Back in the days when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and I was a seventeen year old apprentice, I had the misfortune of learning the trade at the same company as a bloke who shall be referred to here as Andy the Schmock. I don't remember how we came to discuss my jewish heritage (two of my great-grandfathers), but I'll never forget his shocked ( Read more... )

I recently got a hold of a prehistoric document of Damian's acting career - his appearance as Dean Larke in "Holby City", back in 2004.

GALLERY HERE


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Please read the following text. I've written it with help of the official list of terms the NOC uses when "monitoring social media sites to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture". Then guess how many of the words I used are on this "black list". OK? Then let's get started:

Story 1:
Currently, I'm working on a fic ( Read more... )

Michele Bachman decides not be Swiss after all

"I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100% committed to our United States constitution and the United States of America," Bachmann said.
Also:

"As the daughter of an Air Force veteran, ( Read more... )

MICHELE BACHMANN BECOMES A SWISS CITIZEN

There is no God.

"My husband is a 100 percent Swiss, and his parents were raised in Switzerland, they were married there, they came to the United States, they bought a farm in Wisconsin and raised their three sons there,” Bachmann said in the interview."

Yes, and we'd all be so much happier if you lot had ( Read more... )

I love you, I really do. Well, your work on big and small screens, not so much you. And I'm willing to suffer through almost anything to enjoy the awesomeness that is your acting and your manly man thing ( Read more... )

The following is infuriating enough if you look at it as a citizen of a neighbouring country, but if I were German, I'd be fuming. Young German conservative politicians, lead by a bloke called Marco Wanderwitz who hasn't achieved much yet aside from looking like the kid on the Kinder chocolate bar and stirring up trouble by suggesting a "fat tax" ( Read more... )

Dear Romance Writers Association of America

Much has been written lately about the More Than Magic contest hosted by Romance Writers Ink Chapter of RWA and the changing of the rules, stating that MTM will no longer accept same-sex entries in any category.It can't have come as a surprise that authors and readers alike were outraged by your ( Read more... )

Mitchell was gone, and I knew there would be more changes to the cast, but hey, it's Being Human, the writing is so excellent, they can pull off losing 2/3 of the main characters, yes?


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I return from the cinema (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - excellent, highly recommended!) to find the news in my mailbox that my beloved Garrow's Law has been axed.

While I’m aware that the source for this devastating news is The Sun and therefore everything has to be taken with at least four grains of salt, I still have to say

CURSE YOU, BBC!
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