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Ed Sheeran Deletes His Twitter Account After ‘Game of Thrones’ Cameo Gets Mixed Reaction While some people were delighted to spot music star Ed Sheeran in Sunday night’s Game of Thrones season seven premiere, others were less enthusiastic, arguing that the singer’s cameo struck a jarring note in
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If you saw David Lynch’s Mullholland Falls and thought, “too conventional,” then Funeral Parade of Roses is a film for you. Describing it as a transsexual love triange set in 60’s Japan makes it appear more conventional than it is. It pulls just about every cinematic trick in
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Last night’s move at the Austin Film Society: After the Fox. Peter Sellers plays a master criminal who stages a bogus movie production to smuggle a load of stolen gold into Italy. Directed by an Italian, set and filmed in Italy, partially dubbed in English, starring Peter Sellers as
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Via David Wright: Robert Mueller is superb choice to be special counsel. His reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. Media should now calm down — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) May 18, 2017 Republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair. Look who he is hiring.
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I don't want to go back to Xcode 8.
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Remember, don't believe "sources said" by the VERY dishonest media. If they don't name the sources, the sources don't exist. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016 A 'confidential source' has called my office and told me that @BarackObama has
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In light of how the Republican Congress sold the citizens privacy to the ISPs, here are a couple of reviews of VPN service. The Wirecutter: VPNs Are for Most People–Including You Macworld: Protect against potential ISP snooping by using https and a VPN Via Ken White I found two
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Trump Hotels tried to have a Twitter conversation about favorite travel memories. Twitter rose to the occasion. Here are a few of my favorite. At 18 my father fled the Nazis. 2 strangers from a youth hostel put up £200 for his UK visa. They saved his life. https://t.
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Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…” You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done. — David Slack (@slack2thefuture) January 28, 2017 For better or worse, history is giving us an opportunity to answer this question for ourselves. Think
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From a September, 2016 NY Times article on Anwar al-Awlaki, Al Qaeda recruiter: Today, with the war between Muslims and the West escalating,” Anwar al-Awlaki said in the video, “you cannot count on the message of solidarity you may get from a civic group or a political party, or the
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Today an item scrolled by on my Facebook feed that alleges evidence of 800,000 illegal votes in the 2016 election. The source of the article was the highly partisan Sean Hannity, quoting a Washington Times piece: Political scientist Jesse Richman of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has worked
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Texas Monthly round-up of Texas Women’s Marches: 50,000 marchers packed the streets in Austin; 22,000 gathered in Houston; as many as 9,000 in Fort Worth and 8,000 in Dallas; more than a thousand in San Antonio; 2,500 in Denton; at least 1,000 in