Inspired by @spellingwitch2's (understandably) furious tweets about "Bridalplasty", the new TTLY AWESOME show on E!1, I have come up with the next killer format.

@Suitov: @spellingwitch2 I've had an even greater idea!1! It'll be called Last Trans Standing. The winner gets their gender reassignment paid for! #
@spellingwitch2: @suitov OMG. If they ( Read more... )

I've decided that THIS is what Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor, looks like in that Season 5 preview trailer.

That's Matt Smith, aka the 11th Doctor Who. Google Images, kindly take note, thank you.

*(That's GiS, not G&S.)

I found a really interesting article on 'camp' (as an adjective) linked in the comments of someone else's journal. I finally put some time aside to read it:

Susan Sonntag: Notes on Camp

My reactions follow, all jotted as I read. You should read the article and form your own opinions first.

Now, I don't care for 'camp' as a whole, so don't expect ( Read more... )

Booya, Daily Wail. Pwned.

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Neat Star Trek gallery on Wired, featuring Kirk cuddling some Tribbles. Much as I enjoyed the new film, I approve of their commentary's acidic tone as they point out some of its silly Hollywoodisms. (The "fresh-faced rookies" thing was irritating. Only characters over... eh, 35ish, bare minimum, are entitled to be awesome.)

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Having recently discovered radio dramas [or rather that I can listen to at least some of them without the side effects normal talk radio causes in my poor brain], I've worked my way through most of the Radio 4 Bert Coules Sherlock Holmes back catalogue, buggering my iPod's third replacement battery in the process, and now have a lot more random ( Read more... )

On Wednesday, Peter Hearty of Platitude of the Day wrote a reaction to some of the usual waah by Andrew Brown. (On which note, Brown's selective quoting is shown up by one commenter.)

My own take can be found in the comments to Hearty's post. Since I posted, though, the conversation has continued, covering the wider issue of public atheism, ( Read more... )

About blinking time...

GRRRR

'Ill' worker fired over Facebook

The death of 100% (mostly-stupid article about something that truly annoys me)

Appeal for chocolate volunteers gets - surprise! - 1,500 replies

Berlin rejects backtracking!

If I have this right, the choice was between compulsory school ethics lessons (the current policy) and the ( Read more... )

When I was a young child, on one occasion I became afraid that Count Duckula would get me in my sleep.

(Yes. Duckula. The vegetarian vampire. Yes.)

I got myself out of this by convincing myself that my bedside lamp was the functional equivalent of sunlight and all I'd need to do was turn it on to repel a vampire. This was no less logical than ( Read more... )