Wow. Cleveland City Council created a 'non-binding registry of domestic partnerships'. What this does is, it allows couples, both gay and straight, to 'non-bindingly register' the existence of their domestic partnerships. Beyond that, it doesn't really do anything at all. Even so, a group called United Pastors in Mission tried to block the move ( Read more... )

( Results of the bastardised movie names/cryptic clues/terrible puns/not-sure-what-the-name-of-it-is game )

Name that bastard film ( Read more... )

Snakes on a Plane! But the snakes are sharks and the plane is Venice! With a weird Da Vinci Code/Last Crusade treasure-hunting plot bolted on! Starring Alec Baldwin's brother and Scarlett Johansson's sister!

You've got to love a trailer that has sharks leaping out of the water and sneaking up wells, and people being threatened with buzz saws and ( Read more... )

One of the advantages of being in North America is that I have increased access to terrible, terrible reality shows. Take, for example, True Beauty, which is as shallow as they come, but offers up a transparent self-justifying twist in a bid for credibility ( Read more... )

Paterson Joseph must have had a bloody awful couple of days, with everyone he knows ringing him up and saying, 'Hey, P-Joy (because I'm pretty sure they all call him P-Joy); congrats on the new role. Oh, I know you have to tell everyone it's not you, but come on, you can tell me the truth, can't you? Great news, man! What's that noise? Are you ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I said "if that's true it'll be the very definition of a damp squib", and today, lo, it was true. Way to go, BBC, you berks! Fandom will destroy you! If they were going to cast badly, they should have cast Paterson Joseph, and if they were going to cast well they should have cast Chiwetel Ejiofor. Time for a black Doctor? Oh no, let's ( Read more... )

The BBC reports that the identity of the eleventh Doctor Who will be announced tomorrow on Doctor Who Confidential. OooOOOoooh. Speculation ( under the cut )

This is a repost, as apparently the images weren't working before. Thanks LJ! It's my annual Men of the Year list - one of the only lists of its kind that Barack Obama isn't going to win. As ever, the list consists of the finest totty to make a splash in the past twelve months. The previous winners were Gethin Jones, Daniel Craig, Ray Stevenson, ( Read more... )

Favourite Games of the Year ( Read more... )