There's a small French cafe down the road from me that I go to a lot. I know the owner is from Paris and I just called him to see how he is. He says he's devastated but his family and friends are safe.

The Guardian's saying that police just stormed the concert hall

Christ that's awful.

Yeah, I can see my idiot family members* plastering whatever bullshit the Express/Mail/Britain First come up with all over Facebook

Nice victim blaming…

Yep. As an example, at the time my dad was 62, retired, on a fucking amazing pension, house paid off and both kids had left home. On the other hand, I was 30, living payday to payday* and had fuck all disposable income, and so did most of my friends of the same age. Ad people are idiots.

In the novel Moonraker Bond is said to be earning £1,500 a year. That book came out in 1955; in 1954 my dad started working at Lloyds Bank on an annual salary of £200. So yeah, Bond was pretty loaded.

Reminds me of sitting in an editorial meeting about 13 years ago listening to the ad director telling us that circulation figures had gone up 3,500 in the space of a month, which was fantastic news.

Ugh. Good that someone saved him. I can't understand the mentality of people who use dogs like that.

I finally got around to watching it a few weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Habour Patrol spotted a dead dog in the bay with a cinderblock tied to its harness. Apparently the dog had been in the water some time. Our reporter is hoping the dog was already dead and it was some half-arsed burial at sea. Unfortunately the dog didn't have a chip or a collar/tag.

Yep, same here. I also love it when the headlines contain grammatical errors, usually wayward apostrophes.

Yep.

Well this has helped me today - one of the stories I'll be designing later is about a dead dog found drowned with a cinder block tied to its harness. People fucking suck.

Oh we exist, all right. And Daniel O'Malley is about as Irish as you can get.

I think most of the movies deserved the long in-depth reviews - Armageddon for one as every individual minute of that film is packed to the gills with stupidity and shit - but others could have been shorter simply on the grounds that they're the kind of movie where nothing happens for 20 minutes at a time.

A few people have commented that the zombies all seem to wear the same type of clothes - t-shirts, hoodies, jeans - as if no one was turned while wearing their McDonald's/Home Depot/police uniforms. I'm sure that's because the costume department is buying the clothes in bulk as cheaply as possible, seeing as they're…

I remember Sapphire, who was excellent.

I guess they're just so good at surviving zombie attacks they just don't think of it. They'd have to find the jackets (or motorcycle gear, which would work even better) which would mean heading into a town where there's a load of zombies and that's the sort of place they'd avoid. But even a duct-tape wrapped hoodie…

Shit, just wear a leather jacket. Or a denim one and wrap duct tape around the sleeves.