The Christmas Dockeroo was shamelessly manipulative, but you know what? I don't give a shit. Crimble is a time for sentiment and it fit my mood perfectly. And doesn't Gambon give good grouch ( Read more... )

Well, Crimble saw Kei wake up and somehow manage to ignore the stuffed pillowcase at the foot of his bed. He was moping about, miserable that Santa never came ( Read more... )

England are doing well at Melbourne, aren't they? Please PLEASE can we win this one?

Monday night saw a trip to Halmstad to watch AIK play away. It was a strange little stadium, a sort of park within a park. You had to pay to get into the park and then again to enter the stadium and watch the game. The whole thing had a very non-league feel with a clubhouse where you could buy coffee and sarnies, and half the folks working the ( Read more... )

Volume 6 of Adam Warren's superhero costume-ripping bondage-fest Empowered arrives from Amazon. This may be the most interesting volume yet. It lacks the emotional gut-punch or the epic action of the previous book, being more of a bridging episode in some larger arc, but it has the feeling that it's finally living up to its promise. It's growing ( Read more... )

--Fractured, said the Three Tin Ton ( Read more... )

Isn't the new Sherlock rather fun? Good stuff from the Grand Moff. And bless Gatiss for exec producing whilst snaffling up a plum role as Mycroft.

But Benedict Cumberbatch is a bit of a star...

Just got back from AIK's defeat away at Malmö in the Allsvenskan. AIK have a new Scottish coach who seems to have put the fear of God into the team. However, with little talent up front his plan seemed to run a flat back four, five across the middle and hope to feed something to the lone striker. Though they pushed forward a little more in the ( Read more... )

"Barbarossa is set in a fictional Second World War setting, where cute Nazi girls rush against Moscow to defeat the evil magician Stalin."Nubile, swastika-wearing anime girls flashing their panties in a Nazi-themed Japanese card game? What could possibly go wrong ( Read more... )

Clemmo payed a flying visit on Monday. He arrived around 9pm, so I wasn't able to get more than a few hours with him. We nattered over beer and he gave me the latest 'gen' on his researches into the Japanese animation industry in Manchuria ( Read more... )