Posts Tagged ‘history’
Different, yet the same
I haven’t even started watching the new season of Big Love, which is a far better show, but I’m still excited for season 3 of The Tudors. Even if Jonathan Rhys-Meyers isn’t going to get fat.
(Seriously, how are they gonna spin Anne of Cleves if he’s just his usual greasy skinny [...]
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Tags: history, the tudors, tv
Yeah, pretty much
Oh, XKCD. I had exactly one perfunctory ‘web design’ class in college, to three drawing classes and five art history. (Don’t regret the history – I rocked that stuff – but drawing? Pah.) I also took classes in photography (though not the art dept version, that one was impossible to get into unless it [...]
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Tags: college, history
Preteen shit revisited
Sweet Valley High updated for the Gossip Girl generation. Don’t they realize that at least half the beauty of SVH is their pristine eightiesness? In my day we read books and ACCEPTED THAT THE DECADE WAS NOT OUR OWN. (See: Paula Danzinger and the 70’s.) No way are modern (pre)teens really this stupid. (Unless they [...]
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Tags: books, history
