Operation Quit Smoking, Part Five
Oops.
I was out yesterday, after a full month without a cigarette, with my best friend, and I may…have accidentally smoked.
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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House
July 13, 2017
Every Steven Moffat Episode of Doctor Who
(scene opens on Vastra, Jenny, and Strax)
Vastra: We need to find the Doctor! Something terrible has happened in Victorian London once again!
Jenny: But where could he be?!
July 12, 2017
Operation Quit Smoking, Part Four
When have I quit smoking?
We’ve been rewatching all of Doctor Who recently, and it makes me so happy that my vape could pass for a sonic screwdriver.
July 8, 2017
Doggett, Coates, and the “Perfect” Rape Victim
So, I recently finished up the latest season of Orange is the New Black (yeah, yeah, I know, slow on the uptake). I thought it was pretty good overall, but one subplot in particular seems to have caught the eye of a lot of reviewers and viewers alike is the one revolving around Tiffany Doggett and Charlie Coates.
July 4, 2017
Operation Quit Smoking, Part Three
It’s been just over two weeks since I last had a cigarette, and I’m finding myself turning to other things to keep myself occupied.
This has been my week; coffee and (not) cigarettes.
July 3, 2017
Fifty Shades Freed: Chapter Sixteen
In a few days time, I will be heading ACROSS the COUNTRY to visit my darling best friend ELLIE for her birthday. In penance for the carnage that shall ensue, I figured it was best to get another recap up before I’m out of commission for the rest of the week in horror and disgust of the things I said and did on that fateful day. To the recap!
July 1, 2017
Doctor Who: Trying Adventure Rounds Down Intermittent Season
Well, another season done with.
Before we get into the discussion of the season as a whole, I suppose we should talk about this week’s episode, The Doctor Falls. The Doctor ends up chased out of a city overrun with cybermen with Nardole, CyBillman, and the two Masters in tow, and winds up fighting to keep a small farming village safe from the oncoming cyber-army. It was, in many ways, an episode of goodbyes – a goodbye not just to characters, but to Moffat’s tenure over the show as a whole (yes, his kiss-off will be the Christmas special in December, but this is the last season of the show he’ll run).
June 28, 2017
Movie Review: Baby Driver
I’ve never been precious about Edgar Wright. I know a lot of people are, and with reason – for many, he was their introduction to the meta-deconstruction, putting together movies (Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) and TV shows (Spaced) that lovingly and mercilessly picked apart pop culture at the seams. I didn’t grow up on him – my meta-analysis came from anime parodies and Charlie Brooker – and came to Edgar Wright and his movies late enough that I’ve never built up a particular soft spot for his work. I like it very much, but he’s not one of my movie makers. But for a lot of people, he is, and given how much I hated his new movie Baby Driver, I can’t even imagine how conned they felt.
June 27, 2017
Operation Quit Smoking, Part Two
It’s been nine days since I had a cigarette, and I’d forgotten how weird it is to give up smoking.
This vape pen cost less than a twenty deck, and I can’t tell you how much that fucks me up.
The Cutprice Guignol 