Christmas is not over yet.  Enjoying it so far - a mix of unpacking, enjoyable food, good viewing and quality time with ( Read more... )

Title (and quote of the day)  from Neil Gaiman's awesome "I, Cthulhu."

Fuel - The Obakemono Project.  Japanese monsters and origins; eminently adaptable for lots of things.

Nice to see the United States show up in force on election night (because I was starting to wonder after the last time).  I did smile when one of the voters said it made a ( Read more... )

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Can't talk about stuff for fear of bursting the bubble.  The wall is approaching and I suspect I've had a couple of scrapes.  Things are for now stable.  Though I seem to have inherited dad's sleep gene and my blood pressure seems to be up at the moment, which isn't a good sign but going to the gym doesn't seem appropriate right now.  Not until we' ( Read more... )

Watchmen movie DVD has animated Tales of the Black Frigate with Gerard Butler as narrator.  Tonight, we dine in Davy Jones' Locker!

John Rambo.  Not your typical Rambo movie.  Let me qualify that statement.  It is a Rambo movie.  Stallone looks annoyed (and older) but then it was 20 years since the last one (which reminds me, aren't we a little ( Read more... )

Of course, following the snow in Jerusalem post, we had some here.  A little flurry but snow nonetheless.  The makes me a little happier about events at the moment which are not quite going as I'd like but like the man said 'So you want to live in a one-sided world?  Be prepared for a whole lot of hurt.'  Work sucks right now.  Anything else and ( Read more... )

...first some joker memes me as Laura Roslin now this!

Simon Pegg to play Scotty in the new Star Trek movie.

Day Watch was on at the cinema. Or so we thought. In a cunning reverse veronica maneouver, the cinema advertised it on the web site only to pull it from the screen. We walk into the cinema just before our Chinese and see...

...no Day Watch ( Read more... )