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Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕

Today marks 20 years since 'Rose', the first episode of the 2005 'Doctor Who' revival aired, featuring Christopher Eccleston as the leather-jacket-wearing, witty and dorky 9th Doctor and Billie Piper as Rose Tyler, ending a 16 year hiatus.

Hard to believe that it's already been 2 decades. Ever since I stumbled upon reruns of Tom Baker’s Doctor, I've had a special place in my heart for this show. I'd say despite its weirdness, but it's more likely because of it. It had a limited budget, plenty of campiness, extra cheese, and lots of heart (two hearts, to be precise), and it made this combo work.

It's not for everyone, and that's OK, and it had its hits and misses since it first aired back in 1963, but at a time where so much of the current entertainment confuses cynicism and bleakness with realism, and edgy and misanthropic is presented as cool, I'm glad that shows that remain unapologetically silly, and hopeful, and sometimes sentimental, and at the same time always relevant and political still have their place. So I'm happy this peculiar little show is still around doing its thing. 💙 💙

"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying. Like you're gonna get killed by eggs or beef, or global warming or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible - that maybe you survive." - S1E02 The End of the World

A compilation of images including a promo ad with Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper in front of a TARDIS, and several screenshots from the first season of the series.
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Whitney Mallett, font aficionado extraordinaire, graces us with an in-depth analysis of a 1997 song where Kylie Minogue pretends to be a typeface. 📐🎶 Because, obviously, what the world really needed was a deep dive into the rich, cultural tapestry of fonts pretending to be pop stars! 😂💥
abcdinamo.com/news/german-bold #WhitneyMallett #KylieMinogue #FontAnalysis #PopCulture #TypographyComedy #HackerNews #ngated

Dinamo TypefacesWhitney Mallett on When Kylie Minogue Was a FontWhitney Mallett dives into the recent history of German Bold Italic (GBI), a 1997 song by Towa Tei's featuring Kylie Minogue, who sang from the…
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Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕

Last night's "it's 2:00 am and I can't sleep" watch was 'Snow White: A Tale of Terror' from 1997, starring Sigourney Weaver as the evil Queen (not really a Queen), Sam Neill in a very Sam Neill performance, and Monica Keena. It's a film I knew the existence of for quite some time, but I had never watched and didn't expect much of. But you know what? It was, all things considered, perfectly all right.

Was it a masterpiece? Not really. Did it have certain elements that make it an unmistakable product of the 90s? For sure. But it was also a solid attempt at creating a gritty, horror-themed twist to the Snow White tale that gave the Evil Queen (again, not really a Queen) more depth, multiple layers, and a (still condemnable) motive that went beyond merely being jealous of her stepdaughter's youth and beauty.

More thoughts here: fringemagnet.net/2025/03/recen

www.fringemagnet.netRecent Watch: Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
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