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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Film weekend
Saboteur Hitchcock doing Hitchcock is better than most other imitators but still this is a minor work and too much of a US copy of The 39 Steps. Priscilla Lane is adorable while Robert Cummings is serviceable and unexciting. The … Continue reading
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Album covers
This is a rather pointless post on album covers. I had never listened to Electrelane before, despite several albums in the house, but when I saw No Shouts No Calls, I was struck by the great cover and gave them … Continue reading
Posted in Images, Music
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Film night
While Adam was on a sleepover we watched three films (well nearly three). The 40 Year Old Virgin – I lasted half an hour before deciding that a film that presents a person being vomited on by another person as … Continue reading
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Assume crash positions
After Life (Jane Espenson) The last five minutes of this are superb – worthy of just quoting Buffy’s monologue (though that doesn’t do justice to what is essentially a dialogue between SMG and James Marsters despite Spike’s silence). I was … Continue reading
Posted in Buffy Season 6, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Television
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Clarkson!
I just might do more of these suggestions. Link via The f-word.
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People I admire (and who happen to be left-handed) #2
I have scrapped my next candidate in this prodigious prestigious (you nit) series because I have just read “Anywhere But Here” (#10 of Buffy season 8*). So I am moving on to my next favourite left-handed person I love admire … Continue reading
Posted in Buffy Season 8, Comics, Films, Left-handedness, Television
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What is up with The Guardian?
The Guardian‘s blogging editorial policy seems determined to be as divisive as possible regarding gender. The Guardian used to be one of my quick links but recently I removed it because I was fed up with being sucked into a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Female thinking
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Social awareness meme
I am aware this is aimed at modern young people but it was an interesting experience answering the questions. The original is here and I have deleted some questions which were irrelevant. If your father went to college before you … Continue reading
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You found the last known urn of Osiris on eBay?
Bargaining I and II (Marti Noxon) As season openers go then this is one of the better ones – at least the first part is – the second part drags at times and the climatic scene between Buffy and Dawn … Continue reading
Posted in Buffy Season 6, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Television
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Ice Princess and The Golden Compass
Ice Princess We only watched this because Michelle “Dawnie” Trachtenberg was in it and Joan Cusack and Claire from Heroes and we stayed to the end. Now the title is clearly cynical, its plot is preposterous (Casey is far too … Continue reading
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