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angelophile @ 12:30am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 14:14 Have to say The Thick of It went out on a high this series. David Haig with "Obsessive Repulsive Disorder", Tom Hollander as "The F**ker". #
• 14:25 Dinner tonight: Roast pheasant with bacon, stuffing, cranberry & red wine jus, red cabbage, carrots and potatoes roasted in rice oil & herbs #
• 14:29 Yes, I'll be cooking all that myself. Sounds posh, doesn't it? Never cooked pheasant before. It was quail the other day. Had some bargains. #
• 14:51 We do sometimes get interesting press releases. Like, the world's strongest beer (33%) being launched. The name? Tactical Nuclear Penguin. #
• 15:13 Despite being really busy, we just managed a 10 minute recap of Brian Blessed's TV career, starting with Z-Cars. Now humming the themetune. #
• 15:16 It's going to be stuck in my head all day now. Of course, it's actually based on traditional Liverpudlian folk song Johnny Todd. Trivia! #
• 16:17 "What does 'Bad File Format (#69)' mean?" "... That it's fucked?" #
• 17:00 So, apparently the female equivalent of phallic is "yonic". The things you learn observing comic book writers and then hitting Google. #

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angelophile @ 12:05pm: No news is good news
Good morning campers

Another proper update today. Hoorah!

I enjoyed my weekend away. I've been meaning to post my pics from The Eden Project, but I got distracted by THE SHINY that is my new iTouch. When we were ordering a new laptop for the business, my boss suggested I just order it and pay out of my wages over the next couple of months to spread the cost and I couldn't resist. I consider it a Christmas present to myself. Of course, I'm now also considering getting a Wii, but that'll have to wait.

I'm now addicted to the air hockey app. Save me!

I'll probably post pics from my weekend away with commentary tonight. The short version: The Eden Project was superb, I fell asleep in the pub and snored and I can't ice skate. It still hurts. Nevermind, I didn't need that arm anyway. Probably.

Work is... busy. We have three deadlines in January, so trying to get as much possible done towards two of them before Christmas. Not likely to help much, but we're trying. While I was away, I spotted a copy of our publication being read in the pub we were staying at, which is nice to see. Usually I don't have any contact with our readership - the magazines are sent out and that's all I know. Our readers aren't the most responsive bunch. So it's nice to know that the magazines don't simply vanish into thin air.

Anyway, I have to be off now. I've PDFed this advert about a dozen times and keep spotting things wrong each time. I need to concentrate.

Also, what the heck happened to Cary Elwes' career? He needs to be in more stuff.



For that matter, whatever happened to Mel Brooks? This scene being "merely a blip on an otherwise uninterrupted downward trajectory."

angelophile @ 12:30am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 12:36 What are they trying to say in the poster for Did You Hear About the Morgans? bit.ly/8afDiV #
• 12:36 Hugh Grant appears to be riding Sarah Jessica Parker through a field full of hay. Are they saying she looks like a horse? Not subtle, guys. #
• 12:42 Mind you, if she and Michael Bay ever started dating, I think there'd be a future Kentucky Derby winner in the making. And not a jockey. #
• 12:44 Yes, I am shallow, cruel and probably misogynistic as well. But I have cool hats. So, that's okay then. #
• 16:55 Action hero Sherlock Holmes is out this week and the trailer for Robin Hood makes it look like LOTR. Are any adaptations straight anymore? #
• 17:02 I find the most recognizable Robin Hood of the last 50 years was in Men in Tights. "Unlike some others, I can speak with an English accent." #
• 17:04 "Let's get out of this ladies clothing and get into our tights!" #
• 17:12 They gave Matt Fraction Thor now, too? How does a writer with such limited talent get all the high profile jobs? And an Eisner? Boggling. #
• 17:13 You might have noticed I'm crotchety today. #
• 19:35 Marvel announces GIRL COMICS: bit.ly/6AkgXB Despite the suggestion that women are some kind of obscure minority, some great creators. #
• 23:09 It's a horrible thing to admit, but every time I read about the Indian Mutiny I can sympathize with those who blew mutineers from cannons. #
• 23:13 When I read about the massacres at Cawnpore or Meerut or Jhansi I'm enraged. I can understand revenge, but not those pointless atrocities. #

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angelophile @ 12:30am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 15:09 OMG they do Worms for the iTouch. #
• 15:17 What exactly is a fanlisting, anyway? #
• 16:31 So, has anyone been to see that movie with the blue, bargain-basement Thundercats in it yet? #
• 18:53 Shiny new iTouch is shiny. #
• 21:04 Trying to update from my itouch. You can use them in the bath, right? #
• 21:05 What's the worst that can happen? #
• 23:43 HHGTTG Daleks? Potentially cool, but seriously in need of a Peter Jones or even Stephen Fry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OCtALC4nJI #
• 23:46 For those who haven't seen it, better voice work here: The Dark Knight is Confused - www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbgLapRAloQ #
• 00:27 I find it strangely ironic that Marvel's sending me emails about how to get my hands on 7000 digital comics. #

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angelophile @ 12:30am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 20:36 Okay, whoever said iceskating was just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other is a damn dirty liar. As my wrist will attest. #
• 20:40 In other news, The Eden Project is, indeed, awesome. But all the staff should have been dressed in white jumpsuits. #
• 00:23 Huh. I'm in quite a lot of pain. #

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angelophile @ 12:30am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 10:06 iTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouchiTouch! #
• 10:59 Watched Torn Curtain. Not Hitchock's finest hour. Not sure I bought Paul Newman as a nuclear scientist. But more so than Denise Richards. #
• 18:53 My iTouch failed to arrive. I wanted it for my weekend away. Sigh. :( #
• 23:50 I'm disappearing for a couple of days now. Do not be concerned. I haven't been TOSed from existence, I'm just going to The Eden Project. #

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angelophile @ 12:30am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 11:17 The worst fake accents in movie history: tv.gawker.com/5420755/the-worst-fake-accents-in-movie-history #
• 11:27 I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome this is: bit.ly/8rkPBi #
• 12:03 You know, John Malkovich as The Vulture in the next Spider-man movie doesn't sound so bad. Did they confirm if Dopey Maguire was back yet? #
• 12:32 Someone buy me this for Christmas. bit.ly/5MwDV3 Thanks! #
• 13:05 Watched The Way Ahead last night. Fabulous war film written by Peter Ustinov made in 1944 featuring him, David Niven, Stanley Holloway... #
• 13:07 James Donald, John Laurie, William Hartnell, Esma Cannon, Trevor Howard, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Burden, Raymond Huntley... Now that's a cast. #
• 13:59 Now Danny LaRue has passed on, it was nice to see the tradition of the drag act being continued at the Royal Variety. Well done Lady Gaga! #
• 14:21 Listening to Burl Ives sing Holly Jolly Christmas isn't the same after you've seen him shoot a man in Big Country. #
• 19:06 Okay, hands up if you haven't slept with Tiger Woods. Anyone? #

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whip_lash @ 1:26pm: Gold falls for fourth day to one-month low:

Gold futures fell Wednesday for a fourth straight session to the lowest level in nearly one month, as the dollar rose against the euro after Standard & Poor's cut the outlook on Spain, a euro-zone country. Since hitting a new high above $1,226 an ounce on Dec. 3, gold has tumbled nearly $100, or 8%, in the four sessions, the longest losing streak in six weeks. Reflecting investors' change of mood, holdings in the biggest gold exchange-traded fund saw their biggest drop in five months. Gold for December delivery declined $22.40, or 2%, to end at $1,120.40 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, the lowest settlement since Nov. 13. The more actively traded February contract also fell to $1,120.90 an ounce.

Not only falling, but no higher for the February futures. I am finding it difficult to reconcile this with my absolute faith in ikilled007's prediction of $2,000 by year's end, but I'm confident the Sicilian God of Economics will find a way.

whip_lash @ 2:09pm: A discussion between two of my co-workers I was privileged to participate in:

B: Next week is my 15th wedding anniversary. Hard to believe.
M: You are supposed to do something special for that, aren't you? Crystal or something.
B: You are?
Me: Take her down to the Western Sizzlin' and get her a steak.
M: Well, that's one way to go out.

angelophile @ 1:28am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 19:20 This is a business model I can get behind. I wish to work with pie chart guy. bit.ly/66rA2h #
• 19:24 That's most of my Christmas shopping done. Of course, now I realize I should have stayed home and done it all on Amazon, not just half of it #
• 21:23 Now watching Rope. I've had this Hitchcock boxed set a year or so and not opened it until now. Cracking stuff, of course. #
• 21:43 *Bangs head repeatedly against brick wall.* #

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whip_lash @ 4:50am: The World's Eighteen Strangest Roadways (and interchanges), according to Popular Mechanics.

I've driven three of them - the Capulin Volcano road, the High Five (regularly), and Lombard Street, which is the only one I'd actually characterize as being at all weird.

whip_lash @ 9:26pm: My son has just advised me of his grown-up career while watching Diners, Drive Throughs, and Dives: he wishes to be a cooker (I explained the word chef) and also a fireman.

Tomorrow Santa is bringing a big-ass TV. I confess that I have not been so excited about a Christmas present since I was 8 and got a Commodore 64. With FIOS, 55 inches of the Sewing Channel in HD, and pizza delivery, I think we're approaching the Singularity, by which I mean the magical moment in history when it is no longer necesary for human beings (apart from pizza delivery guys) to leave their houses at all.

angelophile @ 12:30am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 10:25 I find it ironic that the same week Joe Q says comics fans on the internet don't matter, S_D is being attributed with the power to topple... #
• 10:26 companies, bankrupt comic stores and put creators out of a job. No turkey for Timmy this Xmas! I only wish we DID have that power. #
• 11:09 When I rule the world we're going to see some changes, let me tell you. #
• 12:51 Hey, Vernon Kay, why don't you remind people you're from Bolton again? I'm sure some of us were in danger of forgetting. #

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whip_lash @ 12:40pm: Time to bust out my Christmas userpic.

It snowed here on Wednesday, and is expected to snow again over the weekend. When I was a kid I desperately wanted to live in a place where there was a legitimate possibility of a white Christmas. These days if I had to own a snow shovel I'd beat myself to death with it. It's south of the Mason-Dixon for me, baby.

whip_lash @ 3:00am: What's the difference between a Cadillac and a golf ball?

Tiger Woods can drive a golf ball 300 yards.

angelophile @ 12:30am: Meanwhile, on Twitter...

• 10:14 Sad to hear this morning of the death of actress Maggie Jones. As Blanche in Coronation Street she was undisputed mistress of gallows humor. #
• 10:23 Who throws a shoe? I mean, honestly! bit.ly/5KPqR9 #
• 10:45 Bloody Scots, coming down here, stealing our women, PLAYING SODDING BAGPIPES OUTSIDE OUR BLOODY OFFICE WINDOW. Sounds like a tortured gerbil #
• 14:02 Iron Man: So, apparently, they just made it all up on the spot. bit.ly/7uUl4i Obviously pays off as long as you're not Michael Bay. #
• 16:35 If I actually had a shower rod, these are the curtains I'd be buying: www.cutebitz.com/bloodbath_shower_curtain.htm #
• 18:46 More evidence if it were needed that comic store owners shouldn't try and be funny. bit.ly/54lODH Some of these guys seem... familiar #
• 20:19 So the winner of a Nobel Peace Prize is sending 30,000 troops into a warzone. And they say Americans don't understand irony. #
• 00:27 I'm tired, cranky and my hair has been stolen. #

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angelophile @ 10:07am: George? Don't do that...
Seeing a poster for another awful St. Trinians movie drove me to finding this.