That Girl from Derwent dwells on the value of religion this Christmas.
That Girl from Derwent has learned a few more things about prejudice since moving up North.
That Girl From Derwent reckons if you're going to be offensive, you should find a better reason.
That Girl from Derwent considers why it is that some words have wider implications than others.
Youtube, as we all know, offers some of the best opportunities for procrastinators, but my favourites this week definitely include Improv Everywhere's Food Court Musical, which I not-so-secretly hope will be performed in Vanbrugh bar one day (hint, hint!).
Authored by one of York's recent graduates, Twilight Abridged is frankly hilarious to anyone who has read Stephanie Meyer's novel and/or seen the film adaptation featuring Robert "I'm so hot right now" Pattinson and relished in its sheer cringeworthyness. The video captures precisely the essence of Twilight. Look out for 4:13 "I ate a kitten's face!"-- just genius!
For all the facebook geeks out there Stalker Check may be "like so two weeks ago" but for anyone who hasn't yet given in to the I'm-going-to-post-a-list-of-my-top-stalkers-trend, the app is worth taking a look at, if only for purely statistical purposes. Like the app that once enabled you to scare people as they viewed your profile by displaying a picture of them, Stalker Check by no means violates Facebook's privacy policy and therefore does not count page views or private messages.
In fact the application has even changed names to "Fan Check" to reflect this. By ranking your friends according to "how often they interact with your Facebook wall" including "wall posts, comments, likes, gifts and other public items posted to your wall" Stalker Check/Fan Check gives you a rough idea of who you have most publically exchanged with. Obviously facebook remains a virtual networking site and (hopefully) does not reflect the true nature of friendships/relationships. Yet,these statistics do provide interesting material to analyse the ways in which the big F has overturned the nature of our relationships to one another--virtual or not.
The premises are simple: after several years' absence, Northerner DI Lewis (Kevin Whately) returns to the Oxfordshire Police and is paired up with Cambridge-educated Morse-like DS Hathaway (Laurence Fox). You will be forgiven for thinking that at first sight, that this ITV series is just another old-fashioned, boring feature-length TV show. "Why do we need another mystery series" I hear you cry.
Lewis, 2006 spin-off of Inspector Morse is not just old-fashioned crime-solving, however: it's a also a timeless study of society and crime.
The quality of the scripts is superb and the relationship between Lewis and Hathaway slowly unfolds against witty dialogue and beautiful shots of Oxford. Fans of Inspector Morse (however unlikely they are to belong to the York student body) will relish in the subtle allusions to Morse's legacy. While others will be refreshed to find a TV show that does not solely rely upon forensics (CSI).
That's all for now folks, be sure to tune in next week for some more procrastination-friendly links. Feel free to comment below or email with suggestions of your own (editor@theyorker.co.uk),in the meantime, surf on!
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