At the moment I am an extremely angry person. While I suspect this may be the ground state of my personality, I have a fairly good reason for my anger. Towards the end of last week I caught a cold, and about halfway through Saturday it went nuclear. I was dropping in and out of sleep with dreams following me and not being quite in sync with the ( Read more... )

It's weird what you notice as someone interested in current events and the different satirical approaches to them ( Read more... )

Pilfered from TypoMike.

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I'm pretty sure I mentioned having to analyse the film "Clueless" due to its plot being lifted from Jane Austen's "Emma". Well, I'm studying the novel again, and of course it is my duty to inform everybody of the link. That led to someone telling me of the connection between "Hamlet" and "The Lion King". I didn't think so much about it at the time ( Read more... )

I remember complaining about this before, but it was probably around two years ago, so I'm gonna compplain again ( Read more... )

So. I've been decently opinionated about some album I recently bought. Thought-share time ( Read more... )

I have mixed feelings about how this week went. On Monday I had a date with one of my friend's housemates. There was a lot of buildup to this involving circuses and shyness. It drags on a bit, so I'll skip lightly over it and and say that we went to see the Borat film (an obvious choice for a first date, I know) which was hilarious, moved on to a ( Read more... )

Hello USA. I've been watching and enjoying your political satire a lot recently. Turns out there's a mid-term election coming up. Good luck with that, really. Maybe your King will fall victim to that system of checks and balances he's been busying eradicating. Then again, perhaps not ( Read more... )

Do I genuinely like Torchwood? Or do I watch it because it's a Doctor Who spin-off and I'm supposed to like it? Also because sex and violence is usually a good thing ( Read more... )

1.YOUR SPY NAME: (middle name and current street name ( Read more... )