- Mark Lamarr has not disappeared from the world altogether, but currently hosts a Radio 2 music show on Thursdays.
- In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran a feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV. that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection, and went on to state that "most heterosexuals are not at risk" and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
- Safety Catch is being turned into a TV show
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Blog update
I’ve been tinkering with a new plug-in for the blog, as well as messing with the templates a bit, so fingers-crossed the blog should give you the following new fun things:
- Tabbed comments, so you don’t have to go down an extremely long list every time you want to see the latest comment.
- Comments RSS feeds for every entry
- Now you only have to put <spoiler>round your spoiler text</spoiler> that you want to hide from innocent eyes
- Automatic quoting: click on the "reply" link next to a comment and you should find the text of the comment you’re replying to quoted in the Comment text area, ready for you to add your own reply.
- A Canadian TV category
The promised upgrade to the blog software isn’t here yet, so no Blogger log in yet, and FaceBook Connect is turning out to be an arse. But I’m working on it.
If something doesn’t work, you can email me. And leave a comment below if you have an opinion on any of these exciting developments, either pro or against. Ta!
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Coming soon…
Well, I’m back. Happy New Year and I hope you all had a great holiday/vacation. You may have noticed that I did a little bit of blogging over the Christmas period, although not much, but with current work commitments being what they are, I probably won’t have too much time to start blogging properly until Wednesday. Hell, you’re probably all going to be too sleepy until then anyway.
Coming on Wednesday
I’ll probably have at least mini-reviews of Gavin & Stacey, The 39 Steps and The Next Doctor to put up by then, as well as possibly of the first episode of absolute drek-fest (allegedly) Demons, Jonathan Creek and maybe Above Suspicion and Crooked House, with potentially even a season finale of The Border to muse over. Or I might not. And assuming I can get my arse down the gym enough, there should be some more Big Finishes to mull over as well – although there may never be enough time in the day to listen to those wretched stage play adaptations.
Reader survey results
Not so many responses in the reader survey this year and most of what was said was “keep up the (good) work”, so I’m assuming everything’s sunny and rosy here and not much needs to change. Okey doke. Either that or you’ve all buggered off somewhere and I’m talking to myself again. Ho hum.
However, 12.5% of all respondents – clearly all with exquisite taste – requested more pictures of Ali Larter – okey doke again. Happy to oblige.
Jane Henry suggested we have a new feature on Richard Armitage. Now, I really can’t be arsed to go ferreting for Richard Armitage pictures, so I’d need a blog quorum (ie two other people) to back her up on that and promise to faithfully look for Richard Armitage pictures.
On the other hand, for the sake of symmetry, if we’re to have a male equivalent of Random Ali Larter Pictures (or maybe I should retitle that Random Acts of Ali Larter?), it should probably be a US/Canadian actor who gets a look in this time. Any suggestions? I’ll need a quorum.
Today’s questions
- What was the most depressing thing you saw or heard on television over the Christmas period? Mine was hearing the Big Brother theme tune and thinking to myself, “Oh surely not.” You?
- Lastly, and hopefully I won’t need to do too much prompting, anyone got any pictures of David Tennant sitting down or in a reclining position?
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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and what can Santa Rob bring you next year?
It’s that time again everyone. Time for my annual Festivus break, whatever Festivus is. I have minimal plans to blog until January 5th – there certainly won’t be a Daily News until then – so I’ll see you all back here on that date. Behave though since I’ll be watching.
But, as is our new tradition, let’s take this as an opportunity to have a reader survey. What sorts of things would you like to see on this here blog in 2009? More of the same, less of the same, or something completely different? At the very least, a blog software upgrade some time in the New Year should give you the ability to sign in with your Blogger or Facebook account, so you don’t need to ask for that.
Anyway, leave your requests below in the comments and I’ll decide what gets the chop and what stays alive when I get back. Ali Larter and Joanna Page are staying, of course, and do I need to even discuss the popularity of Sitting Tennant? I think not.
In the meantime, a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to you all and thanks as always to everyone who’s left a comment for livening up the place!
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Naomi Wolf, Michael Palin and Louis Theroux talk about making documentaries
C21Media (disclosure: currently edited by an old work colleague of mine, Ed Waller) has a nifty 30 minute documentary interviewing Michael Palin, Louis Theroux and Naomi Wolf about the art of documentary-making. I’d embed it if I could, and it doesn’t yet appear to have leapt into the site’s podcast feed at iTunes, so pop over to the site to watch it if you’re interested.