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Nice one Noisybast - at last a boarder that DOES look like his avatar!

I love your optimism Matt! As a Blackburn Rovers fan, I spend many a Saturday morning anticipating a good tonking!

Just staggered in from what I thought was going to be  a shitty works do - got a text and escaped instead to a cool club ("Mid life Crisis" - logos based on the old Crisis comics, with Dredd Art). Everyone  was halloweened up - I was dressed all in black anyway, but managed to score some fake blood off a girl to fit in properly. Best costume was Zombie Charlie Brown - Dead-eye contact lenses and blood trail from mouth, coupled with yellow zig-zag T-shirt and shorts. Genius!

Sadly, I'm back at work in a few hours, so had to make my excuses and leave early...

http://www.phoenixascended.org/aoi/World_message_Change_The_World.html

Dun-dun-duuuun!

Is it alright if I don't show up? This man scares me!

I remember Arthur C Clarke saying that if you've never seen a UFO you're not looking up enough, but if you think  that all of them are aliens, you're gullible.

Ahh ... the happy days of "Arthur C. Clarke's Not-So-Mysterious World" on TV ... this week, Arthur C. Clarke doesn't believe in: the Loch Ness Monster.

Cheers

Jim

yeah - I remember the one about the amazing stone spheres found in the Amazon rainforest - must be spooky because these primitives couldn't possibly have made them - until they found some bloke happily carving them in the jungle! And that 'crystal skull' nonsense has been well and truly debunked since.

I remember Arthur C Clarke saying that if you've never seen a UFO you're not looking up enough, but if you think  that all of them are aliens, you're gullible.

I always disliked Asterix (and Tintin) as a kid, because they were the only comics that teachers wanted you to read, and only the posh swotty kids seemed to appreciate them. If it didn't have dionosaurs ripping limbs off, I wasn't interested!

The best I think was the faceless Cradlegrave hoodies - really sinister and very striking.

Runners up are Dirty Frank's milk tache, and Zombo's "can i eat you", but this week's a close contender

That's a riot! I did like the Hellboy (Hellgirl?) though.

Guradian gave it one star - quote: "It allegedly last 79 minutes. I think it lasted 79 hours or 79 years or perhaps 79 times the space of time between the extinction of allosaurus and the rise of cro-magnon.....Like post-apocalyptic wombles or borrwers, the mites scurry about the wrecked landscape in a manner that I can only describe as uninteresting."

Yeah, but it is a review from Peter Bradshaw, and he is quite often full of shit.

This is true. He does say in the same review: "The film is couched in the fantastically annoying style of 'steampunk', a kind of retro--futurist blending of old fashioned clunkiness with ultra modernity". So if you like steampunk, you aren't likely to agree with his review.

I don't often read reviews of films/books/music unless it's:
a) something I have a particular interest in, or
b) only has one star, cos a good slagging is more funny than anything else!

Guradian gave it one star - quote: "It allegedly last 79 minutes. I think it lasted 79 hours or 79 years or perhaps 79 times the space of time between the extinction of allosaurus and the rise of cro-magnon.....Like post-apocalyptic wombles or borrwers, the mites scurry about the wrecked landscape in a manner that I can only describe as uninteresting."

There's a weird bipolar attitude to tourists in the Deep West - they want (or need) them to come but seem to hate them also. They should just put up a sign at the border - "Welcome to Cornwall. Please deposit your wallet below and fuck off".

I thought the eclipse a while back was hilarious - apocalypotic warnings that the entire county would be destroyed by vast crowds, farmers installing temporary loos for millions of campers and every hippy with a field putting a festival on. In the end it all passed without incident, festivals were cancelled all over and the infrastructure didn't collapse.

Hi-ex will be my first. I've never had much interest in meeting creators - went along to that signing at Travelling man a few weeks ago, took one look at the crowds and thought "I love their work, but I have nothing I really want to say to them" (I don't do gushing), so didn't bother queing up.  My main motivation this time is just meeting all the people I chat to here every day!

Does anyone make Beano style sausage and mash with the sausages sticking out of a big pile of mash? I do this occasionally just to amuse myself.

Very nice. Very nice indeed. Love the colours and I prefer a cover with no background.

Best of the year? Just had a quick review of '09 on Barney and I think this one would come fourth after Dirty Frank and his milk 'tache, The Cradlegrave hoodies and  Zombo's 'Can I eat you?'