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  • Tigerlili Cavill 7:09 pm on April 29, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Bald Boss Theme Tune 

    BrandMastor ProductLabz tm, brands bald again!

    Following our successful branding of bald opera star with his heart filled with murder, Phil Dearson Baritone English Villian, we here at BMPL tm have taken up the torch again to add some pizzaz! and hoo-ha! to a lonely young man’s brand. We thought BALD BOSS was already an exciting brand with a distinctive look. So in this case it is not so much a rebrand that we are doing, but we are adding a new layer of meaning to a pre-existing brand. A brand refresh if you will.

    As everyone knows, even the most brandalicious brands can become stale over time, so we have given it a much needed shot in the arm. YOU WILL AGREE. (And so would MARK WONG)

     

  • Tigerlili Cavill 11:26 am on April 26, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Man Chop Squid 

    It’s disgusting, really disgusting. This beautiful creature chopped up by a singing chef. He chops it’s eye last. He is a horrible chef. I pity the woman who married him. Don’t let MARK WONG see this.

     

    • Derek Coleman 6:29 pm on April 26, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Awe man! I’d hate to see what they do to us once we get to planet Cephalopod. Let’s hope they don’t have YouTube there either, dang.

    • Derek Coleman 11:06 am on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Well, I’m sure Doctor Moctopus is still quite disturbed by this attempt at sick humor.

    • Tigerlili Cavill 11:39 am on May 11, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Actually he has punished me for it. I don’t want to go into how, but needless to say, it was a very unpleasant dream I had about him and it involved a lot of nostril torture…

  • Adam Cavill 3:18 pm on April 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Mark Wong Beat us to the Post 

    Mark Wong? For Less? Never!!!!!!!!!!

    Apparently Mark Wong now appears ahead of us on a Google search for “Mark Wong”. Well Mark Wong I bet you are pretty Mark Wong proud of your Mark Wong self! I wonder if you are thinking, Mark Wong style, about whether this post with all its mentions of Mark Wong is going to make our site appear as the top Mark Wong result when searching for Mark Wong on Google! Well keep wondering Mark, it’s not wrong to wonder about Wong!

    We won’t know for a few days. That’s a few days for me but I bet they’ll seem longer to you! Especially if your name is…

    (More …)

     

  • Adam Cavill 5:19 pm on April 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Advice for Trainee Suicides 

    The 5.16 from Metropark was very late today due to an incident at Princeton. Here are some words of advice from my fellow passengers I’d like to pass onto those of you considering suicide by train.

    1. If you want kill yourself go ahead. In fact come over here and I’ll stab you! Just don’t be inconveniencing me!

    2. Lie down and take a bottle of pills just don’t be messing with New Jersey Transit.

    Bye for now!

     

    • Derek Coleman 8:49 am on April 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      I hear that man. Suicide is a very selfish act in and of itself. Putting others in danger and/or creating delays in other people’s lives by attempting to do so makes it all the worse. And I’m sure there are plenty of other ways to draw attention to one’s desperation, so definitely try talking to someone about it and please don’t make a mess of the environment when/if you should to decide to “off” yourself.

    • Phil Dearson Baritone English Villain 5:31 am on April 28, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      On the London Underground suicides are called “Passenger Action”. I love it. “This train is being held here due to Passenger Action at Kings Cross”. That’s where I’d do it too. Anywhere on the Northern Line. During rush hour. Dressed like a giant octopus.

  • Tigerlili Cavill 11:17 pm on April 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Happy Birthday Roi 

    May the day bring you a fresh coat of paint, and a new shiny wheel, and a nice piece of string.

    Roi Robertson

     

    • Roi 6:56 am on April 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Ah THERE I am- I wondered where I’d gone!! Thank you so much!!
      XXXXX

    • Derek Coleman 9:07 am on April 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Happy B-day Roi! Stay far away from those candles when you’re blowing them out. :)

      “Every day is someone’s Birthday”

    • Tigerlili Cavill 10:18 pm on April 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Yes I found you in the old wooden dresser in the bottomest drawer behind the red shoe that I keep my passport in. You were in a blue box which had a picture of a duck on it.

    • Phil Dearson Baritone English Villain 5:33 am on April 28, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      He’s on extension 2780 now too, twiddling his mystical pen.

  • Adam Cavill 12:59 pm on April 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    I Don’t Really Get It… 

    but i like it

     

    • Adam Cavill 1:03 pm on April 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Yes I know it’s TOTP dancing recut to Joy Division. Doesn’t mean I get it.

    • Derek Coleman 7:49 pm on April 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Man… they don’t use those awesome space backgrounds like they used to.

    • Big D 7:44 am on April 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Foul. Just…foul.

    • ken e boy 9:30 am on April 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      This in no way resembles Fred Astaire’s slow motion dance number in The Easter Parade.

    • Phil Dearson Baritone English Villain 5:37 am on April 28, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Those Scandinavians sure can dance. It’s Jann’s People.

  • Tigerlili Cavill 8:38 am on April 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    The Dark Is Rising – In production 

    Susan Cooper’s extraordinary children’s books are being brought to the big screen. Christopher Eccleston is signed on so far…

    groovy illustration

     

    • Jenny 9:43 pm on April 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Oh my god, I used to read those, they’re so scary. And hard to understand sometimes. There were lots of “selkie” women with patterns on their hands, and funny things like horse shoes they had to collect. Um, weren’t there? There’s a package winging its way across (insert correct ocean’s name here) to you, by the way. xxx

    • Tigerlili Cavill 10:15 pm on April 23, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Yes there were… it was really creepy stuff that got into your bones. Arthurian myths, symbolism, light and dark… it’s all the good stuff in there.
      Selkie woman = Beautiful Juliette, I reckon.

    • Brits 8:29 pm on May 11, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Well, there were certainly no selkie women in The Dark Is Rising. I know there might have been one in Seaward, and Susan Cooper did write a few stories with those themes. . .

      I never found it at all creepy. Fascinating to no end, but never creepy.

    • Tigerlili Cavill 4:10 pm on May 13, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Even the name “The dark is rising” is creepy! I think we are talking Susan Cooper stories generally now, and there were two I think, an illustrated one about a Selkie woman and her human lover. There is a nice version of that story in Women who Run with the Wolves called Sealskin-Soulskin) But you are right, Brits, Seaward isn’t part of the DIR sequence, and it’s the one with the girl who has Selkie blood who has to choose between being with her own kind or with the normal world.

  • Tigerlili Cavill 8:05 am on April 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    The Gentleman of Horror 

    Christopher Gullo has taken it upon himself to create the Peter Cushing Museum Online. It’s full of interesting details about Cushing’s life. I completely heart Peter Cushing. He was so twinkly and magical.

    Self Portrait by Peter Cushing

    Carrie Fisher said that he smelt like ‘lavender and linen’ on the set of Star Wars. No foul stench there! I think that sparkly little David Tennant channels him in Doctor Who.

    We watched Night Creatures last night (which is about Pirates, yay!) and I won’t give away the story but of course he lights up the screen. There is a lot to say about him, he was a painter, specialising in watercolours. He adored his wife and he couldn’t live without her after she died. He had beautiful copperplate handwriting. His long, long friendship with Christopher Lee, we younglings cannot imagine. When I think of him I just feel this overwhelming greatfulness that he existed. What a dear, sweet man.

    Night Creatures poster

     

    • gary clotzilla 5:43 pm on March 5, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Brides of Dracula when Peter Cushing as Van Helsing is leaving the Academy and Frau Lang turns to Marianne and says “What a charming gentleman” to which Marianne replies “A Kind Man” I think that best sums him up.

  • Dr. Mocktopus 11:24 am on April 18, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Dr. Mocktopus: Me Like 

    And me thought you humans not know how to make TV show.

     

  • Tigerlili Cavill 11:07 am on April 18, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Photographic Evidence that Dr. Mocktopus ‘Oomoos’ 

    Cleary an oomoo maneuver out of a crack in in aquarium. Disgusting!

     

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