noeyeinpirate:

Kitten Mono-rail

someone here has the same text message ding-ding ringtone and even though I can tell that the sound is coming from across the room I’m still compulsively checking to make sure mine is set to vibrate.

This story is a couple weeks old, but I was just reminded of it again when someone checked out The Girl Who Played With Fire. I read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo over the summer, and certainly wasn’t surprised when I learned that the original Swedish title is Men Who Hate Women.

The most interesting part of reviewer Jessica Mann’s resignation is her assertion that women crime writers are the worst offenders in terms of sexist violence. She’s British, though, so she says it in a much more polished way: “The trend cannot be attributed to an anti-feminist backlash because the most inventive fiction of this kind is written by women,” she claims.

She started her column this way:

When a female corpse appeared on the jacket of a crime-writing colleague’s new book, she pointed out to her publisher that the victim in the story was actually a man. Never mind that, came the reply, dead, brutalised women sell books, dead men don’t. Nor do dead children or geriatrics.

Huh. Cheers to Jessica Mann.

Why’s this got to be $105? You’re killing me.

(via allcreatures)

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Scooter

He’s writing about the Eastern Bloc, but whatever:

It is because, many believe, we are not really in capitalism: we do not yet have true democracy but only its deceiving mask, the same dark forces still pull the threads of power, a narrow sect of former Communists disguised as new owners and managers — nothing’s really changed, so we need another purge, the revolution has to be repeated …

What these belated anti-Communists fail to realize is that the image they provide of their society comes uncannily close to the most abused traditional leftist image of capitalism: a society in which formal democracy merely conceals the reign of a wealthy minority. In other words, the newly born anti-Communists don’t get that what they are denouncing as perverted pseudo-capitalism simply is capitalism.

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CORRECTION: The Hidden came out in 1987, a full two years before the terrible murder in Twin Peaks — which makes the similarities that much more curious.

The Hidden is at the top of my Netflix queue. You remember that, right? The movie with Kyle MacLachlan as a slightly odd FBI agent helping local law enforcement investigate a series of strange murders that turn out — surprise — to be committed by a strange being who inhabits different bodies?

Yeah. When I heard myself describing it at home I thought “huh; I wonder what genius cast Dale Cooper in the role.” Then I found this scene. Note the red curtains if you haven’t already.

All that surface similarity aside (and it really is just on the surface), it’s a pretty great b-movie.

Name that movie:  six drawings per movie, in sequence, no movie stars.

I got this one.