Just caught a rather interesting programme on Channel 4 - UFOs: The Secret Evidence, presented by Nick Cook (I had a minor moment of panic when I couldn't remember whether he was the ex-MoD guy, the UFO crash recovery specialist and investigative journalist or the defence journalist - it was the latter - , all of which proves that there are too ( Read more... )

Ok, so this year's Eurovision winners, Lordi of Finland, have to be about the coolest I've seen on that show for a long time. It was like someone had taken a group of Klingons and shown them a tape of a GWAR concert ( Read more... )

In two-and-a-half hours' time I'll be sitting down with pizza, ice cream and alcohol to watch 23 European countries (including England) make utter fools of themselves in the form of song and dance.

And this year, you can join in even if youre not in Europe, as there's a live webcast from the official website this year ( Read more... )

People are getting dumber, it seems, and I can prove it by looking at MastermindI can remember watching this when I was much, much younger, and seeing the contestants, with their ridiculously obscure specialist subjects, routinely getting overall scores into the 20s and sometimes even up to 30, and barely passing on everything ( Read more... )

My knees feel like someone's gone at them with a sledgehammer. Actually, they've been feeling like this for several days now, which has made going upstairs to see Nick or go to the bathroom a pretty interesting experience. If they get much worse I think I'm actually going to have to start taking painkillers for them (which is something I've been ( Read more... )

I've just seen David Blunkett on Crimewatch.

Apparently he's been defrauded/conned/robbed of £8,000...

By a group of Nigerian conmen.

The laughter will go on into the night.

Nick has two new obsessions in his life: Family Guy and eBay.

Do they have an Internet Auction-buyers Anonymous, or am I just going to have to club him over the head and tie him up somewhere away from net access for a few days?

Also, I just read that the Red Ranger from the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers is allegedly doing gay porn. Kind ( Read more... )

The BBC is showing a documentary on one of the 'Satanic Child Abuse' scares of the early 90s

That's something for me to be watching tonight...

Now, to work out why my phone has started disconnecting people the moment I answer it...

I was up way too late watching TV last night.

It all started off innocently enough. Channel 5 were showing 'Salem's Lot (the original 1979) version), followed by Fright Night. Since I like both movies, and hadn't seen them in a while, I decided to settle down and watch them.

(I was also videoing Fright Night for Nick as it's one of his 'guilty ( Read more... )

Well, I'm in the living room, and the Horror Channel is just showing its usual multitude of trailers for bad and occasionally mediocre films they're also showing this month. James Earl Jones was in one of them - a movie called Blood Tide. Surely the man who was Darth Vader (or at least his voice) didn't need to also appear in low-budget (and low- ( Read more... )