Thursday, November 09, 2006
Queen - The Eye, by Paul Darrow. Alas, not available without actually descending into Hell. Arguably, it makes good sense for the novel of the computer game of the rock band to be written by an actor.

Pack your loved ones with explosives and metal filings. It can only be a matter of time before the same technology is used to create memorial pipe bombs, to be rolled under the cars of people nominated by the deceased as they attend his or her funeral.

Twenty years of intolerably smug Mac advertising.

Meanwhile, election special:

Bloggers disappoint by not getting legless and sexing each other up on camera. Given that this was basically a geek party, though, I would like to believe that they were all constantly IMing Patrick Gavin to say "YOU DRANK YUENGLINGS! LOL!"

Republican campaign advert sent using emergency broadcast service. Which, on reflection, seems fair enough.

Republicans finally take action for the homeless.

Latino voters told they cannot vote, or filmed and interviewed by armed men. Some people are so touchy.

And now Rumsfeld has gone, to be replaced by another Bush 41 nutbar with no military experience. Rock. Interestingly, it's possible that Ned Lamont forced Lieberman to stop being loudly supportive of the conduct of business in Iraq, which in turn lost him his chance of being made SoD (well, more than usual), which means that, if Virginia does returns Jim Webb, Lieberman won't be terribly important in the Senate either. So, barring the presence of another hopeless SoD, everyone's a winner.

Meanwhile, burning issue: who would your favourite superhero vote for? Probably, in the name of solidarity, for Hal Jordan.

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Monday, November 06, 2006
To celebrate the sentencing of Saddam Hussein - and I don't know about you, but I was stone-cold sure he was going to get points on his license as well, let's look back to last week and the news that Bechtel has pulled out of Iraq after three years that could, I think, fairly be described as mixed. I suppose it was always optimistic to suppose that the crisis in infrastructure could be resolved by a long-running cartoon about the lives and loves of a group of American lesbians.

Speaking of construction, you've almost certainly already seen this, but if you haven't you ought to - the Ladytron B team make furniture with lightsabers.

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