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Monday cartoon

( Movies )

Hmm, Mondays seem to be a bit broken.
Via read at Unfogged.

Stella at the movies

Stella is on vacation in the cradle of Western civilization.

She traveled through tiny streets and the unlikely police blockades of the neighborhood of Exarchia to see a movie.

The movie theatre is open air in the middle of several apartment blocks. The fountains gurgle before the film starts and they play 70s music. It’s [...]

Thursday Playlist: Superheroes

We kind of skipped out on the whole kids’ music scene, and now that our son Jasper is approaching five it looks like we’ve left it behind. I know kids’ music has gotten much better in the past ten years, what with all the aging B- and C-list recording artists starting second careers once they [...]

Danse macabre

( Art and Death and Movies and Sex )

Bob Fosse made five films between 1968 and 1973. The first, Sweet Charity, he had directed and choreographed on the Broadway stage in 1966. Fosse won his fifth Tony Award for the choreography of this show, which starred his wife, Gwen Verdon. I was surprised to learn that the book by Neil Simon was based [...]

Did the movies totally fuck us?

( Life and Love and Movies )

Much of the TGW crowd is partnered up, and, I imagine, complete in some read-the-Sunday-Times-over-breakfast way. I live next door to two married couples and it is true: their grass is greener.
Yet for the tiny sliver of uncoupled Whatsiters – what will become of us? Will we find love? And how – how, will we [...]