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Stan Freberg at the Comedy Story, London
By miracle of the BBC, I received free tickets yesterday to go see Stan Freberg at The Comedy Store in London. I’ll be honest and say that I had no idea into what I was getting, because the tickets were a pseudorandom draw and my scant research had indicated that Freberg was (a) old and…
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DIY Speech Bubbles
Via Bart Blanquart: [www.pleaseenjoy.com] I printed 50,000 of these speech bubble stickers. I place them on top of movie posters, ads and signs all over New York City. Passers are invited to fill them in. I go back and photograph the results. …some interesting ones; I don’t like the context as much as I do…
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Letter from Ancona
Bridget writes: I have just had a conversation with Maria and apparently you can buy Jedi light sabres in a supermarket in Castelfidardo. It is the only place in this locality with ‘the force’ but you are only allowed one if you buy three boxes of Coco Pops too – what would Darth Vader say?…
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And the most popular article on my website is…
…this one: 5009 hits: banana anatomy Damn, the internet’s a weird place. Update: Link fixed to sort relative-URL problems
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Roman Villa Discovered Via Google Earth
While searching around his hometown in Google Earth, Luca Mori stumbled on what looked like the meanders of an ancient river. On the satellite image, it looks like “prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long.”. However, his eye caught what he described as “rectangular shadows”. He led further analysis only to convince himself…
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One for Geoff
Tonight: 2215h, BBC Radio4, 95 mins Iraq: the Galloway – Hitchens debate Hear Galloway and Hitchens debate the Iraq war. Amusing how the strapline denies both of them first names. Apparently it’ll be up for re-listening after the broadcast, on [www.bbc.co.uk]
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Dropsafe Under Attack?
For the last 24 hours this blog has been – for want of a better explanation – under attack. The attack has been been to add comment-spam to prettymuch every posting in the archive, and as-of 9am this morning I had received 810 of these things. Now here’s the funny thing: these aren’t referrer-spams. They…
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“I think I MAY NEED A BATHroom break? Is this possible”
OK, do Dubya’s human too, and humans occasionally need to go to the potty, but as Sarah points out, it hardly fits the magnificence of how Reuters spun it: [news.yahoo.com] President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th…
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The Wicker Man director angry over remake
[www.themovieblog.com] The Wicker Man director angry over remake […] In the original, Woodward’s character was a virgin, making him ideal for sacrifice. That element has been ditched from the remake, because it was thought that while audiences would accept the idea of an American community that practised human sacrifice, the idea of a grown-up virgin…