He got it. :)
Author: mizkit
More on genderflipping
After last week’s post on genderflipped covers, my friend Flit dug up an article she remembered reading about a a bias study regarding female playwrights. The article is well worth reading, but for the TL;DR folk among us (sorry, I only just learned that TL;DR meant “too long; didn’t read”, so now I have to use it at least once), the take-away is “in an as-controlled study as is possible, it turns out women discriminate against female playwrights more strongly than men do, even though plays written by women make…
Kitsnaps: Idolatry
I don’t remember which church or cathedral this is (Kate might know–it could be the Kinsale church), but we stood around gapint at the ceiling for quite a long time. This is the…there’s a special word for it, but I donno what it is. The dome above the altar and all. I was looking straight upward to take the picture.
Picoreview: Emma (Kate Beckinsale version)
Picoreview: Emma (Kate Beckinsale tv movie version, 1997): flawed, but not quite in the right ways. I just re-read EMMA last year, so the narrative is fairly fresh in my mind. The real problem with Kate Beckinsale’s Emma is that with one painful exception, Emma doesn’t come across as nearly as awful as she is in the book. Too much of her meddling and the emotional turmoil thereof is left off the screen for brevity’s sake, so I was left feeling she was more…misguided, rather than downright dreadful, which she…
Best music video ever.
To quote someone on Twitter, “There’s a man in space posting David Bowie covers to his YouTube account and some people still need hover boards for it to be the future.” Bowie’s response? “CHRIS HADFIELD SINGS SPACE ODDITY IN SPACE! “Hallo Spaceboy…”” Commander Chris Hadfield is the best thing to happen to space exploration in decades, possibly ever. I hope he and his crew come home safely today.