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But you're not fooling me, 'cause I can see, the way you shake and shiver Up until now, I thought that the area of town that we live in was pretty quiet and safe. Now I'm not...
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For BilLy "Home From The Sea", the fourth season opener of Magnum, p.i., as described by TV Tome: It's the 4th of July, and Higgins is playing in a polo match, T.C. is taking...
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Grinding Last week, with a lack of computer access due to a busted monitor, and yet another stinking cold (I'm getting a lot of them this winter, for some reason), I managed to...
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American Local Radio In Not Awful Shocker! Minnesota Public Radio has up until recently been a bit like Radio 4. It's worthy and interesting, but not what you're after if you...
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I Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive! Our monitor blew, so we've been without internet access for a week. It was actually quite a nice change of pace, and I got some long-overdue work done....
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It Lies! Look, I understand that the new Harry Potter is a big deal for you, but Amazon, please don't bring it up as a search result when in fact I was searching for the Doctor...
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Broken Chair, Needs Fixing John Carpenter has made a handful of excellent films, a few interesting but flawed films, and quite a number of train wreck equivalents. So why do...
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With not a whiff of irony... From yesterday's paper: If you'd like to print off a copy so you can have a go yourself (and why wouldn't you?), there's a pretty large 300dpi...
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The Big Questions... Which of the following seems more right to you? "I built a house out of Lego" or "I built a house out of Legos" Meg uses the latter. I've always used the...
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They Live Among Us! It's our anniversary today (well, one of our anniversaries, but it's a long story...). I'd like to say that it's been a marriage without disagreement or...
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Definitely not dead... I hope everyone had a good Chrimbo. Not much to report from this end of things, hence the lack of recent updates. That is all. :)
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But, wasn't he born in July or something? Happy Christmas everybody. Be good, be safe, be happy.
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What this film needs is... The Flight Of The Phoenix is a film about survival, cooperation and ingenuity starring Jimmy Stewart and Richard Attenborough. The Flight Of The...
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That'll Do Pig...That'll Do. We were rubbish last year. We failed to get presents off in time, and completely ballsed up on the Christmas cards, getting only a handful out....
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Springtime For Hitler... One of the local radio stations was reporting today on Nicole Kidman's departure from the currently-filming movie The Producers. The reporter closed...
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In Space, No One Can hear You Scream... Go on then. Best movie taglines ever. That's my choice up there. Put yours in the Comments, and you might want to name the film too, for...
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First Snow
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Woodshed! There's going to be a new Evil Dead movie! Yay! Bruce Campbell and Sam Raimi are involved! Double-yay! It's going to be a remake, and Raimi and Campbell are only...
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Behold My Mighty Nutsack! Thanks to Lori and Casey for our bag o' nuts...
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Chuffed By The Darksiders Darkside Records is now up and running! They're an online record shop specialising in drum'n'bass, and I designed their logo. This has been a public...
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Eye Of The Beholder One of the things that saddens me about the current videogames industry is how it seems to br ruled by an attitude that good graphics are the most important...
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The Call Of Cthulhu! Giant squid take over the world! And to see why that might be a particularly bad thing, click here, and/or here.
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Oh Canada... Are you a disenfranchised American voter looking to leave your crazy fundamentalist theocracy? Are you too lazy and/or frightened to go anywhere truly different?...
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Two Links Before it all went tits-up, Hunter S Thompson talked about the election: "I would tell [the American electorate] that, if George W Bush wins again, the United States...
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And The Winner Is... Well, I would have voted for him in a shot.
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The Strange Thing About Jonathan Strange... The picture on the left is of Susanna Clarke, author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and is from the American edition of the book....
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For Some Reason, The Shit Won't Stick George Bush cheated to get into office. After getting in, he almost started World War III twice, and allowed the worst terrorist attack in...
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We are moved to tears by the size of this thing. I have been spending an inordinate amount of time playing the wonderful Katamari Damacy. It's great fun, horribly addictive,...
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Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads! Look America, it's official, the rest of the world thinks you're a bit dim because you voted for a retarded monkey who can't even wipe his...
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I Have The Power! John Woo is to direct a live-action "He-Man" film! Presumably, we should expect John Travolta to turn up as Skeletor... For a look at what else to expect from...