Raithe

Although potentially there are days where I'm younger then I look and older then I feel...

"I'm older then I look, and younger then I feel...."

Is that kind of humour like the "Homeland Security, Protecting America from Foreign invasion since 15xx" captions on pictures of Native American warriors?

The World's End. It produced a fair few chuckles. It's Simon Pegg and Nick Frost work their magic, pulling in a few pop culture references and a damn good supporting cast. Plus, it has some amazingly well choreographed fight sequences when the bar fights break out with the aliens...

Still getting used to the absence of my sister and the big dog. Suddenly not having to deal with it is feeling just slightly odd. Although the cat has taken it into place to start making an awful lot of pitiful meowing at odd times. Sister actually did a flying visit today, apparently she's got a creepy neighbour with no social skills who stares at the windows from a distance and sets the dog barking. Along with such things as trying to talk to her along the lines of "oh, I love dogs. If you're having trouble getting time, feel free to give me a key and I'll go in and take him out for a walk during the day when you're at work."

I have to admit, the finale sequence where you get the "One Shall Stand, One Shall Fall" line, and then the music from The Transformers The Movie starts (and yes, I'm talking the 80's animated one..) just has me cracking into a ridiculously childish smile.

The classic that was: Biggles - An Adventure in Time. Peter Cushing's last film. Plus an ending scene with an impeccably delivered line: "Get us out of here before they realise you're NOT a God. You're JUST an American!"

For the Warhammer 40k spin..

Heh, so I threw an email at Koch Media asking about why there's no physical product of the pc version available and just got a reply: It's these little things that would be nice to know when the game is being released..

Heh, that reminds me of that old quote "real sex is like real violence. It's messy and the results usually end up smelling quite badly." Urf, but its being a seriously grey and depressing day here so I'm trying to establish some get up and go to get things done.

Heh. io9 - DC Won't Allow Batwoman's Gay Marriage to be Depicted.

The internet can be a very weird place. On the other hand, I do know a few people who first "met" each other via some chat sites, and over time ended up getting married. Heh, one couple who started talking on the old WB Buffy chat site back in '98 or so, and they were on opposite sides of the Atlantic. I got invited to their wedding about 6 years ago.

Had a rather terrible night. Lots of weird dreams I kept waking up from. So I'm staggering through the morning like a zombie in need of tea... I actually kind of enjoyed Chronicles of Riddick. It was interesting that they approached it in a "we're doing a sequel, but we want to make it a sequel about the characters not just re-doing what we did for the first film and adding more gore." Apparently Twohy and Deisel had a vision of three parts when they pitched Chronicles to the studios, but because it was being financed by a studio that had to tone down a lot of the R rated aspects. Now that Riddick is being independently financed, they've been able to push it back to R, but have to scale back some of the ideas they had for the budget.

And condolences LC. Tis never fun to go through that. Nelson here pretty much refuses most forms of cat food especially any of the jellied kind. He pretty much only eats the kibble.

Roaming around in Saints Row IV and having a few giggles as I throw aliens into the air with super-strength kicks to the groin....

Hm, have to admit I lost track of a few hours and misplaced the afternoon.. My copy of Saints Row IV turned up so I installed it as I was working on other things, then made the mistake of going "I'll just have a break and seeing what it's like...."

I actually consider it a little scary. I've known a few people who are into it and they pretty much say the same thing. To quote from a blog piece: The fact that it started off as crappy Twilight fanfiction erotica just flares my distaste even more Although I do think this was inspired marketing:

Yeesh. A whole bunch of girls I know are INCREDIBLY excited because they've announced some guy they all consider mega-hot to be cast in the primary role for the film adaption of 50 Shades of Grey. I've been stuck doing the "But..But..the books are bad?! They're badly written. Badly edited?! Bad bdsm?!" and their various responses boil down to "We don't care. He's hot." The spaniel here is still getting used to the fact that my sister and the big dog are gone. Definitely playing the pathetic card a lot. Managed to get out of the house, walked to the middle of the road and then lay down flat on the ground....

Are you ready to face the power of the dark side that is.. Darth Cater?

In reading related news.. Frederik Pohl died this weekend. http://www.frederikpohl.com/ http://io9.com/rip-frederik-pohl-the-man-who-transformed-science-fict-1241405614 And his daughter tweeted it to confirm it.

And thus.. we know he's a a Lawyer.. Yeah, if I clung to preconceptions contrary to evidence in the contrary I'd be lawyer's client... Or an engineer :D Well I was referring to the whole " I didn't have any actual experience with it, so I'm just going by what other people said" - Next thing you know, you'll be asked by Fox to talk about the porntastic release that Dragon Age Romances are of course going to be on their next special news report...

And thus.. we know he's a a Lawyer..

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