As someone who lives in an apartment in central Auckland, I usually find myself late on friday and saturday nights asking the following question: Why must there be fuckwits? Who thinks that the busy, sometimes crowded, lots-of-traffic-lights-having central Auckland streets are the IDEAL FUCKING PLACE to hold an impromptu race…
A nice little diatribe from Illinois legislative rep Monique Davis, directed towards Rob Sherman, an atheist activist. Sherman objects to the Illinois governor donating $1M in tax dollars to a local Baptist church. And well he should. But while testifying about this before the legislature, Davis launched into her delightful…
These cameras/art pieces make me feel funny. In my pants. I love work like this. A description of my favourite piece: ‘4”x5” camera made from Aluminium, Titanium, Brass, Silver, Gem Stones and a 150 year old skull of a 13 year old girl. Light and time enters at…
So Uwe Boll has stated that he will quit making movies if one million people sign a petition asking him to stop. I know I usually post funny or sarcastic stuff to my blog. But this is SERIOUS. It’s probably the case that Boll will ignore the petition, even…
I just read issue one through nine of All-Star Batman and Robin, written by Frank Millar with art by Jim Lee. It’s terrible. I actually literally checked the cover to make sure that it was the same Frank Millar that wrote Batman: Year One and The Dark Knight Returns,…
I just watched The Colour of Magic, a live action movie based on the book of the same name by Terry Pratchett. It was better than Hogfather, but still pretty bad. Bad things: (1) It’s The fucking Colour of Magic. It’s early work, and not really very good…
One of Britain’s best-known children’s book series, Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, has been turned into a 21st century cartoon Oh this doesn’t fucking bode well, does it. A remake, AND a TV cartoon? I have bad feeling about this. They’ll be trying to make it…
An 81-year-old Australian man has shot himself dead with an elaborate suicide robot built using plans he downloaded from the Internet. Fuck me! NOT “THE INTERNET”!? CALL BATMAN! SAVE US FROM THE INTERNET! Go! Run! GET TO THE CHOPPER! I’m kinda sick of seeing this sort of vague blaming…