They are making a new Hammer Horror film
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7629245.stm
a real hammer Horror film, not a Tim Burton homage/pastiche.

No mention of Christopher Lee, being in it though :(

Damn the Large Hadron Collider has not ended the world; suppose I am going to have do the washing up after all.

the return of Rentaghost and Worzel Gummidge?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7604192.stm

Poll

13th - 19th October Chocolate appreciation Week (but why only one week?):
http://www.chocolate-week.co.uk/index.php

Boos and jeers to Virgin Rail and Network Rail, the mainline from London to Liverpool is closed this weekend, so it seems unlikely that I am going to be able to quickly run up to Liverpool to see La Machine/Giant mechanical spider ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7595486.stm
(n.b. story and picture of giant mechanical spider)

The TaxPayers' Alliance has called the outwork an 'outrageous waste of taxpayers' money'. Spokesman Matthew Sinclair said: 'Who on Earth would want ( Read more... )

Until I met moral_vacuum I would never have thought of typing "it's a wonderful life" and "Kafka" into google.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MCTjgQi-2A&feature=related

I might have got a bit interested in the Olympics (I am now looking forward to 2012). OK slight GB bias, but I feel the need for a poll:

Poll Going for gold

http://www.jibjab.com/originals/time_for_some_campaignin