There's a fandom meme doing the rounds, so I thought I'd just do the first bit of it ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 43

I had envisaged that my 100 things posts would involve lots of me talking about stuff I'm interested in. And I still want them to, it's just that right now I'm overburdened with work/illness, so as a substitute have some more links to some (IMO) very interesting articles.

1) Economic

Debt cancellation in ancient ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 24

Another shortish post, because I'm up to my eyeballs in indexing. (Warning: this post contains repeated uses of words like 'amazing', 'cool' and 'awesome'. Basically, this is me in Indiana Jones mood.)

I thought I would just mention how awesome the Terracotta Army is (before you ask, no, sadly I never did make it ( Read more... )

Your main fandom of the year?

Despite expectations (i.e. that Dr Who would be amazing), I think I've ended up fangirling Downton Abbey and antiques shows the most.

Your favorite film watched this year?Well, favourite new film: Taken. Favourite rewatched film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (Have gone a whole year without seeing Star Wars ( Read more... )

I finally saw Indiana Jones! W00tage! Cue leather whip and hat, and a review...

( A bit Roswell (this is probably a spoiler) )

Just some snippets to tickle you in various ways...

- Carry On Soundboard ("Big Dick", "Saucy!" and so on)

- Just when you thought George A Romero wouldn't make any more zombies movies (you realise he already has)

- The new X Files film will be of the standalone variety (with pictures)

- Free Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( Read more... )

There seem to be lots of bits of new drama around at the moment. The State Within, for example (I watched some of the first one, and it was boring and not very good, however easy on the eye Jason Isaacs might be). Mostly I've been avoiding these new things ( Read more... )