dancing with cats
Holy shit, I've seen that book in second-hand shops several times and never realised it wasn't real. Mostly it's just that the people in it look like such dreamcatcher-owning, shapeless woolly jumper-wearing granolas - that HAS to be real.

@Arsenio: was that meant to be read in the Mitch Hedberg drawl? I can't read it any other way.

So if it's a vapid reality-show casualty cooing "kiri kiri kiri," does that make it more scary or less?

Unless "this is for you, Michael Bay" was supposed to be a threat.

That and the willingness to shoot at least one autobot-leg-humping scene.

Wait. This woman is attractive now?

verbiage, people
I'm not going to join the queue of readers railing at the AVC videogame reviews.

300 out of 307 is a gross underestimate? That's only an error margin of two Waleses.

I'd love to advertise on that site. As an ad exec for a company looking for maximum brand exposure, the idea of a site where the adverts are easy to ignore and sidelined as much as possible really makes me want to get out my chequebook.

A while back I was trying to defend Hook (it's still better than Minority Report and AI put together, so fuck y'all) and got shouted down. I figured there must be others like me out there, and here you all are. Aww, you guys…

Rhymenoceros has a point. You do know the Indy films were supposed to be retro pulp-fiction b-movie send-ups, right?

@Mammy: I don't think it was "built on" the philosophical fluff. That's just the McGuffin. Which is why the sequels are shit.

@Hanger-on: you would be wrong. I saw both Matrix sequels again the other day (with Rifftrax this time, in case anyone's wondering why I chose to re-watch shite films) and lordy, I'd forgotten quite how turgidly point-missing they are.

Hey Sean, I'm a bit dumb…
… but why would it have claimed television history?

It's a bit like when Empire magazine once described Minnie Driver's British accent as "halfway convincing".

An Australian correcting an Englishman's assessment of accents of the British Isles… interesting. Especially since that sounds like Dave Gorman, who's a remarkably well-travelled guy.

"I guess I implied that all women are manipulative. I meant that SOME are."

What are you, Morgan Freeman?

I'd mostly agree with the above. It's pretty decent, and then it just stops; to call it a finale is a bit of an overstatement.

He meant present company excepted, of course!