I saw the blokes from VIDZ every other day when I lived in Glasgow. They must have lived near Byres Road. They should do a podcast anyway.



My favourite joke is now redundant - fortunatley there are many more closet cases to use instead.

Oh memories of when post-midnight television had such gems.

Best advice to writers of fiction, fanfic or any other with a scifi theme from Strange Horizons submission guidelines. Or "How to Avoid a Bad Case of Trope-itis"

Me again - Neil Cameron's A to Z of Awesomeness will please any geek!

I bet Robert Rodriguez is kicking himself over the Z one.

Pssstt...your link's not working and Zoe's already posted this in 'Chortle'.

Hardly 'proud' if it's taken this long to come out.

^ Perhaps he just didn't see it as being an issue?

I dunno, he's always denied it, then gone 'What does it matter if I'm gay or straight?'.

Fair enough, I didn't know that!

It's always been my thought that it's the 'advisors' gay celebrities have rather than the public who cause them problems in their careers and personal lives.

When Gareth Thomas came out at the end of last year I was infuriated to learn Max Clifford had actually told two gay premier league footballers not to come out when they had been considering it. That's two men right there who's lives could be so much easier and help break the last sporting taboo if they felt encouraged and supported by those around them. It is ultimately those guys' business if or when they want to openingly discuss it, but for someone like Max Clifford to hold that level of influence over someone is barbaric.

Does for me.



This is what happens when people think alike.

The crappiest outfit one can buy for lerds of money, like.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's 160 greatest quotes

Actress buys many condoms

The story about her and Iron Man is hilarious. She sounds as dense as dark matter.

This just makes me fancy him more

Go on, ship him back to Canada! He'll be easier to find there!

Now that would make for a good ending to the series.


*spin forward 15 years*

"As for me, well, I dropped out of school and still made a success of my life entertaining audiences around the the world with my singing and dancing. Remember kids, education isn't everything. So if that teacher's getting on your back about exams, just tell him you've got a pretty face and will do just fine...

#When will I, will I be faaaaamous? I can't answer, I can't answer that...#"

"live a lifestyle of crime and pay no mind to authority figures"
That is the most rebellious thing I've ever heard a Canadian say.

Yet, he still managed to sound polite when he did.

Being Canadian just makes him hotter.

SHAZAM? PROV?

It's only for a new version called Scrabble Trickster. You can spell words backwards and so on, too.

There was a photo headline in The Onion recent that read "Papal Infallibility Invoked To Allow Scrabble Word", which made me chuckle.

Following on from Jeremy Dyson's Ghost Stories (i've not seen it but hope to once it goes to the West End) - some kind soul on Youtube has uploaded a whole load of the classic 70s TV adaptations of M.R. James spooky stories including A Warning to the Curious with Peter Vaughn, Lost Hearts and the famous Whistle and I'll Come to You.

Another story in a similar vein is Charles Dicken's The Signal Man starring Denholm Elliot.

More on the Christmas series here. Happy hauntings, my children ...

*ghostly music*

In the words of David Mitchell:

"Want a new Goodies DVD to be released to coincide with the show's 40th anniversary?

Then click HERE

I have."


Me too.

Seems the adaptation of The Walking Dead , the epic zombie comic, is in full swing. Six episode series is set to appear on AMC in October. Adapted/Directed by Frank Darabont (yay) and in the lead role as Rick Grimes, Andrew Lincoln (whaaa!).




But they're all already available. BBC & LWT series.

I'm really excited for Walking Dead, I hope it doesn't suck and that it's not toned down too much.

I may be a bit behind, but let me get this straight. The whole Joaquin Phoenix thing was a set-up for a film? Clever.

Was it? I haven't heard anything about it tbh.

Yeah, everyone's been saying that since pretty much as soon as he started doing it. I was kind of hoping it was real, though, if only because as a "prank" it's hugely anticlimactic. Everyone has been in on the gag for far too long now.

Apparently it's all been for a "mockumentary" (I really hate that term) directed by Casey Affleck.

Either way, unless it's a huge success (critically or commercially) it's damaged Joaquin's career something rotten.

I'm guessing Dior aren't going to be happy. Or does this make you want to buy handbags, ladies? It does make me want kiss Marion Cotillard's face off.

Pictures of lots of famous, funny people when they were young and at the Second City in Chicago

Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert don't seem to have aged much over the years.

Joan Rivers.
It's so hard to believe its her.

Wow, Steve Carell looks exactly the same. Pretty cool photos.


She was actually pretty back then!

Megan Fox isn't going to be in Transformers 3. Yay?

There goes what very little incentive I had to see it. Who am I kidding, I wasn't going to see it anyway.

Can't find the arty thread - s this will have to do. Great illustration:

Fontaine Anderson

Emma Lofstrom

Erica Somogyi

Verity Keniger and others at Red Door Gallery - one of my fav shops in Embra.

Another favourite - Owl & Lion gallery. Owls are my favourite.

How have I never noticed this before?!

I noticed that the last time I watched it. It's such a cool detail.

Really? I noticed that the first time I saw it. You guys is well unobservant.

I was raised by videogames and Looney Tunes, I'm easily distrac- oh, wrestling!

Me too, though it's easily missed and I no doubt missed other time travel related shenanigans.

There's time travel?! I just thought that Hill Valley was purgatory or something. It makes so much more sense now.

I'd never noticed that before.

Compare & contrast - Beyonce "Single Ladies" & Gwen Verdon/Bob Fosse's "Mexican Breakfast". Grooooovy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhlbni8C3XI

I find it hilarious, yet I know not why.

They had that on channel 4's top 50 videos thing the other week.

Also, 50 Cents is the new Christian Bale

What is this a picture of please as it won't show up at work?

It's the sign at the front of the mall in Back to The Future. The first sign says Twin Pines Mall and has a logo with two pine trees. The next photo is a picture of two actual pine tress and a note pointing out that Marty runs over one of them during his escape. The third photo is the same as the first, except now the sign says Lone Pine Mall and the logo is only one tree.

Gutted. I almost said "Is it the picture of the lone pine mall?" but I thought that was the bit that everyone knew about already. There are loads of things like that, like the fact that the ledge below the clock face has crumbled a bit in the new future where the Doc knocked some bricks off. A mate of mine could point loads of them out but that's the only one I can remember off the top of my head.