcCgU by … Continue reading
A demonstration of the modern process of movie development. The trailer at the end makes me think this is a movie I’d like to see: Link: https://youtu.be/7mlAXD-QhS0 For one thing, it has a fire-breathing giant flying robot pig in it. … Continue reading
This is from September 9, four months ago (on the 50th anniversary of Star Trek), but it’s still entertaining, particularly the reenactment of a minor classic Trek cliché: Link: https://youtu.be/OAMKtLYs0jI Takei has led an interesting life, including time in an … Continue reading
In French class in high school I heard about a popular Paris newspaper called Le Canard Enchainé, the Enchained Duck, a name that’s hard to forget. It turns out that Le Canard turned a hundred in 2016, having been started … Continue reading