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Monday, October 31, 2016

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/outlander-believes-true-love-239340

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/outlander-finale-recap-season-2-episode-13-dragonfly-in-amber-roger-brianna-1201811323/

And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. --"Hamlet" Act 1, Scene 5, 165-67

Sunday, October 30, 2016

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2016/06/04/outlander-recap-season-2-episode-9-je-suis-prest/ http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/outlander-season-2-episode-9-8523114

Friday, October 28, 2016

"i think we agree more than we disagree" I Corinthians 13:12KJV: “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/outlander-search-219199#comment-2016683570

God, I love Caitriona Balfe so damned much. She's utterly convincing in every aspect of that character, and she manages to be sexy simply because of the strength and bravery which she imbues Clare with. People sometimes make the mistake of thinking that giving a woman a gun or a fight scene makes that woman a strong female character, when it's much more than that. It's about the choices they make, the things they aren't broken by, and the way they take charge of their own fate. Clare Fraser is one of the best examples of this on television at the moment.
-- Brother Anselm gets more time in the books and I wish he did here too. He's a great character because he's the only person beside Jamie that Claire encounters who has the education and imagination to hear her story. He helps her work through some of her doubts and guilt about her situation. It felt pretty rushed in the episode.
http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/outlander-ransom-mans-soul-220126#comment-2054142167

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMCfsyFB1fb/

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

outlander 111 also outlander 110 51:19
Zoey • 2 years ago I just thought this was such a lovely episode as far as the story of Jamie and Claire. Jamie looked so handsome. Maybe he because he was listening so intently to her. That's all the foreplay a woman needs. I think Claire discovers that she truly loves Jamie. That he is a true partner who believes her and puts her above himself. To have someone come in and be ready to fight his way out of a angry mob and then turn around and let you go - because it might be what you want and it would definitely be safer? How could you not want to see how that turns out. Frank couldn't even bring himself to leave his history papers to spend his honeymoon with her. beckly Zoey • 2 years ago Totally. Jamie's delivery of the protection lines in the trial with a sword held in each direction, my god. King of Men all right. How could Claire not have chosen him? But will SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME how he and Ned knew Claire was there? Another point about Claire choosing Jamie: she is a combat nurse but her job is now over with the war ended. People who work in combat zones get addicted to the nature of the work - what they do is truly life and death - and have trouble adjusting to life when they go home. I can see how Claire might be attracted to how much change for good she could do in the 18th century, it's another combat zone, it's her field. I just love it when she says things like "On your feet, soldier", applying her professional persona. So much authority. 3 • Reply•Share › Avatar Diane beckly • 2 years ago Your POV of combat nurse impact is something that has been in the back of my mind since the beginning of her life in 1700's and couldn't phrase it so well. Even if she wasn't thinking of the good she could do if she stayed, the adrenaline of survival in life and death situations is something that is more viscerally and recently familiar to her than sudden shift to civilian life in 1945. 1 • Reply•Share ›
http://tomandlorenzo.com/2015/04/outlander-the-devils-mark/#comment-1977428743

http://writingpad.com/interview-with-tv-writer-karen-hall/

8) You’ve been in the game writing longer than the average screenwriter. What’s your secret? I actually know the answer to this! Again, I have my mentor, Louis Catron, to thank. He started his classes by teaching students the importance of writing from a credo. He harped on this and made us actually write our credos. This gave me an early sense of the importance of “self as source” that I think it responsible for the longevity of my career. It is impossible to guess trends and figure out what “they” are going to be buying this year. But if I ask myself what I’m going through, what my friends are going through and what people really care about at present, I can come up with ideas that I’m excited about writing (so I don’t get burned out) and touch something in people because they are universal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/29/outlander-wedding_n_5896284.html http://www.vulture.com/2014/09/outlander-recap-season-1-wedding-claire-jamie-do-it.html http://www.vulture.com/2014/08/caitriona-balfe-outlander-claire-chat.html http://io9.com/inside-the-sadistic-mind-of-outlanders-villain-captain-1635253297 http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/outlander-caitriona-balfe-on-sex-violence-and-time-travel-20160608 http://tomandlorenzo.com/2015/03/how-outlander-finally-won-us-over/

Sunday, October 23, 2016

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/good-place-leaps-unknownand-greatness-244507

Thrasymachus Kumagoro • a day ago It was actually a good bit of acting and attention to character. I'm not sure who said it, but I have heard it said that people are liked for their strengths, and loved for their flaws and imperfections. Chidi's moral exactitude was clearly not appreciated by his girlfriend, no matter what their relationship status. Come to think of it, it speaks volumes about Eleanor's hidden depths that Chidi's moral uprightness leads his girlfriend to, at best, quiet loathing, but it leads Eleanor to say "I love you, man", and then risk her status in The Good Place to alleviate his internal torment. 2 • Reply•Share ›

Saturday, October 22, 2016

AVA

and met m m!

Friday, October 21, 2016

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/sweetgreens-nathaniel-ru-everything-last-longer/
Finally, Ru stated, it is important that sweetgreen also services its employees. The community, he said, starts with them. “Yes, we are a cult,” he admitted, with only a slight chuckle. “We want to hire not just good, but great, people, so we often use the snowball effect, hiring friends of the best employees.”

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

http://www.mscl.com/forum/f41-The_Bedford_Falls_Company.html

Monday, October 17, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/t-magazine/zadie-smith-swing-time-jeffrey-eugenides.html

I knew that already. Last winter, Zadie’s emails to me became not only more infrequent but shorter. Then things went silent, as they often do when a friend’s writing is going well. Novelists are like fur trappers. They disappear into the north woods for months or years at a time, sometimes never to reemerge, giving in to despair out there, or going native (taking a real job, in other words), or catching their legs in their own traps and bleeding out, silently, into the snow. The lucky ones return, laden with pelts.

Saturday, October 15, 2016

broad city 302, "co-op"

jrnydel gerwalk • 8 months ago (all good observations but especially) "foiled by morals and ethics" ... thank you, i was beginning to think i was crazy. the heart of Broad City - and many of the other great "friends hanging out"-comedies going - is the interaction of codependent groups of people with the world outside the simulacrum they've created for their own survival. seeing people identify with or look up to either of these characters (on a level other than "oh, there's something i should work on") worries me a bit :P http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/abbi-crushes-her-impression-ilana-broad-city-232803#comment-2534360704

first week done!

Thursday, October 13, 2016

overheard my very first spoiler

Monday, October 10, 2016

http://themuse.jezebel.com/a-conversation-with-zazie-beetz-on-atlanta-hair-touchi-1787399543

The general public having the all-around access to the internet is sort of 16 years old. From 2000 and on, that’s when things really started changing with how we interact online and I feel like we as a society are reacting to it like it’s a teenager. Like it’s new and we’re hormonal about it. We’re discovering and we’re learning how to have sex with it and be in a relationship with it or not. We just haven’t come into adulthood about how to behave with the internet.

nash day one

Saturday, October 08, 2016

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-happy-foot-sad-foot-sign I recognized the sign from the Eels song about it, "Sad Foot Sign." In the Useless Trinkets liner notes Mark Oliver Everett says, "As soon as I first saw [the sign] I developed a pathological superstition where whichever side was facing me just as I drove by would dictate the kind of day I was going to have, i.e., sad side: bad day, happy side: good day. Years later I learned that Beck lived up the road from it and had the same superstition, of course." http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/youre-worst-says-goodbye-sunday-funday-crazy-scave-243746#comment-2935963695

http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/youre-worst-says-goodbye-sunday-funday-crazy-scave-243746

But the last few minutes paw at the sublime just like the best moments of You’re The Worst. In short, Jimmy gets up on stage at the speakeasy and sings a jaunty, Sinatra-esque ballad for Gretchen, fitting the old-timey mood of the establishment. It’s a sweet gesture, but it’s bookended with Gretchen’s acknowledgment, giving the whole scene a melancholic edge it desperately needed. It’s the end of something. People change and grow up. People let go of the old and embrace the new. People find different ways to cope and accept honesty instead of avoidance. It’s another day. Say goodbye to Sunday Funday.

Friday, October 07, 2016

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/11/23/the-taste-makers https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/help-desk/waiting-on-long-island/ http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/01/patrick-cappiello-pearl-ash-grub-sheet-diet.html https://primattoo.com/2015/11/ http://www.kettl.co/blog/

Tuesday, October 04, 2016

"the right way." :)

Saturday, October 01, 2016

http://m.giants.mlb.com/sf/video/v1198639783/ladsf-pagan-scores-from-first-after-infield-single/