Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it! Season's greetings and happy holidays to everyone else ^_^

I should get a more cheerful icon, though

Thanks to lesstraveled, who provided this. I can't comment on either book or movie thankfully, but camp vamp!Tony BlairMichael Sheen is loltastic.

Though my favourite Blair performance is far and away this one:

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Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
Update your journal with the answers to the questions
Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

Questions from xsmoonshine

( You have been assimilated! )

Quote stolen from Ebert's review of Michael Moore's latest spectacle film, dealing with, in his mix of political polemic, first-person stories and personal grandstanding, the root of all evil the current economic crisis with an American slant.

( Capitalism: A Love Story )

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, featuring West!Germany and GDR!Prussia:

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And now for the obligatory crack:

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(Note on the Chinese translation: one learns something everyday - apparently pigs are actually a symbol of good fortune in German, although IMHO the repeated chorus of "Schwein!" was probably meant to ( Read more... )

"An abridged history of American-centric war, from World War II to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.".

...although to be accurate I had been trawling Youtube for various versions of You Raise Me Up (worse than Hetalia, I know, but).

Having heard about (but not actually dared to get into) Hetalia, I was tempted to follow the links from this vid, which led to this outstandingly cracktastic character primer:

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After which the first slideshow made ( ( Read more... )

After using variations on I Still Call Australia Home as the subject header for various Down Under-related posts, it's only fair that I post links to:

The song, as used in a very popular series of similarly-themed ads for the national carrier Qantas since 1997:

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Which combined several principles of successful advertising ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back.

One month since my last post, four years since my first one.

This LJ seems to have turned into a rant/whine zone. I will try (or, as the Australians say, "give it a go") to remedy that with a series of entries based on posting suggestions from f-list from the last anniversary.

First up, a smattering of ( RL observations )