1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I'll respond by asking you a couple personal questions. If I already know you well, expect the questions to be a little more intimate!
3. Then you update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others ( Read more... )

1. Grab the nearest book. (N.B. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest ( Read more... )

"Apiphany:
[a-pif-uh-nee]

A sudden, intuitive insight into the nature of something
which, whilst being self-consistant and appealing, has no
grounding in reality whatsoever."

A word I invented a while back, and was provoked to finalise whilst watching Grant Morrison lecture at Disinformation, back in 1999. Seriously, listening to that was like ( Read more... )

Take off your hats, boys. Mister Wu wants to mess with your brains.Apparently, this all arose from the Bush administrations foreign policy advisors nicknaming themselves "Vulcans", after the Roman god of fire, the forge and metalwork. "Only in America", as they say ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are Venom
Venom
70%
Dark Phoenix
64%
Juggernaut
52%
Mr. Freeze
50%
Apocalypse
50%
The Joker
49%
Two-Face
44%
Mystique
40%
Magneto
39%
Green Goblin
36%
Dr. Doom
29%
Kingpin
25%
Catwoman
22%
Lex Luthor
18%
Riddler
16%
Poison Ivy
13%

Strength, disguise and adrenaline are your greatest weapons.


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So, from Friday the twenty-first onwards, I will be away on holiday. I know, I know. However will you cope? Tragically, even I need to go away from time to time, and the last couple of months have been pretty harsh, so I'm looking forward to spending Christmas "en famille ( Read more... )

Charlie Brooker
Friday June 2, 2006
The Guardian

Last week I wrote a load of nonsense about flags and idiocy; as well as appearing in print, it also turned up on the Guardian's "Comment is Free" blog-o-site, where passers by are encouraged to scrawl their own responses beneath the original ( Read more... )

Here's an upbeat guide to getting your idea on TV!

Wow. So... Torchwood. That was despair-inducingly bad. I mean, seriously. That was... fucking diabolical. The plots were dreadful, the characters were, to a man, loathsome, and the writing was almost entirely devoid of the smallest shred of intelligence. I may expand on this later, but, to summarise for the time being, and in the words of Tim ( Read more... )

Been watching the Armando Iannucci Shows, lately, so I thought I'd post some links to a few clips of his work on YouTube. You may find them moderately amusing.

The Village Sniper.

Bored To Death.

The Sunday Observer.

Home Make-over.