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This was going to be a post about how dating an actress can turn you into Beaker from The Muppets...
...but, the last time I heard from Bill, he was still stalking Emma Thompson around Los Angeles, so it might come across as needlessly proscriptive or cruel.
Instead, here's a placeholder Gaffney posing as gardening-based ART:
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Thinking about gamers' bodies AT ALL is probably not recommended.
Splendid headline, though ( Read more... ) -
Oh dear. Haven't heard these since the early 1980s. They'll probably sound utterly wretched now.
Marvin the Paranoid Android's (s)hit singles ( Read more... ) -
And, on the subject of Baker Street's most famous fictional resident...
...I've been asked to pre-plug Sherlock, the central concept of which will be familiar to those who remember Radio 4's Second Holmes* series many years ago, although a prime-time slot on BBC1 is likely to garner a somewhat higher profile for Moffatt and Gatiss' new contemporary TV take on Doyle's creation ( Read more... ) -
Unfit for satire?
Buried in the often deep, but generally meaningless, late-night conversations which fellow writers have with each other are nugget-like gems of outstandingly mundane common sense. These are not glorious, fiat lux moments, signalling spontaneous mutual realizations of missing elements from golden comedy formulae. They're more likely to be ( Read more... ) -
Another chance to hear...
...Mike Walker's jolly clever (and quite entertaining) semi-"reimagining" of Charles Dickens as an investigative reporter, on Tuesday at a quarter past two in the afternoon on Radio 4:
Dickens Confidential. It originally went out on the 29th of September, so of course there's a 'Net-based alternative to the steam-powered radio broadcast ( Read more... ) -
Duty call - The Time Machine.
Tonight, at 20:00 GMT (finishes at 21:40), BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting Philip Osment's adaptation of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
Details: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hr4hq
Since it's a school night, here's the iPlayer link: good radio, adaptations, linksPoor old Andrew Sachs has most recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons...
...but this afternoon, at 14:15 on Radio 4, he's "on call" (ho ho) as Doctor Watson in the latest series of The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmeshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g3t1kRead more... )