Just sneaking this one in: the teaser trailer for Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. And if you are thinking Bzuh?! (which is admittedly very likely), here’s an explanation:
During the WGA strike ['Buffy' and 'Firefly' creator] Joss Whedon started writing a three part musical series for the internet. Each of the three episodes will be approximately ten [...]
This is really nifty: The Timeline of Fictional And Fictional Future Events.
1609: A vampire known as the Master converts a young woman dying of syphilis to fellow vampire Darla. The conversion reportedly took place in the Colony and Dominion of Virginia which at the time only included Jamestown
1620: Norville “Shaggy” Rogers’ and Scooby-Doo’s ancestors, McBaggy [...]
Today is World Wide Knitting In Public Day. That means I’ll be bringing my needles and wool to the F.O.R.K. Gala (as well as a rug and a book and my patient Other Half). Meanwhile, The G delivers a deliberately misguided attack on crafters. I’m slightly disappointed.
I’ve been reading up on D&D 4.0 and so [...]
Danish blogger Emme has a category of books she calls “matadormix” - “mixed candy”. These books do not ask much of you as a reader: they’re easy to zip through, leave you feeling slightly bloated if you overindulge and there’s a bit of everything in them. “Mixed candy”, indeed.
These past few days I’ve made [...]
All I can say is that I know and love this Terry Wogan and we had a splendid Eurovision party together.
My personal favourite at this year’s Eurovision is Bosnia-Herzegovina. David describes it as “Arcade Fire doing Rocky Horror”. It won’t win but it’ll worm its way onto my iPod.
Five other countries of note:
+ Turkey has sent a local version of Manic Street Preaches with a hefty dash of Muse. Niice. A snowball’s chance in hell, [...]
..you sit down on the sofa which bumps against the bookcase causing a Judoon figure to fall down on your head. You put the Judoon back on the shelf among the Doctor Who books (including the “Doctor Who & the Loch Ness Monster” book which you own because you live in Scotland). Then you rub [...]
If somebody could explain to me why I spend an entire day feeling excruciatingly guilty over telling my manager that I’m still ill and, no, I do not know when I’ll be back at work, then leave me a comment. I shouldn’t feeling guilty for telling the truth but I suspect it’s that old authority [...]
Sometimes I just effin’ love New Zealand. They do things differently there.
NZ man ‘used hedgehog as weapon’: “The police spokesman said the suspect was arrested “for assault with a weapon, namely the hedgehog.”
Poor hedgehog, though.
Today a gækkebrev arrived. Literally meaning “a riddling letter”, a gækkebrev is a letter in the shape of an elaborate paper cut-out with a riddle written in its middle. Sometimes a snowdrop is included with the letter, sometimes the riddle just alludes to the snowdrop.
The letter is commonly associated with Easter in Denmark and [...]
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