Blog update

12 January 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

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:

  1. Tabbed comments, so you don’t have to go down an extremely long list every time you want to see the latest comment.
  2. Comments RSS feeds for every entry
  3. Now you only have to put <spoiler>round your spoiler text</spoiler> that you want to hide from innocent eyes
  4. 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.
  5. 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!

UK TV

Review: Myths 1×1

12 January 2009 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

In the UK: Saturdays, 12.45pm, BBC2

Once the Beeb gets an idea into its head, it’s very hard to shift it. Case in point: ever since Canterbury Tales, it’s been impossible for the Beeb to dramatise any pre-17th Century piece of literature as anything other than a modernisation, with characters in equivalent 21st century roles rather than in the roles as written.

We’ve seen it have a go at Shakespeare, the Brothers Grim’s fairy tales* and now Ridley Scott’s production company is trying to introduce modern youth to classic Greek myths in handy five-minute nuggets. Suffice it to say, although Myths is fun, a little is lost in the translation…

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Dick Heads

Dick Heads: Percy

12 January 2009 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Our second Dick Head comes from someone, who for the sake of simplicity we will call Denise. This picture is entitled simply ‘Percy’ and shows Richard Armitage in a top hat – kudos on that, Denise, and a great big thank you.

The first Dick Head provoked multiple responses, some of captions, some of love poetry, some of haiku. So rather than impinge churlish ‘rules’ on this, I think we should accept Richard Armitage as our muse. He shall be our Calliope, our Erato, our Euterpe and our Thalia, all rolled into one. Let him take us where he wills.

Are you wanting me to keep score or are such things beneath us now?

We currently have two people’s Dick Heads in the queue, but if you want to submit your own, leave a URL below or email me. Remember, extra credit if you have a picture of Richard Armitage in a hat.

Random Acts

Random Acts of Ali Larter: Fun

12 January 2009 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Today, Ali Larter is having fun. Is it because she’s just recognised Matt Parkman as the guy she threw out a window earlier in season 1 of Heroes? No, because that’s fiction. Is she having fun because she’s just been voted Cosmopolitan magazine’s Fun Fearless Female of the Year 2009? Maybe – wouldn’t you be? Or is it because she’s found out that Manatees have just made their annual trek to Wakulla Springs State Park in Florida and there’s now a spring in her step? Almost certainly. I know it fills me with joy. 

What do you think, though?