As you may have guessed things have been rather quiet around here. This isn't due to any special event or project, it is more because that is how it is. Which is a profound way of saying laziness or alternative projects are pre-occupying us. But enough of excuses or the like.
I will be putting up some book reviews over the next few weeks, of either obsure-ish books or other such stuff. This is to make the world a better place etc.
Oh and happy Talk Like A Pirate Day just past!
Things that have made the Chief Executive Angry Rats and Mice – these happy devils are infesting his lair in London and while they frolic about, Juan must glower angrily at the walls in impotent rage Sandwiches – delicious, compact and cheap – who could hate such a thing? Juan can, as that is all that he can find to eat at lunch time.
Things that have made the Chief Executive Happy South African sci-fi films – well, District 9 anyway. It is nice to see a well made, reasonable budget sci-fi from outside of the usual suspects. If I see an alien or virus attack London, San Francisco or New York again anytime soon I shall cry all over my sandwiches Cheap old science fiction novels – Who could hate being able to buy classic sci-fi from ages gone by for a dollar/pound?
A valuable resource of quotes for daily use covering necessities like interrogation, proposing marriage, threatening people with rock hammers, crapping on wedding cakes, and picking up foxy ladies.
Quote of the Week - 12/01/09
"Artillery isn't something that one can just pick up without practice" Juan Incognito - Confusing Military Word Play
People always rave about how good foreign travel or globalisation is, how it brings us all closer together, but did they ever think about the human cost? Now if we could just find a way of monetising whimsy...
While hunting for loose change in a pair of historical pants I found a scrap of paper with a phone number on it. That number later lead to a conversation. Still later a mysterious man entered our lives. This is his story.
I don't quite know where to start here, suffice to say it is good to see that innovative and disturbing themes are constantly introduced into popular culture
Another sacred cow is sacrificed at the altar of making one film too many about the same topic. Or so Karate Party's review suggests. But then we were always preferred Weekend at Bernie's II kind of zombies.
Iceland has many claims to fame, to which it can now add the production of gritty whodunnit films. They are an inspiration to us all! Or at least should be
Bigger, Stronger, Faster seeks to answer the age old question: Do performance related drugs enchance our atheletes to new heights of excellence, or is the current anti doping regime correct? If so, what exactly is the regime and why?
One day all magazines will be recorded on the phonograph and even the most educated of gentlemen will carry no shame for being unable to read. Perhaps one day these fine gentlemen adventurers will also look kindly upon our poor editor as well, a man never happier than with his red crayon.
The companion piece to Juan's Casual Eavesdropping Guide finally sees the light of day. Let us hope that it improves the lives of as many people as we hope.
The latest epic from Clint Eastwood arrives on DVD and Finger takes a poke at the film that war buffs will probably really enjoy...Ryan Phillippe buffs will also like it.