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Frank Zappa called it the entertainment branch of Industry

*Shameless Plug*

McMahon will be appearing at the 2D Festival in my hometown, Derry. First weekend in June

http://2dfestival.com/

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(yes, yes they do shat themselves when they die)

http://www.sfx.co.uk/2011/04/16/85-authors-protest-at-the-bbc%E2%80%99s-treatment-of-genre-fiction/#ixzz1Jv6ZTi7x

Too right

Cool Hand Luke

I really want a boiled egg now

George R.R Martin (creator of Game of Thrones) summed it up pretty well:

"By the time we reached the finale, I was still hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. I still think 'Lost' told a terrific story... a terrific story with a terrible ending.

If the payoff had been equal to the set-up, I'd rank 'Lost' among the very best series in the history of television. It didn't, so I can't. So in that sense, maybe the finale did change my opinion of the show.

It certainly made me less likely to go back and watch the series again. If 'Lost' had delivered an ending that tied everything together in some brilliant and unexpected but satisfying fashion, I would have been first in line to buy the boxed set of DVDs so I could go back and watch it again episode by episode, exclaiming with pleasure, "Aha, so that's what that meant," and, "Oho, now I see, I thought that meant X, but it really meant Y." Instead, I fear, watching the series over again would give me more frustration than pleasure, and I'd find myself muttering, "Well, that was never explained," and "Oho, that was a great puzzle that led nowhere," and "Hmmm, that was kind of arbitrary."

Admittedly, I've only watched the show once, as broadcast. Which makes me a casual viewer rather than a devoted fan, I suppose. I haven't made a study of it, haven't read any of the blogs or criticism, haven't subjected the older episodes to any kind of analysis. Maybe I need to do a rewatch. Maybe if I did I would see that I was wrong, that the eventual end was actually being hinted at and foreshadowed in the first season, that all the puzzles are explained if only I looked a little deeper. Maybe.

I have my doubts, though. Unlike Locke, I am not a man of faith. I am a man of skepticism."

God, from the Monty Python films

http://artoftrolling.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/chatroulette-trolling-sports-injury.jpg

Just finished The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Dream in the Witch House by H.P sauce Lovecraft. Great imagination. The former was a tad predictable but no less enjoyable.

The Jazz festival's on at the end of the month, that's always good steam

http://www.cityofderryjazzfestival.com/thurs.htm

I'll definitely be going. Haven't been home since Christmas.

The intended purpose of this thread isn't really to discuss who beat who at the weekend, instead, I thought it would be interesting to hear about what kinds of sports other boarders are interested in.

What sports do you play, what sports do you watch?

Rugby Union's my sport. Played it at school, and it's always a nice wee treat to go and see Ulster play on a Friday night at Ravenhill.

I do like football, but I'm not really interested in the Premier League, not since the days of Eric Cantona. World Cup's always good for a laugh, England are comedy gold. Derry City's my team.

The GAA's always entertaining.

Snooker is the comfort food of spectator's sports. Something to be enjoyed on a Lazy Sunday. 'Chewing gum for the eyes'. 'No thanks Ted'.

What about you? Has anyone ever participated in that brilliant chasing-cheese-down-really-steep-hill race?

I think a big flaw in this plan is this:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sl%C3%A1ine/138835519469502

Only 153 'likes' on Facebook. You've a steep uphill battle, and you're up against people obsessed with managing farms that return no marketable produce

Finally got the wee bastard of a mouse that forced me to throw out an entire cupboard's worth of food. Unfortunately, the mouse trap didn't actually trap him, it just mortally wounded him. Imagine my delight when I got home from work to discover he'd trailed blood all over the kitchen floor. It looks like a Tarantino film in there. If Tarantino made a film about rodents.

I have a t-shirt of Gene Wilder as Wonka, flanked by 2 Oompa-loompas. Printed beneath is the word DRUGS

Burton's remake is terrible, but at least he didn't do it in his cliched faux-victoriana style