» October 2005 Archives
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
» It's just a damned popularity contest...
... but it really does speak volumes for the programme's success.
Erm, folks. I've got some bad news. It's not "cult" any more.
(and yet still, STILL, a US broadcaster refuses to pick it up. Crazy. Sci-Fi Channel, I'm looking at you.)
Monday, October 24, 2005
» OFCON HA HA HA HA
There's something very odd going down at Ofcom.
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Saturday, October 22, 2005
» More Great Comedy Moments
Remember this? Released on 19th May 2003.
So... why has it been classified again recently - 20 minutes shorter? Both versions are listed at the bottom of the page.
Odd.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
» Children's BBC: The Acorn years
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1470.html
Obviously I find this interesting because I still use a direct descendant of the BBC Micro, but I'm sure a lot of you will be too...
» Note to all porn sites
Not every black woman is a "ho".
Neither are they all from the "ghetto".
And they're certainly not "chocolate bitches".
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
» Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1
The first issue of yet another Spider-Man title hits, bringing with it part 1 of the a big spider-crossover. How many times can the word "spider" be prefixed onto concepts and still retain meaning? This latest spider-review hopes the answer is "lots."
» Google Mail
Well, this is the first I've heard about this:
We have been involved in a dispute regarding the Gmail trademark in the UK. Another company has claimed rights to the Gmail name. We have tried to resolve this dispute through negotiations, but our efforts have failed.
We are still working with the courts and trademark office to protect our ability to use the Gmail name, but in the meantime, we want you to have an email address you can rely on.
The Gmail Team is dedicated to offering the best email service to our users. Our email service stays the same no matter what the logo is or what follows the @ symbol. This change lets our team focus their time on continuing to bring you excellent service.
Monday, October 17, 2005
» Sorry Red Dwarf fans...
... but you may be about to lose the title of "Best DVD menus" :
» Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
So, who are the Arctic Monkeys? Chances are you'll have heard of them by now, hyped as they are by the majority of the music media. Put simply they are a quartet from Sheffield and they will soon be the biggest band in the country.
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Saturday, October 15, 2005
» Er, fuck
That picture contains more potential for debate than it's possible to express. Only... shit. He really isn't just making the same film again, is he? This really could be something good.
(plus, if nothing else, it confirms that the film is actually happening; I will freely admit to wondering for some time if it was going to turn out to be some elaborate hoax)
Thursday, October 13, 2005
» Teenage dreams, so hard to beat
Alright, so there's not much of it left, but it's worth marking the fact that today is John Peel Day.
» Half Man Half Biscuit - Achtung Bono
No Need For Nails, hatred of the Libertines' second album, Chris Morris references and, erm, Joy Division oven gloves. Yes, Wirral's finest are back, and their tenth album adds a refreshing dose of touching pathos to their ever-present wit to come up with arguably their best record in twenty years.
» Famous First Words
Man's first words are "I want to see Joe Pasquale".
And I thought "daddy" was embarrassing.
» Bloody bloody bloody!
I swear, if I read one more reference to The Young Ones being dated, I'll smash someone's face in.
I mean, what does that actually mean? WOW, WHAT A SHOCKER, A TV PROGRAMME MADE IN THE 80S CONTAINS A FEW REFERENCES THAT WOULDN'T BE MADE TODAY. I think you'll find this doesn't ruin the show, in Any Way Whatsoever.
NEIL: Hey, wouldn't it be terrible if we ended up having to eat each other? Like those sailors did in that film, um...We Ended Up Having To Eat Each Other.
Oh, and I want to do a sex with Lise Meyer.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
» PooHealth
http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/oct05/good101005.php
An extended advert dressed up as editorial, there. Not that this is rare - the media is filled with similar articles giving the latest "interesting" survey on something or other.
Is there any possible chance that newspapers and websites could actually decide to have some integrity and not collude with it?
Monday, October 10, 2005
» Oh dear
They Might Be Old, But They're Still Hot and Wet!
Fair play to them.
» Hurrah for Adult Entertainment!
Cor.
The Daily Show? Curb Your Enthusiasm? Provocative and challenging debate, comedy and drama from both sides of the Atlantic? Yes please.
Anyone catch any of the launch? Missed it myself, but that Blunkett thing looked interesting. I'm hoping to make The Daily Show as, um, daily an occurrence as possible, though.
» Wallace and Gromit - The Curse of The Were-Rabbit
Vegetarian Hammer Horror at its finest. Come to think of it, at its first...
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» New Thunderbolts #13
The original Thunderbolts were a group of reforming villains made up of the Avengers' biggest enemies. The new rosters clash for the first time in this issue. The question is, can the creative team do it justice?
Sunday, October 9, 2005
» Look Around You. Erm, Lou.
According to Robert Popper on the Yahoo! lookaroundyou group, the Series 2 DVD is due out mid-January. Excellent. No word on extras as yet, but I'm really hoping for some behind-the-scenes stuff, as that was one thing that was sorely missing on the Series 1 DVD.
» Completely denouncing an entire artform #28364
In the latest issue (#1142) of Private Eye, regarding a play:
"Klinghoffer was condemned on the grounds that it portrayed the hi-jack of the cruise-liner Achille Lauro in neutral, even-handed terms that failed to denounce the Arabs as devils and failed to eulogise the Jewish passenger they killed as a saint. That to have done so would have reduced a profoundly thoughtful work of art to comic-strip status was of no interest to the Wiesenthal Centre."
So, just remember kids - comics can't be "profoundly thoughtful works of art". FFS. I thought we'd got past this a few years ago?
Saturday, October 8, 2005
» What the FUCK?
I'm just watching Vic Reeves' Best and Worst of God on BBC TWO. Not only has the programme been put through a pointless filmising effect (really, what does it add to a programme like this?), but... all the clips from various comedy shows have been too!
» Hyperdrive
So, things are gearing up on Hyperdrive - shooting started last month in Manchester, the original home of Dwarf, amusingly. Here's a couple of concept sketches of the main ship, the HMS Camden Lock, with thanks to Glazy on the Starship Modeler Forums who scanned it in from SFX - click to enlarge.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
» Goodnight
A genuine wit, there. And they come along all-too rarely. The "four candles" sketch is overplayed, but he really was a master of linguistic play and trickery. And I'm a sucker for that.
» You Couldn't Have It That Much Better...
It's all too easy to be wary when four- and five-star reviews are given out to albums by bands that are as big a critical and popular darling as Franz Ferdinand are. Particularly when the much-lauded debut album, while having a couple of cracking tracks on it, was by and large a good rather than great record.
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Monday, October 3, 2005
» Back In Darkness
The Darkness's follow-up to their huge 2003 debut album Permission To Land is finally upon us. This preview looks in-depth at the known content of the album, as well as speculating wildly about everything else vaguely related.
Sunday, October 2, 2005
» Ultimate Spider-Man #83
As the "Warriors" storyline starts to wrap up, Brian Bendis is showing welcome signs of pushing USM out of the slump it's been in for the past couple of years.
Saturday, October 1, 2005
» Oooh!
Apparantly, Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash are working together again. This is excellent news - The Royle Family is one of my favourite sit-coms of recent times, as is Cash's criminally under-rated Early Doors. They're a great writing partnership, and, like many others, probably better together than apart. This'll be an interesting one to follow, what with Aherne's well-documented and worrying recent problems. Fingers crossed she's all better now...
» The Sentry #1 (Vol. 2)
The Sentry. He's one of Marvel's oldest superheroes. Mr. Fantastic was best man at his wedding. The Hulk was his sidekick. He and the X-Men fought side by side to improve mutant-human relations. The problem is, no-one except him remembers. Not even you.
» All-Star Superman
Newsarama have posted online a preview of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All-Star Superman #1, due out in November. Most of it has already been seen before in Wizard previews, but even so, it's good to see it in better quality.
» Brenda Brown: Silly Cow
Watch the latest Newswatch on 'Watch Now', from 5mins 40secs onwards.
I was keeping a straight face until she mentioned the textile industry...
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