Rod Douglas was born in 1947, suspiciously about one week after Aleister Crowley, famous British occultist and believer in reincarnation, died. I’m not linking the two but it’s worth remembering.
He died in August this year, so I wrote a eulogy, you’re welcome to read it.
Jeremy Hardy appeared on The News Quiz, where he decided it would be the ideal time to disparage the working class and their desire to visit the pub and drink alcohol.
Psychics are charlatans. Never doing it for fame or money, but just so happening to have a TV show. Hmm… why would that be?
Danny Boyle’s attempt at sci-fi/horror falls flat due to a lack of decent characterisation and a reliance on sci-fi cliches. It looks beautiful though. Why is it so dreadful though?
Printing books is wasteful, yet most of the eco-lunatics I know insist on ‘real’ books for their feel and smell. Hmm, somewhat hypocritical perhaps?
In what could possibly be the first truly amusing viral video this year, we see Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto challenging each other to a race to the golf club.
Laurie Penny’s an astonishing woman. Actually no, astonishing isn’t correct, astonishment suggests I’m impressed by her and that very much isn’t the case. I guess strange might be a better word.
Everyone’s got a couple of PlayStation 2’s lying about their house, right? I know I do, but what do you do when you turn it on and there’s no picture, the fix is easier than you might think…
Not wishing to believe that there isn’t in fact a global conspiracy of highly organised swans and geese, my wife now sees fit to attack all swans and geese she encounters that she considers to be in a position of weakness. She’s a bit like Blade, except it’s not vampires; it’s swans and/or geese.
Vincent and the Doctor is the best episode of Doctor Who ever written. That’s fact.