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Some of the circumstances they experienced seemed to parallel those of Christians. The penguin is falling behind, like some Christians are falling behind. The path changes...
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The only new season programme we've watched so far is Fox's Head Cases, which is yet another lawyer show, but one that just about works, due to some quirky characterisation and...
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I don't really follow cricket as well as I could, and many of the mechanics (particularly of Test scoring) remain impenetrable to me, but even I understand that today was a...
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So, not only have they made Cookie Monster go cold turkey because they think it's him that's making the little Yanklings fat, rather than the omnipresence of MuckDonald's, but...
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Rhode Island, or at least the Providence bit, is a lovely place. We had a pretty good time, although we didn't get many pictures, and I failed to take the opportunity to visit...
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We're off. See you in a few days.
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From the Grauniad's rundown of the contenders for its own First Book Award:To a FaultNick Laird(Faber)Poems of family and identity by a talented new Irish poet. Poetry...
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From the top-notch comics reviews site The Fourth Rail:It sounds ludicrous that the villains, or at least some of the villains, of this piece are a pack of naked girls, but...
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So far, I haven't been hit by the pervading sickness that is blog spam, which leads me to suspect that it's somehow tied in with popularity and number of existing comments, as...
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Spider-Man. In Burberry. Ack.
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One of my great pleasures is watching trashy late night television, particularly the terrible movies that crop up past midnight. Now, seeing as a great deal of the nonsense I...
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I understand the phishing emails, the financial scams from Africa, and the ones with the fake attachments that actually download cyclopean horrors from the planet Yuggoth onto...
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My ground-breaking and controversial article Reed Richards is a C**T! (or, Karmic Imbalance in the Fantastic Four) is now up at SilverBulletComics.Actually, it's not that...
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I don't normally do this kind of thing, but it's Doctor Who, so...You are the Second Doctor: Affable, impish, andfond of simple pleasures as well as simplepranks. Your...
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He's not lying either. Tough old bastard. From Hellboy: The Island #1 (2005).
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The preliminary strike came without warning, and so subtle was it that even when we woke up the next day to find our lives shattered and changed beyond recognition, no one was...
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All-New! All-Different!I've tidied up a bit around here. Nothing major, but a lot of the functions and features I was emulating via half-inched jerry-rigged chunks of code and...
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And you thought it was just an amusing one-off. Foolish humans.Spider-Man and Dan Aykroyd appearing together on Saturday Night Live, from Marvel Team-Up #74(1978). Also...
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Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?Yeesssssss!Batman Special EditionAll-new digital transferAudio Commentary by director Tim BurtonOn the Set With Bob...
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Boutros Boutros-GhaliMeg moved all our furniture a while ago, and it meant that we had to retune the television. One channel that we didn't get when the thing was six feet from...
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A note for the proper authorYou can be as clever and postmodern as you like with the writing; in fact I welcome it. It makes things interesting after all. You can have complex,...
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We'll follow Mister Spoon...The Google satellite map service now covers the moon. Zoom in at maximum magnification to get an... interesting look at the moon's surface.
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I Wanted A KiltSo this is what Doctor 10 will look like:He looks like the bloke who drinks cough medicine in the park!
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Is it supposed to look like that?One of these things is my foot; the other two items are courgettes, both from the same plant. See if you can see which is which:
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Rings Around The WorldSo this morning, ABC had a live video feed from Singapore to cover the announcement of which city was going to host the Olympics in the year of the Mayan...
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From The Mighty Thor #358. Some dastardly bank robbers have found out that their boss is in fact a nasty Communist villain.
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I like to move it...If you only see one Christian Bale movie this summer, make it Howl's Moving Castle.
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No longer twice-nightlyRichard Whiteley died. Blimey. I'm not a fan, particularly, and I never got into that student-chic thing Countdown had, but the show is one of those...
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You will obey!Everywhere I go on the intervirtualmatrixweb, there are spoilers for the final episode of the mighty Doctor Who. The whole lot of you are evil demonic temptresses...
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Naked VideoI really don't understand these things, but Rob batonned* me, so...Total number of films I own on DVD/video:Not a lot actually, I only started to collect films in...