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Life is like a grapefruit

A trailer for Black Dynamite, courtesy of Boing Boing. It took me until half-way through the trailer to realise that this isn’t a classic blaxploitation movie that I hadn’t heard of, but is a new movie coming soon. And it looks fantastic in glorious anamorphic duovision!

Posted on 2009/01/24 by dominic in personal | Tagged blaxploitation, trailer | Leave a comment

Net-based pressure forces UK government to cancel plans to make MPs’ expenses secret – Boing Boing The words ‘hope’ and ‘change’ are being bandied around rather a lot at the moment, but it’s stories like this that actually deserve those epithets. This is a fantastic example of how democratic politics is supposed to work: The […]

Posted on 2009/01/21 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

The Real Thing

I always love the Schroeder strips from Peanuts as they had a wonderfully surreal air. When I read them I felt sometimes that I was missing part of the dialogue between the characters. Now, it seems, I have an answer: Schroeder Played Real Beethoven in Charles M. Schulz’s ‘Peanuts’ Strip – NYTimes.com courtesy of Neil […]

Posted on 2009/01/19 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

Today I died again

I died today. Those damn spiders with their poison were just too much for me. Oh, I should probably explain that I’m talking about DnD. And right about now, a whole bunch of you who are not interested can tune out and come back when I write something about something else. Of course, if you […]

Posted on 2009/01/19 by dominic in personal | Tagged dnd | Leave a comment

It’s not Watchmen, but it’s up there with the greatest trailers of all time in my book. ‘High Kick Girl’ teaser trailer (via Warren Ellis and FarEastFilms)

Posted on 2009/01/07 by dominic in personal | Tagged kung fu, trailer | Leave a comment

The more you know! How It’s Made: Marbles (via sprejux)

Posted on 2009/01/06 by dominic in personal | Leave a comment

The Sky In Motion

Link: The Sky In Motion Beautiful and stunning videos put together from HD captures of the sky at night. By far my favourite is this one, but there are many more of these in their playlist.

Posted on 2009/01/04 by dominic in personal | Tagged space porn | Leave a comment

San Francisco: The Settling-In Days

stripy-riding-hood: So I guess the question is: What have you done to make yourself a better person for yourself and not for others? What have you done that makes you feel that slightly more comfortable in your own skin and what will you do now onwards? I’ve reprioritised my life. Work is still important, and […]

Posted on 2009/01/04 by dominic in personal | Tagged reblog | Leave a comment

The end of the Great Purge?

The purge continued today. This time it was the turn of the board games and the University notes to fall under the scrutinous gaze of the purge police. Both of these have been a subject of contention in the household for a long time: The board games take up a lot of space, and are […]

Posted on 2008/12/30 by dominic in personal | Tagged education, games, purging | Leave a comment

A perfect day

It’s the end of Christmas day, and while it was the least Christmassy Christmas day I’ve had in a long time, it was exactly what I needed in terms of a day just hanging out in the apartment with the family. There were some last minute things to finish up from the move yesterday, including […]

Posted on 2008/12/26 by dominic in personal | Tagged books, christmas, cooking, organization | Leave a comment

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