Questions and realisations from television last month

16 February 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

After a long absence, here are my latest questions and realisations that my brain has generated over the last month that I couldn’t be arsed to put into individual entries. Actually, I didn’t have any questions, just realisations

  1. Realisation: There’s nothing more disconcerting than a first-run Christmas episode in January.
  2. Realisation: The 80s were small and blurry
  3. Realisation: Sayid is the most interesting character in Lost
  4. Realisation: It’s now possible to spot a Groundhog Day episode within its first three seconds

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Of Yeast and Yeats

16 February 2008 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

A while ago, I mentioned the fact that Paddington was giving Marmite a try. Well, Marmite’s PR agency cottoned on to this and decided to reward me.

They’re sending me a tub of “lovers’ Marmite”, which apparently mixes those two great tastes

  1. Marmite and
  2. Champagne

I hate Marmite, but I’m sure my wife will love it because it mixes those two great tastes

  1. Marmite and
  2. Champagne

But that’s not all. They wrote me a poem, too.

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Friday’s pigs, dragons and sharks news

15 February 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Theatre/Doctor Who

British TV

US TV

Pictures by your comments

14 February 2008 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

You’ve probably noticed that some commenters get to have pictures by their comments. How do you get to have your pic by your comment, you might be wondering?
Here’s how

  1. Get a MyBlogLog account and remember to provide your URL when you leave a comment
  2. NEW FEATURE: Sign in with your LiveJournal or Vox account and this lovely blog will go grab your current user picture and use that. If you change your pic (or you’re already signed in with LiveJournal and your pic isn’t showing up), you can update it by logging out and then back in again.
  3. Some other way I’ve forgotten.

I’ve been working on a way to get this to work with Blogger accounts, but Blogger’s a bit behind the times so it’s officially Hard.

UK TV

Review: Torchwood 2×5 – Adam

14 February 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

As we learnt last week, Cath Treggena isn’t too hot with the action-adventure plots, but does quite well with the emotional stuff. This week’s episode was thankfully free of action-adventure plots, but high on emotional stuff.

I think I’m actually pinching myself as I write this, but it might well be the first episode of Torchwood that bears… repeat viewing.

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