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I was going to do a Batman post today, but I’ve got annoyed again, so you’ll have to wait. Specifically, I got annoyed by this , something that’s been going round on the internet for a few days. It calls itself The Periodic Table Of Irrational Nonsense, but it is itself nonsense at least as [...]
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Well, if I’d realised how many hits a blog gets just from saying “Beatles”, I’d have done that years ago. Beatles Beatles Beatles… you have a go… I do hope some of you stick around and read my other stuff (especially those of you who came linked from a Doctor Who site – I have [...]
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Sorry for the lack of posting over the last few days, but I was unprepared for the amount of vitriol that came at me for that “Ten Things…” post (not, I hasten to add, from my regular reader/commenters, who mostly kept civil, whether here or over on Charlotte’s response – and I’m very impressed with [...]
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I’ve been too tired to blog properly for a couple of days – the migraine mentioned in the last post was actually a symptom of me coming down with some minor infection – not bad enough to keep me from going to work, but bad enough that I’m too tired to concentrate. Getting a bit [...]
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Debi has a fascinating post today on ‘the FedEx arrow’ – on the way that once you’ve seen subtext in a work, you can’t unsee it, and the various reactions that can come from that. Now, I’m not really one to talk about that directly, because I can completely distance my reaction to a piece [...]
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A number of people have been posting tributes to Patrick McGoohan – all talking, of course, about The Prisoner. Here’s a selection ofthem… (Fewer people have been paying tribute to Tony Hart, but Richard Herring sums it up quite well – “Everyone’s reaction was the same, a vocalised and instinctive “oh” of disappointment”) Via Chris [...]
Filed under: Doctor Who, films, linkblogging, politics, religion, science | Tagged: linkblogging, Doctor Who, the prisoner, patrick mcgoohan, dead people, tony hart, polish film posters, william hague, tories, richard dawkins | Leave a Comment »
I’d hoped to do another proper post today, but exhaustion is getting the better of me (for some reason I didn’t sleep last night, and I’ve done a couple of longer-than-normal days at work this week). I also owe p(il)lo(c)k at least two comments and an email, which will have to wait until I’m coherent… [...]
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I had to leave work early today with an ear infection that’s left me (temporarily, I sincerely hope) almost deaf, so whether there’s a Big Finish A Week today depends on my hearing…. Tom Spurgeon’s been doing a great series of interviews with comics people, whether creators like Eddie Campbell or bloggers like Tucker Stone. [...]
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One of the better Xmas presents I got this year was Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, Anathem. I’m only around 500 pages into it (it’s 900 pages + long) but I can already enthusiastically recommend it as the best new book I’ve read all year. Stephenson is someone whose work I admire intensely (although I’m ashamed [...]
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No proper posts today, I’m afraid – I’m off work with a hacking cough, sore throat and, for some reason, aching legs, and for some reason am finding literally everything hysterically funny. I’m terribly afraid that if I try to write anything properly today, I’ll wake up tomorrow and just find a post that says [...]
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