Louise and I went to see Avatar this afternoon. She gave it a score of 8/10 and me 5/10. Specifically, I gave it 2 points for the plot and 3 because it looked pretty. It is difficult not to see it as a simplistic remake of Pocahontas or Ferngully on a really big budget. At best, it is a simplistic and obvious story, at worst, an obvious political ( Read more... )

So with regard to the brouhaha over the Christmas #1... First off, the only winner is Sony BMG. Second, for those of you who spent months watching The X-Factor week in, week out, and now crow about the winner not having achieved the Christmas #1, I smell a whiff of hypocrisy, and a lack of principles...

Just got an e-mail offering me "A Night at the Opera." Sadly it was from Birmingham Town Hall for an evening of opera hosted by Jennie Bond and not a message from my cell leader ordering me to go a Delta Green Op with Jennie Bond.

I seem to recall that back in 1999 everyone was running around looking to the end of one millennium and the start of another in the year 2000. Which as we all know was wrong. The last millennium ended come December 31st, 2000 and the new one began on January 1st, 2001. The fact that people got this wrong was admitted afterwards ( Read more... )

Welcome to America, heretics one and all...

I want to order the following two items: Cthulhu and The River Of Doubt and In Remote Places. The first is a novel and the second is a CD. I am not having any problems trying to order them, except when it comes to the postage and packaging ( Read more... )

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Eye have a spell checker, it came with my pea see ( Read more... )

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Normally I do even hear back from a publisher about a review. Today I heard back from a publisher -- in public.

You may have read my review of Age of Cthulhu Vol. II: Madness in London Town (http://gamecryer.com/2009/09/06/madness-in-london-town/) at GamerCryer. ( Read more... )