Pet hate #24601:

People saying that a film is a remake of an earlier film, when in fact it is an adaptation of a book which happens to have been adapted before.

Have these people never heard of 'books'?

Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not a frakking 'remake' of Willy Wonka.

Still tired ( Read more... )

I have a rather pavlovian response to spoilers, which mostly involves me going lalalalalala and either changing channel or leaving the room, rapidly, depending on the source (or yelling "shut up!" if it's from a person.

When we walked into the cinema to see No Country for Old Men on tuesday I looked up at the screen and took a moment to register ( Read more... )

This weekend, as usual, I'll be preparing a Chinese feast to celebrate the new year. We keep attendance small, but tend to invite different guests every year so that everyone eventually gets to try my chinese food (of which I'm rather proud - it's my cuisine of choice ( Read more... )

Dear sweet Lord. Thanks to wingedkami, my entire allotment of surfing time today (which should have been used to read my flist and do some archiving at tolkien_weekly) has been eaten by a surprisingly flame free literary flame war, in which a plagiarist completely failed to get the point about plagiarism and copyright infringement being crimes, and that people calling you ( Read more... )

Excuse me, Mr Gates, but I don't recall asking you to switch my mail to Windows Live. If I'd wanted to beta test your new toy I would have offered to. I don't want to. Please to be giving me back my hotmail noaw.

This new thing is slow to load, won't show me my entire inbox on one screen and I can't find anything!

DO NOT WANT!

Gah!

Bloody Channel4!

Why oh why have you ditched More4+1 in favour of C4+1? I don't really watch anything on C4, so the oportunity to not watch everything again an hour later is rather wasted on me. I do, however, watch stuff on More4, most notably, at the moment, Studio 60, which I'll miss tonight because Five are showing the season finale of ( Read more... )

Note to self: Do not get into 'debates' with rabid fangirls. Crazy!logic always beats actual!logic, and you will therefore always lose.

To paraphrase (because I was actually much more diplomatic):

Fangirl: Some bloke called David Tennant is beating Viggo Mortensen in an online 'most attractive man' poll. Viggo is clearly sexier, so the Tennant ( Read more... )

Chadwick is not currently my favourite person ( Read more... )

I had quite a busy weekend, which I'll post about later, but did anyone see the Cutting Edge on More4 last night, called 'The Dangerous School for Boys ( Read more... )