Amusements and Distractions

Amusements and distractions

Killings brings you our weekly selection of posts that have amused, enlightened and
generally distracted us.

Bad news for fans of household appliances, but good news for cat lovers – the iron Monopoly piece will be put to rest and replaced by a silver cat figurine.

‘I use “whom” accurately and don’t end sentences on prepositions because I’m an English professor.’ – ‘I’m an English Professor in a Movie’ over at McSweeney’s‘ is good for a chortle.

The Believer and KCRW have launched their new podcast, ‘The Organist’. Let it be cultural commentary music to your ears.

Love a good teen movie? It’s teen movie week over at Spanish publication, Transit.

What about some good, free learning? Thanks, Internet!

• Here are a stack of great articles about psychology

• Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda’s work is available to stream, for free, until 17^th February

• Wrap your brains around a bunch Philip K Dick’s stories

Groundhog Day came and went this week, so it feels like the appropriate time to continue dedicating my time to spreading the Bill Murray gospel:

• Apparently Portable agree. Here they celebrate ‘the lord Bill Murray and prophet Harold Ramis’

• Bill Murray is currently sporting some killer facial hair. Check out these chops

• Here are some interesting facts about Groundhog Day.

• ’8 brilliant true stories about Bill Murray’ – testify!

• Some great Bill Murray moments on screen – five of them in fact.

• I fully endorse the efforts of these fellow devotees: vote one ‘Bill Murray Appreciation Day’

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