September 2010

1. caliph’s house reviews
2. carolyn yates
3. ted shaw mad men
4. mad men ted shaw
5. carolyn yates google

An Ontario Superior Court Judge has struck down parts of Ontario’s prostitution law. According to the National Post, “The provisions ‘are not in accord with the principles of fundamental justice,’ wrote Justice Susan Himel in a 131-page-ruling issued Tuesday afternoon. The laws ‘force prostitutes to choose between their liberty interest and their security of the…Read More

This week on Mad Men episode 410, “Hands and Knees”: Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is unbelievably screwed, but at least Don managed to get Beatles tickets. Also: abortion. The episode opens with Roger staring morosely at a duck bobbing into water when Joan comes in. She’s “late.” Really late. And Greg has been gone for…Read More

Let me put it this way: trying to recap one show is enough. Enough to stop me from posting hilarious weekly quotations from 30 Rock? No. Presenting Carol, just before take-off, in episode 1: “I’m about to take off, I’m in Landbert, St. Louis, and I can see the arch from here. No, wait, it’s…Read More

Google Instant launched September 8 and is supposed to predict what you’re going to search for before you even finish typing based on the things you’ve already searched for. Sound good? Probably. A reminder of how creepy Google is sometimes? Possibly. Unless, of course, the thing you’re typing is one of the almost 200 words on a growing black list.

The merits of zombies versus unicorns have been long discussed in literary circles, and at last, the definitive anthology Zombies vs. Unicorns, released yesterday and edited by Holly Black and Justine Larabalestier, should resolve the debate. For Team Zombie: Justine Larbalestier, Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Maureen Johnson, Carrie Ryan, and Scott Westerfeld….Read More

This week on Mad Men, episode 409: “The Beautiful Girls”: Someone drops dead in the office, Sally runs away from home on her way to the psychiatrist and ends up in SCDP, and guns and civil rights. Don is on the phone, and clears “lunch plus one hour” so they can discuss this face to…Read More