Film Review: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Directed by Tim Burton
http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/aliceinwonderland/
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Alice Kingsley (Mia Wasikowska) faces a choice that will affect the rest of her life – whether or not to make an advantageous match with a man she does not particularly like. Instead of deciding, she takes a moment to follow a white rabbit, who leads …
Comic Pitch: Suffragettes vs. Aliens
Not Safe For Work, due to phallic aliens.
The suffragettes are named Miss Amelia Hurst-Diller, Miss Ada Verney, Mrs Elizabeth Verney (her mother), and Miss Jane van Dyke.
I could totally take the idea and the suffragettes and make it less twelve years old, too. I don’t know, this just happened.
Interesting fact: Everything here except …
Thursday Links
Section: Information Technology and Stuff
Three Google Android lessons learned the hard way by Jonathan Blum.
Steve Jobs calls iPad censorship policies “freedom from porn”. Gawker reports.
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Section: Moving Pictures
Yuki-Onna and MakeSomeLove have convinced me NOT to go see Splice. Warning: triggers for ableism, child-abuse, rape, sexism etc.
Set dressers will have their little jokes. A recurring newspaper. …
Special Link: Whitewashing in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Jake Gyllenhaal stole my identity and my video game by Sara Haghdoosti.
Thanks to Allie for the link.
You know, I didn’t want to go see Prince of Persia for a number of reasons. Number one, I have to admit, was because it was based on a video game. Number two was that the stars were …
Book Review: Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter
Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter
By A.E. Moorat
http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/36668/A_E_Moorat/index.aspx
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Young Victoria ascends the throne of England, and her first lesson as queen is this: that demons are real, and they threaten the nation in a very immediate sense. Soon, the young queen herself picks up the sword, the dagger and the spinning saw axe, and does bloody …
Note: General Sheehan Lies
This article has been discussed elsewhere, including the invisible lesbians and ban on HIV-positive soldiers in the first place. I’m just posting this to point out that Sheehan’s assertion that “gay and bisexual men are 50 times more likely to have HIV than heterosexual men” is actually a blatant, bold-faced lie.
Don’t believe me? Check …
Comic Pitch: Geeks and Dragons
Working title, first character designs, etc., anything subject to change.
The characters’ specific geek categories:
Mick – a hardcore, oldschool sci-fi geek. Knows practically everything there is to know about the history of what he calls “pure” speculative fiction and has even more opinions than data. Calls himself a programmer but works at the same supermarket …
Super Special Link of the Day: Femslash Con
Only a month to go, to date, until the International Day of Femslash and the long-planned Femslash Con! It’s not a con set in a physical space, but rather in a collection of chatrooms on the website.
Under the cut you’ll find the schedule as it currently stands, copied from the Femslash Con newsletter.
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6-645 Storycrafting- …
Thursday Links
Section: Perspectives
Cleolinda presents a thought about self-image. Link via myschyf.
More of a rec than a link, but what the hell: Wendy Cope’s poems are awesome.
Last week in patriarchy according to Tiger Beatdown.
Feminism 101 blog.
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Section: Words
Bird of Paradox explains “Gayjacking” – misgendering trans people by calling their straight relationships same-sex relationships.
Put words …
Film Review: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
Directed by Mike Newell
http://disney.go.com/Disneypictures/princeofpersia
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Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal, pretty as ever) is a street urchin adopted by the king, who is impressed by his running and jumping, and grows up as the third prince of Persia. After a successful victory over the city of Alamut, the king is …
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