Fan produced Star Trek series Phase II may not be as fannish as it first seemed. A statement issued by director Marc Zicree suggests a level of professional involvement in the “franchise” that was previously unsuspected… Star Trek fans can’t get enough of their favourite show. There are ten movies … Continue reading
We develop a shorthand bag of semantic tricks over the years, don’t we? The one liners you keep coming back to ‘cos they worked well the first and second time. I’ve been using one particular line as a description of a potential dystopian future for a donkey’s age… It goes … Continue reading
Saw “Babel” last night – which is kind of like Crash, in that it’s a cinematic attempt to show that our difference makes us the same; we all suffer, grieve, make mistakes and are betrayed. Everyone’s human and everyone’s connected. All that shite. Except for the Brits. The only Brits in … Continue reading
An eighth of England is currently still under water – this coming just a month after a different eighth of it had been temporarily transformed into a boating lake by similar “freak” weather. Yesterday I heard two different views on the Government’s role in all this: Watching BBC News 24 (imagine … Continue reading
Coke have redesigned their cans for the Japanese market. If anything, it’s a simple reduction of a slick and overstated 80s style; a more classic approach. Not according to Coke’s marketing trolls though… “We live in a world where we make choices every day and ‘The Coke Side of Life’ … Continue reading
A comment on Digg referred to the current Middle Eastern conflicts, Chinese military build-up and North Korean rumblings as World War 3, Beta 1. At first I wished that I’d thought of that. World War 2.8.1, preview release. Huh, huh, huh. Then I realised it sucked to be in a … Continue reading
…and I hit them out of the park. George Bush “sings” Sunday Bloody Sunday