The world needs more eccentrics
Published on 8 August, 2006
Such as the local artist who decided to build a 10ft. high model of The Silver Surfer in his front garden!
Archive for August, 2006
Button Gets first win!
Published on 7 August, 2006
After 113 starts, Jenson Button finally breaks his duck, and Great Britain has a new grand prix winner. Button has been one of the most hyped up drivers in the last few years, and having made his debut in one of the top Formula One teams, many thought he would never live up to his [...]
An on the subject of flogging dead horses:
Published on 4 August, 2006
This must be the day for Dead Horse Floggerage… I found out that Meat Loaf is to release “Bat Out of Hell 3“ The initial Bat album is a classic – described by Q magazine as a guilty pleasure album, Steinmann and Meat’s opus has stood the test of time. In 1993, the followup was [...]
Flogging a dead horse
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Yet another film franchise is being unneccissarily resurrected. Die Hard 4 will follow in the footsteps of Terminator 3, Rocky 6 (Rocky Balboa), Rambo 4 and the rumoured Mad Max 4 in providing one last Hurrah for the washed-up stars. In fairness, Willis’ more recent work has been pretty good: Sin City, The Sixth Sense, [...]
Happy Yorkshire Day!
Published on 1 August, 2006
Apparently today is Yorkshire day. A day for all Yorkshiremen (and Yorkshirewomen, no doubt) to celebrate their Yorkishness. Following ‘Secretary’s Day’, ‘Boss’s Day’ and ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day‘ (27th April, 16th October and 16th September respectively), this is a new one on me, and could be contrived as yet another cynical attempt by Hallmark [...]