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  • #Shorterfilms and Being Trendy on Twitter

    For the past two years, I’ve been on the board of the London Short Film Showcase. One thing I’ve been doing is running contests on Facebook and Twitter to promote the event (next Saturday at 7pm! Come!). On Friday, I posted this pair of tweets: I figured a few local people would enter, which would…

  • Book Review: Heart Shaped Box, by Joe Hill

    Heart Shaped Box tells the story of an aging rock star with a bad habit of buying morbid and unusual artifacts. One such artifact is a box (yes, in the shape of a heart) said to contain a ghost. Spoiler alert: it does. This is a ghost story that doesn’t fuck around. It’s clear from…

  • Catapostrophe

    I have been thinking a lot about apostrophes lately. I believe apostrophes are very important blotches of ink. Last weekend, signs all over London advertised the “Kids Expo” in Victoria Park. Now see, leaving out the apostrophe (i.e., “kids” instead of “kids’” or “kid’s”) should lead any thoughtful English-speaker to doubt that this is some…