aka "Eric and Charles, the slashening".

Pretty much just one comic book reference after another, along with some giggleworthy decade-specific furnishing and fashion. The groovy sixties pads and catsuits particularly.

How many cameos can you spot when Charles tries out prototype-Cerebro?

Synopsis: Physics bows to testosterone overdose ( Read more... )

If there's a word which could describe this Robert Rodriguez film, it would be 'gratuitous'. Bucketloads of violence, nudity, gunplay, sex, stupidly over-the-top stunts, and then more of all of the above AGAIN. There were at least half a dozen times I literally laughed out loud in the theatre because the directing or the acting was just so super- ( Read more... )

I fiddled about a bit more with the toy design, and got the basic "big cat" head and robot face blocked out. They're a bit more problematic for me because they're not engineering problems, they're artistic/design issues. They could pretty much look like anything as long as they fit into the constraining box size, but they have to evoke the head of ( Read more... )

There are at least two separate chainsaws being used somewhere in the street outside. They idle for a while, then one starts, then the other, apparently attempting to drown out the first ( Read more... )

It be Talk Like a Pirate Day already in this corner o' the world.

Arr. Prepare to be boarded.

( Just as expected...? )

On the phone to Pizza Hut the other night:

ME: Can I pick this up from $localbranch?

Oh, that store, the one closest to you, has been closed.

Huh. Shows how often I order pizza. What's your next closest store to $mypostcode, so I can tell if it's going to be worth the driving distance and/or likely delivery time?

(Typing sounds ( Read more... )

Anyone doing anything for Velociraptor Awareness Day this Friday?

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