Category: movies / music / tv

  • Book Review: Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine Harris

    Living Dead in Dallas is the second book in Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series, and the basis for the second season of True Blood. It follows the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse, redneck vampire fucker, as stuff happens to her in her small hometown of Bon Temps, then different stuff happens in the titular (bwahah, tit)…

  • Ugly Conservative Cake, and It’s a Small World, After All

    Recently, this appeared in my inbox: You may not remember me-and it’s totally okay if you don’t-but my name’s Aimee. […] I found your blog because my Google reader recommended it based on my other reading habits. It turns out it was right, I was interested because I’ve met you and you are, in fact,…

  • Stick It In My Plot Hole

    A criticism I often hear about movies is that they are full of plot holes. But I wonder how many of these gripes are about genuine plot holes, and how many are more about the griper’s lack of imagination. A genuine plot hole is an inconsistency that is integral to making sense of the plot,…