Nick-Nack, the internet has copies of Miracleman, if you know where to look. Wink wink.

Goddamn, it's nice to read people praising Morrison instead of complaining that he's "trying too hard to be clever". Ugh. The man is a flat-out genius. My favourite non-Alan-Moore comic writer, one of my five favourite writers ever, and a fascinating chap to boot.

Nope. I now feel incredibly bad for posting it. It makes it sound like I have a grudge against her. Nothing could be further from the truth. I love McKichan!

English Bill, yes, Knowing Me, Knowing You had the perfect ratio of cringe-to-funny moments. It wrecked Abba for me, though. I caught The Day Today late, sadly, and by that time KM,KY was in full swing, so I watched them back to back. Seeing Patrick Marber, Rebecca Front and the rest was enough to sell me on it, even…

They look like cattle… in a mad sort of way. Except cattle on bikes.

For introducing Sensei Ping…
…I'll love Middleman forever.

And some of the recent coverage of the credit crunch featured graphics not far removed from The Currency Cat.

A few months after The Day Today first aired I watched an ITN News at Ten feature about gun crime among ver yoof of today, and they illustrated each statistic by showing a graphic of a gun firing, with each bullet dragging the statistic behind it. Bullet points. Geddit??!!?

I'm one of those who cannot watch Alan Partridge due to cringe. I'll always love him for being on On The Hour and The Day Today, though. "Bit of a hoy…"

Man, it feels like he's been filming it forever. Thanks for the info, HR. (Bleeding Cool? Not a Whitechapeler, are you?)

Oh man, you just said the wrong thing…

http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Morris never officially gives interviews, but the number of quotes from "colleagues", and predictions of his moods in this Euan Ferguson piece published during the Brass Eye furore suggests he did, unofficially, give just that one.

An A or A- rating
How rare that I see a movie before The AV Club reviews it. The only other time that happened recently was when Transformers 2 came out a week early in the UK. Let's just say In The Loop is better and take it from there.

On the subject of death…

Plus what I Need An Account said. I shall quote him/her relentlessly during future anti-Rand bitching sessions, if that's okay.

"I agree there's a ton of different interpretations you can take from her works, I don't see her work as a "F—- the Poor" ideal, but a emphasing of the idea that I shouldn't be forced to do anything, including helping people. I can if I choose, but individual choice is the key. All the main characters are wanting to…

MTNIT, even though you're probably not coming back here any time soon, for the record, I have indeed seen Contact, and it's one of my favourite films of all time. It leaves me speechless every time I see it.

P.S. You've got a point about the double meaning in Cage's final moment. The apocalyptic imagery swamped it so much I didn't notice that.

No worries, it's not as long as some of the obnoxious filibusters I've dropped on here, and I did read it. I'd say the premise has a secular edge, but it's definitely meant to remind the viewer of Revelations, very intentionally. The text of the movie doesn't say God, but the subtext is there. (And aren't angel voices…