Jennifer Fallon's Blog, page 30

Thursday's Movie Review is back - The Boat That Rocked

I really liked this movie... or it could have been the double sundae with crushed malteasers I had in Gold Class that put me in such a forgiving mood...
Whatever. Here's the review:
In 1966, at the height of what could be argued was the golden age ...

The other, other white meat...

Look closely at the label...

The photo is from the failblog.org, a site dedicated to documenting other people's stuff ups.

Makes you feel smarter, just knowing the site exists...hehehe

Just when you think you've heard it all...

Secondborn picked Dace up from the schoolbus yesterday. Naturally enough, she asked him how his day had been.
Excellent, he replied, as he strapped on his seatbelt. We learned a new song in Orange language.
Orange language? asks a very puzzled Seco...

I could be in trouble...

I am deep in the process of researching the Druids for The Undivided. The first thing I discovered is that while there are whole encyclopaedias of speculation out there, there ain't a lot of hard facts about them.
This dearth of hard fact has an ups...

Finally!

Home safe and have finally restored the internet connection.

Phew...

Catch up tomorrow. Sleep now:)

Bummer...

The auctions for the Star Wars Characters finished today.
I foolishly promised Dace that if it looked like they would go for under $2000, I'd bid for his name.  He is nuts for the Clone Wars, as are most of the series' prime demographic -...

Quote of the Day

"One of my psychiatrists once told me that it's important to be able to distinguish between a problem and an inconvenience. In my opinion, a problem derails your life. An inconvenience is not being able to get a seat on the un-derailed train.&qu...

Latest bureaucratic attempt to control the masses...

This is terrible!
Behold... The Corporate Happiness Kit.
In these trying times, large corporations are trying everything to keep morale up so you won't notice you're about to be dumped.
This was just emailed to all staff in a Government Department...

Maybe there is something in Adelaide's water...

My first impression of Adelaide, when I came here earlier this year, was that there are a lot old people in this city. Really old. Like "I remember the Boer War" kinda old...
I decided after a while that this was probably unfair. All those...

A word from "one of the greatest fantasy authors of this age":)

Reviews need to be taken with a grain of salt. They can range from gushing to eviscerating, and generally, six months later, nobody but the reviewer or the author remembers a single thing the reviewer said unless it quotable and winds up on the cover...