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Every day, once a day, give yourself a present.
"I used to go to Bob's Big Boy restaurant just about every day from the mid-seventies until the early eighties. I'd have a milk shake and sit and think. There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner."
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at 1:28 PM on July 25, 2008
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Shoes by GWAR, handbag by Gorgoroth.
True Norwegian Black Metal - a great documentary on Gaahl, best bit is where he nearly kills off the film crew by taking to the top of ginormous mountain
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at 7:32 AM on July 25, 2008
Oh I should ad, by 'great' I mean unintentionally hilarious.
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at 7:34 AM on July 25, 2008
Can't seem to track down those 'Bad Black Metal Band' photos... but there was a loooot of over-compensation going on there. But of course, anything a little too macho runs the risk of falling into camp.
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at 8:34 AM on July 25, 2008
If you've not eaten a fellow band members brains, you're not metal.
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at 8:53 AM on July 25, 2008
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Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
So The Man is still The Man even when he supposedly against The Man
Boing Boing, you mean jake shit to me know
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at 1:28 PM on July 18, 2008
I'm not a philaterlist! I'm a stamp punk!
Man, I'm so putting flames on my inhaler
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at 1:52 AM on July 20, 2008
I see none of my incisive comments turned up in that Violet Blue video... Well, she's dead to me know. In fact I'm going to add to my blog, just so I can UNPUBLISH it later.
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at 9:35 AM on July 21, 2008
From the Boing Boing moderation thread #673
"Comments are never deleted and very rarely unpublished."
So, can someone, who is more expert in Newspeak than I am, please explain the difference between deletion and unpublishing... because, well, to me they are exactly the same thing.
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at 3:28 AM on July 22, 2008
Ms Blue's Wikipedia entry is up for deletion... never a dull moment, eh?
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at 1:06 PM on July 22, 2008
"This is my boss, Xeni Jardin - a self-made journalist blogger. She's quite a gal. This is Ms Blue. She's gorgeous. She's one lady who knows how to take care of herself; with a restraining order or three, usually. By the way, my name is Cory. I take care of both of them, which ain't easy; 'cause when they met... it was moider!"
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at 4:23 PM on July 22, 2008
Probably way too late to make this comment but I was thinking the other day that it's a bit of balancing act to ensure that forum is not too suck-ass but on the other hand not a major slag-fest (like the Guardian's sadly often are.. ."You got paid money to write this" "The Wire! Again!" "Brooker, you're not funny!" etc etc"
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at 8:33 AM on July 25, 2008
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And All The Time You Could Feel Your Heart Beating Along The Wounds
Loved Chocolate Factory as a kid and read it many times.
Here's the shed where he wrote them all.
PeterMcDermott beat to posting the theme from Tales Of The Unexpected which has to be the best title sequence ever and was a total fixture on tv here during the 80s.
I rewatched the first couple of series recently and, most of them, still stand up today. In fact some, like 'Royal... [more]
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at 4:12 AM on July 23, 2008
If you want an idea of what Dahl's childhood was like read 'Galloping Foxley' which was supposedly based on his utterly miserable school days
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at 5:58 AM on July 23, 2008
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he could bear to wait no longer
Three And Out tanked at the box office, possibly related to protests by train driver's unions that included pointing out the 'three and out' rule was bullshit
except for the cost of an additional 1 to 2 minutes per stop or rail crossing#
It would be a lot longer than that.
Some stations in Japan have barriers with automatic doors that match up to the doors of the train. Getting the train to... [more]
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at 4:58 AM on July 21, 2008
Last time I travelled on the Jubilee Line Extension most if not all of the stations have exactly this system.
Ah, yeah... years since I traveled on the Jubilee Line but I remember them now
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at 5:46 AM on July 21, 2008
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Watchmen Trailer is Up. It's not good.
Wow, I didn't expect all my hopes and dreams and anticipation to drain out of me quite that quickly... what is it, a fucking cartoon! It looks like Heros for god's sake! Too slick, too computary, too much like bloody 300... Yet another piece of action movie CGI infected souless shite when it could have been so much more.
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at 4:26 PM on July 17, 2008
empath, that's an interesting point... but my issue is just with the general look of the thing; as someone pointed out up thread Watchman was, on one level, about how the world might have turned out by having actual superheroes in it... not exactly a good thing, and you can only reflect this in a film by making the film, well not exactly dull, but gritty, warn-in looking realistic cinematography, not super-slick-shiney-cgi-cartoony superheroville that we've seen in so many films already. I mean... [more]
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at 4:42 PM on July 17, 2008
What the hell am I missing?
Close to Midnight - article I wrote a while ago (yeah, sadly I'm that much into it), oh and it's spoilerific as hell
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at 5:09 PM on July 17, 2008
You know what other film trailer used that music?
Batman and Robin (so the internet tells me... )
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at 9:34 AM on July 18, 2008
Nicely grumpy Alan Moore interview... apparently if you read his forthcoming novel you'll learn how to live forever, but as it's like half a bazillion words long it'll probably just seem like forever.
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at 2:38 AM on July 20, 2008
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The flora....The flora....
Nightmare time...
I remember seeing this a while back and being a bit weireded out but it. I mean it's just a guy stood in front of a large cactus. So I why do I get the feeling that those 'branches' are reaching down to him and just after the photograph is taking... Shub-Niggurath, ai! ai! Aieee!
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at 1:52 PM on July 18, 2008
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I'm the Batman
No one cried BOYZONE yet re Wonder Woman's tits et al... oh, I'll do it then..
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at 12:39 PM on July 18, 2008
Oh sorry, I forgot it's YANKZONE and you don't do irony...
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at 1:15 PM on July 18, 2008
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Demolition
I wonder why they could not demolish it floor by floor, from the top down
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at 2:54 PM on July 15, 2008
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Incest: Taboo or not taboo?
I saw a documentary years ago that said there was a higher proportion of brother/sister incest where they had been raised separately from each other and then met each other in later years - kind of a reverse Westermarck effect
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at 6:19 AM on July 15, 2008
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The Greatest Sideshow Video Ever Made.
I saw the Jim Rose Circus in Wolverhampton, of all places... good show. I remember there was some fuss at the time as in the London part of the tour the GLC was making 'Lifto' perform behind a screen, the pussies. No screen for us Midlanders!
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at 5:59 AM on July 14, 2008
