Animated
Award winning animation studio Pixar, who brought us Toy Story and Finding Nemo amongst others and who have seriously pushed the envelope of computer animation have split from their deal with Disney, who distribute Pixar's movies. Pixar are unhappy over the amount of takings Disney claim as their share. As they have generated over $2.5 billion since 1995 even a percentage counts for a whole hell of a lot.
Friday, January 30, 2004
Nail 'em up!
Scary Christians whipping up support for Bush's re-election campaign. What has the Religon of Love and Peace got to do with a war-mongering, corrupt tool of business who'd not only set up money lending in the temple but let them drill for oil too? Well, these good, Gold-fearin' chums of Jesus are homophobic, bigoted, bastards, so I guess the link becomes clearer... These are the organisations that exert huge influence on US politics and hence on the rest of the world. I'm telling you, people, the Romans were right - nail the bugger up! Nail some sense into them!!! Feed them to the lions!
Scary Christians whipping up support for Bush's re-election campaign. What has the Religon of Love and Peace got to do with a war-mongering, corrupt tool of business who'd not only set up money lending in the temple but let them drill for oil too? Well, these good, Gold-fearin' chums of Jesus are homophobic, bigoted, bastards, so I guess the link becomes clearer... These are the organisations that exert huge influence on US politics and hence on the rest of the world. I'm telling you, people, the Romans were right - nail the bugger up! Nail some sense into them!!! Feed them to the lions!
Slither....
A pissed of man in Africa decided to take revenge on his bank after his car was repossesed. Here in the UK we get an irritated farmer deploying his muck spreader over the bank. In Africa the guy walks in and opens a bag to let out a gaggle of poisonous snakes!
A pissed of man in Africa decided to take revenge on his bank after his car was repossesed. Here in the UK we get an irritated farmer deploying his muck spreader over the bank. In Africa the guy walks in and opens a bag to let out a gaggle of poisonous snakes!
Word Association
Instead of just doing the weekly ones from Luminal I thought I'd try my own this week. Please feel free to have a go yourself - remember it must be the first word or phrase that comes to mind. I'll post my own later.
Heamaglobin:
Toblerone:
Penguin:
Bottom:
Sideways:
Bellybutton:
Antidisestablishmenterialism:
Hutton:
Enquiry:
Whitewash:
Instead of just doing the weekly ones from Luminal I thought I'd try my own this week. Please feel free to have a go yourself - remember it must be the first word or phrase that comes to mind. I'll post my own later.
Heamaglobin:
Toblerone:
Penguin:
Bottom:
Sideways:
Bellybutton:
Antidisestablishmenterialism:
Hutton:
Enquiry:
Whitewash:
H u t t o n – T h e M u s i c a l
Coming soon to the West End, Broadway and Peebles Community Meeting Hall
All-singing, all-dancing political satire with a groovy beat!
Featuring the hit songs:
Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mister Campbell?
Pack up all your Allegations in your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile
Alistair Campbell’s Lackies Sing This Song, Doo-dah, doo-dah
The Whitehall Whitewash Waltz
I’m Dreaming of a Whitewashed Report
Hoon, Hoon on the Range
Apathy in the UK
The BBC Blues
And a very special feature solo by Tony Blair singing I should be so Lucky
Also featuring the gyrations of the Dyke’s Dodgy Dossier Disco-Dancers and the Blair’s Boogie Woogie Crew
Music and Lyrics by Tim Rice, Mark Thomas and Joe
© Woolamaloo Media, 2004.
No ministers were harmed in the making of this musical report
Coming soon to the West End, Broadway and Peebles Community Meeting Hall
All-singing, all-dancing political satire with a groovy beat!
Featuring the hit songs:
Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mister Campbell?
Pack up all your Allegations in your Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile
Alistair Campbell’s Lackies Sing This Song, Doo-dah, doo-dah
The Whitehall Whitewash Waltz
I’m Dreaming of a Whitewashed Report
Hoon, Hoon on the Range
Apathy in the UK
The BBC Blues
And a very special feature solo by Tony Blair singing I should be so Lucky
Also featuring the gyrations of the Dyke’s Dodgy Dossier Disco-Dancers and the Blair’s Boogie Woogie Crew
Music and Lyrics by Tim Rice, Mark Thomas and Joe
© Woolamaloo Media, 2004.
No ministers were harmed in the making of this musical report
She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
On shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair’d the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure their dwelling place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tells of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
George Gordon, Lord Byron (one of my clansmen, thank you - explains my love of pirate shirts with big, flouncy sleeves I reckon)
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellow’d to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
On shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair’d the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure their dwelling place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tells of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
George Gordon, Lord Byron (one of my clansmen, thank you - explains my love of pirate shirts with big, flouncy sleeves I reckon)
Thursday, January 29, 2004
Books with bite
First SF Book Club of 2004 this week. Between the hiatus from November and the fact the weather was cold and awful we thought we'd get hardly anyone. Instead we got our best turnout yet, around twenty odd folk. Is word of mouth getting around or was it just the choice of book? Time will tell.
It was pretty rewarding anyway and good fun as usual. We were discussing Anne Rice's classic Interview With the Vampire and the evening covered immortality, morality and other important topics such as why do vampires always wear white shirts with big colalrs when they know they're going to get blood all over them and just how do they get those stains out? Especially considering many of them were hanging around long before washing machines or biological Bold. My theory was that poor Renfield-type characters have to spend hours in the dalylight when the master sleeps hand-scrubbing the blood stains out of the shirts and then forcing them through a mangle.
The things you learn in a bookstore.
First SF Book Club of 2004 this week. Between the hiatus from November and the fact the weather was cold and awful we thought we'd get hardly anyone. Instead we got our best turnout yet, around twenty odd folk. Is word of mouth getting around or was it just the choice of book? Time will tell.
It was pretty rewarding anyway and good fun as usual. We were discussing Anne Rice's classic Interview With the Vampire and the evening covered immortality, morality and other important topics such as why do vampires always wear white shirts with big colalrs when they know they're going to get blood all over them and just how do they get those stains out? Especially considering many of them were hanging around long before washing machines or biological Bold. My theory was that poor Renfield-type characters have to spend hours in the dalylight when the master sleeps hand-scrubbing the blood stains out of the shirts and then forcing them through a mangle.
The things you learn in a bookstore.
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