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November 28, 2006
Dance little Squirrel Dance
by groc at 12:13 PM | Comments (0)
November 26, 2006
closetted MPs
Just what is it with closeted gay MPs? Seriously though. Doesn’t it show up how utterly backward they really are? I mean -fancy getting married to give that air of homely respectability in this day and age - doesn’t this smack of something out of the pre-legal 1950s? It’s bound to give their political opponents ammunition too, because they can safely say: ‘how can his voters ever truly trust him -when he’s so obviously a hypocrite and if he can lie like this to his wife… then what else is he capable of?’
Gah.
I still say *all* politicians are just flat out weird and none of them should ever be trusted enough to be put in any position of power.
by groc at 09:15 AM | Comments (0)
November 25, 2006
*weeping* *whimpering*
Dear sweet Jesus - please send a plague of boils upon those in the Tee Vee advertising world who every year think it's compulsory to use a cover version of 'it's Christmas' by Slade for their commercials. It's NOT clever, it's NOT funny - but it is bloody irritating. While you're at could you ensure Slade get a good long slow excruciating disemboweling for ever having written the song in the first place, oh and could every single last branch of ASDA please be struck by meteorites repeatedly until only craters remain - thank you. Love Groc.
by groc at 12:09 AM | Comments (0)
November 21, 2006
Torchwood
Um. Oh. OK.
First Day.
The sex-starved mist alien. This reminded me way too much of an episode of new ’Outer Limits’ where a meteorite containing an alien intelligence crashed into a young woman’s bedroom then took over her body and turned her into a veracious nymphomaniac sex monster who absorbed men into her body (Absorbaloth style) as she was bonking them.
Cyberwoman.
Seven of Nine in a hi-tech basement in Cardiff. Oh well, since Star Trek NG did sort of nick the idea of Cybermen for the Borg - nicking their extension of the idea back again seems fair enough.
Fairies.
Oh. Meh. I wasn’t keen on this episode. You know what would’ve been more scary? That if they’ve kept the whole original fairy look as they went around killing people instead of making them into big ugly gangly demons. That was too easy, too cheap a shot. Written by Peter J. Hammond too - he of ‘Sapphire and Steel' fame. I expected better somehow.
Countrycide.
The sci-fi channel showed the remake of ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ only last week not so long after Channel 4 had shown it a few weeks before. So y’know, already I was a bit burnt out on the whole cannibal family thang -especially as it was better done there. Not much made sense in this episode - why where bodies being left out in the open all over the place? Isn’t that going to call lots of outside attention to the village? A whole village gone cannibal? There seemed to be something missing from the plot there. It smacked of a quick re-write having been done on the fly -maybe they'd originally had an alien monster but the budget ran out so they had to remove it at the last minute?
I think another problem I’m having is that I’m just warming to any of the characters so far. They’re all a bit monochromatic.
So now the big question is… are they building up to do a Doctor Who style big two part finale - or is it just going to plod on like this? I.E. The Cardiff version of the X-files -just reworking old horror film clichés every week? If you ask me it needs a bit more Doctor Who and a lot less nicking from other shows.
Oh well - it's early days yet.
by groc at 01:09 PM | Comments (0)
November 17, 2006
Junk food advertising ban for under 16 year olds.
This is going to be interesting. Are we really supposed to feel sorry for the TV stations losing so much revenue? Which already has steadily been losing money over the past few years anyway as the advertisers look to spend their money polluting other parts of the media - notably the internet and mobile phones etc. Which leads me into my next pondering - will junk food advertisers start getting crafty (and maybe artsy) like the tobacco industry had to when they got banned from TV and had to rely on print ads. Leading to such oddities like the famous Benson and Hedges and Silk Cut series of rather surreal adverts. Obviously if their marketing at kids they can’t be so oblique in their approach, but they’re bound to come up with something that gets past the concerned parent’s radar and hits directly at the kids…
by groc at 02:42 PM | Comments (0)
November 11, 2006
Am I
the only person in the world who's noticed how much Ben Linus of 'Lost' looks like Nomi Klaus?
If there was ever going to be a film biography - I'd know who I'd be casting in the lead role....
by groc at 06:27 PM | Comments (0)
November 10, 2006
So much spam
So much retarded stupid spam. It's gets me how 'puters can generate any amount of utter nonsense - but can't ever recognise any of it itself. I'm sure there's a message for us all in there somewhere.
Anyway - don't buy penny stocks.
by groc at 01:49 AM | Comments (1)
November 09, 2006
all you need is ...hate
This is from the Popbitch newsletter:
>> Love thy neighbour... <<
...Unless he's in the gays
The warring religions of the world have finally
found something to unite them - gay bashing!
In Jerusalem, ultra-orthodox Jews and Muslims
have come together to try and stop a gay rights
march in the city, slated for Friday. There has
been burning barricades, stone-throwing and a
bomb bearing the words "sodomites out". Muslim
politician Tayseer Tamimi said " All religions
discredit gays because it is against the decent
human nature created by God."
And in Scotland Muslims and Christians are
spreading a little homophobia together. The
Christian People's Alliance and Muslim groups
are together "secular values" and pro-gay laws,
The CPA even has Muslim candidates standing
at the next election.
And this is partly why I loathe and despite those big three religions that have come out of the Middle East - because at the end of the day - it’s all comes down to bigotry, narrow-mindedness, ignorance, stupidity and cruelty.
by groc at 10:43 AM | Comments (0)
them eeeeeeevil homosexualists!
by groc at 10:39 AM | Comments (0)
November 05, 2006
subject
shake the moment, a Great hot human city.
(I'm a fan of weird spam subject lines. I'm sure that having to make up all that endless nonsense trying to get through spam filters eventually makes the people involved crazy insane loopy la-la.)
by groc at 02:12 AM | Comments (0)