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October 16, 2009

Food craving cure

For some reason, I have been craving a hot dog, all day long.

This is particularly unfortunate, as I recently discovered I can't eat yeast, which means no bread rolls...

Not much of a hot dog, if you leave the bread roll out.

But then I saw ...
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Published on October 16, 2009 13:55

October 15, 2009

Thursday's Movie Review - Mao's Last Dancer

At the age of 11, Li Cunxin (Chi Cao) was plucked from obscurity in a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural revolutionary talent spotters and taken to Beijing to study ballet, where he spent the next few years mastering the techniques, if not...
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Published on October 15, 2009 08:37

October 14, 2009

Looking for that perfect gift for your favorite True Blood fan?

Then look no further than this:

A genuine, antique, vampire killing kit.



This is not a joke. It's a legitimate antique being offered at auction by Steven Auctions in Mississippi.

It's described in their catalogue as:
Vampire killing kit...
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Published on October 14, 2009 14:24

October 13, 2009

A word on the environment...

It is not my habit to comment on politics, but as I live on this planet too, I am occasionally stirred to comment on something I think is patently absurd, such as climate change deniers and believers in Intelligent Design.

You see, Australia is cu...
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Published on October 13, 2009 13:45

October 12, 2009

Evil Ella's having a slow day at work...

She must be. EE emailed me this little gem...
A website dedicated to cats who look like Hitler.
They even have a name for them! Kitlers!
This is my personal favourite... in so far as one can have a favourite kitler...

This site makes me think t...
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Published on October 12, 2009 21:00

October 11, 2009

100 Movies to see before you die

Earlier this year, Yahoo released their 100 Movies to see before you die List (in alphabetical order). I decided to see how many movies I have to get through until I shuffle off this mortal coil.
Bold I've seen. Bold and Italic I own a copy in ...
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Published on October 11, 2009 17:46

October 10, 2009

T-shirt of the week

Think about it... :)


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Published on October 10, 2009 21:20

October 9, 2009

Apparently, I give good dragon...

The Once Upon a Bookshelf website in the US recently posted a blog about Dragons in Western Literature and listed their Top Ten books with dragons.

The Hythrun Chronicles finished up at #9. Wow! And my dragons weren't even real dragons but demon-m...
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Published on October 09, 2009 13:40

October 8, 2009

Thursday's Movie Review - Fame

Hollywood’s desperate need to remake anything from the 80s that made money is apparent here in the remake of a hit film that patently didn’t need a remake.

Fame is set in the New York Performing Arts Academy and follows a group of aspi...
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Published on October 08, 2009 06:53

October 7, 2009

An interview... with a chance to win goodies!

While I was up in Darwin last week, I had the delightful experience of lunching with Katharine Stubbs from the Shades of Sentience website.

Not only did we eat at a restaurant called The Duck's Nuts (I know... but it's a Darwin thing...), we had a...
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Published on October 07, 2009 11:02