Straight from Baghdad
New blog entries from Salam Pax, the man in Baghdad. As he currently has no Internet access, they have been posted by someone else on… Read More »Straight from Baghdad
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Reg Dwight Vamps It Up!
Ah. So Elton John is making Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestat into a Broadway musical. Almost nothing Mr. Dwight does these days sparks my interest, but this sounds particularly dreadful. At least he isn’t taking the lead role himself. That would require an extra five or six vertical inches, major liposuction and weight-training, plus a different species of cranium-hugging beastie. (Then again, the vertical discrepancy didn’t stand in Tom Cruise’s way…)
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Bank Holiday Blues
Today, I’ve felt incredibly bored and listless. Maybe that’s what Bank Holidays are for—it’s time for the TV channels to replace their usual, stellar line-ups with a constant stream of ancient films that have already been shown a zillion times before.
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Looking for Stephen King?
Current reading = old reading I never quite made. Mom bought me Stephen King’s Bag of Bones in hardcover back in Christmas ’98. I’m not sure why I never read the thing. I dug it out a few nights ago and when mom saw it she remembered she’d bought it from Asda—where it had been proudly displayed on a stand that proclaimed it King’s Latest (which, at the time, it was).
I’m just over halfway through, and I can say that I’d deprived myself! It’s a really great book. Not very fast-moving, really, but rich in character with lots of intriguing detail. For another opinion, read Kevin Quigley’s review. I’m giving it a big thumb’s-up (of course, if the ending disappoints me, I might go back on this).
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The Master of Evil
My latest attempt at being creative: a portrait of Jack Kirby’s Darkseid character.
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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