Month: April 2010

Sitting Tennant

Tuesday’s Sitting Tennant (week 14, 2010)

6 April 2010 Rob Buckley 13 Comments

Erin C's Sitting Tennant

Thanks to the rebirth of our/a significant number of people’s Lord and/or Passover and/or my desire to have a day off, Sitting Tennant is back a day late. There’s no chocolate on it or hot crosses, not even an egg (unless David is sitting on it), but here it is.

Prize-winning picture of the week comes from Erin C, who seems to like pictures of David in tight spaces for some reason. At least there’s a man of the cloth around to make sure everything’s above board.

  1. Rullsenberg, Erin C: 85
  2. Sister Chastity: 75
  3. Toby: 65
  4. Sabine: 60
  5. Rachel: 40
  6. Karen: 35
  7. Dawn: 5

In caption land, the popular vote awarded 10 points to Toby for a metaphor rather than a pun, thankfully. Five points to everyone else for contributing such wonderful other captions, and good luck to everyone again this week.

  1. Toby: 65
  2. Rullsenberg: 60
  3. Jane Henry, Electric Dragon, Marie: 50
  4. ecg: 35
  5. Rachel: 30
  6. Sabine, SK: 20
  7. kellyann06, Sister Chastity: 10
  8. whogal, Joe B: 5

Got a picture of David Tennant sitting, lying down or in some indeterminate state in between? Then leave a link to it below or email me and if it’s judged suitable, it will appear in the “Sitting Tennant” gallery. Don’t forget to include your name in the filename so I don’t get mixed up about who sent it to me.

The best pic in the stash each week will appear on Monday and get ten points; the runners up will appear on Friday (one per person who sends one in) and get five points.

You can also enter the witty and amusing captions league table by commenting on Monday’s Sitting Tennant photo, the best caption getting 10 points, everyone who contributes getting five points.

Tuesday’s Tron virus news

6 April 2010 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Doctor Who

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TMINE

Let this be your last mousemat

5 April 2010 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

So this is my current desktop wallpaper:

Botticelli's The Birth of Venus

Beautiful, isn’t it? I love the fact the nymph in the top-left hand corner looks like Kristen Stewart (except she’s smiling – that’s the obvious giveaway).

So should I get it as a mousemat as well? I’m only asking because this is the obvious rival:

Captain Kirk

Tricky decision, isn’t it?

UK TV

The alternate endings of Paranormal Activity

4 April 2010 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Paranormal Activity

So we rented Paranormal Activity on Friday night. Actually quite a scary movie. Made for something like $15,000, it’s gone on to make millions – and deservedly so.

The idea is that weird things are happening to a middle class couple, Micah and Katie, who live in San Diego. Katie’s been haunted since she was five by something that’s probably a demon – not a ghost – and has followed her to her new home, now she’s moved in with day-trader Micah. Things move by themselves, she’s seen figures standing at the foot of her bed, and so on.

The weird things happen in the night, so Micah gets himself a camcorder, connects it to a laptop, and tapes everything that goes on.

And we get to see everything that happens to them.

It’s all a bit Blair Witch and uses most of the same techniques – apparent cinema verité, filming at night, largely improvised dialogue, unknown actors – to try to convince you that terrible things are happening. Not much ever happens, but it’s the constant build-up of tension, the failure to use OTT special effects, the general weirdnesses that do happen, etc, that really play with your mind, letting you imagine the worst.

On the whole, not as scary as Ghostwatch, which actually does a better job of things visually, but scary and clever all the same.

In a moment, for those of you who haven’t seen it, the trailer. Then after the jump, let’s those of us who have seen it discuss the ending – and the alternate ones.

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