I do love how NZ’s (awful) anti-filesharing legislation has become known all over as the Skynet Law. Hee. Maybe we need shouty Christian Bale to lead the resistance?
Two Cellos doing Smells Like Teen Spirit
How hard is it to get a cartoon into the New Yorker? Worth reading just to hear about the process involved. It’s quite something. Also: funny cartoons that didn’t quite make it!
Foreign Policy lessons drawn from hip-hop disputes.
Purely for nostalgia and laughing at fashions: SEARS 1983 catalogue.
An elegy for the age of space
As the ill-advised prequel to John Carpenter’s (ill-advised remake of) The Thing approaches, here are some Thing linky: an audio version of the story “The Things” that retells the movie from the alien’s point of view. The text is there to if you just wanna read it, I thought I’d linkied to the story ages ago but apparently not.
Also: closely-argued (very detailed) video essay about the ambiguous ending of The Thing – are there enough clues to work out the film-maker’s intention? As Mr D Ritchie of Hamiltron has pointed out, includes a slightly-too-long clip from the essayist’s student film, to the bemusement of all.
And finally, from Jenni Talula, here are the Men-Ups