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Here are some of the search terms people have used to find
this site over the past six months:
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full array of my Duranalyses.
teen wolf it's like
you're turning sixteen and
Ohhhh, yes, that’s one of Jackson’s many fine, fine moments
on Teen Wolf (it’s in the season one
episode “Co-Captains”), when he gives that awesomely bitchy speech to Scott
about how Scott is a pitiful excuse for a werewolf: “It’s like you’ve turned
sixteen and someone started you out with a Porsche when they should have bought
you a nice little Honda. Me? I drive a Porsche.” I can’t find the speech online
by itself, but it’s tacked on at the very end of this excellent fan video
(scored to The Killers’ “Andy, You’re a Star”, which, you have to admit, makes
a pitch-perfect theme song for Jackson ).
The video is filled with many of Jackson ’s
finest/ weirdest/ cruelest/ drunkest/ nakedest moments. I know I’m a bit of a Jackson obsessive, but
damn, that character (and Colton Haynes’s performance) was brilliant.
arrow felicity
kidnapped
Too often.
gi joe baroness bikini
Amazing, right? I love the baroness. She always made evil
look so glamorous and fun.
arrow girl wednesday
meaning
Ah, this bit of offensive awfulness. I’ll start at the very
beginning: The term “Girl Friday” originates from Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, which featured a male character
named Friday who was Crusoe’s loyal helper. From this, the phrase “Man Friday”
became shorthand for any male personal assistant. In 1940, the film His Girl Friday popularized “Girl
Friday” to refer to a secretary or female aide. It is no longer 1940, and that
phrase is now widely viewed as outdated and offensive.
…but no one told that to Arrow’s
Oliver Queen (or, for that matter, to the Arrow
staff writers), who, in the second-season episode “Identity”, revealed himself to be: a) a casual misogynist, and b) a dumb bunny when he
told super-brainy MIT grad Felicity he was transferring her from the IT
department and forcing her to be his coffee-fetching personal assistant (a job
she did not want, nor was qualified for), because he wanted, ahem, a Girl
Wednesday. Oliver sucks.
did isaac dance with Jackson
isaac x jackson
Yeah, I don’t know if you can really say they “danced”, but
in season two of Teen Wolf (“Raving”),
Isaac and Jackson did some nuzzling and grinding on the dance floor during a
rave. Then Isaac jammed a syringe in Jackson ’s
neck and knocked him out, and Jackson
broke Isaac’s arm while he was still
drugged and unconscious, and their sexy shenanigans came to a violent end.
But it was nice while it lasted. Teen Wolf is often
pretty crappy, but man, back in those early seasons, it could be glorious.
does ioan gruffud
really have an accent
Yes, though it’s not the English accent he’s using on ABC’s Forever (nor is it the endearingly weird
American accent he used back in Fantastic
Four). Ioan Gruffudd is Welsh, and has the lovely lilting tones (and the unpronounceable
name) to prove it.
laurel lance nothing a
few self-defense classes couldn't handle quote
That was in the Arrow
season two season premiere. I like Laurel, mostly, but that was a bad moment for
her: Masked gunmen had just burst into a big gala and murdered Starling City’s
mayor in front of her, and the only reason she didn’t take a bullet to the head
was because a gun jammed, and then a few minutes later she’s being all flippant
and smug to Oliver about how bad-ass she was. She is not the most consistent character, on a
show full of deeply inconsistent characterizations.
paul popowich
True story: A decade ago, one of my friends was casually
dating Paul Popowich. I told her I was duly impressed, as I’d been a
fan of his ever since he played Joe Hardy on some odd short-lived mid-nineties
Canadian TV version of The Hardy Boys.
Anyway, I was at a party thrown by this friend, and Paul was supposed to show up,
but it was growing late and the person I’d arrived with wanted to leave. My
friend insisted I wait a little longer: She’d told Paul I was a fan, and he’d
specifically said he wanted to meet me. I was mortified by this and really wanted to leave, but she begged
me to stay: “He doesn’t have that many fans!”
nick rhodes andy taylor
A thirty-year bond characterized by deep mutual respect
between two hardworking music professionals… ha ha, no, these days Nick and
Andy seem to pretty much fucking despise each other.
personal life of nick rhodes
Well, for starters, he’s been known to wear fangs in bed. I’m
going to quote from my Duranalysis of Arcadia’s video for “The Flame”: It’s deeply strange, but for all I know, this might be
a typical evening’s entertainment at Casa Rhodes. Look, everything I’ve ever
heard about Nick suggests he’s both glamorous and weird, and that’s how I
prefer it. If it turns out he spends most of his evenings playing computer
solitaire and microwaving Lean Cuisine entrees, I don’t ever want to hear about
it.
who plays griffin
childhood friend in rollerboys
Chris Collett plays Gary Lee in Prayer of the Rollerboys, and he’s pretty great in this underrated
film.
awesome spokane
Sometimes!
why does jai wilcox on
covert affairs always wears purple?
Because Sendhil Ramamurthy looks damn fine in purple. Actually, Sendhil looks damn fine in any
color, and I never especially noticed Jai wearing purple on Covert Affairs. Maybe the occasional
tasteful purple necktie?
why isnt john taylor
Because John Taylor wasn’t in Arcadia —of
the two Duran Duran side projects, John and Andy were part of Power Station,
while Nick, Simon and (sometimes) Roger made up Arcadia . John did, however, make a fun cameo
appearance in the aforementioned video for “The Flame”.
duran duran and
elephants
Magical and amazing. Nick, honey, put some pants on.
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