February 2010
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January 2010
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“All this led to an incident which is reported in almost every biography of me, a...”
– Werner Herzog in Herzog on Herzog (ed. Paul Cronin), in the discussion of the filming of his 1970 film Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (aka Even Dwarfs Started Small).
Bugger democracy
From “The Murderer’s Song”, by Michael Moorcock
‘I suppose that my faith is based firmly on the principle that people are stupider than they look and talk,’ said Una. She puffed on the cheroot Catherine lit for her. They were on a verandah, facing the jungle. Various harsh-voiced birds blundered about in the foliage.
‘That’s not fair.’ Catherine wore a sarong. She kissed Una’s gauze-clad...
Monstrous Beasts: 14 Bizarre Dinosaurs and... →
Enormous flightless birds, terrifying sea-creatures, an 8-foot-long centipede. There have been some strange and wondrous animals on this earth.
Informal poll
What’s your number one reason for staying with any social networking tool (tumblr, Twitter, Faecebook, etc.)? Or to put it another way, what’s the thing stopping you from deleting your account on any or all of these networks tomorrow?
Peter Capaldi on Craig Ferguson's show, plus...
Part 1
Part 2
Capaldi and Ferguson are old friends, and seeing the two of them chat is delightful. There might as well not even be an audience.
Also: watch as Ferguson wins at late-night talk-show hosting.
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Five minutes and fifty-two...
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The Radiophonatron →
A soundboard in tribute to the work of Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer, and the other greats of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and their versions of the Doctor Who theme. Some of us are nerdy enough to play with this thing for ages. (Hat tip to rocketsandrayguns.)
