I was working on top of a building in Dublin and kept having a Grey Herring Gull (a big bastard) diving at us. And if he went away, his smaller bitch of a mate would keep screeching until he came back and resume the diving. We correctly surmised that they had a nest nearby- they did and we found it, crammed between a…

It has to be Chiwetel Ejiofor

Liz Frasier, actress primarily known for her roles in the Carry On series of films died the same day.

Do you know what they call Alternative Medicine that works? Medicine.

And the remake in the 2000s

Utopia was Channel 4, not BBC.

It appears to me that “Don’t tell me how to live, restaurants” and “Just turn your pinging and buzzing notifications off” might be slightly hypocritical...

Also known as the Matrix Effect

It’s that .400 out of 100?

I love it.

Creed

Booooo- I was holding out for Old Habits Die Hard...

I remember Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannessonwhen he played Sverri the Slaver in The Last Kingdom. In fact when I’m watching scandi noir these days, I’m always watching out for Last Kingdom actors (3 in the final series of The Bridge recently).

Sounds good. And you can have the MPAA looking to setup a kill squad in order to seek recompense on pirates who have so far escaped justice.

No potatoes.

I’m guessing the place also has a policy in place that makes their employees financially responsible for any dine-and-dashes. Now that is something that really needs to be knocked on the head.

The trick here is to keep going back and calling over the said employee to witness his transaction, every single time.

In other news, Jacqueline Pearce died yesterday. I don’t know if Blakes 7 was a thing in the US, but Servalan was probably one of the best SF villains ever created.

I’m hoping that The Purge will focus on the purgers who use the opportunity to break other laws rather than just the ones who are using it for an excuse to murder.

I never got why Jackson was singing “Thriller” when the genre he was obviously referencing was “Horror”.