Guess what you're reading? It's the first LJ post I've made from my new office at the university. Well, I am sharing it with two other people, but since they're not here today it's MY office. The computer isn't too bad either; it might even be a bit flasher than mine at home, especially since mine has gone on strike or something and is refusing to ( Read more... )

In the news today ( Read more... )

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c
Changefest '09 - Obama's Inauguration

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview
Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

4 weeks since posting.

Man, it just feels like such a chore these days, like calling my mother. A lot of the time it's really hard to come up with a lot of stuff worth posting and when you do, it's impossible to find the effort or time to broadcast it to the world. Is it 'cause I'm not as bored any more? Since holidays began I've been devouring ( Read more... )

It only took me a few months of going there to realise that the people who frequent Digg aren't always the cream of the crop in terms of intelligence, sense of humour and creativity. Yet I can still barely believe the amount of uproar generated by MTV's apparent decision not to award Rick Astley (you know, the 'Rick Roll' guy) their "Best Act Ever ( Read more... )

Dammit, I really should've seen this coming.

Along with No Country Old Men, which was such a massive disappointment that it's put me off ever watching a new Coen brothers film again (Burn After Reading looks like the kind of stupid bullshit you'd make if you had researched the theoretical structures of comedy without actually understanding humour ( Read more... )

For fuck's sake Hell. Almost nothing offends me, but Hell Pizza's lame, "controversial" campaigns always manage to raise my ire. OK, the Hitler thing was kinda funny, but handing out condoms? Making fun of Steve Irwin's death? They might as well just launch a postcard campaign saying "We're called Hell - shocking, right? Doesn't it just INFLAME you ( Read more... )

Isaac Hayes dead at 65.

First Bernie Mac, now this? Someone better keep an eye on Samuel L. Jackson.


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That's what Johnny Rotten said about Shakespeare's Richard III (the character that is, not the actual play) in his autobiography. This week I had to plough through it for my Shakespeare Adaptation class and it's random to hear that someone like Johnny Bloody Rotten can identify with a major character in English literature and still sing about being ( Read more... )

I wouldn't have minded.