Category: Random

Two films in two days – not bad going even for me. Friday night was Shadow of the Vampire with Pippa. Every individual scene of the movie was pretty much flawless – I don’t think you could fault them if you tried. Many of the performances were pretty good as well. So how come it felt like it had about twenty minutes of build-up missing? A clumsy little film which is worth seeing if you have nothing else to do.

Saturday night was much more entertaining: Almost Famous at the Swiss Cottage Odeon. While Kate wandered off to watch The Claim, the rest of us downed a couple of double-vodkas before causing trouble in the auditorium. Mella and I whispered to each other, “Is it?”, “I think it is!”, “Shall we say something?” in hushed giggles before turning around to Nick behind us and asking quite loudly, “Excuse me, are you Joseph Fiennes?!” He was less than amused. As were his immediate neighbours. If we disturbed any of you people out there, then we are heartily sorry…

Of course the first consequence of seeing a film about rock-n-roll and love is that I would be completely caught up in the romance of it all and start thinking about my personal absence of both. There’s a moment in a Simpson’s episode which I think sums it up for me – the Comic Book Guy is walking down the road just before an atom bomb hits Springfield. And in his final seconds, with sudden realisation and total resignation he says ‘Eh. I’ve wasted my life.’

Have I ever told you how much I love that Meg Pickard woman?

Writing a weblog is, I suppose, much like squeezing oneself into a dinner-suit or glamorous frock every day in an attempt to make your rather ample or slight figure take on some kind of allure or interest to the general public – only, you know, for geeks.

An interesting feature that has recently appeared on Metafilter is the ability to view a list of every personal URL of every member, sorted randomly. Thousands of homepages, ripe for the plucking.

Tom and Manuela, yesterday.

The Edible Buffy: Because the Slayer’s Gotta Eat
“There are already a bazillion Buffy sites on the Internet, some specifically devoted to episode synopsis and analysis, the stars, the villains, and even the show’s philosophy. I figured I’d make my site slightly less redundant by exploring a heretofore untouched aspect of BtVS: the food.” [via linkmachinego]

Follow-ups on the situation at Pyra from: Matt Haughey, Metafilter, Meg Hourihan, Jack Saturn, Peter Merholz & Plastic.com. Also: Jack Saturn’s resumé.

This is just a note to say that those of you who are frustrated about not being able to get through to Blogger.com should try posting through Newsblogger, as it appears to work OK.

Newsflash from Pyra
“It’s probably become obvious to the careful observer that all is not well in the Land of Pyra. Rather than wait for the public speculation and debate, I’m going to say what exactly is going on (from my perspective — not speaking for anyone else on the team or as an official Pyra/Blogger representative). We found out last Friday that the one most people on the team were hoping for was not going to happen. This took the wind out of the already limp sails people were surviving on, and it was largely decided we couldn’t keep this up.”

And the best weblog maintained by an Old World Poof goes to: me… I can get some work out of this, right? Congratulations to Zannah as well as all the other people who participated. In the words of an Oscar winner, “they like you, they really like you!”. But remember, as the Golden Globes are but a prelude to the Oscars, the real battle is still to come. Remember at all costs: plasticbag.org for most banal content!