Devil’s Cub by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0099465833 This is the sequel to These Old Shades, and deals with the Duke of Avon’s son; the Marquis of Vidal. He is as much a rake as his father...
6 September 2005
Aiming to misbehave
Edited There is a new, and freaky, looking Australian poster for Serenity. Reminds me of the C4 freaky dancing Lost ads[1] click here to see for yourself. Chud don’t think much...
6 September 2005
An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge
ISBN: 0349116156 Set in the 1950′;s this is the story of Stella as she becomes part of a theatre group She lives with her aunt and uncle in a boarding house,...
5 September 2005
It is going to be a case of everyone going to war, pure and simple
The build-up to this week’s football has begun. Ireland v France. Of course we will win :) And in order to help our team the journalists are already calling us the...
5 September 2005
Firefly 1.01 – Serenity dir. by Joss Whedon
We open with war and death, and the fun of shooting a giant gun. And so, in a way, this opening teaser shows exactly what makes Joss Whedon’s writing so great. The humour, believable. real characters, emotion and let’s not forget the explosions, because, they are important you know. But, as well as introducing Mal and Zoe as ex-soldiers, this sequence is all about Mal. We get to see his faith and belief utterly destroyed in a single moment.
4 September 2005
Last Days dir. by Gus Van Sant
Opening with a scene of Blake stumbling and mumbling his way through the woods this film almost always looks great and interesting. Unfortunately it isn’t. It is a boring, one-note tale...
4 September 2005
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way
Went to the library today with one aim in mind. To pick up a copy of The Year 1000 by Lacey and Dannziger. I’d looked up the call number and everything...
3 September 2005
Apropos of nothing
Isn’t this a scary looking banner? I mean, first of all “Homeland Security” is so 1984 it really isn’t funny, and the whole thing looks like something out of Starship Troopers[1]...
2 September 2005
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
You know all those US-ians[1] who go on about how the US is the greatest country in the world? How it is the best in everything? Well, to mangle the words...
2 September 2005
The beauty of it smote his heart
I haven’t commented at all on Hurricane Katrina. I guess part of the reason is a sort of disbelief. Not that the weather can be that destructive, but that it happened in the US. The idea that an entire American city could be destroyed is almost unbelievable. We are sort of used to it in less developed countries, but, somehow you kind of figure that the world’s only superpower would be able to deal with anything.
Another lesson that we don’t take nature all that seriously.
1 September 2005
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