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Not a bad start. They avoided a number of the things I was expecting in the first episode...

...I guess we now need to wait and see where it goes, hmm?

NOTE: Any comments on this entry are likely to include spoilers. Don't say you weren't warned.

Tonight will involve Misbehaviour.

The head of the British Army has said the British should "get out some time soon" and "our presence in Iraq exacerbates" the "difficulties we are experiencing round the world".

Not quite matching the Downing Street view. Well, not the Downing Street public view, anyway.

It's been a very good weekend. But now I have to go to work. :-/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/

Hmm. It's giving me a very peculiar error message... :)

Five years already? I guess so. I was sitting at work when the news came in.

Alan, who sat opposite me, had the BBC News tickertape running - his first comment was something like "some idiot's managed to fly a plane into a skyscraper". Then the details started to arrive. BBC live news was on one of the big screens in one of our meeting rooms. People drifted in and out, watching snippets, looking a little dazed.

People said that there might be 50,000 dead; that there were more dead than Hiroshima; that this must be Iraq. There were other planes, but nobody knew how many. Lots of rumours and misinformation.

Despite all the news footage, it took a little while to understand that this was real.

[I was already on LJ at the time. There are a few posts from 11/09/01 and the days that followed in the archives. It's strange for me to look back at that sort of thing, to see just how events have shifted]

Right then. It's Sunday night. Time to stir things up...

I know a whole bunch of you were doing the Maelfroth thing
...and more than a few of you have also mentioned Ptolus

I suppose this just proves that I know a lot of LARPers and tabletop gamers. No surprise there. But I don't think that many of you know each other - at least not through me - as you've ended up on my friends list from a number of different directions.

So. Anyone for introductions and random nattering about either or both of the topics mentioned above? :)

Have had better days.

So, Frank Miller will now be writing a story where Batman takes on Al Qaeda...

Miller proudly announced the title of his next Batman book, which he will write, draw and ink. Holy Terror, Batman! is no joke. And Miller doesn't hold back on the true purpose of the book, calling it "a piece of propoganda," where 'Batman kicks al Qaeda's ass."

The response from another notable Batman writer, Grant Morrison, is less than positive...

"Batman vs. Al Qaeda! It might as well be Bin Laden vs. King Kong! Or how about the sinister Al Qaeda mastermind up against a hungry Hannibal Lecter! For all the good it's likely to do. Cheering on a fictional character as he beats up fictionalized terrorists seems like a decadent indulgence when real terrorists are killing real people in the real world. I'd be so much more impressed if Frank Miller gave up all this graphic novel nonsense, joined the Army and, with a howl of undying hate, rushed headlong onto the front lines with the young soldiers who are actually risking life and limb 'vs' Al Qaeda - Grant Morrison

Tony Blair appears to have accepted the inevitable and is expected to finally announce a timetable for his resignation within hours

I know that some of you will disagree, but I have to believe this is a good thing. Blair's been there too long, he's lost his credibility and he needs to go.

I don't want to see Labour disintegrate completely - it's not healthy for British democracy when one party is unelectable - but they have to face the future and start fixing the things that the Blair years have broken.

Personally, I reckon he'll be gone before the end of January. Perhaps sooner.

Current Mood: cold

For

mister_jack

http://www.rsc.org.uk/newsandevents/events/3577.aspx

For those who don't read

covgoths - Cruxshadows @ Edwards, December 1st.

[I'm not sure if this has made it to the other appropriate goth communities yet, as Rob's not on LJ]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Glasgow's Catholics want to set fire to LGBT folk. That's a little bit 15th century, after all.

On the other hand, handing out safety information that might stop those people catching fire from other causes... that seems to be a little more controversial, doesn't it?

The BBC states that some firefighters viewed it as something that would "contradict their moral beliefs", presumably because it meant visiting Pride to hand out the leaflets. Archbishop Mario Conti seems to agree with them, saying that "The duty to obey one's conscience is a higher duty than that of obeying orders".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/5301334.stm

Hmm. Does anyone local have a little more information on this tale?

Marvel's put the first preview of the Ellis/Larroca Newuniversal online. This is their revival and reinvention of the 80s New Universe characters...

First preview page is here

Pretty. That would be the White Event, then. I'm not sure which character's just been caught by it - it doesn't match any of the familiar faces, but then some of them might have changed. On the other hand, it might be someone new. Or someone like Rodstvow...

Speculation and possible spoilers.

( Let's play find the villain... )

"Dave H kills weasels"

That is all. :)

...a Coventry song. With a video filmed in Glasgow, I think. See any familiar faces?

The Specials - Ghost Town

Zodiac Mindwarp - Prime Mover (video)

Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday (video)

I remember seeing these two when I was young and impressionable. Which explains a lot.

Warsaw Village Band - In The Forest (video)
(highly recommended, at least by me...)

Shriekback - Nemesis (video)

Shriekback - All Lined Up (video)

Shriekback - The Reptiles and I (live)

Tinariwen - Amassakoul 'n' Tenere & Chet Boghassa (live)

They're finally bringing Oh! What A Lovely War out on UK DVD.

I'm happy now.

Current Music: Fun'Da'Mental, "Bark Like a Dog"

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