Musings of an Inappropriate Woman: You are not your sex drive: the problem with Jong. →
I’m a bit late responding to Erica Jong’s rather controversial opinion piece in the New York Times the weekend before last. If you haven’t already read it, Jong basically argues that the younger generation (by which she mostly means women in their thirties) have “given up” on sex,…
So many of the articles in Slate, etc are written by people who’ve decided that if at least three of their friends have done the same thing, that equals a worldwide trend (and not just a coincidence, or something relevant to rich New Yorkers only). Jong’s daughter doing one thing or another isn’t evidence of a problem with society. And as Hills points out, it’s not even evidence of a problem with Jong’s daughter.
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Doctor Who According to Rory Williams:
Season Five:
1. Rory Williams and That Time My Girlfriend’s Imaginary Friend Turned Out to Be Real
2. Rory Williams and That Time It Was The Night Before My Wedding
3. Rory Williams and That Time It Was The Night Before My Wedding
4. Rory Williams and That Time It Was The Night Before My Wedding
5. Rory Williams and That Time It Was The Night Before My Wedding
6. Rory Williams and That Time My Girlfriend’s Imaginary Friend Jumped Out of a Cake That Was Supposed To Have a Stripper In It
7. Rory Williams and That Time I Cut Off My Ponytail and Died
8. Rory Williams and That Time The Ground Ate My Girlfriend
9. Rory Williams and That Time I Was Erased From History
10. Rory Williams and That Time I Didn’t Exist
11. Rory Williams and That Time I Didn’t Exist
12. Rory Williams and That Time I Was Made Out of Plastic
13. Rory Williams and That Time I Guarded a Box for 2,000 Years and Then Got Married
Season Six:
1. Rory Williams and That Time My Wife Made Me Fly Across The Atlantic Ocean Because of Instructions In An Unsigned Envelope
2. Rory Williams and That Time “Fell Out of the Sky” Was a Figure of Speech, Which Was Misleading Since There’s This Other Dude That Did Literally Fall Out of the Literal Sky So It’s Not Like You Can Blame Me For Being Freaked Out
3. Rory Williams and That Time I Drowned
4. Rory Williams and That Time My Wife and I Were Terrorized by Corridors
Paul
Paul is a gentle comedy with some truly creative swearing in it, some really funny scenes, and a barrage of sci-fi references to find lurking in the details. It’s great to see Nick Frost and Simon Pegg back in action together again, although it’s a shame Edgar Wright wasn’t directing as well.
The ‘plot’ is just enough to create a movie-length chase scene, with the two guys meeting an alien, being chased by men in black, and taking a few detours to pick up a fundamentalist Christian and visit small-town America. Paul the alien is pretty much Seth Rogen by way of personality, and he gets some of the best lines in the script.
Unfortunately, the movie is a little bit *too* gentle. Once Frost’s character has a heart-to-heart with Paul, there isn’t any conflict within the group to create an emotional pull. I would have liked to see more to the main relationship than Pegg and Frost’s standard bromance-leaning-towards-homoeroticism jokes, as funny as I find them.
I’d give it 3 stars out of 5 - entertaining, but not a must-see.
Burke and Hare
An odd movie that probably seemed like a great idea on paper, but didn’t quite work out on the screen. It’s a black comedy based on the true-life story of Burke and Hare, two guys who killed several people so they could sell the bodies to a professor for his lectures in the new-at-the-time science of anatomy.
The cast is great, the script is ok. But the humour doesn’t sit well with the gruesome murder scenes and feels a little sick. The director should have chosen whether he wanted a true-crime flick or a black comedy (either would be fine with me) rather than trying to do both in the same space.
The Player of Games, Iain M Banks
(The cover of my edition is much nicer than this orange ugliness.)
What happens when an outsider plays a game designed to reflect life in an alien empire? Are games, like language, a reflection of our values and assumptions?
This is another fun sci-fi story from Banks. No real twist, not a lot of character development, but a steady pace and lots of detail about both the Culture and the Azad way of life. As with Consider Phlebas, there’s no good guy/bad guy or a moral to the story, just shades of grey and some pithy observations about what happens when there’s a clash of cultures.
I loved the drone Flere-Imsaho and really enjoyed the night on the town with the ambassador Za. The game sequences were interesting, and I thought they were better for being revealed in terms of strategy rather than as detailed lists of pieces and moves. It let me use my own imagination to see the board and pieces. The Emperor’s actions at the end were surprising but made sense in hindsight.
I’ll definitely be following up with the rest of the Culture series.
Oh my god. best picture EVER.
Not much of a Disney fan, but this is pretty funny.
BAHAHAHA
I’m actually friends with half these people LOL
WTF? Best picture ever. xD
This was taken at Supanova, Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Saturday and was printed in the Sunday Herald Sun.
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