Voice over loudhailer:
“I repeat, advanced swimmers only beyond the gorse bush, please. Advanced only.”
Apologies to John Everett Millais. And, by association, to Bill Shaky.
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“Be honest, now. Does this hat make my bum look big?”
Apologies to Sally Dali. And Arabella Weir.
As I’ve mentioned a tiresome number of times, I’m a fan of TV show Twin Peaks.
And, what with it being Christmas Day and all, it seems the perfect chance to link to this…
The Twelve Days Of Christmas, as performed by the cast of Twin Peaks.
As HM Betty might say, a very Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.
From Mr Hankey, and everyone here at Soanes Towers, a very merry Yule / Christmas / Kwanzaa / Hannukah /Other Festival*.
Today, I hope you’re with people you like, and who like you too.
*Please delete as applicable.
It’s not really my fault it happened; I needed to get someone a pressie by the time the shops closed, time and money alike were running out, and then I saw something which looks to be a combination of a respected name and zero expenditure.
There was only one left on the shelf in the department store, so I grabbed it.
For such a small woman, the undercover store detective was surprisingly fast and strong, I have to say. But I was coming quietly, there was no need for that second kick to the …er, swimsuit area.
I’ve written before about my fondness for Moleskine notebooks, and I still use them as my scribble-place of choice.
And I can understand why, as an item of good design and quality, they inspire a certain following and indeed adoration (after all, the list of sites in the right-hand column of this blog includes Moleskinerie).
But this is just going too far.
I mean, really.
A second series of BBC7 topical radio comedy Newsjack has been commissioned, and like the first series, they’re looking for material from new writers – or old or increasingly-old writers; anyone, really. Which has to be a good thing.
Full details of the show and how you can go about sending them material are located here, and it’s got to be worth a go, right?
I mean, you don’t even have to pay for a stamp (if you’re reading this, I’m going to assume you have internet access). Which is handy, as – let’s face it – very few of us feel actively wealthy as January hoves into view.
As you probably know, in the film Avatar, technology allows humans to put their consciousness into artificially-grown bodies (hence the title).
The idea is that the avatars look a bit like the human in question, but all through the film (yes, I’ve seen it: capsule review – very good, but too long), I kept thinking that the avatar of the character played by Sam Worthington, who looks thus:
… looked a lot more like Brendan Fraser.
Is there a medical term for the tendency to ‘pattern recognise’ and seek similarities where there may be none? If so, I have it. Or, at least, an analysis of my posts and thought patterns alike seems to suggest just such a pattern of behaviour.
… but nonetheless, if you want to learn some crafty ways to save money on stuff from Amazon, why not have a look here?
The trick about creating your own links to find bargains strikes me as probably the craftiest bit – and it seems to be perfectly legal to do so, in case you’re worried about such things.
Though looking at the site-trackback data for visitors to this site, I don’t think that’d generally be much of a concern, you bunch of reprobates.
It’s almost impossible to conclude somebody didn’t giggle when they suggested the title of this comic to the folks at Marvel.
Probably a good job that search engines didn’t exist at the time. How many innocent comic readers* would have been made to look like a filthmaniac by their Internet History?
*Possibly a contradiction in terms, mind you. I’ve been to enough shops and conventions to know. Oh by jiminy yes.