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Linkdump for August 27th

by Rob Friesel

Death to Humans! Visions of the Apocalypse in Movies and Literature: Scientific American via @johnjosephadams — though I take issue with: [1] how many movies there are (since so many movies are usually so bad); [2] The Andromeda Strain (whose scale is hardly apocalyptic); and [3] that Adams' The Wastelands collection is missing! (tagged: film […]

Dopamine

by Rob Friesel

Just don’t. Our new subscription to Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail-to-compete-with-Netflix plan has us high on the opportunity to cheaply take risks on films we’d otherwise normally stay away from. Anyway, imagine our conflict… With a title like Dopamine, how could we possibly stay away? But with a description like: …In San Francisco during the economic heyday of […]