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Obligatory notice: Iron Man
1. It's awesome
2. Especially if you like Iron Man already
3. Tony Stark - not a fascist in this
4. Post-credits sequence warning: stay until the end
5. Tony Stark - not a fascist -
"So from the teams, Samantha and myself, goodbye."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/entertainment/7367385.stm
I can't even really be surprised, he was 86, but still...
Time for a game of Mornington Crescent, I think. -
"That's a doctor's surgery now, you know"
While visiting my parents they were watching some TV they had recorded, and one of the items was a documentary from BBC2's current Wonderland strand called "The Curious World of Frinton-on-Sea". I cannot really describe it in detail as words cannot do it true justice; I watched the whole thing and was still convinced by the end of it that the whole ( Read more... ) -
Chocolate presents
Our friends Julie and Dan invited us over for dinner today. So, as good guests should do, we thought about a present for them.
Well, Thorntons had the solution. They will write messages in icing on a number of their products, whatever message you like, and they sell chocolate plaques specifically for putting long messages on ( Read more... ) -
What the hell?!
Was that just an earthquake, just before 1am? The entire house just vibrated on its foundations!
EDIT: Yes it was! -
The Orange Box
If you haven't yet bought Valve's ludicrously value-packed Orange Box (which is really, really, really silly good value for money, and contains Portal, which is one of the best video games ever ever ever, no really), it's currently on sale via Steam (their digital delivery service) for a frankly ridiculous $37.45, which is about £20 at today's ( Read more... ) -
Public Service Announcement - The Flint Street Nativity
Those who may remember Tim Firth's rather brilliant TV play from 1999, The Flint Street Nativity may have seen the adverts last year for his theatre adaptation shown at the Liverpool Playhouse. I saw it last year and it was absolutely outstanding in all respects, funny and poignant in all the right places ( Read more... ) -
Holy shit
I mean, mother fucker. That's where I fucking live.
Didn't hear a thing over Harry Enfield. But talk about wanting to barricade yourself indoors.
For those who have been out of the city for a while, the Alma de Santiago is the Trendy Wine Bar formerly known as the Dovedale Towers.
EDIT: Looking out of my window right now there's a big yellow ( Read more... ) -
Transformers
aarondb, you were right. I mean, you were right about many things, but oh, you were right about TransformersUm, if anyone in Liverpool was looking to see this, yeah, I'll go and see it with you again ( Read more... ) -
Trivia
You know sometimes you find such a glorious piece of trivia that it just blows your mind?
Those of you who like both video games and music (a rarity here, I know), may remember the following single: The 1992 dance mix release of the Tetris theme, otherwise known as the Russian folk song Korobeiniki. (As the audio on this first video is rather low- ( Read more... )