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July 26, 2012

Sequels and adaptations in popular movies, 1936-2011

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After some off-the-cuff thinking about spin-off movies from today and the mid-century , I decided to look into the data in greater quantitat...
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July 24, 2012

Forgiving vs. belittling satires

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In falling-crime times, a less threatened populace begins to withdraw more into their own little worlds, and so don't feel as attached t...
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July 22, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises

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[Just re-reading this... pretty long, but fuck it, it's 6am and I don't feel like editing. It does cover more than just this particu...
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July 20, 2012

Is this a second era of spin-off movies?

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Of the box office top 10 movies released in 2011, 9 were sequels, and the other was based off a TV show (Smurfs). Even within the sequels, 4...
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July 19, 2012

Conspiracy theories for cocooners

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Steve Sailer has a column up about conspiracy theories since the 1960s. I've been meaning to touch on this topic for awhile, so here go...
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July 18, 2012

Gay Peter Pan-isms: Shorts, sandals, and t-shirts

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Some examples of gays being stunted at around age 10 are hard to see because normal males have become infantilized in a similar way. For exa...
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July 15, 2012

Why movies shot in anamorphic look more striking

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The two most salient changes that the visual culture undergoes during a rising-crime period are a greater use of light-dark contrast in ligh...
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July 13, 2012

Friday grab bag

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- Labelscar: The retail history blog . It's mostly for chronicling in words and pictures the decay of malls, not for kitsch value, and n...
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July 12, 2012

The loudness wars, another case of lost dramatic contrast

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Earlier I took a quick look at when the loudness wars started in recorded music, and took a stab at why they began once the crime rate star...
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