Month: November 2012

Monday, November 26, 2012
Protestant Gadget Ethic
Apple, Technology
Making sense of the iPad mini in a world that doesn’t need it.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Richard Parker, Burning Bright
Movies
More thoughts on Life of Pi, the movie I earlier said had left me with nothing to think about.
Friday, November 23, 2012
We Sold a Zoo
Movies
Life of Pi is spectacular even for people jaded by spectacle, and it might even be meaningful to people jaded by pop spirituality.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Force Majeure
Disney
Disney buying Lucasfilm is a good thing.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Ministry of Defensiveness
Movies
Skyfall is way too pretty to have such low self-esteem.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Everything Crashed Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
Television
American Horror Story: Asylum is either awful with a few moments of brilliance, or brilliant in its awfulness. Or both. Or neither.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Concern Tron
Disney, Movies
Wreck It Ralph is by every measure a movie that only Disney could’ve made, and it’s the best movie to come out of Disney Animation Studios in years.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Tabletized
Technology
Impressions of the iPad mini and Microsoft Surface, and the realization that I just don’t know what the hell is going on anymore.