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I entirely understad your opinions, PJ, which are put in your usual reasonable and well-written way.  I also understand your feelings - it must be very gutting to put weeks of your life into something and just get a 'that sucks' response from someone.
  I'm not a creator, but I can't think of any rules that would make the board less hurtful for creators.    If I were a creator, I would either avoid the board, or just steel myself everytime I looked at it.  Would a beautifully written review that took someone ten minutes of great care to write, but which meant pretty much the same as 'this story is the worst ever published' be less painful to read than 'meh'?
   I was saddened by Matt's original post because, with a few exceptions, I like the free feel of this site

no problem using my real name of course,

Floyd Kermode

suzi quattro
the women in Abba
Kate Bush
Debbie Harry
the women in 'Heart'

after that I run out of childhood

I thought you said you didn't watch new Who PVS.

 quibbles aside, it's been brilliant up to now ('now' for me means before the Kylie Christmas special, since I haven't seen anything after that)

Here's hoping Moffat's genius as a writer makes him a good producer

ho-pe there are more puns to come

Apparently Bon Scott, 'the oldest sharpie'* and rock god came from a town in Scotland, before coming here to be the lead singer of Acker-dacker.  that explains the bagpipes in 'long way to the top'






*sharpies were chav-esque gangs of kids who had mullets and tight ugly little sweaters. Bon Scott was their God.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7405545.stm" target="_blank">there's Moniave and....

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44664000/jpg/_44664362_bon_scott_226170.jpg">

how about the Dr meets Norman Mailer? He could swear a lot and try to crack on to the companion (or maybe not)

damn, I was hoping to unleash a tide of pointless whinging. Should have mentioned Dr Who.  Oh well, thanks for that - I'll return to it when I have time

Is anyone else here sick of Facebook?

I'm not sick of it as in "I've used it too much and now I'm tired of it".  I'm sick of reading my mail and getting messages telling me that such-and-such has sent me pictures/found my Japanese name/ written on my graffiti wall/sold me as a pet or some other cute thing.  What I'd like is for such-and-such to send me an email and say hello. I don't want to have to get into Facebook in order to have contact with someone who could contact me directly if they wanted to.
  Usually I'm a sucker for online stuff. Am I a luddite? Does anyone else feel this way about Facebook?  Is it connected to an impending 46th birthday?

well?

that cover rocks!

Why oh why don't I have Staked Out yet? Curse you, postal services of Australia and the UK!!

I'm not at all shy about my interest in comics (which has helped me to meet some comics liking mates and lead to someone in Japan lending me 'From Hell' and 'killing joke', but I wouldn't put it on a resume

Happy birthday, O increasingly inaptly named Mini-bolt!

macro Floyd

I'd rather have a straight Western than American Gothic. I don't have very clear memories of it, but vaguely remember it being like a long, not-great Future Shock

I was wondering this morning how a Western story would go in 2000 AD.  There's a lot of Western influences there; Dredd has a very Clint Eastwood feel to him and the Cursed Earth is very much the sort of place where sherriffy stuff happens, Missionary Man was mostly very cowboy...the list goes on and includes less successful stuff like that Edginton horror/western thingy, that time travel two episode thing....  
 So how would a just plain western story go down with you?  Who should write and draw such a story?  I'm not passionately advocating this; you could make a case that there's enough High Plains Drifterishness in Dredd as it is. Just wondering.

I couldn't swear to it, but I think that that was not the first appearance of the concept.  By a spooky* coincidence, I've just reread that every story reprinted in a Megazine



*spooky, that is, provided you're prepared to overlook all the times I've read something and you haven't just posted about it

it's been mentioned here before, but a very chucklesome site and a good reaction to all that Intelligent Design hogwash