The Master of Evil
My latest attempt at being creative: a portrait of Jack Kirby’s Darkseid character.
Chrissie
Fascinating Hair
Nothing to report on the house move situation! We’re still expecting to view somewhere fairly soon. It’s a first floor two-bedroom flat. The price is right. The location isn’t. But I’m coming to terms with the idea a bit. Having more money = new computer, for instance, so there are benefits!
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Favourite Actors
Okay, just in time for it to still be Monday—I have a Top Ten! Let it roll…
TOP TEN MALE ACTORS
01. Gregory Peck
CSS Has Taken Over
Okay. I decided to go for a major site overhaul. The main purpose was to enable greater control of most of the design via CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). So I’ve officially burnt my bridges with old/non-compatible browsers now… a minute’s silence please…
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Misinformation
Link for amusement value only: We Love the Iraqi Information Minister. Well, he was only thing about the whole mess that managed to raise a… Read More »Misinformation
Still Searching?
To make this an unofficial tradition (following last Sunday), here are the search engine requests that have brought sundry surfers to this site in the last seven days:
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Diagnosis Boredom
I was a bit bored and depressed earlier this week, I guess. I feel okay at the moment. My mood has been affected a lot by the uncertain house sale/move situation, really, although we have a (possible) lead on a new home right now. More later, probably!
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Hogwarts Revisited
It was great news to hear that Ali Ismail Abbas has been flown to Kuwait and is receiving proper medical care. On a more cynical note, how good it was of Mr. Blair to condescend to ‘comment’ on the situation. But I’m not going to have another war rant…
Monday, I went to buy the video of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. A bit of extra money came our way, and since this counts as extravagance in our current impoverished state, what the hell! We watched it Monday night.
I thought the first HP movie was just okay. This one was a huge improvement, although as each of the books is longer than the last, there was much more condensing. Arguably, the plots also get better, so perhaps a stronger plot suffers less from omission. It was fast-moving and slick. The younger cast were much more polished. Robbie Coltrane was his usual awesome self. The FX were much better, in particular Dobby the house elf… I thought they might mess him up, but he was a wonderful CGI creation, furnished with a wide range of extremely realistic and endearing mannerisms.
Favourite Fiction
Yep, another top ten. Which I might have posted earlier, but I had something to do (more later), plus I didn’t finish writing the list out until around noon. And so:
TOP TEN BOOKS (fiction)
01. The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887-1927) Fiction’s greatest detective. Over a span of 56 short stories and four novels, the quality is a mixed bag—the worst can be quite dull, the best simply magnificent. Almost all of them have great moments. Doyle was the reluctant creator of a true legend.
Searching for Something?
Just for trivial interest and amusement: recent search engine strings (mostly via Google) that led people to this site…
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